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The Future of Health Care
Medicare must be preserved and made truly comprehensive There are two fundamentally competing visions that seek to shape the next stage of health care in Canada. One view, based on the premise that health care is a commodity, believes that markets should determine who gets care, when, and how. This…
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Boundless Bonuses
Skyrocketing Canadian executive pay during the 2020 pandemic Download 804.56 KB21 pages Despite a devastating pandemic and ensuing financial crisis, Canadian CEOs enjoyed ever-healthier paycheques in 2020—thanks, in part, to alterations of bonus pay rules. Using filings from 209 publicly traded companies on the S&P/TSX Composite Index, we’ve combed through…
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Predictions
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. Scroll down for a PDF version. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index Gloom and Doom Many international bodies, including the…
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CPP oil investments on the rise
From unprecedented droughts to deadly heat waves, climate change is making the present—and all of our futures—less secure. The dream of a tranquil retirement is already being interrupted by nightmares such as the wildfires raging across BC and Alberta this summer. Sadly, the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), which was designed…
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In the Red
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Indexis a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. Scroll down for a PDF version. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 1.57 Trillion Canadians’ household debt in the second quarter…
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In a flawed survey, BC seeks input on changes to freedom of information and privacy
It is again time to review British Columbia’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. Every six years the legislature reviews the Act and the process has begun with the province placing a questionnaire online asking for people’s opinions. But before you go online to respond to the survey you might…
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Less on their Plate
Canada’s poorest people facing a frightful food crisis “The Federal Reserve has done, and will continue to do, everything possible within the limits of its authority to assist in restoring our nation to financial stability…” —Ben Bernanke, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman. * * * It took us far too long to…
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It’s a Living
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Indexis a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. Scroll down for a PDF version. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 32 Percentage of two-parent families working full-time, year-round in…
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Gone Fishin’
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 47 Percentage of Canadian workers who say they need a vacation more today than…
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Conservative cuts really just a “spending moratorium”
The Tale of the Kluane Lake Research Station When is a cut not a cut? According to the Conservative Government, when it’s a “spending moratorium.” As Robert Service once rhymed, “There are strange things done ‘neath the midnight sun.” This is a tale of an important research station, a government…
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Canada vs. the OECD
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 34 Number of countries with membership in the OECD (Organisation for Economic and Co-operation…
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Education Property Tax Cuts Worsen Income Inequality in Manitoba
Download 621.06 KB4 pages The Education Property Tax Reduction Act will increase income inequality in Manitoba and will not help those impacted by COVID. Property taxes are levied proportionally to wealth in real estate, and so when properly administered can be an effective, progressive and fair way to bring in…
