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Rethinking Long-Term Care in Canada is a new study that compares Canada to other high-income countries—Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden—with older populations that have leveraged collaboration between the public and private sectors to better meet the needs of their elderly population, granting them more autonomy and freedom to organize their own care as they see fit.
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Does the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) Actually Reduce Child Poverty? is a new study that finds the Canada Child Benefit is less effective than the government claims at lifting children out of poverty due to a lack of targeting. In fact, despite spending an additional $5.6 billion in 2019-20, the new Canada Child Benefit only moved an estimated 90,900 children above Statistics Canada’s Low-Income Cut-Off, a key measure of low-income.
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Expanding the Narrative: policy impacts on Aboriginal well-being in Canada
Professor emeritus of political science and distinguished fellow at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, chair of aboriginal futures at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, Tom Flanagan, joins me this week to discuss Aboriginal well-being and how many well-intended policies end up impeding the communities they aim to help. We even discuss government expenditures and the petroleum industry in Canada.
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(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Jason Clemens and Jake Fuss
Canada must become more attractive and competitive for business investment and entrepreneurs, and introducing a wealth tax and/or raising the capital gains tax would make a difficult situation worse.
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Matthew Lau
The federal government wants to conscript private capital to help fuel its climate agenda.
by Paige MacPherson
Spending on B.C. public schools rose from $6.2 billion to $7.1 billion, a 15.4 per cent increase.
(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Jake Fuss
The NDP wants to raise the top federal personal income tax rate to 35 per cent.
by Livio Di Matteo
In August, the price of meat increased by 6.9 per cent.
by Jairo Yunis and Elmira Aliakbari
Europe’s energy crunch should serve as a cautionary tale for governments across North America with regard to the challenges of abruptly changing our energy mix by subsidizing renewable energy.
by Ben Eisen
It’s important for policymakers to recognize the severity of Ontario’s growth problem, how long-lived it has been, and the challenge of weak business investment that could impede future growth.
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