Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives rounds up some noteworthy responses to the federal budget. Barbara Sibbald and Laura Eggertson write that while a few social determinants of health made the …
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Blunt Objects Blog: #Budget2016 – some initial thoughts
I won’t go in-depth into the budget, I’m not necessarily a numbers guy but I am definitely someone interested in where the government’s priorities lay. The Liberals definitely kept their promise to increase the deficit, and then some – $29.4-billion, with no forecast surplus for the next four years, is
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: #Budget2016 – some initial thoughts
I won’t go in-depth into the budget, I’m not necessarily a numbers guy but I am definitely someone interested in where the government’s priorities lay.The Liberals definitely kept their promise to increase the deficit, and then some – $29.4-billion, wi…
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: #Budget2016 – some initial thoughts
I won’t go in-depth into the budget, I’m not necessarily a numbers guy but I am definitely someone interested in where the government’s priorities lay.The Liberals definitely kept their promise to increase the deficit, and then some – $29.4-billion, wi…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David MacDonald argues that the federal budget should focus on desperately-needed public investments – with any revenue issues dealt with by raising taxes where past cuts have produced nothing of value. And Lead…
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This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jonathan Sas offers a worthwhile read on the potential value of a basic income – as well the importance of retaining and strengthening a social safety net to go with it:In the current rush to experiment with GMI…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- The Star-Phoenix calls for Saskatchewan’s election campaign to focus on the future rather than the past. And Paul Orlowski reminds us of the continued callous corporatism that’s in store if Brad Wall holds on…
Continue readingDefend Public Healthcare: Ontario loses 19,000 public sector workers while rest of Canada gains 73,000
There has been a general trend downwards in public sector employment in Ontario according to Statistics Canada. In the last two years, Ontario has lost 19,000 public sector workers, with most of the loss occurring in the last year.The downwards trend i…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Tom Parkin writes about the tendency of far too many Canadian governments to put the wealthy at the front of the line, and leave the rest of us to wait:(O)ver the past two decades, corporate tax rates ha…
Continue readingDefend Public Healthcare: Health Care and the Budget: Not Much
Health care and hospital funding: Despite significant new revenue and lower than expected debt costs, health care spending is almost exactly identical to the amounts planned in last year’s Budget for 2015-2018. The total health budget for 2015/1…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Elaine Power discusses how a basic income can build both individual security and social solidarity:We work for lots of different reasons, not just money. And most of us do work that is never paid. To start, we …
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Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Miles Corak argues for a “second-chance” society to make up for the damaging effects of inequality – though I’d argue that while he has the principle exactly right, it’s worth defining it as “no person left b…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- The Star-Phoenix duly calls out the Wall government’s short-sighted slashing of funding for homeless shelters:Regardless of how the government frames the changes, access to services is being denied to some of th…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati offer an outline as to how to fight back against growing inequality:§ We need to see inequality as a deep systemic…
Continue readingIn-Sights: Budget bashing
Borrow money to pay a dividend that allows government to declare a fake surplus and pro-media applauds. #bcpoli https://t.co/W6PX7AMlb3— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) February 17, 2016Today's debt by Premier's "singular tough-mindedne…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Nick Powdthavee discuss how the rise of an exclusive class of the rich increases stress and decreases well-being for everybody else. Using data from the World Top Incomes Database and t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Thomas Piketty writes that regardless of the end result, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign may mark the start of a fundamental change in U.S. politics: Sanders’ success today shows that much of A…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- PressProgress weighs in on the OECD’s findings that Canada’s income inequality is significantly worse than previously assumed. Didier Jacobs argues that our current economic system is anything but meritocratic….
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This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Sirota and Andrew Perez expose Steve Schwarzman’s galling complaints that his perceived lessers dare to complain about declining security and stagnating incomes. And Aditya Chakrabortty discusses how the …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Andrew Jackson makes the case for a federal budget aimed at boosting investment in Canada’s economy:Public infrastructure investment has a much greater short term impact on growth and jobs per dollar spent than …
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