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Ontario’s healthcare spending lowest in Canada — but going lower
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
These cuts, totalling about $360 million, will affect everything from mental health care to cancer screening, according to Natalie Mehra, head of the Ontario Health Coalition… Their impact will likely be profound, since… Ontario’s health-care spending is only $3,903 per person — the lowest of the ten provinces — and $487 per person lower than the Canadian average…
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, philanthropy, privatization, tax
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What Don Cherry might not know about all those who fought for freedom
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
Their service is rendered even more special by their willingness to fight for the freedom of others in spite of their own exclusion, and the hope that their sacrifice would help our country achieve equality. That fight for equal treatment continues to this day… We need to tell the complete story of the wars, one that includes the sacrifices made by people of all colours and creeds in shaping the Canada we pride ourselves on today.
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Home-care agencies seek key role in Doug Ford’s health reforms
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
… the government’s restructuring of the health system and the creation of the Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) can make it easier for people to be cared for at home and can shift the burden of care away from hospitals when patients truly don’t need to be hospitalized… “Many of the solutions to hospital overcrowding lie outside hospital walls,”
Tags: featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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We Need a New Capitalism
Sunday, November 10th, 2019
First, business leaders need to embrace a broader vision of their responsibilities… This requires that they focus not only on their shareholders, but also on all of their stakeholders — their employees, customers, communities and the planet… suggesting that companies must choose between doing well and doing good is a false choice. Successful businesses can and must do both… Research shows that companies that embrace a broader mission… outperform their peers, grow faster, and deliver higher profits.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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New Liberal minority must keep national pharmacare promise
Friday, November 8th, 2019
In August, 67.8 per cent of respondents to a Mainstreet poll called for national pharmacare, agreeing that the federal government should create a system through which it pays for prescription drugs, regardless of the cost to government. In an Angus Reid pre-election poll, 78 per cent of voters supported a national pharmacare program. Even the 57 per cent of Canadians who intended to vote for the Conservatives, whose platform included no pharmacare plan, supported either the Liberal or the NDP plan.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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The case for finally adopting a universal basic income
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Why not simplify these programs and centre human dignity within our social safety net?… We’ve got to reimagine our economy in a way that measures work, not jobs, in a way that puts human dignity at the centre of policy rather than racing to the bottom. We’ve also got to ensure that women’s economic empowerment is at the centre of this discussion rather than creating a gender blind program.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Good advice on fixing Ontario’s welfare system
Monday, November 4th, 2019
“Low benefit rates leave people in deep poverty, and program rules create barriers to their participating in the labour force and improving their lives,” the report says… In short, a focus on cuts rather than results has not only made the lives of the poor more miserable, but it has worked against efforts to get people back into the labour force.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty
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Oh Canada, our home and native tax haven
Friday, November 1st, 2019
… a national public beneficial ownership registry… would eliminate the use of shell companies as a means of engaging in financial crime and allow Canada to realize advantages like potential increased tax revenues and an easing of the endemic money laundering of recent years… We should… restrict illicit financial flows, fight corruption and lay the foundations of a fairer economy and a more decent society at home and abroad.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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A levy on consumption makes for more efficient taxation
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
… there is growing recognition of the need for an objective, politically neutral tax reform commission to comprehensively examine possible improvements… our tax system has evolved based mostly on short-term political considerations… a shift of the tax base away from its current heavy reliance on taxing income, and toward taxing consumption… would include annual income… plus other annual cash inflows that increase ability to consume
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, tax
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A Federal Minority: The Leading Parties’ Promises on Health Care
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
With the Liberal Party of Canada… winning Monday’s federal election with 157 of 338 seats in the House of Commons, campaign promises will need broader support in order to be realized. This bulletin summarizes the positions of the top five parties… on health care topics including pharmacare… dental care), primary care, mental health and addiction services, Indigenous health care and medical assistance in dying.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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