Reading Time: 3 minutes By ensuring revenues are wisely spent, transparency and accountability is of most benefit to First Nations communities
Month: June 2016
Preparing the health workforce for an aging population
Reading Time: 3 minutes The health needs of seniors are getting more complicated as people live longer, and we need a workforce that can keep up
June 7 was Tax Freedom Day in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes But there was little reason to celebrate
Tunisia’s democratic success hasn’t lifted economic malaise
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tunisia has been a society intent on milking the state rather than productive activity
The guaranteed annual income is back!
Reading Time: 3 minutes For proponents, the key to an affordable guaranteed basic income is that it wouldn’t be layered on top of existing welfare arrangements
Canada just doesn’t matter that much to Trump
Reading Time: 4 minutes It says something about Canada that Trump ignores us because he doesn’t see Canada as much of an economic threat to the United States
Bridging the divide in the assisted suicide debate
Reading Time: 14 minutes The dynamics of inducement are at the heart of disability rights groups’ urgent calls for a cautious approach to medically-assisted death
CRTC at a crossroads
Reading Time: 3 minutes The CRTC will either have to start regulating streaming services or desist from regulating the broadcasting sector
Time to rethink health-care policy for the elderly
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need an integrated system for older adults that increases the quality and continuity of care
Bad news keeps piling up for New Brunswick
Reading Time: 4 minutes From punitive tax strategies to moribund job creation to a weak education system, this provincial government seems intent on failure