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Trade deals a threat to Medicare, pharmacare
TISA, as its name suggests, is about services and the core concept is to transfer control of public services from states to corporations, with the transfer being provided by states like Canada and other North and West States but excluding the BRIC countries [which are] somewhat incompatible with the main thrust of neo-liberal globalization… their applications would not only overwhelm the projected savings of pharmacare but most seriously destroy Medicare and replace a democratic based state institution with the antithesis of democratic responsibility, competence and control.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Just what is the TPP (and why should you care)?
The TPP is a template for future economic agreements… between the world’s fast-growing but least developed economies and its biggest but slowest-growing ones… The term “trade deal” is misleading. Negotiators seek to impose on their countries higher standards of working conditions, environmental protection, intellectual property rights enforcement, and purity of food and drug imports.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Why are Canadians subsidizing executive stock options?
… executive stock options “represent the most prominent form of legal corruption that has been undermining our large corporations and bringing down the global economy.” Canada compounds the problem by adding a special tax break that makes executive stock options even more lucrative — and costly to the Canadian treasury… It’s hard to think of another tax break that benefits so few people so much — and for no good reason.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, tax
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Harper is not funding science, he’s subsidizing business
It’s not just that the amounts invested are paltry, but the new money that is there tends to be directed at specific projects… what we have is a government that can’t stop talking about the importance of innovation, surreptitiously rolling back on its commitment to scientific innovation… Mr. Harper’s government is micromanaging research dollars so that it can use universities/colleges as surrogates for industrial research.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Got a problem? Privatize it (and pay the price for selling off Hydro One later).
Hydro One’s financial statements show earnings of between nine and 11 per cent since its inception… Currently that revenue helps pay for hospitals, schools, and other public services… Why sell off a valuable asset with guaranteed returns of nine to 11 per cent per year when you can borrow that money for less than three per cent per year? Because it is a crown corporation, Hydro One doesn’t pay taxes to the federal government, instead, a payment in lieu of taxes is retained by our province.
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, tax
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Needed: Smart education spending in Ontario
In total, public school enrolment in Ontario dropped from 2.16 million in 2001-02 to 2.04 million in 2011-12, a 5.5 per cent decrease. Spending on public schools in Ontario increased 62.4 per cent… on a per student basis… 72 per cent, from $7,047 to $12,117. Yet dramatic increases in spending aren’t necessarily associated with increases in achievement.
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living, youth
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Corporate Greed? Enough Already Record profits have produced lousy jobs
The headline read “Corporate profit margins at 27-year high and likely to stay there.” Pretty heady stuff if you took it out of context. But the context is everything: pathetic growth projections, record high personal debt, stagnating wages, hundreds of billions in idle corporate cash, a multi-billion dollar infrastructure deficit, a growing real estate bubble and a Bank of Canada chief who has no idea how to fix things. And, of course, a prime minister who thinks fixing things is heretical.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Stephen Harper reinvents the welfare state
… the aim was twofold… First, the Conservatives wanted to do something popular. Cutting cheques for voters with children fit the bill. In effect, Harper had reinvented the old Family Allowance, or baby bonus, scheme that from 1945 to 1989 awarded every Canadian family a per-child cash payment. More importantly, the Harper government wanted to ensure that the alternative to the baby bonus — a comprehensive, publicly funded, national child-care program — never saw the light of day.
Tags: budget, child care, globalization, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Private school students do fare better — but it’s mainly because of their parents: study
The roughly 6% of Canadian teenagers who attend private schools — from the grandest boarding school for the global elite to the most modest independent religious school — gain advantages that only increase as the students continue into higher and graduate education… parents of private school students had incomes 25% higher… 10% of public school students had a parent who completed a graduate or professional degree, compared with 25% of private school students.
Tags: ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax, youth
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Knowledge Isn’t Power
… there’s no evidence that a skills gap is holding back employment… the notion that highly skilled workers are generally in demand is just false… the inflation-adjusted earnings of highly educated Americans have gone nowhere since the late 1990s. So what is really going on? all the big gains are going to a tiny group of individuals holding strategic positions in corporate suites or astride the crossroads of finance. Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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