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Budget promises child care but misses opportunities in care economy
Marjorie Griffin Cohen | This budget addresses one of the very crucial care issues that the Liberal Party has promised many, many times over many, many years -- child care.
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We need a better and more caring economy
Colleen Fuller | If you had to choose between fighter jets we don't need and doubling one year's worth of education, health care, social services and equalization payments for all Canadians, which would it be?
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A new vision for the role of care in Canada
Pat Armstrong, Marjorie Cohen, Laurell Ritchie, Armine Yalnizyan, Leah Vosko | If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country.
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It's time to pivot to the care economy and invest in care
Armine Yalnizyan | The care economy could power a better life, not just a bigger economy, if we address issues revealed by the pandemic.
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Women's employment rates in Alberta return to levels not seen since the '80s
David J. Climenhaga | Unlike the attention devoted to young men's unemployment, issues surrounding women's employment rates attract hostility from the UCP and inattention from media.
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Party leaders ignore crucial facts and figures in election debates
Ed Finn | The depletion of tax revenue through profligate business bounties is a cunningly devised strategy, giving political leaders the excuse that they simply don't have the means to improve social services.
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Canada's fossil fuel industry may soon face the fate of the beaver
David J. Climenhaga | "Canada is never going to run out of oil, just like we never ran out of beavers." Alas, notes economist Jim Stanford, that doesn't mean there will always be a market for the stuff.
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The economic update the Trudeau government dared not deliver
Duncan Cameron | When Finance Minister Bill Morneau stood in place in the House of Commons on Wednesday, November 21, this is the economic update statement he dared not deliver.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, addressed MEPs in Strasbourg on Thursday 16 February, 2017, one day after the the European Parliament approved the EU-Canada trade agreement (CETA). Photo: European Parliament
'Bypassing Dystopia' could free Canada from the clutches of neoliberalism
Ed Finn | A new book by Joyce Nelson provides practical challenges to corporate rule.
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Canadians lucky to dodge Pacific Northwest LNG project, just ask Australia
Jim Stanford | Canadians should thank our lucky stars that Malaysia's state-owned Petronas finally pulled the plug on its Pacific Northwest LNG project.
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Here's how the Trudeau government can make the 2018 budget a feminist one
Kate McInturff | It's that exciting time of year when economists start making submissions to the federal Finance Committee about what they'd like to see in Budget 2018. What would a feminist budget look like?
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Guy Caron brings economic expertise and Quebec knowledge to the race
Karl Nerenberg | NDP MP Guy Caron has two distinct advantages in the party's leadership race: he is the only Quebecer in the race and the only one who can lay claim to being a professional economist.