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Op-Ed
For Canadians concerned about national finances, the 2019 federal election campaign has been a double whammy. Personal smears and social-media mobbing have mostly eclipsed substance. And the discussions of budgetary policy that have cut through the noise have been discouraging. Especially the commitments for more and bigger deficits: even more red ink in the next four years than was spilled in…
Intelligence Memos
To: Toronto Taxpayers
From: William B.P. Robson
Date: March 14, 2019
Re: Toronto’s Farcical Budget Cycle – Around We Go Again
Last week’s fanfare about Toronto’s council passing the city’s 2019 budget was farcical on several levels. One – perhaps too obvious to attract much comment – was that it happened in March: with two months of the year already past, the city has already raised and spent…
Intelligence Memos
From: Tammy Schirle
To: Canadians concerned about the gender pay gap
Date: March 8, 2019
Re: The varying size of the gender pay gap
How big is the wage gap between men and women? It depends on who, specifically, you are talking about, and why you ask.
In January 2019, Canadian women working full time between the ages of 25 and 54 earned an hourly wage that, on average, was…
Intelligence Memos
From: Duncan G. Sinclair, David Walker, Chris Simpson and Don Drummond
To: Canada’s health ministers
Date: November 6, 2019
Re: Getting to a People-Centred Health System
Notwithstanding its iconic standing as one of Canada’s defining characteristics, medicare, our publicly funded health insurance program, is widely recognized to be in need of fundamental change.
It was designed…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canada’s voters
From: William B.P. Robson
Date: October 10, 2019
Re: Campaign 2019: Dumb on Deficits
For Canadians concerned about national finances, the 2019 federal election campaign has been a double whammy. Personal smears and social-media mobbing have mostly eclipsed substance. And any discussion of budgetary policy that has managed to cut through the noise has been…
Intelligence Memos
From: Rosalie Wyonch
To: Canadian drug regulators
Date: September 4, 2019
Subject: Drug Price Regulations and the Problem with External Referencing
Last month, the federal government released revised regulations for determining the maximum price of patented medicines in Canada. The new rules bring significant change to the way the Patented Medicine Pricing Review Board…
