291 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
To: Canada’s finance ministers
From: William B.P. Robson and Farah Omran
Date: June 18, 2019
Re: Fiscal Accountability: Why it Matters
We all know what it is like to stare at a mystifying financial presentation, wondering if we are dense, or if someone is trying to put something over on us. When the presentation is from our federal government, or the province we live in –…
Intelligence Memos
To: Ontarians Concerned About the Cost of Welfare
From: David Rosé
Re: Skills Training Versus Job Placement: It’s Complicated
Date: November 7, 2018
Ontario’s new government has committed itself to 100-day review of social assistance programs, and tomorrow is Day 100. The motivation for this review is quite clear. Simply put, Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability…
Op-Ed
Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office’s (EQAO) 2015/2016 results from mathematics assessments should give parents in the province reason to worry. There was some positive news in that reading and writing scores increased over five years, but mathematics scores plummeted. The percentage of Grade 3 students who met the provincial math standard fell to 63 per cent from 68 per cent…
Op-Ed
Canada’s governments recently came to broad agreement on renewing federal-provincial health transfers. Ottawa asked the provinces and territories to modernize Canadians’ access to their electronic health information with “standardized health data and digital tools.” Bilateral negotiation will define the details of these digital aspirations. Canadians should pay attention: their health…
Intelligence Memos
From: Jon Johnson
To: Global Affairs Canada
Date: July 27, 2021
Re: EU Carbon Border Tax Proposal Breaks New Ground
On July 14 the EU released its proposal for establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).
The proposal states that as “long as significant numbers of the EU’s international partners have policy approaches that do not result in the same level of climate…
Intelligence Memos
From: Bob Baldwin
To: Albertans pondering a new pension plan
Date: November 29, 2019
Re: The Alberta Pension Plan Is No Slam Dunk
Alberta leaving the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and creating its own Alberta Pension Plan (APP) has been discussed for many years, and has resurfaced as the newly elected Premier of Alberta has said there is a compelling case for creating an APP, and…
