128 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Intelligence Memos
From: Neil Alexander
To: Canadian Nuclear Watchers
Date: May 11, 2021
Re: Creating a Successful Small Modular Reactor Business in Canada
Last month, Alberta signed on to the existing memorandum of understanding between Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick signalling its desire to collaborate on the deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMR).
It’s the latest step in Canada’s…
Intelligence Memos
From: Lawrence Herman
To: Canadians Concerned About Trade
Date: February 25, 2022
Re: Alberta Breaks New Ground in its Keystone Appeal
Earlier this month, the Alberta government launched a NAFTA investment arbitration suit against the US, seeking $1.3 billion as compensation for President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. TC Energy, the company behind…
Intelligence Memos
From: Fred Horne
To: Canadians Concerned about Long-Term Care
Date: January 11, 2021
Re: Are We Serious about Senior Care in Canada?
Long-term care accounts for four out of every five deaths from COVID-19 in Canada – more than 10,000 to date. Thanks to that tragic statistic, we can only hope that politicians, health system leaders and Canadians now fully understand the sad state of…
Intelligence Memos
From: Jim Feehan
To: Electricity Policy Analysts, ratepayers and politicians
Date: February 25, 2020
Subject: The Muskrat Falls Electricity Project: A Hard Lesson
Arm’s length independent assessments of megaprojects are crucial for government decision-making. Governments that give them little weight risk imposing enormous burdens on the public, especially when projects are publicly funded.…
Intelligence Memos
From: Barry Gros
To: Canada’s Pension Regulators
Date: September 12, 2022
Re: Standards Hinder the Proper Management of Target Benefit Pension Plans
The majority of single-employer defined-benefit (DB) pension plans in the private sector have been either closed to future accruals, completely converted to defined-contribution plans or wound up. Their influence lingers, however…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson
To: Canadian Debt Watchers
Date: February 25, 2021
Re: Provincial Debts and Federal Bailouts – It’s Complicated
When COVID-19 crashed the economy last spring, Canadian governments ramped up borrowing so much that concern spiked about fiscally weaker provinces finding buyers for their debt. The Bank of Canada saw off that crisis by including provincial…
