Posts Tagged ‘globalization’
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Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Requires a Made-in-the-USA Solution
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
“Canada represents only 2% of global pharmaceutical consumption vs. America’s 44%. In fact, the state of Florida alone spends more than all of Canada on prescription medicine… Canada imports between 68-70% of our final dosage form prescription drug supply and for the remaining 30% that we do manufacture domestically – over 90% of the components come from abroad.”
Tags: economy, globalization, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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The great transformation: How to achieve a ‘Green New Deal’ for Canada
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
Key sectors of the economy – information and communications technology; power and electricity; transportation and logistics; real estate – are fast decoupling from fossil fuels in favour of ever-cheaper solar and wind energies and the accompanying clean technologies, green business practices and processes of circularity and resilience that are the central features of a Green New Deal… Canada needs to establish a bold new economic vision if it is to adapt and prosper.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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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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Province aims to boost foreign student numbers
Friday, November 15th, 2019
… the provincial government has designed a new policy for partnerships between publicly-funded colleges and private education providers… Such partnerships will bring investment to those colleges, allowing for such things as new equipment and infrastructure… Along with the economic advantage, the influx of international students brings cultural wealth to local colleges and their communities
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, youth
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Uncomfortable climate change realities from an energy executive
Friday, November 15th, 2019
… Canadians have the ingenuity and know-how to develop our resources while advancing environmental protection, reducing the carbon intensity of our energy products, enriching the communities where we live and work, and working respectfully with local citizens and Indigenous peoples, all while generating national and local economic growth. The export of liquefied natural gas from B.C. is a fine example of this.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, 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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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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To improve health care, we need to plan our work force of the future
Friday, October 25th, 2019
We need to rethink our traditional approach of strictly controlling the number of health workers we educate and train and turn to oversupply, knowing that many will be wooed away… One in five nurses in Canada leaves their job each year, and the turnover costs are enormous… [We must] ensure jobs are meaningful, appropriate and, most of all, that there are people to fill the posts that are so essential to our care.
Tags: budget, globalization, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
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Want a competitive capitalist economy? Choose big government
Friday, October 18th, 2019
North Americans decided to make a choice between big corporations or big government, and favoured the former; Europeans realized that big government was the pathway to keeping corporations competitive and was good for consumers and society. We should not be looking at life as a choice between big, activist government or a successful market economy. To achieve the second, we need more of the first.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Internal trade barriers make Canada less attractive for foreign investment
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
Internal trade barriers cost the Canadian economy between $50-billion and $130-billion… They prevent Canadian businesses from gaining economies of scale through access to a whole-of-Canada market, which are critical to developing global competitiveness. This, in turn, means fewer international export opportunities… These trade barriers between provinces and regions also impede greater pan-Canadian social and political cohesion.
Tags: economy, globalization, jurisdiction, standard of living
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