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In first of three reports, charitable sector advisory committee proposes three core reforms
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
The current advisory group was formed in late 2019 as a means of engaging and advising the federal government on the state of laws and regulations supporting the work and operations of charities. There is broad consensus across the sector that it’s time to review and update federal policies that define the activities of charities and govern the way they raise funds, work with non-charities, and deploy their resources.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, philanthropy, tax
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The omnibus bill becomes business as usual for Conservatives
Friday, October 19th, 2012
October 19, 2012
this is truly the spawn of the first omnibus bill, the one that dominated the last Parliamentary session, the one demonized by the opposition as an affront to democracy… If voters didn’t like that, they failed to understand, apparently, this is the way this government does business. Clearly the calculation is all that noise and light in the last session was generated by those who would never vote Conservative anyway
Tags: ideology, participation, rights
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More subterfuge hidden inside The Trojan Horse bill
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
Jun 12 2012
information was requested by the independent parliamentary budget officer, Kevin Page. He quite logically believed he had an obligation to report to parliamentarians which departments will be affected by the $5.2 billion in budget cuts, and what services could be affected. He was told to go away… Page, appointed by Harper in 2006 as part of the Federal Accountability Act, is now placed in the position of mulling a potential court challenge as a last resort to obtain information to which he is entitled.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Conservatives set to back motion to end aboriginal education funding gap, fulfilling Shannen’s Dream
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Feb. 27, 2012
Charlie Angus, the New Democrat whose motion goes to a vote Monday, says the government is “running out of road” on the question of aboriginal education. The Timmins-James Bay MP worked with a young girl from Attawapiskat, Shannen Koostachin, whose fight for proper schools in her community became one of the largest youth-driven civil rights campaign the country had ever seen.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Ottawa outsources the attack on the middle class
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Jan.6, 2012
… it is time for an end to the scattershot, no-strings-attached tax breaks being tossed from Stephen Harper’s government to large multinationals that are using it to drive down the standard of living in this country. Friday’s closing of the Electro-Motive Diesel plant is simply the most egregious example of taxpayers’ funds being used to try to bust unions or ship jobs out of the country… Under the Investment Canada Act, such takeovers are supposed to demonstrate a “net benefit” to Canada, but, in fact, are acting as an anvil on wages, living standards and the prosperity of communities in central Canada.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living
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Three women who fought back against the Conservatives
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Dec 18 2011
Franke James… is third person to pass through this column in recent months who feels she has been spied on, smacked down or targeted by a mean-spirited, micromanaging government or Conservative party always on the lookout for enemies of the state. One is an artist, one an aboriginal advocate and one a widow. All three have fought back. And all three are women… There really is no evidence the Conservatives actually target women or that women have proved more adept at getting up off the canvas and fighting back. But there are enough signs out there to raise the question.
Tags: participation, rights, standard of living, women
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A winter of aboriginal agony must lead to action
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Nov 24 2011
Wednesday, more than two dozen aboriginal communities in Manitoba and Northern Ontario filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit accusing the federal government of underfunding aboriginal education. “At some point you have to say enough is enough, too many of our children are not reaching their potential,” said Grand Chief Diane Kelly, who represents the 28 Anishinaabe bands that filed the suit… The enormity of the problems with First Nations across this country is gaining widespread national attention. It’s time, says Shawn Atleo, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, to stop lurching from crisis to crisis.
Tags: budget, featured, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Government spies on advocate for native children
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Nov 15 2011
When does a life-long advocate for aboriginal children become an enemy of the state? The answer, it would seem, is when you file a human rights complaint accusing your government of willfully underfunding child welfare services to First Nations children on reserves. Accusing your government, in other words, of racial discrimination.
Tags: Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living, youth
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Dragging democracy into the 21st century
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Aug 18 2011
If (Canada’s chief electoral officer) gets his way, Canada’s federal voting system will be a modernized entity reflecting reality by Oct. 19, 2015, when Canadians next go to the polls… he believes the reality of social media means it is futile to try to outlaw the use of Twitter, YouTube and Facebook… on election night. Canadians are used to real-time information, never more so on election night, regardless of where they live. Mayrand wants to start dabbling in Internet voting, testing it in a byelection after 2013 and freeing up the Internet to allow citizens to advocate for candidates.
Tags: participation, rights, youth
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