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Health-care competition: Can Britain’s experience help Canada?
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Oct. 19 2012
More patients chose – with the help of their GPs – to go to better hospitals… Hospitals in areas where patients had more choice had greater improvements in clinical quality (measured by lower death rates after admission) and greater reductions in lengths of stay than hospitals in less competitive areas… better management is associated with better outcomes in NHS hospitals and that management tends to be better when hospitals compete with each other.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, privatization, standard of living
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Don’t blame prescription drugs for increased healthcare costs
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Oct 9, 2012
Prescription drugs accounted for only 9.0% of total government spending on health in 2010, down from 9.6% in 2005. Excluding prescription drugs, all other health spending categories are growing faster than both GDP and total available provincial revenues, while accounting for 91% of all government spending on health.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, privatization
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It’s Time To Act On Shadow Banking
Monday, October 8th, 2012
Sep. 14, 2012
Regulation of shadow banking should focus on the risks posed to the financial system as a whole, or systemic risks. In each major area of shadow banking in Canada, there is one key regulatory step that needs to be taken in Canada to reduce the extent of instability in the next financial cycle… the federal government can pass legislation where there is a national “need to prevent and respond to systemic risk” in the securities area.
Tags: economy, globalization, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Canada-China investment deal allows for confidential lawsuits against Canada
Sunday, September 30th, 2012
September 29, 2012
… any decision by any state entity in Canada… can be challenged by a Chinese investor. The arbitrators, if they conclude that the decision violates flexible standards of investor protection, can issue orders and award damages against a country. On the other hand, no one in Canada including the government will be able, under the deal, to sue a Chinese investor for breaking any laws. The claims are one-way.
Tags: economy, globalization, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Mitt Romney blurts out the truth about neo-conservatism
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
Sept. 24, 2012
… about 30 years ago, a new breed of “conservative” slithered onto the political scene. Stealing the moniker of conservatism, this new breed embraced the inequality of traditional conservatism (driving it skyward) while unburdening itself of the responsibility for others and the public good… Modern conservatism — or neo-conservatism — has infected Canada too, coming to fruition under the Harper majority government
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization
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How Corporations Behave
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
September 1, 2012
Boards of directors, outside corporate law and accounting firms, giant ratings agencies, state and federal banking regulators, and legislative and oversight committees all failed to detect or prevent abuses that led to trillion-dollar losses in pensions, millions of unemployed workers and taxpayer-funded bailouts. Why? Because they were “paid” to look the other way, through lucrative fees, campaign contributions or future employment opportunities. Individual and institutional shareholders didn’t restrain the corporate bosses because over the decades corporate managers have rendered shareholders powerless.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights
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Hey Occupy, what about the 20%?
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
September 01, 2012
… public-sector workers now make nearly a third more than their private-sector colleagues when pay, perks and hours of work are factored in… But perhaps the biggest gap between public and private employees comes in their pensions… governments pump more than twice as much per employee into their workers’ pensions as private-sector employers do… yet, even with all this extra money, public-pensions plans are hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. They couldn’t even come close to paying all the pension money they’ve promised without enormous subsidies from taxpayers.
Tags: budget, pensions, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Though business sits on $500 billion, workers’ salaries are under seige
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
August 27, 2012
The point of job security — a key right won by unions — is to give employees security against arbitrary firing. But removing that sort of security — leaving workers fearful and therefore malleable to the demands of their employers — has been a central aim of the right and segments of the business community… As long as the right can keep workers envious and suspicious of each other, the focus won’t be on those at the top, where the benefits have actually gone… Labour’s share of Canada’s national income has fallen from 65 to 60 per cent since 1990, partly because of policies like privatization and deregulation
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, pensions, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Rolf Wiborg’s tough love for Canada
Monday, August 27th, 2012
22 August 2012
“The tar sands is all about providing secure supply for the people south of the border. And they should be allowed to do it but only if they do it right. Protecting the future of Canadian nature and human life, looking out for local residents, providing jobs and wealth to Canada. It can all be done, that’s what we are doing here. But you’ve got to stop thinking like a loser!”
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Paul Ryan re-ignites old collectivism vs individualism debate
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
16 August 2012
… take the Internet, which is shredding hard-won dogmas about individual property and ownership created during capitalism’s three or four centuries. Just when you get rid of those pesky proletarian revolutionaries, along comes a new, essentially collectivist technology making similar trouble… Given the undeniable (it seems to me) collective underpinning of all our lives, what’s astounding isn’t claims for “collectivism,” which simply describes what we are; it’s the emergence of individuals and even individualism from such a powerful collective base.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, rights, tax
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