Recovery in Canada: Toward social equality

National Pharmacare in Canada: Equality or Equity, Accessibility or Affordability; Comment on “Universal Pharmacare in Canada: A Prescription for Equity in Healthcare”

Canada’s federal government intends to take steps to implement national pharmacare so that all Canadians have prescription drug coverage they need at an affordable price. Relatively limited funds have so far been pledged to support national pharmacare, which raises the question: what kind of program is envisioned? Since the government has already introduced regulations intended to reduce new dr...

Anti-equality: social comparison in young children.

Young children dislike getting less than others, which might suggest a general preference for equal outcomes. However, young children are typically not averse to others receiving less than themselves. These results are consistent with two alternatives: young children might not have any preferences about others receiving less than themselves, or they might have preferences for others receiving l...

Traditional Leadership, Democracy and Social Equality in Africa: the Role of Traditional Leadership in Emboldening Social Equality in South Africa

In the recent years in South Africa as elsewhere in Africa, the debate on the legitimate authority to foster democracy, community development and social equality has taken centre stage. Some scholars have argued that modern governments are the rightful authorities while others argue for traditional institutions such as traditional leadership. In this paper, we go beyond either party’s position ...

Toward Recovery-Oriented Computing

Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC) is a joint research effort between Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. ROC takes the perspective that hardware faults, software bugs, and operator errors are facts to be coped with, not problems to be solved. This perspective is supported both by historical evidence and by recent studies on the main sources of outages in production s...

Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific