August 17, 2015
Overcoming the new Precariat: The future of work
By Trish Hennessy CCPA-Ontario
After years of relative progress in Canada’s labour market – where unionization helped turn jobs like mining and manufacturing into good, middle class jobs – by early-1990s a seismic shift began to unfold. “Jobs for life” were being replaced with conce
August 11, 2015
Reinvigorating the Ladder of Opportunity: A Progressive Vision for Post-Secondary Education
By Roy Sengupta
The increasing cost of post secondary education over the past two decades has become an increasing source of concern for many inside and outside the field. Many students now fear that they will be saddled with unsustainable debt loads upon graduation.
August 3, 2015
4 Things Needed to Make Pharmacare Work
By Steve Morgan
From EvidenceNetwork.caThis paper is reprinted with permission of author, from EvidenceNetwork.ca. It has also appeared in The Hill Times, the Huffington Post, and Victoria Times Colonist A growing number of health professionals, patients, community groups and even politicia
July 24, 2015
Canada Needs a Healthy Environment
By Nikita Lopoukhine
Our natural environment sustains economies, societies and the well-being of individuals. All that Canada’s environment gives to us must not be overlooked as we forge the future of Canada. By investing in Canada`s environment we will assure the well-bei
July 23, 2015
Canadian Public Broadcasting Re-envisioned
By John P. Roman
The following is a summary of a proposal presented to the CRTC’s Let’s Talk TV Hearings in September 2014 and to the Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications as part of its review of the challenges confronting the CBC/Radio-Canada. It prop
July 23, 2015
Towards a New Senate
By David Newman and Alexander Newman
Current political, ethical and legal controversies present an unprecedented opportunity for Canadians to reform and improve our bicameral Parliamentary governance. The long-standing popular apathy to our Senate has evolved into greater awareness and co
July 23, 2015
Canada Needs an Economic Staircase
By Terrance Hunsley
Increasing economic inequality is affecting Canada as well as many other advanced economy countries. The playing field has a hard tilt for people of modest means who want their children to achieve a better life. Where a free and mandatory public school
July 23, 2015
Truth, Reconciliation and Prisons
By David Daubney
Truth, Reconciliation and Prisons: Some Thoughts on the Truth and Reconciliation Report from an Observer Long Concerned with the Overrepresentation of Aboriginal Canadians in Canada’s Prisons and Penitentiaries I was one of 211 Progressive Conservative
July 23, 2015
Renewing the Senate: An Ethical Approach
By Ian Greene and Garrett MacSweeney, York Collegium for Practical Ethics York University
The term “Senate Reform” has been bandied about haphazardly in the media with regard to a range of options from abolition, to an elected Senate, to appointing Senators in a non-partisan way. The 2014 Supreme Court reference decision answered important
July 23, 2015
Diplomacy Matters
By Yuk-kuen Annie Cheung
Indeed we are living in very interesting times! News headlines are often more sensational and violent than movie scripts. Both new and continuing conflicts are heating up between and among great powers and their proxies while civic protest and unrest h
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