Fellowship Archive - Atkinson Foundation

26 Sep 22

When food becomes the next expense you have to cut

The chattering classes have embraced a new economic theme: government efforts to fight inflation will trigger more inflation. They’re wrong.

12 Sep 22

‘Nobody wants to work anymore’ and other falsehoods on Labour Day

One hundred and fifty years ago, Canada led the way. Perhaps we can again.

16 Aug 22

Provinces need to have a plan for health care funding — or they shouldn’t get the money

Provinces want $28 billion more from the feds for health care. Before they get a penny, they should detail how they’ll use the infusion to buy change.

25 Jul 22

Where is your ER doctor? Cleaning the rooms; there’s no one else there to do it

Not only is there no plan to fix this ER doctor’s light bulb, reboot his computer system or clean his examination room so he can do his job, there is no plan to fix health care, period.

4 Jul 22

If getting your child-care rebate seems like a mess, that’s because it is

With no overarching strategy or system for tackling this ambitious project, municipalities are scrambling to get things moving.

20 Jun 22

‘Laura’s’ story of what’s happening in nursing is a warning to us all

Burned-out nurses are quitting and turning to temp agencies — setting their hours, choosing assignments, earning far more — and sounding the alarm.

6 Jun 22

Forget inflation, meet stagflation

You thought inflation was bad? Buckle up. Stagflation is making a comeback — the ugly reality where both prices and job loss are on the rise as economies stagnate.

9 May 22

CERB is done, and it’s not coming back. Staring down the barrel of a recession gun, how are we going to fix this?

In the 1990s, EI was deliberately gutted by four rounds of “reform.” It took a pandemic to show us why we urgently need to reverse those changes.

25 Apr 22

Inflation is back to 1991 levels, but that doesn’t mean the federal budget should be a ’90s remix

The federal budgets of 1947 and 1974 both acknowledged global events were shaping the moment, but did not dwell on what they could not control.

11 Apr 22

Deficit is not a dirty word

Tackling the affordability crisis in Canada shouldn’t stop us from also spending big on climate change and defence. Because as an economic superpower we can, we must.