7 results found for "basic income"
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe & Mail on January 7, 2014
By Christopher Ragan
I usually don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but when writing a regular column, it is helpful to make a plan, and what’s a plan if not a resolution?
The topic for a column should satisfy two conditions. First, the topic should be worth discussing, and hopefully one on which the author can add some clarity to the…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on September 23, 2014
By Christopher Ragan
Christopher Ragan is an associate professor of economics at McGill University and a Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.
Last week my friend sent me a link to a short video ranting about our monetary system. I immediately recognized it as another in a large collection of videos I have seen, many of…
Op-Ed
Published in the Montreal Gazette on June 4, 2014
By Claude Forget
Claude Forget is a former Quebec health minister. His C.D. Howe Institute study The Case of the Vanishing Physicians: How to Improve Access to Care, can be found at www.cdhowe.org.
For years, Quebecers and Quebec doctors have documented poor access to health-care services in the province. This situation ought…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on January 10, 2014
By Lawrence Herman
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (or TPP) trade negotiations, the biggest floating trade game on the planet, will be re-engaging in earnest this year, having missed their 2013 deadline, an impossible goal to begin with.
A lot is at stake. Should the talks succeed, Canada and all TPP participants will gain from the effects of…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on October 7, 2014
By William Robson
William Robson is President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute.
The Prime Minister’s recent announcement that the federal government is ahead of schedule to eliminate its deficit signals the start of the fall round of pre-budget lobbying. That lobbying will feature, as always, demands from provincial and territorial…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on May 19, 2014
By Christopher Ragan
Christopher Ragan is an associate professor of economics at McGill University and a Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.
It is three weeks away from the Ontario election and voters have a real choice. The Liberals and Progressive Conservatives offer starkly different visions of economic policy (while the New…
