27 results found for "basic income"
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…
Op-Ed
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 to date. I could even do her taxes and basic government functions online. I should have been able to help manage her health care information too. But I couldn’t.
This story of failure became clear…
Op-Ed
The latest C.D. Howe Institute annual report card on municipal financial reporting in Canada featured a dismal coincidence.
Regina and Saskatoon had the worst grades among the 31 cities whose budgets and annual reports we look at — the only Fs in the group.
Is there something about Saskatchewan — something in the water or the air — that condemns Regina and Saskatoon to fail this test of…
Intelligence Memos
To: Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of National Revenue
From: Alexandre Laurin and Nicholas Dahir
Date: February 10, 2022
Re: Not so Fast, Please, on Automatic Tax Filing
In Canada, most government cash benefit payments require recipients to file a tax return.
Individuals who fail to participate in the tax system – often society’s most vulnerable – too often forgo important…
Intelligence Memos
From: John Lester
To: Canadians Concerned About Innovation
Date: April 26, 2022
Re: Broadening the New Review of Tax Support for R&D
Canadians concerned about our lacklustre innovation performance were cheered by the budget announcement that the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program would be reviewed.
Canada’s business research and development performance is…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadians Concerned About Growth
From: Parisa Mahboubi
Date: September 2, 2022
Re: Back to School: A Good Time to Examine Canada’s Digital Skill Deficit
Rapid digitalization across the economy and an aging population are feeding Canada’s digital and STEM skills shortages.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also intensified the need for digital skills across all sectors, and…
