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Pages tagged "economy"


What should BC's economy look like in 2030?

Posted on News & Blogs by Broadbent Institute · October 07, 2016 12:37 PM

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On September 22 and 23, the Broadbent Institute hosted Progress Summit BC to chart a progressive path forward for the province in this critical election year.

In a marquee panel on the future of BC's economy, panelists were asked to answer the following question: What must change to ensure BC’s economy in 2030 secures shared and sustainable prosperity? Below are excerpts from each panelists' remarks.

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The co-operative economy as a model for B.C.

Posted on News & Blogs by Broadbent Institute · October 04, 2016 12:12 PM

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On September 22 and 23, the Broadbent Institute hosted Progress Summit BC to chart a progressive path forward for the province in this critical election year. The Summit kicked off with a discussion about the co-operative economy in BC, and how that model can be expanded and advanced in the decades ahead. Watch the video of Vancity CEO Tamara Vrooman in conversation with Janet Austin, CEO of YWCA for Metro Vancouver.

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Retrieving affordability: progressive policy solutions for BC’s housing crisis

Posted on News & Blogs by Broadbent Institute · September 30, 2016 12:06 PM

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On September 22 and 23, the Broadbent Institute hosted Progress Summit BC to chart a progressive path forward for the province in this critical election year. In the panel entitled 'Retrieving affordability: progressive policy solutions for BC’s housing crisis' panelists were asked to outline what practical, progressive, policies can ensure future generations of lower and middle-income British Columbians can live and thrive in their cities. A summary of their remarks are outlined below. 

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Rising right-wing populism and the failure of global economic governance

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · September 17, 2016 9:00 AM

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With the global economy mired in slow growth and right-wing, nationalist populism in the ascendant in many of the advanced industrial countries, one might have hoped that the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China would have come up with a real plan to promote a sustainable, shared recovery. 

If so, one would be very disappointed since the final communique consisted mainly of empty rhetoric and evaded the key issues of competitive fiscal austerity and increasing income inequality. 

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Federal tax review must target loopholes for wealthy, boost fiscal capacity

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · August 16, 2016 11:16 AM

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Progressive tax reform to promote both greater distributional fairness and increased fiscal capacity to fund social programs and public services should be squarely on the agenda for the 2017 federal budget. Indeed, with faltering growth, the federal Liberals will be hard-pressed to meet their commitments to new investments,while still ensuring a promised decline in the federal debt to GDP ratio, if they do not significantly increase revenues.

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Canada's middle-class jobs challenge

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · July 21, 2016 4:19 PM

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Good jobs are a central mechanism in the creation of shared prosperity.

What matters for workers is not just being able to find any job but also security of employment, level of pay, working conditions, and the opportunity to develop talents and capacities. 

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Brexit vote underlines need for a reformed globalization model

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · June 30, 2016 12:00 PM

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The narrow victory of the leave side in the Brexit referendum demands a profound rethinking of the liberal globalization agenda.

At one, highly disturbing level, the majority for leave was a clear victory for the nativist, often overtly racist, populist right, and a clear defeat for the economic and political elites who overwhelmingly backed the remain side. As widely noted, this underlines the lack of broad popular support for deep economic and political integration which seems to be increasingly pervasive in both Europe and the United States. 

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Employers and expansion of the Canada Pension Plan

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · June 02, 2016 11:23 AM

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When the federal and provincial finance ministers meet on June 20-21, they will have to decide whether or not to enhance the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) as promised by the Liberals in the last federal election. This will require the support of at least seven provinces with a combined two-thirds of the population and, effectively, a broad public consensus.

In that context, it is encouraging that the leading business organizations of all provinces but Alberta endorsed a modest expansion of the CPP in a letter sent to finance ministers on June 1.

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Yet another unjustified attack on worker rights

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · May 17, 2016 12:02 PM

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The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right-wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies. Changes in these areas were announced in the Pallister government’s Speech from the Throne on May 16.

Under the current system in Manitoba, a union can be automatically certified by the Labour Board if 65% of the workers in a proposed bargaining unit indicate their support by signing membership cards. As in other jurisdictions with a “card check” system, signed membership cards are subject to independent scrutiny.

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Energy Transition Can Drive Global Jobs Recovery

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · May 14, 2016 8:00 AM

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It is now often said, with reason, that the environment and the economy are not in conflict. But it is even more true to say that seriously addressing the crisis of global climate change could revive a moribund global economy.

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) released by the International Monetary Fund in April of this year once again forecast very slow growth, and argued that economic stagnation is likely to be self-sustaining. This is due to very low levels of business investment, combined with high levels of household and public debt which constrain household and government spending. 

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