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Upstream thinking, healthy society and reviving Canadian democracy
Social factors play a significant role in determining whether we will be healthy or ill. Our health care is but one element of what makes…
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A Canada Without Compassion: A Modest Proposal from the Fraser Institute
The Fraser Institute would like to remove compassion from the policy debate about poverty in Canada. Why? Because, according to the author of this report, Christopher…
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Labour Shortage? Raise Wages!
I have been hard on our new Employment and Social Development Minister, Jason Kenney, for buying into a widespread myth about labour shortages and skill…
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Heinz Plant Closure Throws Leamington into Economic Shock
After more than 100 years of business, Leamington’s Heinz plant is closing, throwing 740 people out of work and sending the community into economic shock.…
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No matter how you slice it, Ontario’s minimum wage doesn’t measure up
It seems everywhere I turn people are talking income inequality. Whether it’s on the pages of the current Globe and Mail series, The Wealth Paradox, or…
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Only 6% of BC Ombudsperson’s recommendations for addressing crisis in seniors care implemented by provincial government: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A year and a half after the release of an exhaustive and damning report on the state…
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Making Every Job a Good Job
A Benchmark for Setting Ontario’s Minimum Wage Download 390.72 KB 36 pages In the summer of 2013 — three years after the provincial government froze…
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BC government’s non-response on seniors care
In 2012, the BC Ombudsperson made 140 recommendations to the Ministry of Health to improve seniors care by fixing BC’s home and community health care…
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