In Canada, the decline in house calls has taken place despite evidence that an increase in house calls would increase quality of care and decrease costs.
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December 14, 2015
3:00AM
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December 11, 2015
3:15PM
On the mainline general-interest CBC shows, you almost never hear praise for markets.
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December 11, 2015
10:23AM
The issue of whether the new federal government requires explicit approval of the electorate via a referendum to change the way parliamentarians and our federal government is elected is gaining a surprising amount of attention.
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December 11, 2015
3:00AM
With the announcement that the Pope may “intervene” in the Paris climate negotiations, the last act of the Great Paris Climate Conference is set.
As I wrote in 2010, these giant climate conferences follow an entirely predictable story arc that goes like this:
1) The media will downplay expectations, and diplomats and environmentalists will bemoan how far behind the process is in producing an agreement.
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December 10, 2015
11:51AM
Toronto-based Artbomb is an online art auction that receives zero government funding and is thriving across Canada.
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December 10, 2015
3:00AM
In the latest development in the ongoing dispute between Canada and the United States concerning country-of-origin labelling (or COOL), Canada won the right to impose retaliatory trade sanctions to the tune of roughly $780 million.
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December 9, 2015
1:23PM
Recent skills shortages in Western Canada, and a curtailment of the use of temporary foreign workers, make a single national labour market even more important.
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December 9, 2015
3:00AM
While some provinces have taken steps to rein in spending and balance budgets, Ontario is a laggard and Alberta has embarked on a new road to debt.
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December 8, 2015
1:42PM
Only 0.3 per cent of the $7.9 billion spent by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada in 2011/12 went to Metis and non-status Indian concerns.
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December 8, 2015
3:00AM
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the report from the Commission on Private Schools in Ontario, so it’s a good time to crack open the several hundred pages and consider several proposals that, for a variety of reasons, were ignored.
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