Posts Tagged ‘standard of living’
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Federal budget creates a massive educational opportunity for Doug Ford
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Ontario’s universities have the lowest per-student funding of any province in Canada… crumbling infrastructure and outdated instrumentation… reductions in support staff, early retirement incentives, and hiring freezes for new faculty. Such actions have resulted in Ontario having the worst student-teacher ratio of any province in the country. Moreover, larger class sizes, fewer teaching assistants, and stripped-down learning opportunities have quickly become the norm on many university campuses.
Tags: budget, Education, featured, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Update the Canada Health Act
Monday, November 10th, 2025
After four decades, Canadians have a clearer sense of the system’s strengths and weaknesses. And the pandemic underscored both the value of universal health care and the urgent need for modernization… many changes could be achieved through more efficient organization, not just more spending. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants can often provide high-quality primary care less expensively than physicians, while expanded roles for pharmacists or midwives could also achieve savings and relieve some of the workload falling solely to family doctors.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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It’s not just penny-pinching premiers that teachers are up against
Friday, October 31st, 2025
When teachers call for reduced class sizes, more support and better teaching conditions — better learning conditions — they’re not being self-serving. They’re thinking about every kid in every classroom. They’re thinking about the collective future we want those kids to create. Too bad the politics of narrow ignorance keeps getting in the way.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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If a mine is a nation-building project, why not universal pharmacare? Inside the big push to get Mark Carney behind it
Monday, October 27th, 2025
The type of pharmacare most advocates want to see the policy evolve into is a universal, single-payer model, where governments would foot the majority of prescription drug costs for all Canadians… tens of billions of dollars Canada shells out on prescription medications annually would be better spent within the country’s borders, bolstering domestic production capacity… The gaps exposed by COVID-19 — the procurement chaos, supply chain woes, equipment shortages and expiring oversupply — make some believe pharmacare holds the potential to strengthen Canada’s autonomy and security, too.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Rethinking Philanthropy: Emerging paradigms of social justice
Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
… past forms of saviourism, in which historically disadvantaged countries and communities are seen as helpless actors waiting to be saved, will need to be dismantled. The shift in mindset is from saving “the other” (whomever that other might be) and, instead, recognizing the responsibility to contribute to a more equitable and sustainable society… By recognizing social justice as a collective project we all have personal responsibility to advance, solidarity emerges as a tool for our collective agenda in which it is only rational to invest.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, philanthropy, poverty, rights, standard of living
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The sheer gall of Stellantis’ caving to Trump shows Canada’s industrial economy is on the line. Here’s how we fight back
Sunday, October 19th, 2025
It’s no coincidence these 232 tariffs are aimed at every one of Canada’s high-tech success stories: auto, trucks, steel and other basic metals, soon to be joined by aerospace, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, industrial machinery and more… we must at all costs defend the successful high-tech industries we have — every one of which is now in Trump’s crosshairs.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, standard of living
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Mark Carney’s tax plan will lift more Canadians ‘above the poverty line,’ advocates say
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that starting in 2027, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) would begin auto-filing tax returns for low-income Canadians, allowing them to simply confirm the information in a pre-filed tax return… The Canada Child Benefit, the GST credit and the Canada Disability Benefit are among several benefits that Canadians can only receive if they file a tax return.
Tags: featured, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Reconciliation includes recognizing Residential Schools are not the only colonial atrocity
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
… Residential Schools were one part of a much larger colonial strategy to assimilate Indigenous Peoples and erase Indigenous cultures, languages, traditions, practices and governance systems… consider learning even more about the many other tactics. This way, we can acknowledge past harms, work to address current realities and look to foster meaningful engagements with Indigenous communities.
Tags: Education, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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We’ve arrived at arguably the best moment to invest in affordable housing in over a generation. Will we seize it?
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
… while we’re going to spend over $100 billion a year on defence outlays to meet our Trump-dictated NATO obligations, Canadians continue to place housing at the top of the list of their worst cost-of-living headaches. Those steep monthly rents, it’s worth saying, represent dollars not spent on all sorts of goods and services provided by Canadians, from food to entertainment to travel to education.
Tags: economy, housing, standard of living
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Immigration Policy Still in Need of a Course Correction
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Immigration policy should raise average human capital, rather than focusing narrowly on filling short-term labour market gaps… or meeting non-economic objectives… Policy should also be transparent, predictable, and oriented toward long-term prosperity, ensuring that economic immigrants have strong skills, earnings potential, and integration prospects.
Tags: economy, immigration, standard of living
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