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Per-student university funding on track to hit lowest level in 50 years
Ontario currently has the lowest level of per-student funding and the highest tuition fees in Canada. Increased public investment would allow universities to preserve the quality of education while ensuring they remain affordable for students and their families… Funding per “eligible” student – those for whom universities receive provincial operating support – will fall 7.5 per cent over the next three years… Whoever forms the next government, it is vital that they reverse this downward trend in funding.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, youth
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On Capitalism, We Are All Pikettists Now
Piketty sees a possible alternative [to Marx’s predictions]: a worldwide universal, progressive tax regime… we need to make the one per cent understand that every dollar, pound and euro they make ultimately comes from the elaborate infrastructure the rest of us have created. They only exploit it. They are not the job creators; we are the wealth creators. They have no more right to a free lunch than we do, and high incomes warrant high taxes.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Don’t give up on Senate reform
We are not stuck with the status quo. We are simply faced with the same challenges we always were. Establishing an equal, elected and effective Senate was never supposed to be particularly easy… If Mr. Harper really wants a better Senate, he can start doing that today simply by making better appointments
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, Senate
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Thomas Piketty Undermines the Hallowed Tenets of the Capitalist Catechism
… in the late 1970s, the trend toward equality reversed. Workers’ output-per-hour continued to rise, but their wages and benefits flattened. Almost all of the gains from the increased productivity of the last three and a half decades went to corporate investors and their top managers. The poverty rate rose by a third… When they could no longer ignore the data, economists blamed the workers themselves for not being educated enough for the new information age… The ultimate solution, he writes, is a worldwide progressive tax on private capital.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Oligarchs And Money
… as the latest I.M.F. report shows, there’s strong evidence that changes in the global economy are increasing the tendency of investors to hoard cash rather than put funds to work, thereby increasing the risk of liquidity traps unless the inflation target is raised… who wouldn’t prefer modest inflation and a bit of asset erosion to mass unemployment? Well, you know who: the 0.1 percent, who receive “only” 4 percent of wages but account for more than 20 percent of total wealth.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Ontarians deserve to know who’s behind public lobbying campaigns
Ontario’s democratic system—like Canada’s—is based on the idea that the electorate can make reasonable decisions informed by arguments put forward by publicly accountable groups and individuals… Without accountability, groups that attempt to lobby the public can more easily get away with using fear-mongering tactics or spreading misinformation, such as claiming to be something they are not.
Tags: ideology, participation, privatization, rights, standard of living
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America’s Taxation Tradition
… in the early 20th century, many leading Americans warned about the dangers of extreme wealth concentration, and urged that tax policy be used to limit the growth of great fortunes… America was in danger of turning into a society dominated by hereditary wealth… the New World was at risk of turning into Old Europe… public policy should seek to limit inequality for political as well as economic reasons, that great wealth posed a danger to democracy.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Why Ontario’s medical tourism threatens medicare
Doctors are paid the OHIP rate plus “a small premium.” Like Sunnybrook, the University Health Network says it plows any profits back into member hospitals… So what’s the problem? The first has to do with resources. There are only a finite number of physicians, nurses and hospital beds in Ontario… Medicare is based on the notion that access is determined by need rather than wealth, that the sickest are treated first. Medical tourism turns this principle on its head.
Tags: budget, globalization, Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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No CEOs paid price for 2008 meltdown. Here’s why
In North America, 400,000 Canadians lost their jobs and household income, while in the U.S. more than eight million workers were rendered jobless through no fault of their own… A clutch of celebrity financiers pushed the global economy over the edge. But there’s no law against that, also no vigorously enforced regulation and oversight, and it can’t be done without the acquiescence of a vast number of gullible people of all walks of life.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, ideology, pensions, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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The Verdict on Thatcherism Is Clear
Thirty-five years after she swept to power as British prime minister, it is ironic that socialist Norway now has $830 billion in the bank and enjoys fully funded social programs that most of us can only dream of. Meanwhile the U.K. is enduring another round of wrenching austerity and owes over £1.3 trillion — about US$2.2 trillion. That massive debt grows by about $3.8 billion each week, while every seven days Norway adds another billion dollars to their bank account.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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