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Why Canadian babies should sleep in cardboard boxes like Finnish babies do
… the maternity package… means every pregnant woman gets care: Not only medical interventions like ultrasound scans, but milk and fresh fruit. Prevention is the best way to reduce the number of low-birth-weight babies… In Finland, all new moms get nine months of maternity benefits – whether they work not. Daycare is provided at no cost, and parents who choose to forgo daycare get a cash subsidy… Countries like Finland simply do not allow children and families to wallow in poverty. It is socially and politically unacceptable.
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Homeless single mothers equipped for a new life
Four years ago, these graduates were living in women’s shelters, hiding behind false names, not daring to think about the future. Today, they are working in banks, law offices, high-tech firms or Woodgreen’s network of early learning centres. Their salaries range from $35,000 to $55,000. Their lives have structure and purpose.
Tags: child care, homelessness, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, women
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Federal report finds no link between poverty and radicalization of terrorists
… researchers in the area seem unequivocal in their conclusion that there is no link between economic factors and radicalization, and that many radicals are, in fact, economically advantaged compared to others… “Radicals are aware that their perspectives and actions differ from those of other people and they make a conscious decision to take that position and hide the fact from those who might threaten their liberty to do so. Radicalization is most likely a process that begins early and is always in action.”
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, ideology, mental Health, poverty
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Ontario needs to fix another full-day kindergarten mess
The province didn’t provide the money needed for the before-and-after school programs and the Toronto District School Board (which chose the most expensive model) refused to take responsibility. Last summer, the province caved in, allowing boards to use daycare centres… “The province has downloaded this program onto school boards who have side-loaded it to community-based child care and said, ‘here, you do it’.”
Tags: budget, child care, jurisdiction
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The good news about Canadian children, according to UNICEF
Apr. 11, 2013
… as the UNICEF report makes clear, conditions for children are improving across the board in almost all developed nations, including Canada… we’re more or less exactly where we were a decade ago: just behind Switzerland, and just ahead of the United States, Italy and Austria.) Moreover, there are a lot of specifically Canadian good-news stories in this report:
Tags: child care, economy, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Ontario’s most vulnerable children need a watchdog
Mar 31 2013
Roughly 25,000 children in Ontario are cared for by children’s aid societies. Most are poor. Many are scarred by domestic violence, neglect, substance abuse, family strife or the death of their parents. For the most part, Ontario’s 53 children’s aid societies (CAS) do a good job as substitute guardians. But every year brings cases of horrific abuse in foster homes, group homes or relatives’ homes in which children were placed.
Tags: poverty, rights, youth
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UN report is a wake-up call for complacent Canada
Mar 18 2013
Canada is being bypassed by other countries (Japan and Ireland) in terms of its substantive quality of overall life; northern Europe still rules the roost. We are now down to 11th in the global rankings, far behind the United States at third. Indeed, if the effects of inequality are factored in, then Canada drops to 15th (and the United States drops to 16th).
Tags: child care, featured, Health, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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The deadly mixture of guns and class in Toronto Mapping
Mar 03 2013
… the recent uptick in gun violence in Toronto mirrors the same fault-lines of economic and social disadvantage that exist in U.S. cities… The vast majority of gun murders from 2000 to the present have occurred in the city’s service class areas, and that figure rises to nearly 400 gun murders, almost 90 per cent, when we include the red working class clusters.
Tags: crime prevention, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Supreme Court upholds Canada’s hate speech laws in case involving anti-gay crusader
Feb 27, 2013
The court… upheld the controversial legal concept of speech that is “likely to expose” certain groups to hatred…
[finding it] appropriately balances the fundamental values underlying freedom of expression with competing Charter rights… values essential to a free and democratic society, in this case a commitment to equality and respect for group identity and the inherent dignity owed to all human beings
Tags: ideology, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s homeless showing
Feb. 26, 2013
it’s been 20 years since federal funding was frozen for housing programs, longer than that since the gradual withdrawal from housing began. Today, Canada is the only G8 country without a national housing strategy, and it shows: It’s estimated about 300,000 Canadians are homeless, and about 1.7 million Canadians have trouble affording their housing.
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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