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Death By Trolley: Why Japanese Healthcare is More Efficient Than Canadian and...
A recently published report by the Conference Board of Canada, a not-for-profit economics and policy research organization, indicates that Canadians are spending more on their healthcare and getting...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day.- Charlie Angus is leading the charge against the Cons' plan to ram through lawful access legislation, labeling it as warrantless snooping and spying on Canadians....
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Armine Yalnizyan follows up on the Conference Board of Canada's recognition that growing inequality is a serious problem for Canada by noting the similar...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your review.- Iglika Ivanova calculates the cost of poverty in British Columbia:My findings confirm what we’ve already suspected: poverty comes with a very high price tag. The cost...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeffrey Simpson has a bit of trouble recognizing that inequality applies at all rungs of the income ladder, not merely as a matter of resolving...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- For those with a few months to kill between now and next March, now may be the time to direct a browser tab toward Alice's NDP leadership site and...
View ArticleTalking ‘Bout That Gggg-Ghettoization
Huffington Post Canada has carried a joint paper published by Queens University, The University of Toronto and Statistics Canada that shows Canadians are increasingly becoming ghettoized by income. The...
View ArticleCanadian Progressive World: New study dispels myths about public sector pay
OTTAWA - December 14, 2011: There is no evidence the average pay of public sector workers in Canada is consistently higher than comparable occupations in the private sector, reports a new study...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Medicare in the 21st...
On May 23, I was lucky enough to hear Andre Picard speak. He’s the health and social policy writer for the Globe and Mail newspaper, but he’s much more than just a good journalist. Picard is the 2012...
View ArticleThe Sixth Estate: Somehow the Conference Board is Less Immune to Industry...
In recent months the Canadian airline industry has been pushing, hard, for lower costs. Not content with having the Harper regime order its employees to work under threat of legal sanction (so much for...
View ArticleCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Conference Board of Canada:...
Conference Board of Canada: Economic Benefits of Tar Sands Hinge On Climate Inaction (via Desmogblog) By 2035 operators in Alberta’s tar sands expect to produce 5 million barrels of the world’s most...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Uh-oh! Premier Alison Redford wants to have a ‘conversation’...
Fireside chats? Alberta Premier Alison Redford as she’ll likely see herself while softening up the province’s citizens for the March 7 Budget Speech on CTV tonight. Below: Ms. Redford as Albertans may...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday morning reading. - Sixth Estate is the latest to weigh in on Statistics Canada’s findings about inequality: Progressive taxes are based on the idea that the more...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Health care is good medicine for Canada’s economy
by Conference Board of Canada | Jan. 31, 2013: OTTAWA - Health care is a large and essentially recession-proof part of Canada’s economy, creating more than 10 per cent of the country’s total gross...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canada failing to close the income inequality gap
by Conference Board of Canada | Feb. 4, 2013: OTTAWA - Canada has been unable to reverse the rise in income inequality - and poverty rates – that occurred in the 1990s. Low rankings on these social...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Growing Gap Of Truck Drivers Will Be Costly To...
By The Conference Board of Canada (Press Release) | Feb. 21, 2013: OTTAWA – Tens of thousands of truck drivers are approaching retirement age, but very few young people and immigrants are entering the...
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: Poking the beast – “P” word missing from reform talk
The problem with discussing health care sustainability is there is no definition of what that means. Data would suggest that our health care spending is not out of control – the so-called cost curve...
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: Picard blames health professionals for slow pace of “reform”
How can we improve Canada’s health system? Blaming the professionals who deliver care defies logic. You may be very surprised to learn that one prominent journalist says the biggest obstacles to health...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: Conference Board illustrates folly of conventional economic...
Once again conventional measurement has painted a warped view of our economic well-being. Relying principally on growth in the GDP sense, The Conference Board of Canada applauds the oil and gas rich...
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: Will health care derail the 2017 target for balancing the...
The Conference Board of Canada likes to tell the world that it is independent and unbiased, but a quick look at its board of directors will reveal that it is mostly dominated by leaders from Canada’s...
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