Balanced Budget Law is Poor Economics
Balanced budgets sound appealing to many voters, but legislation to balance the books each and every year is poor economics.
Opinion
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Five challenges for bending the health care cost curve in Canada
While there remains room to increase efficiencies and gain greater value for money, bending the cost curve requires fundamental reforms to the way we manage and deliver health services in Canada.
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Inequality and Inter-generational Unfairness
It is simply not the case that younger Canadians are being heavily taxed or will be more heavily taxed down the road to pay for the modest public pensions of seniors.
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Top 8 progressive changes coming to Alberta
After more than four decades of conservative rule, here’s a primer on the top eight progressive policies Albertans embraced with the election of a majority NDP government under Rachel Notley.
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The common sense proposition of phasing out Alberta’s coal plants
In moving away from coal, Alberta would be in the mainstream of a trend that’s now picking up speed around the world.
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Harper Government Continues Attack on Labour Rights
Unions are democratic organizations that belong to their members. As such, they are an important voice in the democratic political process.
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Can Pope Francis make ecology critical to the identity of the faithful?
Now what Pope Francis needs to do, what we all need him to do, is to move ecological insights and imperatives from the margins of his church’s teachings to the centre of Catholic moral teaching, to make them critical to the identity of the faithful in the world.
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It is time to confront Canada’s staple trap
Perversely, governments get captured by the staple industry and lock the country in. Our currency becomes a petro-dollar, our state a petro-state.
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The ideological roots of Harper’s opposition to child care
Harper’s fierce opposition to national child care is no fluke. Child care is but the latest battlefield in an ongoing war between social democratic and neoliberal proponents of the proper role of government.
