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Intelligence Memos
From: Tingting Zhang and Rosalie Wyonch
To: Ontario Ministry of Health
Date: July 19, 2022
Re: Ontario’s Nursing Challenge: How Serious Is It?
Nursing understaffing is not a new problem in Ontario, but it is getting worse.
Research has shown that the service gap in nursing was alarming before COVID-19. For decades, Ontario has had a low ratio of working registered nurses (RNs) per population. The…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadians Concerned About Pharmaceutical Access
From: Tingting Zhang and Rosalie Wyonch
Date: December 12, 2022
Re: The Prescription Drug Gaps in Canada
A significant number of Canadians do not have adequate access to prescription drugs.
Twenty one percent of adults surveyed in a new Statistics Canada report said they had no prescription drug coverage in 2021. Across provinces, the proportion…
Intelligence Memos
From: Eva Klein and Leonard Waverman
To: Canadians Concerned about Prosperity
Date: July 22, 2022
Re: Addressing Ageism (II): How to Keep Older Workers
Yesterday we outlined the 130-year-old origins of today’s outdated retirement age rules and expectations.
We now examine how older workers have fared in the labour market since the pandemic began based on several indicators:…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond and Duncan Sinclair
To: Concerned Canadians
Date: March 2, 2022
Re: Straight Talk About Healthcare Costs
Total healthcare spending in Canada was $308 billion in 2021, according to Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) estimates. That’s up 15.3 percent ($40.8 billion) since 2019, swollen by $22.8 billion targeted at COVID-19.
This is not the real…
Research
The Study In Brief
As families earn more taxable income, government benefit entitlements are reduced (or “clawed back”) at various phase-out rates, which reduces their overall cost for governments and ensures that they remain targeted to the intended lower-income families. However, benefit reductions act like hidden tax rates: They reduce the effective gain from working to generate additional…
Research
Executive Summary
At the five-month mark, the costs of Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” have soared and spread. The short-term economic costs of the invasion include not only the direct war damage in Ukraine and the immediate consequences of the economic sanctions and counter-sanctions on current economic output in the economies of the combatants, but also the induced negative…
