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International graduates of career colleges should have opportunity to work in Canada
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
5 August 2012
The government of Canada recently announced its intention to introduce stricter rules for international students seeking to study in Canada… The proposed changes are intended to ensure that foreign students who obtain study permits enter Canada for the purpose of study. Currently, there is no monitoring of international students once they arrive in Canada… Governments will create lists of educational institutions that meet established standards and are eligible to host international students.
Tags: globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, privatization, rights, youth
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Tear down those mountains of cash
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
21 July 2012
… debt is not the major problem. That was four years ago. Today, a far bigger threat is… cash hoards… at least 45 per cent of Canada’s biggest companies are hoarding cash rather than investing in employment or capital. None of it is going into research and development, expansion of market share, new offices and factories or, crucially, on employing people. Nor is it going into tax revenues, since cash reserves – and some of the earnings that contribute to them – escape the taxman, giving companies an incentive to not invest.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Ontario universities promise funding guide amid Carleton donor backlash
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Jul. 14 2012
Ontario’s universities are trying to assemble a toolkit to help their leaders navigate the delicate, sometimes controversial funding deals they broker with wealthy private donors… The absence of clear rules is apparent in a 2010 donor agreement whereby oil magnate Clayton Riddell pledged $15-million to Carleton to start a new political management program… with power to “approve the budget, the selection of adjunct faculty and staff, including the Executive Director and to participate in the faculty hiring decisions.”The Canadian Association of University Teachers was quick to condemn the terms.
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, rights
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It’s time the provinces were brought to account on health-care wait times
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Jul 13, 2012
… if wait times were unacceptable in 2005, they are no less so today… In only two provinces, Ontario and B.C., are wait times shorter now than they were at the time of Chaoulli. (In Quebec, they are almost a week longer.) In every province, they are substantially longer than they were in the mid-1990s… the solution… is to make room for competition within the single-payer system — allowing private clinics, for example, so long as they are paid for out of public funds — before we start looking at parallel private insurance systems, with all the potential for gaming they entail.
Tags: budget, Health, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Target deal not about CanCon — it’s about easing rules on foreign ownership
Monday, July 9th, 2012
Jul 7, 2012
The news is that the minister has approved foreign ownership of a cultural distribution business, thereby once again setting a precedent that breaks policy. At least one expert in the legal tangle known as the Investment Canada Act says Friday’s Target decision is another sign that Ottawa will soon announce new cultural investment rules… the old formal blanket prohibitions on foreign ownership will soon be replaced.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization
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Market model flawed for health care
Sunday, July 8th, 2012
July 05, 2012
A new study conducted by the pharmaceutical company Novartis and McKinsey and Co. shows a stunning difference among countries with regard to health-care efficiency… overwhelmingly, the most effective care for diseases comes from countries with much lower costs… Health care is very complex. Only at a systemic level can you figure out what works best based on the evidence, and what procedures and treatments are not worth the money
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization, standard of living
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Corporations behave badly – and we pay
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Jul. 05 2012
Once upon a time, banks and drug companies enjoyed good reputations and a relatively high degree of trust. Most people regarded them as useful industries that created products and services that benefited society… Today these industries are movie villains – multibillion-dollar enterprises portrayed as so rapacious they’ll do anything to turn a buck. Judging by current events, this characterization is all too true. Some of the most powerful people in these lines of work will lie, cheat and steal until they get caught, all the while assuring us that they are adding incomparable value to society.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Exploiting Canada’s resources can be a fool’s game
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Feb. 22, 2012
Canada has one of the worst productivity records in the industrialized world. Upon productivity improvements household incomes depend, not burgeoning household debt. When you ask why median household incomes stagnated for a long time in Canada, and why the lowest-income Canadians have gotten poorer, one reason (among many) is low productivity… If nothing changes, taxes will certainly have to rise on them just to deal with aging alone, unless those who remain in the work force are more productive… Without better productivity, forget real income growth.
Tags: economy, globalization, privatization, standard of living
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Bow Down Canadians, Corporations Are King
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Jan. 30, 2012
What kind of society beggars those of its citizens who worked all their lives and now want to retire in dignity while privileging the rich and super-rich by slashing their income taxes and allowing them to transfer wealth to their children untouched? … Since the mid-1980s, and accelerating with the signing of the Canada-U.S. “free trade” deal, the guiding principle of neo-liberalism seems to have been “Ask not what your economy can do for you, ask what you can do for your economy.” … The economy is now defined as the narrow interests of global corporations.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Property rights could unlock native reform
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Jan 28 2012
… underlying title allows First Nation communities to subdivide a portion of their reserve land into fee simple lands for individual members to use. Band members could then use these fee simple lands to generate wealth through mortgages, loans, and buy/sell transactions, much like Canadians do off-reserve, but without any of the hassle of dealing with significant bureaucratic red tape that most members have to endure under the Indian Act.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, privatization, rights, standard of living
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