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Whatever the Supreme Court rules, it’s time to end prostitution
Prostitution creates a second class of women – disproportionately disadvantaged women and underaged girls that can be bought and sold. The fact that most enter as minors, were sexually abused as kids, and many are Aboriginal is haunting. Legalizing prostitution would legitimize their sexual exploitation by men… decriminalizing/legalizing prostitution has been a flawed social experiment…
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, poverty, rights, women, youth
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James Moore apologizes for child poverty comment
“Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.”… In his apology posted on his website Monday, Moore said… “I know the cause of fighting poverty is not helped by comments like those I made last week. For that, I am sorry.”… despite the apology, Moore’s comments were entirely in keeping with Tory ideology.
Tags: child care, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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CAUT Statement on December 6 [Violence against Women]
This past twelve months we have witnessed our federal government’s continued failure to develop a national action plan to end violence against women in Canada. Despite support at the meeting of provincial ministers this past summer, the Conservative government has yet to agree to launch a national investigation into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in our country.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Child poverty gets worse
Whatever the number [of children living in poverty] it is a stain that we must get rid of… parliamentarians… should engineer a national debate that would lead to a comprehensive national strategy to end this scourge — a strategy that would focus on adequate supports at the bottom of the income scale, not scattershot, inefficient and costly goodies to buy middle-class votes.
Tags: budget, featured, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Do women really have it better in Sweden?
Sweden and the other Nordic nations always seem to lead the rankings of the world’s best countries for women. (Canada is lucky to crack the top 20.) So they’re an ideal laboratory for finding out what women really want… In fact, Swedish women are much more likely to have part-time jobs and far less likely to hold top managerial positions or be CEOs. On top of that, Scandinavian labour markets are the most gender-segregated in the developed world.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living, women
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Good parenting key to breaking cycle of poverty
For some, simply meeting kids’ basic needs – food, clothing, shelter – can be overwhelming, leaving little time and energy to meet their often obscure intellectual and emotional needs. Yet these requirements, invisible or not, are vital to children’s long-term development, and not meeting them causes untold damage. In this sense, the greatest challenge children face isn’t financial poverty, but relational poverty… a lack of the interaction, affection and play that provide vital stimulation to infants’ rapidly developing brains.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, poverty, youth
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The Daycare Dilemma
TheGlobeandMail.com – commentary/letters to the editor Oct. 26, 2013. Brooke Richardson, Heather Johnson-Wilson, David Paul Stone, Carmen Chan, Nicolai Grigoriev, & Scarlett Sloane Those who suggest that parents who use child care are somehow not “raising” their own children, take note: We most certainly are! No one would say that someone sending a child […]
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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What PEI and Quebec can teach the rest of Canada about improving child care
For a top-notch child-care system close to home, Canadians should look to the country’s smallest province… PEI is tackling an issue that child-care advocates argue Canada needs to address to boost the economy, relieve families of the rising cost of care that’s often poor quality and improve the futures of the next generation of skilled workers… Here are 10 lessons that should guide a national discussion to improve child care in the rest of the country.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, women
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Developmental delays in children of teen moms explored in Toronto study
… children living in poverty, especially those of teenage mothers, are less likely to be exposed to the kind of stimuli that enhance verbal, non-verbal and spatial abilities… For non-verbal and spatial abilities, the study found that differences between these two groups of children can be largely attributed to significant inequalities in socio-demographic circumstances…
Tags: child care, disabilities, Health
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For Teens Frozen Out of Ontario’s Child Welfare System, a New Bill Offers Hope
Ontario lawmakers are set to vote on a bill that would quash a rule preventing some teens from accessing child welfare support services. Under current Ontario law, if a 16-year-old comes to the attention of welfare services for the first time at that age, he or she is classified as an adult, and can only access adult benefits. Bill 88, the Child and Family Services Amendment Act, seeks to change that.
Tags: homelessness, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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