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Court strikes down most of Ontario’s Mike Harris-era anti-panhandling law
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Most of Ontario’s bans on panhandling in public places… have been struck down by a Toronto judge as unconstitutional… While finding that the ban on squeegeeing and panhandling in roadways should be upheld, Centa struck down all other prohibitions on soliciting donations in public, including from people near public toilets, payphones, ATMs, taxi stands and public transit stops, as well as on transit vehicles and in parking lots.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Health Canada lifts ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Health Canada on Thursday lifted the ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men, putting an end to a practice long criticized as discriminatory and homophobic… The new policy — which is expected to take effect by Sept. 30 — will screen all donors, regardless of gender or sexuality, for “high-risk sexual behaviours.”
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation
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Ottawa will take a hard look at companies that paid dividends while accepting COVID-19 supports, Justin Trudeau says
Sunday, December 20th, 2020
The program was meant to help companies avoid layoffs and keep employees on the payroll… 30 companies that paid out a combined total of $2 billion to shareholders between April and September while receiving the wage subsidy… Extendicare, the largest operator of private nursing homes in Canada, had paid nearly $10.5 million in dividends since April, while its home-care subsidiary was receiving millions of dollars from the wage subsidy.
Tags: budget, economy, privatization, tax
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What COVID-19 has taught us about the nature of the way we work, and what we must do to fix it for the safety and betterment of us all
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
… the important lessons of this pandemic, which is people doing even the most humble jobs in society — the cleaners, the care aides and the retail clerks — actually have a critical role in public health and public safety, and we have to recognize that and start to value that properly.” … “A key ingredient in building a better future for work after the COVID-19 pandemic must be a stronger role for mechanisms of voice, representation and bargaining power for workers in all industries and all statuses,”
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Can legal aid be improved while its budget is slashed? Ontario’s attorney general says yes
Friday, October 25th, 2019
“We’re not talking about doing more with less, we’re talking about doing things differently… how we can deliver service to more people, the vulnerable population, in a really different way… The cuts have meant that Legal Aid Ontario will generally no longer fund private criminal lawyers to handle bail hearings… As a result, duty counsel services have been reduced in other areas at courthouses.
Tags: budget, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Legal Aid Ontario to cut jobs, impose hiring freeze after provincial budget cutbacks
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Cutting the positions, along with other administrative changes including a hiring freeze, salary freeze for management, and delaying implementation of IT projects, are projected to save the agency about $16.6 million… there would also be a compensation funding freeze for legal clinics, and putting a stop to funding for one-time clinic projects… Changes to how it deals with the private bar are expected to save the agency $13.9 million
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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