Here, on how we know better in our personal lives than to think money is everything – and how we should expect public policy to follow the same principle. For further reading, see my earlier posts on the subject. And the best-developed Canadian means of measuring is the Canadian Index
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – I’ll very much hope Chantal Hebert is wrong in her conclusion that Canadians are getting ever more doubtful as to whether change is possible through the ballot box. But one can’t much argue with her take on why that perception might be
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Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Joan Bryden reports on the Cons’ latest abuses of majority government power, this time in allocating and shuffling around the few opposition days already available in Parliament for their own purposes. But it’s worth noting the difference between the responses of the affected
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In his conclusion to A Healthy Society, Ryan Meili sums up his overall message about how health can serve as the central theme for political organization, and notes that the message holds plenty of public appeal already (with further room to grow as people learn about the impact of policy
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In chapter 8 of A Healthy Society, Ryan Meili discusses how to improve our democratic system, distinguishing between the participatory action research model which is helping to drive development work in Mozambique and the top-down structures and cynical views of the political system that have all too often been the
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Chapter 7 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society focuses on health care – with a heavy emphasis on ideas such as improved rural access and a Crown pharmaceutical manufacturer which should sound familiar to those who have followed Meili’s previous political involvement. But I’ll highlight Meili’s link between health care
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Chapter 5 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society deals with our justice system. And once again while there’s little to dispute in Meili’s broader point, it’s worth noting just how much distance there is between Canada’s current governing philosophy, and anything which could possible be expected to produce healthy outcomes.
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In my discussion of Chapter 3 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society, I mused that social housing might be an area where public-sector purchasing power could be put to its best possible use in securing better value than individuals can afford in a purely market-based system. And in his discussion
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Chapter 3 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society focuses on the effect of income – both in total and in distribution – as a determinant of health. But while there’s plenty of material deserving of further discussion, I’ll point to his comments on the place of taxation and government spending
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Chapter 2 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society discusses the place of politics as “medicine on a larger scale”. Meili looks for lessons in our political discussion based on how medical knowledge has advanced in the past few decades, and points out a new definition of success that looks to
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Erin has already excerpted part of Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society. And I’ll be providing a brief chapter-by-chapter discussion of A Healthy Society in advance of its formal launch – beginning with this post discussing the book’s introduction and first chapter. In his introduction, Roy Romanow addresses a
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