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Does Canada’s federal budget address the social determinants of health?
COVID-19 caught us unprepared Does the federal budget deliver? Yes and no. No major changes to public health care spending
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Budget 2021 analysis: Does it deliver?
Federal Budget 2021 was expected to deliver between $70-100B in COVID-19 recovery funds. Does it deliver and will funds be allocated in meaningful ways? Our experts weigh in.
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Third-party funding of investor–state disputes: At what cost?
The economic turmoil unleashed by the pandemic is expected to lead to a boom in the number of ISDS claims. Law firms are not the only ones hoping to profit from the surge.
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Proposed changes to Nova Scotia’s Financial Measures Act would erode trust
Democracy is built on trust and trust is built on openness.
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Budget Watch 2021: How Canada can budget for Buy America
Canadian business is understandably concerned about Buy America conditions on Biden’s US$2.3-trillion COVID recovery plan. But lobbying U.S. governments for waivers for Canadian suppliers can only get us so far. In addition, the Trudeau government should increase the pool of transit, water and green energy projects these firms can bid on—by attaching sustainable and social purchasing criteria to badly needed public infrastructure upgrades here in Canada.
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One year later: Canadian billionaire wealth up by $78 billion
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the lives of millions of people in this country, Canadian billionaires have increased their wealth by $78 billion.
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Budget Watch 2021: Climate action more necessary than ever
Chump change won’t cut it here. The federal government should be spending upwards of $40 billion per year to accelerate our transition to a net zero carbon economy.
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Record deficits? You mean record surpluses, for dirt cheap
The interest rate the federal government pays on debt hasn’t been this low since the Second World War (and possibly earlier).
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Budget Watch 2021: The rebuild must start with the care economy
Both Prime Minister Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland reiterated their commitment to lay the groundwork for a Canada-wide system of child care at the Liberal Policy Convention this past weekend.
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Pandemic living on the margins
Disabled Canadians have been sidelined from—and by—many COVID-19 response measures. How can we learn from this experience to build greater equity going forward?
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The upcoming federal budget: The stakes could not be higher
Will the budget put muscle behind the oft-repeated Liberal “real change” mantra?
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Time to address the cost of poverty in the Atlantic provinces
We are far less likely to recognize households living in poverty as a public health issue, societal crisis or economic problem that we should solve collectively.
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