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Harper government is abandoning leadership in health care
The federal government is the fifth-largest health-care provider in the country, delivering services to more than a million people, including aboriginals living on reserves, members of the Canadian Forces and federal prison inmates… only the federal government, by attaching strings to transfer payments, can secure pan-Canadian standards and thus ensure that provinces aren’t pitted against each other… information-sharing, cooperation, and national standards are key to successful health care – is more important than ever.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, privatization, standard of living
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RBC apology won’t change hollowing out of Canadian workforce
Apr 15 2013
Canada is being hollowed out… Stephen Harper’s long-term plan for Canada includes not just the Thatcherite destruction of unions but a clear-out of government workers and a lowering of all wages… he trusts that voters won’t make the connection and take it personally… It is a social good for people to be well paid, whether in the public or private sector, because their salaries are spent on things that keep other people working and salaried well, too.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s place in a winner-take-all economy
Apr. 15 2013
… while the world is becoming borderless, it isn’t becoming flat. It’s spiky, and the economic forces of our age are making the peaks higher. We live in a winner-take-all economy, and the winning people, companies and ideas are increasingly concentrated… Wise national statesmen need to be connected enough to hear the world’s conversation and influential enough to shape it.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, privatization
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Deliberately lax visa rules encouraged RBC outsourcing
Apr 09 2013
There are three stories involved in the Royal Bank’s controversial decision to replace Canadian high-tech workers with foreigners. The first is that Canadian companies are sending good jobs abroad where wages are low… The second is… the 45 laid-off Canadian information technology workers… are being required to train their own replacements… The third is that Canada’s government not only allows both practices but encourages them.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Short-term, applied research won’t win Canada any Nobel prizes
Mar. 27 2013
There’s a popular myth about universities as ivory towers full of fat-cat academics and loopy students asking unanswerable questions. Their willful irrelevance is a waste of taxpayers’ money, so the critics say; get them out of the public trough and doing things Canadian business can really use. I call it a Zombie idea. It’s dangerous, because it has infected some decision-makers.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Corporations still won’t circulate ‘dead money’
Apr 08 2013
… corporate reserves (now up to $600 billion) are holding back the Canadian economy. Business leaders are still biding their time… “The missing ingredient — and one which holds the key to corporate behaviour — is confidence about future growth.” Until someone breaks this vicious cycle — uncertain growth, weak business confidence, delayed investment and hiring — the economy will limp along. That has implications for both the government and the public.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Reducing Ontario post-secondary tuition fees is the only fair option
Apr 05 2013
Government underfunding has resulted in skyrocketing tuition fees in Ontario. At $7,180, undergraduate tuition in Ontario is more than eight times higher than what average tuition fees were in 1980… The plan presented to government by students would see tuition fees cut by 30 per cent over three years, including a 17-per-cent reduction next year at no additional cost to government. These policy changes would help ensure today’s young people have the same opportunity their parents were given: access to affordable post-secondary education.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, youth
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Ontario’s health care system should serve need, not greed
Apr 01 2013
The marketing spin is that everyone wins – the folks from abroad are healed and Ontario’s faltering health-care system is given new life thanks to fresh financial transfusions. Not coincidentally, by transforming a public good into a commodity, the invisible hand of the market boosts those privileged few even higher up the ladder of financial reward and power.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Income inequality spikes in Canada’s big cities
Jan. 28, 2013
… in Canada’s three largest cities—Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal—the bottom 90% make less today than they did in 1982. They’ve seen drops in income of $4,300, $1,900, and $224, respectively. The top 1% in those cities saw pay increases of $189,000, $297,000, and $162,000, respectively… This new data shows how extreme income inequality has become…
Tags: economy, privatization, standard of living, tax
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CEOs take tax breaks, but don’t create jobs
Jan. 28, 2013
Our CLC study shows that between 2001 and 2011 the total cash reserves of private, non-financial private corporations in Canada grew from $187 billion to $575 billion. Between 2010 and 2011 alone, there was an astounding one-year increase of $72 billion. This is a figure more than double the entire $33.4 billion federal deficit for 2010-11… the top 10 corporate hoarders accumulated $27.7 billion in extra short- and long-term cash assets between 2001 and 2011.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, tax
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