Posts Tagged ‘ideology’
To bolster health, would basic income — not pharmacare — make more sense?
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
… shouldn’t the priority of policy-makers be to ensure that all Canadians can afford necessities such as food and housing, not just prescription drugs? … Affordable sickness care is important, especially if you’re sick. But the way to keep people healthier longer is to ensure that they have a decent income, a roof over their heads, healthy food, a good education, a sound physical environment and sense of belonging.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
What is the problem to which creating a wealth tax is a solution?
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
The stock of wealth in a country is typically many multiples of the flow of income; its concentration in a few hands is likewise greater. The top one per cent earn roughly 20 per cent of America’s income, but control 40 per cent of its wealth. They also pay 40 per cent of the income tax, but never mind: by taxing their wealth as well, vast sums of money could ostensibly be raised from relatively few people, and at relatively low rates.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
Posted in Debates | No Comments »
OSAP offers have arrived, and students are stunned at the numbers
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
Lowering tuition would help all students across the province, the government has argued. But some students say reductions to grants mean they’re actually further behind. The issue has generated a Twitter storm as students posted comparisons of what they will be getting this year compared with last… Ross Romano, the new minister of training, colleges and universities, said the government is committed to restoring financial sustainability to OSAP…
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
The Ontario government is wrong to offload autism services onto families
Monday, June 24th, 2019
If the health and well-being of children with autism are really the priority here, then the government should build a needs-based autism service program; invest in the human capital of experts and families with lived experience; utilize available public infrastructure and capacity at regional centres; coordinate services and supports across systems; and bring all of these pieces together by helping guide children and families along their journey toward the best life possible
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, youth
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | No Comments »
Ontario’s new attorney general should reverse cuts to legal aid
Monday, June 24th, 2019
The fact is, cutting funding for legal aid will further erode any hope the poor and vulnerable have of receiving justice in a system that’s already stacked against them… If he doesn’t, the fallout will be painful for the poor and immensely costly for taxpayers… who will pay for the costly incarceration of innocent people who are not going to get fair legal representation in bail hearings, criminal cases or immigration and refugee detention hearings.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
Posted in Equality Delivery System | No Comments »
Gender politics has no place in the classroom
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
… now we’re going to find out — courtesy of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal… whether little girls have the right to maintain their normative, common, practical and realistic world-view and opinion of their own bodies, or whether that is trumped administratively and legally by the existence of the incoherent set of rights inexcusably and forcibly granted to the tiny minority of people who insist that their “identities” are entirely self-generated and absolutely inviolate socially and legally.
Tags: ideology, mental Health, rights, youth
Posted in Child & Family Debates | No Comments »
Why universal pharmacare will help get Canada’s drug costs under control — and why Big Pharma hates it
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
It might be more accurate to say we can’t afford to go without it… The Hoskins report estimates an annual savings of about $5 billion in total drug spending once universal pharmacare is fully implemented… And it would strengthen employers’ ability to hire and properly compensate employees. Employer contributions to drug plans generally reduce worker pay.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living, tax
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
Post-secondary students get the bad news about their OSAP grants
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
While tuition fees dropped by hundreds of dollars thanks to the recent changes… OSAP funding was cut by thousands of dollars. “We all feel that education should be a right, not a privilege… It’s not something that just people that come from wealthy backgrounds (deserve)… It should be available to everyone, no matter your background.”… students and their families are going to have to reconsider whether post-secondary education is a viable option for them
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Canadian corporations may have avoided $25-billion or more in taxes in 2018: PBO
Friday, June 21st, 2019
Canadian companies transferred more than $1.6-trillion in 2018 to low-tax countries known as offshore financial centres and conduits to these nations, according to a new report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer… if just 10 per cent of that amount was transferred to avoid taxes, that would mean Ottawa lost out on $25-billion in federal revenue. Billions more would have been lost in provincial corporate taxes.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
Posted in Policy Context | No Comments »
Wealth Tax A Flawed Idea With New Life: C.D. Howe Institute
Friday, June 21st, 2019
They find that wealth taxes add relatively little to what taxes on capital income can achieve, and that concerns about the social consequences of wealth concentration are better addressed by reform of existing capital income taxes and by considering wealth transfer (inheritance) taxation… In those few nations that continue to have a wealth tax, its proceeds have decreased over time.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
Posted in Governance Policy Context | No Comments »
Recent Comments