Posts Tagged ‘globalization’
As environment minister, I believed the oil sands sector would help us save the planet. I was wrong.
Saturday, December 7th, 2024
The oil sands sector has been lying to us for years. They are not getting cleaner. They are not part of the solution… Canada can choose to be on the right side of history. We can act with the urgency the climate crisis requires and the economic case makes clear. Or, we can double down on the oil sands, abandon the Paris Agreement, ignore the economic opportunities of clean energy, and leave our children a deadly and unsustainable future.
Tags: economy, globalization, Health, ideology, standard of living
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This is why you need the CBC
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
Public media can lead the way in charting a course for all media to use AI ethically, and in ways that diminish rather than contribute to the flow of misinformation… developing and testing ways to encourage civil online conversations as an antidote to the harmful, toxic online discourses that are fed by misinformation and disinformation.
Tags: globalization, ideology, participation
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Only the United States benefits from renegotiating the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal
Monday, September 30th, 2024
Ideologically, the U.S. is no longer the free-trade champion it was… concessions are highly unlikely to convince the U.S. — regardless of which party is in power — to surrender the most potent weapon it has in its arsenal to pressure its neighbours to adopt its preferred policies. Policy reform, simply put, leads to U.S. market access… The 2018 CUSMA didn’t preserve free trade in North America. It signalled its demise and the return of power politics to our most important economic relationship.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction
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The Danger of Poilievre’s ‘Axe the Tax’ Scam Hits Home
Monday, August 5th, 2024
Opposition to climate action stems mostly from Canada’s largely foreign-owned fossil fuel industry, American dark-money-funded think tanks and Canada’s major newspaper chain, owned by American hedge funds… Emissions are being reduced, and with the Canada Carbon Rebate the vast majority of Canadians are financially better off under pollution pricing… Canada cannot slogan its way out of the climate crisis
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Economic growth tops the priority list for Canadian policymakers — here’s why
Thursday, April 25th, 2024
We should be making room for measures of personal and collective well-being other than GDP. But we also need economic growth — not just so we can consume more, or generate more revenue for governments, but so we can take better care of one another… growth could include better housing, better food and better health care, or even a better defence posture. And it need not require consuming more natural resources.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Democracy Is Under Siege Globally. Canada Is Being Tested
Monday, April 8th, 2024
Finkelstein preached that you didn’t need a vision to win in politics, just good polling that revealed what people were against. Once that was established, the goal became tying the unpopular thing — immigration, carbon tax, inflation — to a flesh and blood political “enemy.” … The idea was to avoid talking about your own positions and policies, the better to demonize your opponent. The objective was not to sell yourself but rather to destroy your opponent… repeating simplistic slogans… “Axe the tax.” “Not worth the price.” “Everything is broken.”
Tags: featured, globalization, housing, ideology, immigration, rights, tax
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What Brian Mulroney got wrong on free trade with the U.S.
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Mulroney, Reagan and Thatcher sang a siren song. Get governments out of the way! Let the market rule! Economic globalization, with its program of free trade, privatization and deregulation and everyone would benefit. Corporations surely did… And Canadian CEOs did too… the richest CEOs are paid 246 times more than the average worker.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Cure for the Public Debt Pandemic: An Economic-Principles-Based Fiscal Anchor
Friday, February 2nd, 2024
… we don’t have a textbook fiscal policy but rather a counter-recession and pro-expansion debt policy… over a business cycle, the net accumulation of public debt should be equal to the value of income-generating investments. This anchor would fluctuate with changes in business conditions but would guide policymakers to maintain the tight relationship of its two parts over time… We can call this anchor “net economic public debt.”
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology
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Financed by Canada, medical breakthrough helps Big Pharma, not global poor
Thursday, December 14th, 2023
Canadian taxpayers played a key role in funding the technology that made mRNA vaccines possible. Yet Canadian authorities took no steps to ensure that the resulting vaccines would be made accessible to people who needed them rather than simply becoming enormous profit-generators for Big Pharma… Today’s system, which prioritizes private profits and intellectual property rights, is in sharp contrast with the system in place for six decades when Canada had publicly-owned Connaught Labs.
Tags: economy, globalization, pharmaceutical, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Canada has new requirements for international students hoping to come study.
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
… prospective international students will need to show they have access to $20,635 instead of the $10,000 requirement that has been in place for two decades, in addition to paying for travel and tuition. The amount will be adjusted annually based on a Statistics Canada benchmark for living costs… applicants who have already submitted an application for a study permit as of December 7, 2023, will be able to work off campus more than 20 hours per week until [April 30, 2024].”
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration
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