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  • This house regrets the decline of defined benefit pension plans

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    Defined Benefit pension plans are retirement savings with an employer where the employer takes a portion of your pay in exchange for promising to pay a monthly amount after you retire until your death. The payout is determined by factors such as your salary, how long you have worked for them, and your age. The risks of investment lie solely with the employer and the financial health of the employer affects how much they are about to pay. Alternatively, with Defined Contribution pension plans, your employer contributes a set amount to an investment account you control. The payout is determined by how much is contributed over your life time and how well the investments you selected perform.

    Hart House Winter Open 2025 · Open Semifinals · 2025-01-18

  • This house supports the Fire Camp program

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    California's Fire Camp program allows prisoners to work as firefighters for wages of about $10.00 USD per day. This is one of the highest paid jobs in the American prison labour system. Participants are allowed to earn time off their sentences based on their participation (sentences are generally reduced by two days for every one day worked) and prisoners with a history of escape or sexual crime are not allowed to participate. There are currently about 1000 Fire Camp participants fighting the wildfires in Los Angeles.

    North American Debating Championships 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-01-18

  • This house would ban out-of-court settlements for cases of workplace discrimination and harassment.

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    An out-of-court settlement is an agreement between the plaintiff (suing party) and the defendant (party being sued) to resolve the dispute outside the court system, and often entails both parties and their lawyers privately negotiating the amount of financial compensation payable to the plaintiff. Out-of-court settlements typically include a non-disclosure clause, and a clause to prevent the plaintiff from making further claims to the settled dispute.

    Eunoia Debating Championships 2025 · Open Semifinals · 2025-01-17

  • This house, as the Philippine Government, laments Overseas Economic Dependency

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    For the purpose of this debate, Overseas Economic Dependency (OED) is the resulting phenomenon from national economic policies and strategies (ex. deployment of workers abroad, special tax rates for OFW remittances, allowing foreign direct investments) that entails significant dependency to income or capital originating overseas.

    6th Mindanao Novice Cup · Double-Octofinals · 2025-01-17

  • This house opposes the rise of pro-immigration policies in developed states with aging populations

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    An aging population refers to a demographic shift where there are more elderly individuals (often 65 years and older) compared to those who belong in the younger demographic, often because of longer life expectancies and declining birth rates. This is common among developed countries like Japan, Germany, the UK, and USA. Recently, this trend has been observed in developing countries like the Philippines, India, Thailand, Mexico, and Turkey.

    6th Mindanao Novice Cup · High School Double-Octofinals · 2025-01-17

  • This house, as Dev, W choose the international scholarship as opposed to the local instructor position

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    Dev is a graduating physics student from Mindanao, and has been in a long term long distance relationship with Denise for the past 3 years, who lives in a different municipality. Dev has received 2 offers upon graduation: an international scholarship for a graduate degree as a researcher in Japan, and as an instructor in a local prestigious mindanao institution in Denise's municipality.

    6th Mindanao Novice Cup · Octofinals · 2025-01-17

  • This house opposes the rise of pro-immigration policies in developed states with aging populations

    Infoslide

    An aging population refers to a demographic shift where there are more elderly individuals (often 65 years and older) compared to those who belong in the younger demographic, often because of longer life expectancies and declining birth rates. This is common among developed countries like Japan, Germany, the UK, and USA. Recently, this trend has been observed in developing countries like the Philippines, India, Thailand, Mexico, and Turkey.

    6th Mindanao Novice Cup · Double-Octofinals · 2025-01-17

  • This house, as the Philippine Government, laments Overseas Economic Dependency

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, Overseas Economic Dependency (OED) is the resulting phenomenon from national economic policies and strategies (ex. deployment of workers abroad, special tax rates for OFW remittances, allowing foreign direct investments) that entails significant dependency to income or capital originating overseas.

    6th Mindanao Novice Cup · High School Double-Octofinals · 2025-01-17

  • This house would take the Pill

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    The "Happy Pill" is a pill that, when taken, instantly makes the person content with where they are in life at that moment, with no desire to chase upward mobility regardless of what their socioecononic class/status is. The effects of the pill are irreversible and have no side effects that lead to potential health issues. For the purposes of this debate, assume that this pill is widely accessible.

    Seasons Novice British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-01-11

  • This house prefers a world wherein people could opt to be Severed

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    Severance is a procedure by which people totally split their consciousness into two while retaining a singular physical form — an “innie” which goes to work and an “outie” which goes about their regular life (family, hobbies, etc.). Both versions know of each others’ existence but not about what the other does. Severance is permanent for as long as the person remains employed in the job they underwent Severance for.

    CIDA Novice Cup 2025 · College Grandfinals · 2025-01-11