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Canadians aren’t just adapting to diversity – there’s data to show we’re embracing it
Monday, January 2nd, 2023
… our image of the country, and its demographic reality, are evolving in the same direction. Diversity has become more important to us as we have become more diverse. Canadians are not only adapting to change, they are embracing it.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation
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COVID-19 changed everything, except Canada’s values of inclusiveness
Saturday, January 2nd, 2021
Canadians are also increasingly sympathetic to vulnerable groups such as people with low incomes… support is growing in Canada for the idea of a basic income. Although that specific policy may not win the day, support for the principle suggests Canadians are growing more interested in a backstop for those at risk of being left behind… bucking trends in other countries, we have become less, and not more, polarized.
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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New survey shows Canadians want lasting change to accompany economic recovery
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
… change should be “fundamental.” … most often cited… is the need to reduce inequality… a priority shared by the higher and lower income alike… in a society that provides quality long-term care for the elderly, that covers all essential medicines through public drug plans, that makes sure employees can take paid sick days when they need to, and that makes affordable and high-quality daycare for young children available to all parents who need it.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Health, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical
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The road to real reconciliation will be paved by Canada’s youth
Monday, August 5th, 2019
While Canadian society has advanced on a range of issues – retiring a racist immigration policy in the 1960s, making substantial strides toward gender equality, embracing gay rights – the treatment of Indigenous peoples has been an area of conspicuous inaction. As with other significant movements of the past half-century, young people may now be preparing to show the way forward.
Tags: ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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It’s time for us to work together with our aboriginal neighbours
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
April 23, 2010
Urban aboriginal people are aspiring, striving and achieving in cities across Canada. Ensuring they are met with fairness, opportunity and support is a job for government, but not only for government. After 400 years, is it not time we got started on a better path together? It is a job for all of us.
Tags: multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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