Roger Pizarro Milian – Surging Demand for Hybrid Learning in Canadian PSE
From: Roger Pizarro Milian To: Canadian Education Watchers Date: January 20, 2023 Re: Surging Demand for Hybrid Learning in Canadian PSE COVID-19 forced Canadian post-secondary education (PSE) to make a near-overnight shift to online education. In doing so, it overrode deep-rooted concerns among faculty members, PSE administrators and policymakers alike about the method’s efficacy in promoting learning, its appeal […] David Gray – Reforming Canada’s EI System
From: David Gray To: The Hon. Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion of Canada Date: January 11, 2023 Re: Reforming Canada’s EI System Recent major economic shocks have exposed shortcomings in Canada’s employment insurance system. During the Great Recession of 2008, the oil price collapse in 2014 and the most recent pandemic, Employment Insurance (EI) […] S4 E18: Uneven Odds: Men, Women, and the Obstacles to Getting Back to Work with Kids
Women find it substantially harder to get back into the workforce than men. But why? According to economics professors Ana Ferrer and Tammy Schirle, when the Employment Insurance system was built in 1940, it didn’t have working women in mind. But there are four key solutions to the problem.
Higher interest rates will cause a recession – how do we pick up the pieces? – Globe and Mail Op-Ed
While many have challenged the pace of the Bank of Canada’s interest-rate hikes, their likelihood of success and the extent to which further increases are merited, it has already become clear that, regardless, a recession is imminent. And while it remains to be seen how deep and how long that recession will be, there is no question it will hurt some more than others.
Will governments be there to pick up the pieces and manage the consequences of higher interest rates? If so, how, and in what ways can they help, given their rather precarious fiscal position, with Ottawa carrying $1.1-trillion in debt?
Among the many things that concern us are the distributional impacts of the looming downturn – some groups are…
Drummond, Sinclair – Troubles in Canada’s Health Workforce: What the Data are Saying
From: Don Drummond and Duncan Sinclair To: Canada’s Ministers of Health Date: November 10, 2022 Re: Troubles in Canada’s Health Workforce: What the Data are Saying Media reports abound with accounts of severe shortages of healthcare workers leading to cries of crisis, even collapse of the system, as Canadians suffer through long wait times for almost every facet of […] Troubles in Canada’s Health Workforce: The Why, the Where, and the Way Out of Shortages
COVID-19 has piled troubles on top of troubles for Canada’s health-care sector and its workforce. Some believe it to be in crisis, collapsing even, the result of a shortage of workers, who have become ill themselves, burned out, resigned or retired early, or the result of having too few educated and trained workers in the […] Schirle, Ferrer – Helping Moms Find Their Way Back to Work
From: Tammy Schirle and Ana Ferrer To: Canadians Concerned About Gender Equity Date: October 14, 2022 Re: Helping Moms Find Their Way Back to Work More than 900,000 married parents ages 25 to 59 were either unemployed or not participating in the labour force in 2019. Among them, 21 percent were unemployed (actively searching for employment, waiting for […] Miles Corak – Insurance Principles Offer Three Practical Reforms for Financing EI
The federal government is finalizing its long-promised reform of the Employment Insurance system. In this special three-part series, Miles Corak argues that the financing of the program should be part of the reform process, and offers practical changes to EI contributions based on insurance principles. From: Miles Corak To: Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough Date: October 13, 2022 Re: […] Miles Corak – Reality-based Employer EI Contributions
The federal government is finalizing its long-promised reform of the Employment Insurance system. In this special three-part series, Miles Corak argues that the financing of the program should be part of the reform process, and offers practical changes to EI contributions based on insurance principles. From: Miles Corak To: Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough Date: October 12, 2022 Re: Reality-based […] Miles Corak – Insurance Principles Make the Case for Stable Contribution Rates as a Part of Employment Insurance Modernization
The federal government is finalizing its long-promised reform of the Employment Insurance system. In this special three-part series, Miles Corak argues that the financing of the program should be part of the reform process, and offers practical changes to EI contributions based on insurance principles. From: Miles Corak To: Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough Date: October 11, 2022 Re: […] Correcting Course: Employment Insurance Needs a Redesign to Counter Recessions and Achieve Equity
As a primary pillar of Canada’s social safety net, Employment Insurance (EI) has proven itself to be slow to react to downturns, weakening its ability to automatically stabilize the economy. It has also gone off track from its original main goal: to provide insurance against unpredictable job losses. EI should be modernized with an […] Uneven Odds: Men, Women and the Obstacles to Getting Back to Work with Kids
There are thousands of parents wanting to make their way into the workplace. In this E-Brief, we illustrate how different the experience is for mothers and fathers. While fathers typically search for work because they lost their previous job, mothers have often been away from the labour force while taking care of children and […]