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Canadian Blood Services as a model for national pharmacare
… few realize we have also been running a national formulary of biological drugs, providing universal and equitable access to plasma-derived medicine at no cost to patients for nearly two decades… A national, scalable, cost-shared infrastructure and logistics network ensures the right product get to the right patient, at the right time… A system that ensures no Canadian patient is left unable to afford life-saving medication, while at the same time driving down system costs, is not only good politics, it’s good policy.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living, tax
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Alternative federal budget pushes for needed spending
[It] would increase federal government health-care spending to 30 per cent from less than 20 per cent of all spending on health care… introduce a national pharmacare program, making prescription drugs affordable for the increasing numbers of people without workplace health benefits… double the goods and services (GST) tax credit and national child benefit supplement, both targeting low-income earners. .. establish a new “poverty reduction transfer” to the provinces, requiring them to enhance their dismally low social assistance and disability benefit rates.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Long-overdue tax revolt is finally under way in Britain
The revolt is aimed at wealthy individuals and corporations who game the system so expertly that they pay hardly any taxes, or less tax than fairness would dictate. Europe is riddled with tax havens whose role is to deprive high-tax countries from the resources they need to support their social systems… Unless they are reined in, the notion that the European Union is a level playing field will remain a farce.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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A deficit-free budget, right on deadline
… it relinquished billions of dollars of revenue in tax credits, deductions, exemptions, shelters and loopholes. The Conservatives have created 68 new tax avoidance measures costing the government $155 billion a year in foregone revenue, according to the Fraser Institute. (Since the think tank released its tally, Harper has added one worth $2 billion a year.) Another drain on the federal treasury is uncollected taxes.
Tags: budget, economy, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Where have all the fiscal conservatives gone?
For a while, indeed, conservatives succeeded in making deficits and debt into dirty words in Canadian politics, something every government sought to avoid. Tax increases were even more taboo. How ironic, then, that this fiscal-conservative revolution was eventually undone by the Right… The Harper government has now re-borrowed the entire $105 billion worth of debt that was paid off between 1997 and 2008, and then some.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, tax
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Corporate Greed? Enough Already Record profits have produced lousy jobs
The headline read “Corporate profit margins at 27-year high and likely to stay there.” Pretty heady stuff if you took it out of context. But the context is everything: pathetic growth projections, record high personal debt, stagnating wages, hundreds of billions in idle corporate cash, a multi-billion dollar infrastructure deficit, a growing real estate bubble and a Bank of Canada chief who has no idea how to fix things. And, of course, a prime minister who thinks fixing things is heretical.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Harper government is short-changing families
… the bulk of benefits from the government’s so-called child-care spending doesn’t actually go to child care. “In 2015, 49 per cent of these benefits would go to families with child-care expenses and young children, and the remaining 51 per cent to families with no child-care expenses and families with older children”… The PBO’s findings are one more reason for the government to reconsider its backward position on child care.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Fixing Toronto’s broken public housing system would help us all
Repairing Toronto’s dilapidated public housing stock isn’t just good social policy — it’s good business, too. A comprehensive study by the Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis shows that doing the right thing would create thousands of jobs, spur private investment, and generate billions of extra dollars in federal and provincial taxes… If upper governments won’t respond to basic human need, perhaps they’ll act in their own self-interest.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, homelessness, housing, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Private school students do fare better — but it’s mainly because of their parents: study
The roughly 6% of Canadian teenagers who attend private schools — from the grandest boarding school for the global elite to the most modest independent religious school — gain advantages that only increase as the students continue into higher and graduate education… parents of private school students had incomes 25% higher… 10% of public school students had a parent who completed a graduate or professional degree, compared with 25% of private school students.
Tags: ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax, youth
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