9 results found for "basic income"
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on May 8, 2012
By John Richards
The second of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals is to ensure that by 2015, “children everywhere” are able to complete primary school. Some progress has been realized over the past decade and under the earlier Education For All initiative, which was strongly endorsed by Canada and other G8 countries. Some progress, but…
Op-Ed
Published in the Edmonton Journal on March 14, 2012
By David Percy
As the pace of development increases on the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Alberta and British Columbia, so does the urgency of negotiations about sharing the water of the northward flowing rivers. Past experience on eastward flowing rivers shows that a co-operative approach led the prairie provinces to a basic agreement on…
Op-Ed
Published in the The Montreal Gazette on May 25, 2012
By Ian Irvine and William Sims
When shopping, consumers pay attention to the costs of similar products – say, generic vs. brand-name foods. The same is true for smokers: higher prices on legal cigarettes can increase an individual’s preference for cheaper, often contraband smokes.
As provinces look to claw out of their budget…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on December 11, 2012
By Daniel Schwanen
Last Friday, the federal government announced an updated policy and revised guidelines regarding acquisitions by foreign state-owned enterprises in Canada. This accompanied the approvals of two multibillion-dollar SOE acquisitions: Nexen Inc. by China’s CNOOC Ltd. and of Progress Energy Resources Corp. by Malaysia’s Petronas…
Op-Ed
Published in the Chronicle Herald on September 27, 2012
By Colin Busby
With MPs back to work after their summer break, one task on their to-do list — found in the 2012 budget — is building a program to give financial support to employers of reservists on military leave. How they implement the plan will be crucial for Canadian employers and the reservists that they hire.
Your local hospital’s…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on April 26, 2012
By Gerard Boychuk
Having won the Alberta election, Premier Alison Redford is now setting her sights on providing leadership in establishing the national agenda on health-care reform. In doing so, she won’t be able to ignore the issue of patient wait times. Wildrose may have lost the election, but it did propose some ideas in this regard that are…
