156 results found for "basic income"
Media Release
April 30, 2012 – The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) could improve its development aid impact by focusing on basic education, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In What CIDA Should Do: The Case for Focusing Aid on Better Schools, author John Richards documents the importance of universal literacy in enabling countries to escape from extreme levels of…
Intelligence Memos
From: Kevin Milligan
To: Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Date: July 4, 2016
Re: Dare to dream, but do the math
Minister, in your former academic life you wrote many papers exploring the benefits of placing Canada’s income transfers into one package—sometimes called a ‘Basic Income’ or a ‘Guaranteed Minimum Income’. You are aware of the possible advantages…
Intelligence Memos
In this special edition of Intelligence Memos we present the opposing arguments made at the C.D. Howe Institute’s inaugural Regent Debate earlier this month. Four prominent voices sparred over the following question: Should Western democracies establish a universal basic income? Today: the rebuttals presented by Paul Begala, CNN commentator and former senior policy aide to President Bill Clinton…
Intelligence Memos
From: Peter Hicks
To: The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Government of Canada
The Honourable Dr. Helena Jaczek, Minister of Community and Social Services, Government of Ontario
The Honourable Chris Ballard, Minister Responsible for the Poverty Reduction Strategy, Government of Ontario
Date: April 18, 2017
Re: The Federal and Ontario Approaches…
Media Release
Feb. 22, 2012 - The prairies' experience in handling inter-provincial conflicts over water-use may point the way to success in the MackenzieRiver Basin, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In Resolving Water-Use Conflicts: Insights from the Prairie Experience for the Mackenzie River Basin, law professor David Percy says a cooperative approach led the prairie…
Intelligence Memos
Re: Digital Health Tools Must Remain a Core Part of Canada’s Post-pandemic Health Care Delivery System
By: Will Falk
Date: January 17, 2022
To: Canadian Ministers of Health
Paper health care records have been a danger to both patients and providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have been able to get my 85-year old mother’s banking and bills online to keep things up…
