291 results found for "basic income"
Research
The Study In Brief
In Canada, most government cash benefit payments require recipients to file a tax return. Individuals who fail to participate in the tax system, often the most vulnerable in society, may forgo important government benefits (or even entitlements to government services when such services are tied to tax return information). The September 2020 Speech from the Throne committed the…
Intelligence Memos
Re: Digital Health Tools Must Remain a Core Part of Canada’s Post-pandemic Health Care Delivery System
By: Will Falk
Date: January 17, 2022
To: Canadian Ministers of Health
Paper health care records have been a danger to both patients and providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have been able to get my 85-year old mother’s banking and bills online to keep things up…
Op-Ed
Paper health care records have been a danger to both patients and providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have been able to get my 85-year old mother’s banking and bills online to keep things up to date. I could even do her taxes and basic government functions online. I should have been able to help manage her health care information too. But I couldn’t.
This story of failure became clear…
Event
The United States, Mexico and Canada have signed off on the basics of the newly updated NAFTA agreement - now the USMCA. On this call, Institute VP of Research, Daniel Schwanen will outline his perspective on the agreement, the concessions made on each side and the devil lurking in the details.
Inside Access is an exclusive, members-only opportunity:
30 minute briefing and Q&A on Institute…
Intelligence Memos
In this special series of Intelligence Memos we presented the opposing arguments made at the C.D. Howe Institute’s inaugural Regent Debate earlier this month. Four prominent voices, Janice MacKinnon, Conrad Black, Paul Begala and Hugh Segal, sparred over the following question: Should Western democracies establish a universal basic income? Today: the duelling rebuttals from former senator Hugh…
Op-Ed
A decade of failure has propelled the Edmonton Oilers to win four of the last six NHL draft lotteries. The most recent lottery win landed Edmonton the hockey phenom, Connor McDavid, giving down-trodden Oilers fans a glimmer of hope.
However, when it comes to EI, Edmontonians are not so lucky. According to the 2016 federal budget, only Albertans outside Edmonton will see increases to EI…
