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Medicare 2.0: Fixing Holes in our healthcare system that hurt Canadians
Sunday, October 11th, 2020
Each wave of the pandemic reignites concerns about the state of long-term care homes and renews existing calls to improve our healthcare system… This research paper urges the government to expand public health care and outlines why it is critical to do so now, during COVID-19, calling for establishing comprehensive mental health services, making long-term care part of medicare, and implementing universal pharmacare now.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Ontario needs to step in and protect workers
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Too many companies have built business models that maximize profit by exploiting workers, largely by finding ways to avoid treating them as employees… Business exploiting lax labour laws to the detriment of workers is a concern in the world of temp agencies and their increasingly unscrupulous money-making tactics, the misclassification of workers as independent contractors to strip them of basic employment rights, and the expansion of temporary and part-time work that comes with few benefits.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, rights, standard of living
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The resilient city: Why Canadian metropolises will thrive despite the pandemic
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020
Previous urban pandemics have spawned major changes to the shape of the city… All big cities now face a similar moment, but the locus of contemporary intervention has to shift from the inner city to the inner suburbs, and its focus broadened from needed physical and mobility improvements to an action plan that places income support, social services, education and training at its heart.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, immigration, participation, poverty
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A national child-care system is crucial for recovery and rebuilding
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Federal leadership is urgently required to stabilize child care and build toward a system that stimulates and sustains economic recovery… The wrong decisions — or indecision — will slow economic and social recovery, and lead to a more unfair Canada. Tax credits or cash payments may seem a simple and expedient approach, but parents can’t buy what doesn’t exist; child-care services are collapsing all across Canada.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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An ambitious plan for an alternate reality
Friday, September 25th, 2020
This is the prospect that has so entranced the Prime Minister’s Office: bundling all the policies they’d ever dreamed of together and passing them all in a rush – in the name of “the pandemic” – and doing it all with borrowed funds. The government that failed at so basic a state responsibility as safeguarding public health is eager to take on new challenges.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Ottawa faces a fiscal reckoning. It must review all programs and costs
Friday, September 25th, 2020
The task ahead is on a different scale than any government has faced since the Second World War. It demands not just new programs, but a new way of thinking. This government needs to roll up its sleeves and thoroughly re-examine not only its spending priorities, but its revenue sources, its antiquated tax code, its industrial strategy… Without it, this remains just an unsustainably expensive wish list.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, tax
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‘This is a start’ — advocates welcome Trudeau’s commitment to build national child-care system
Thursday, September 24th, 2020
… the government will make a “significant, long-term, sustained investment to create a Canada-wide early learning and child-care system… to ensure that high-quality care is accessible to all.” … Although details of the actual investment won’t come until the budget, advocates were heartened by the government’s apparent commitment to shift child care away from a market-based system that relies on parent fees.
Tags: child care, disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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New survey shows Canadians want lasting change to accompany economic recovery
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
… change should be “fundamental.” … most often cited… is the need to reduce inequality… a priority shared by the higher and lower income alike… in a society that provides quality long-term care for the elderly, that covers all essential medicines through public drug plans, that makes sure employees can take paid sick days when they need to, and that makes affordable and high-quality daycare for young children available to all parents who need it.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Health, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical
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Billionaires get richer while millions struggle. There’s a lot wrong with this picture
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
growing inequality — and public concern about it — is being exacerbated by the pandemic. That makes this a particularly good time to revisit the many policy tools Ottawa has to do something about it. Tax reform tops the list. Canada can do more to prevent and pursue companies that hide billions from the taxman in offshore tax havens and close the many loopholes that let the very wealthy lower their tax bill.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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What is it that Doug Ford doesn’t understand about pharmacare?
Sunday, September 20th, 2020
The premiers keep complaining about rising health-care costs, so why not embrace the one big idea that could control costs dramatically? COVID-19 is a time of crisis, but it also confers an economic opportunity for health care… Money need not be an obstacle, because a well-designed plan will pay dividends — not just in lower drug costs but in better health outcomes.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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