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What to do about election robocalls

What to do about election robocalls

Graham Fox | March 21, 2013

During the 2011 federal elections, automated calls of unknown origin were placed to certain voters in certain constituencies with an apparent aim to mislead, annoy or otherwise interfere with their vote. Since they were uncovered by the Ottawa Citizen a little...

How to pay for long-term care for seniors

How to pay for long-term care for seniors

Michel Grignon and Nicole F. Bernier | December 5, 2012

As Canada’s population ages, a growing number of frail seniors will require long-term care services to help them perform daily activities such as eating, dressing or bathing. Ensuring that adequate care is accessible to every Canadian who needs it...

Public insurance best option for looming care crisis

Public insurance best option for looming care crisis

July 5, 2012

RBC Royal Bank recently announced it would stop selling a swath of life insurance products, including longterm care insurance, as it struggles to cope with rock-bottom interest rates and volatile equity markets. This is just one reminder that as...

Competition drives better pay; Wages get better when work gets smarter

Competition drives better pay; Wages get better when work gets smarter

June 12, 2012

Canadians can be justly proud of their country’s economic strength over the past 10 years. We led the G7 in gross domestic product and employment growth in the 2000s expansion, and had the shallowest downturn during the severe global...

Talk is Cheap

Talk is Cheap

May 30, 2012

In the second half of 2011, the Afghan government and its international allies were busy with talks at the Bonn 2 Conference (the 11th international conference in 10 years) and the OECD’s High Level Forum in Busan, South Korea,...

A mild case of ‘Dutch disease’; Canada’s waning competitiveness – not the high dollar – is the main cause of our manufacturing woes

A mild case of ‘Dutch disease’; Canada’s waning competitiveness – not the high dollar – is the main cause of our manufacturing woes

Mohammad Shakeri, Richard S. Gray and Jeremy Leonard | May 23, 2012

As the war of words over the regional economic effects of Alberta’s oilsands that has pit West against East, a careful look at the evidence shows that the impact of the energy sector and the strong dollar on manufacturing...

Filling the PRPP holes

Filling the PRPP holes

May 22, 2012

The pooled registered pension plan (PRPP) announced by the federal government last year is the first step in the reforms needed to extend pension coverage to the more than 60% of the Canadian workforce not currently enrolled in a...

Diagnosing Canada’s manufacturing woes

Diagnosing Canada’s manufacturing woes

May 17, 2012

The continuing global energy boom that began in the early 2000s has brought significant economic benefits to Canada in the form of strong growth in national income, relatively low unemployment and (until the recession) healthy public finances. These benefits...

Pair auto subsidies, pay cuts

Pair auto subsidies, pay cuts

Leslie Shiell and Robin Somerville, with commentary by Jim Stanford | April 20, 2012

As the Canadian Auto Workers union launches a new campaign for a “National Auto Policy” ahead of negotiations with the Big Three automakers, the time has come to reconsider the ongoing subsidization of the automotive sector. Most Canadians remember...

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