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How much progress have women made in the workplace? 46 facts to mark 46 years of International Women’s Day
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Average annual employment income of Canadian women: $39,900; Average annual employment income of Canadian men: $54,300; … Percentage of women in the House of Commons: 30; … Percentage of women in federal cabinet: 46; … Percentage of women in the Ontario cabinet: 26; … Number of economists Forbes magazine says are redefining everything: Five; Percentage of those economists who are women: 100
Tags: featured, participation, standard of living, women
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The remedies for Ontario’s ailing health system
Monday, March 6th, 2023
… the quiet crisis of closed ERs in Ontario’s more remote communities should be another wake-up call. Beyond the ER crisis is the shortage of family doctors who would lighten that ER load… about 2.2 million Ontario residents were without a family doctor… The emphasis has been on creating primary-care teams… [but] about 75 per cent of family doctors function without such teams in place.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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Affordability — not inflation — is the biggest crisis Canada’s economy faces today
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Five fiscal approaches… could lower costs, tackle long-term affordability and create more economic resilience… Reform Employment Insurance… Build more affordable rental housing… Fund school food programs… Focus on low-income households for energy-efficiency retrofits… [and] Avoid wasting money in health care… All governments need to prevent the galloping profitization of care…
Tags: economy, featured, Health, housing, immigration, Indigenous, standard of living
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New health care funding should open doors to family doctors
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
The college recommends primary care teams include nurses, who co-ordinate care and offer clinical support, and mental health workers, who provide psychological and addictions counselling and connect patients with social supports… the college also advises streamlining and centralizing the referral process for tests and specialists, and connecting electronic medical records with hospitals and home and community care.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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The truth (and the costs) behind public payment for private surgeries
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
While the provinces should be applauded for funding more surgical procedures, why restrict new funding solely to private enterprises, when many public hospitals have capacity to provide more surgery with additional funding? There is no compelling business reason, especially if both private and public facilities will be paid at the same rate.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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In health care it is not privatization to fear, it’s profitization
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Despite the evidence, Ford has permitted more for-profits in long-term care, home care, acute care, primary care, and child care. It is not impossible to reverse the corporatization of profits in health care, but trade rules, contracts and other corporate protections can make it difficult and expensive… We don’t need an action plan for corporate profit and control, using public money. We need to improve the public system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Laugh at the farcical scandals of John Tory and Doug Ford but the joke’s on the powerless
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
… for-profit nursing homes had four times as many COVID-19 deaths as city-run homes… Ontario announced funding for new nursing home beds in 2022… adding 200 new police won’t decrease wait times for police to respond to calls. It doesn’t support the idea that more police equals less crime, either. But data shows reducing poverty can reduce crime… The proposed 2023 budget cuts $4.3 million from jobs and social services.
Tags: budget, Health, homelessness, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, tax
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Health care transformation is needed next
Monday, February 13th, 2023
… while [the provinces] have their hands extended to Ottawa. A majority of them are in surplus, or can see a surplus just over the horizon, but the provincial share of health funding has barely kept up with pandemic-era inflation… [Ford’s] Progressive Conservative government will have $12.5 billion in “excess funds” available over the next three years and is shortchanging health care by $5 billion.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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Humans aren’t widgets, and Canadian workers are not in ‘short supply’
Saturday, February 11th, 2023
Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, also cites employers’ complaints as justification for painful interest rate hikes. He aims to ‘solve’ the labour shortage by deliberately raising unemployment… The federal government, too, is catering to employers by increasing immigration targets… Properly planned and supported immigration is good for the economy and for society. But importing masses of workers just to make life easier for employers is the wrong way to do it
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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COVID ‘blank cheque’: Report finds large corporations spent billions on dividends and share buybacks while receiving government wage subsidies
Friday, February 10th, 2023
Canadians For Tax Fairness found 37 corporations that had received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy and spent a total of $81.3 billion on dividends, $41.1 billion on share buybacks and $51.1 billion on taking over other companies… up to $9.9 billion may have gone to companies which weren’t eligible to receive it… some kind of clawback mechanism is needed, either for this time around, or when designing future programs.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, privatization, tax
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