Give civil servants incentive not to take sick days, Cross tells BNN
Federal civil servants call in sick more frequently than their private-sector counterparts, but it’s not because they’re ill more often. ...
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Time to heal the federal government’s broken sick leave system: Cross in the Post
Federal public servants take sick leave more frequently than their private-sector counterparts, but that doesn’t mean they’re getting ill more ...
Infographic: Totaling up the civil service’s leave
Senior federal civil servants can take more than a quarter of their working days off. That’s what Philip Cross concludes ...
Curing the public sector’s sick leave malaise: MLI report by Philip Cross
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute finds sick leave use in the federal civil service dwarfs rates in the private sector OTTAWA, Nov. ...
Is poor Ontario being treated unfairly?: Philip Cross in Inside Policy
Those who argue that Ontario deserves a better deal from the federal government are relying on unsuitable data and shaky ...
Direct youth unemployment dollars elsewhere, says Maclean’s, citing MLI paper
Ottawa should skip its billion-dollar youth unemployment strategy and direct the money to more pressing matters. That was the advice ...
Inside Policy November 2015: What should we expect from Canada’s new government?
New edition of Inside Policy delves into the issues facing the newly-elected Liberals OTTAWA, Nov. 9, 2015 – On the ...
Reinstating the long-form census won’t be easy: Philip Cross in the National Post
Rolling back the policy changes the Harper government made will not be as simple as hitting the reset button, says ...
Youth unemployment problems confined mostly to teenagers, Cross tells CBC’s the Exchange
A youth unemployment crisis? No, Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow Philip Cross tells the Exchange on CBC. The troubles reside mostly ...
A crisis in youth unemployment? We’re just measuring wrong: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
There is no crisis in youth unemployment, writes Macdonald-Laurier Institute Philip Cross in the Financial Post. Our method for measuring ...
MLI paper: Philip Cross serves up a reality check on the youth unemployment “crisis”
Why teenagers are skewing our picture of youth unemployment OTTAWA, Oct. 22, 2015 – Youth unemployment isn’t getting worse. We’re ...
Canada’s prospects for long-term growth should eclipse technical recession talk, Philip Cross tells BNN
The debate about whether Canada is in a technical recession or not is immaterial. What matters is whether or not ...
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Time for an intervention – an urgent call to end “gender-affirming” treatments for children: J. Edward Les for Inside Policy
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The Governor General deserves better, but we deserve impartiality: Philippe Lagassé for Inside Policy
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Canadian Competitiveness in Resource Development – A Post-Mortem: Heather Exner-Pirot
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Widespread shortages, skyrocketing costs: the growing calamity that is government-controlled child care
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Success assured? Appraising the Canadian-led Enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Latvia
