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Category Archives: Regulation
Close health care gap with allowances
(November 21, 2000) Doctors, lawyers and other professionals aren’t as healthy, and don’t live as long, as those who occupy even higher rungs on the socio-economic ladder. Neither do the children of doctors, lawyers and other professionals. Continue reading
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Fixing health care from the bottom up
(May 16, 2000) It isn’t brain surgery. Fixing medicare only seems complicated because the health-care bureaucracy devises convoluted reforms to maintain its control over one of Canada’s largest economic sectors. Any top-down plan will inevitably be next to impossible to administer efficiently. Continue reading
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Six billion reasons for hope
(October 5, 1999) Next Tuesday, we, the citizens of the world, will be six billion strong, up from five billion a dozen years ago and from four billion in 1974. Continue reading
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What would happen if we counted housework in the GDP?
(June 21, 1999) The Next City asked Finn Poschmann, a policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute, and Finn Poschmann, chair of research and policy development, to comment. Continue reading
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The enlightement
(June 21, 1999) Parliament repeals the Small Loans Act. Prior to 1980, money lenders, anyone other than a chartered bank who lends money could legally charge no more than 2 per cent per month for a loan of $300 or less, 1 per cent per month for loans between $300 and $1,000, and just 0.5 per cent or 6 per cent per year for loans greater than $1,000. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 