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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
By empowering First Nation communities and their members to run their own businesses and hire their own Indigenous professionals, this will create a partnership between First Nations and nearby non-Indigenous communities. This partnership is past due and will be beneficial to all Canadians. This is the kind of reconciliation we can all be proud of.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
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Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
… decentralizing the provision of child care by giving money directly to parents provides the advantages of competitive consumer markets: greater choices, innovation in staffing, various facility types, and more flexible hours and modes of care. // … giving money to parents won’t create more safe, high quality licensed child care… [which] most parents would choose if it was better funded to make it more available, affordable and designed to meet their needs.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, tax, women
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Sunday, September 8th, 2019
From 1982 to 2015, the share of total income going to those in the top 1 per cent grew from 8 per cent to 14.2 per cent — a jump of 78 per cent. Meanwhile, the share of income going to the bottom 50 per cent — half the country — fell by 29 per cent. So while our economy has grown, the bulk of those gains are flowing to the richest 1 per cent of people.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Friday, September 6th, 2019
A great many [issues] are linked to income insecurity, which manifests itself in the form of costly symptoms, like anxiety, illness and societal unrest. If the underlying problem is about income, however, then the solution must be too or it will not get better.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Thursday, September 5th, 2019
Only a universal, public pharmacare program would ensure that everyone in Canada can access the medications they need. Instead of adopting half-measures and band-aid solutions, it’s time to reform our broken system. Pharmacare is a key missing piece of Canada’s public health care system. This much-needed new program would save money and save lives.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Can Canadians afford a government that cares more about private corporations and tax cuts for the super-rich than it does about everyday working people? Can we risk electing a government that refuses to address the climate catastrophe? Can we accept a government that is prepared to exploit people’s fear and insecurity to fuel racism and intolerance?
Tags: economy, ideology, multiculturalism, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
Rosling explains how one billion people around the world still live in extreme poverty, but that number has halved since the UN last set development goals 15 years earlier. Rosling uses holographic projection technology to present data that give an upbeat assessment of our ability to end world poverty by 2030.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
”Year after year, companies are bringing in excess income, and year after year they decide to pay that out to shareholders instead of settling their pension obligations” … Most of the 10 companies with the largest pension deficits pay out far more annually to shareholders than the value of a one-time payment to eliminate their pension liability.
Tags: economy, ideology, pensions, standard of living
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
It is estimated that up to $80 billion leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. This film documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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