Government investment can reverse Canada’s business innovation deficit
While the resource economy and traditional manufacturing struggle, we have largely failed to build new sources of wealth in knowledge intensive goods and services.
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Canada’s childcare debate through Finnish eyes
In Finland, universal access to childcare was originally introduced to support women’s labor market participation. However, today the benefits seem to be far wider.
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Time to move beyond “tough-on-crime” rhetoric
A rational justice system and a program of prison reform based on evidence and grounded in humane principles would be more sensible than having to hope that law suits will correct the present system’s deficiencies.
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The fight for universal child care
It could be national project, much like Medicare, that we can all be proud of contributing to and benefitting from. With the acknowledgement that building a program like that will take sustained dedication and time.
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Labour market policy is about more than unemployment
The biggest gap in our current labour market policy is the lack of opportunities for life-long learning.
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Stephen Harper’s abhorrent record on refugees and immigration
In a time when it is clear that the need for asylum is greater than ever, the Canadian government defends its decade long record in making admission to Canada, temporarily or permanently, more difficult.
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On inequality, wages and bargaining power matter
Government obsessions with keeping inflation low resulted in the relatively high unemployment rates of the 1980s and 1990s. And when unemployment is high, worker bargaining power is reduced.
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The unsung merits of supply management
Because of widespread consolidation in the food industry, farmers have little choice but to take the price being offered by the buyer, regardless of whether or not it covers their costs.
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Building a national child care program
Canada lags way behind most of its peer countries on child care. There is no doubt that in the absence of a modern approach to child care provisions, families across Canada experience hardship and stress.
