The problem with patient-pay private health clinics
What we need are strategies to improve access to diagnostic technologies that strengthen medicare rather than undermining it.
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Energy costs, climate crisis spur need for home retrofit plan
Retrofits are unique in that if their cost can be spread over a long enough period they can be paid for out on the savings that are achieved. What is needed therefore is a long term program of financing that would allow any homeowners across the country to retrofit their homes.
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Government must champion green transition
The federal role must therefore be to show leadership by bringing the provinces together to develop a national plan, leveraging investment, and supporting a long-term transition through targeted innovation, research, development and commercialization of new technologies.
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The race is on: the UN climate summit and the pursuit of a low-carbon economy
The task for those wishing to move the issue forward, in Canada or internationally, is on the one hand to keep up the pressure from movements, and on the other hand to get creative in leveraging strategically astute national governments and their negotiators at the UN process.
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Can more education solve Canada’s income inequality problem?
If educational quality is to retain its meaning, one has to face the fact that increasing enrolment in advanced education has inherent limits.
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Indigenous workers in Canada: new data points to steep unemployment
Whenever we’re talking about labour market strategies and good jobs, it’s important to keep in mind that for some workers there are systemic barriers that need to be addressed.
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Fraser Institute misleads on costs of Canada Pension Plan
The real question to be asked is whether the Fund is getting a good return for Canadians to support pensions down the road, and perhaps even to provide improved benefits or lower premiums if returns are high.
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Ferguson: Not so far away
Policing is only one node in a judicial system that was not conceived as a mode of justice for Aboriginal peoples and black peoples in the Americas.
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Tax credits are not the way to boost innovation
It is, to say the least, rare for a business-dominated advisory panel to the Harper government to suggest that targeted spending programs are more efficient than tax cuts.
