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.
Decommodification
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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.
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Andrew Coyne, income splitting, and the child care blindspot
As to Coyne’s assertion that income splitting is as good a thing to spend the surplus on as anything else, I have a list of suggestions as long as the waitlist at my daughter’s child care provider.
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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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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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The social democracy of Canadian federalism
Social democracy is a society where the enterprise of productive employment in a market economy is joined with active government to secure the public interest in equality of opportunities and fairness of outcomes.
