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Fearing advocacy, Ottawa rejects HIV/AIDS funding proposals
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
6 August 2012
The HIV/AIDS Legal Network, whose mission is to promote the human rights of people living with or at risk of contracting the virus, has received a significant portion of its funding from Ottawa over its 20-year existence. But in this year’s round of funding applications, 16 of its 20 proposals were rebuffed. Fifteen of those were rejected citing an identical reason: “It was unclear from the details provided in the proposal whether the resource would be used for advocacy purposes, which is ineligible for funding,”
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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The poor in Toronto: They’re working but not getting any richer
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
Feb. 12, 2012
Even during times of economic prosperity, from 2000 to 2005, the number of working people unable to make ends meet grew by 42 per cent in the Toronto area. The exacerbation was especially pronounced in the city’s transit-starved east end. But rates grew fastest in the suburbs… A deep recession and sluggish recovery haven’t helped… Immigrants make up a little more than half of all the working-age population in the Toronto area – but almost three-quarters of the region’s working poor.
Tags: economy, immigration, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s youth crime plans bewilder international observers
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Jul. 19, 2011
Judges, criminologists and policy-makers in the United States, Britain and Australia – countries whose systems, for the most part, closely resemble Canada’s – can’t figure out why this country is planning to shift toward a jail-intensive approach. Everyone else seems to be doing the opposite, not for ideological reasons, but because evidence shows it works… “I don’t think it deters anything,” he said. “You have to look at what type of community are you building by constantly sending kids to jail.”
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, youth
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Young criminals in Canada victims of federal legislation
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Jul. 18, 2011
Canada incarcerates more convicted youth than almost any similarly industrialized country. And new federal crime legislation is poised to drive those numbers higher, even though imprisoned teens are statistically less likely to get jobs after they’re released and, if anything, are more likely to reoffend. Years after enacting laws that have been successful in reducing youth incarceration rates, Canada still sends five times more of its convicted teens into custody than England and Wales… At the crux of the debate is how to treat Canada’s youngest criminals
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, youth
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How paying people’s way out of poverty can help us all
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
May. 06, 2011
… there’s an increasing awareness, among even the country’s most wealthy, that poverty reaches beyond the tables of the hungry and digs into their own pocketbooks. When people are poor, out of work or homeless, it hurts the bottom line of all Canadians… the country is becoming economically polarized. And the decades-old dominant economic dogma that growing wealth among society’s highest earners would trickle down to those less fortunate is being challenged by an alternative approach: Eliminate crushing poverty among the lowest earners, and wealth will trickle up.
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
Posted in Inclusion Delivery System | 4 Comments »
Toronto increasingly becoming a city of vertical poverty
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Jan. 12, 2011
…Toronto’s low-income population is concentrated not only by neighbourhood but by building – in the 50-year-old concrete slab towers clustered around the inner suburbs, according to numbers provided to The Globe and Mail. Many are decrepit and crumbling; their elevators are so unreliable that a United Way report coming out Wednesday calls for a task force specifically targeting their repair. Thousands of interviews with residents indicate these buildings have grown notorious for vermin and vandalism.
Tags: economy, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Urban food strategy unveiled
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Feb. 18, 2010.
“People usually don’t think of municipal governments being big players in food systems. But in fact there’s a number of levers that city governments have,” he said.
“Food programs, community gardens, communal food education. Those kinds of things can help the city to achieve its objectives in terms of addressing the needs of inner-city communities.”
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