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Friday, January 4th, 2013
Jan 3, 2013
Many of the South Asian immigrants who’ve settled in Canada since the 1970s have been so afraid of losing their culture that they have ferociously clung to some of their worst customs… I sometimes feel like I have walked through a time machine, sending me back to rural India, a village in Pakistan, or an Afghan mountain cave… Perhaps a new generation will help push for change.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, multiculturalism, standard of living, women, youth
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Friday, December 14th, 2012
Dec. 01, 2012
“We need an integrated service system that will meet the needs of a child once a need is identified… the way we would have for childhood diabetes or childhood cancers”… “Once you have a diagnosis of autism, it is not very likely to go away… crises will keep coming up and parents need somewhere to go back to… As long as we continue to respond in crisis mode things are not going to improve for individuals with autism
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health
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Saturday, November 24th, 2012
November 23, 2012
A welcome reform is being proposed by Campaign 2000, a national anti-poverty coalition. It involves cancelling the universal $100 monthly payout and the two tax credits beyond the reach of the very poor and giving all the money saved to the poverty-stricken… The universal $100 payout and assorted tax breaks introduced by this government have a different and obvious goal — buying middle class votes.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, poverty, tax, youth
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
October 5, 2012
An increasing number of local youthful offenders are committing more serious crimes, despite a decline in the number of teens appearing before the courts… there is a growing percentage of teens who come from unstable and abusive family settings where substance abuse is a part of daily life. Poverty also fuels an already sordid existence…
Tags: crime prevention, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Saturday, October 13th, 2012
Oct. 11 2012
children from poor or abusive families have more challenges in school and, as adults, have markedly worse health. Now, scientists understand why. The experiences of a child during the first 2,000 days of his or her life affect brain circuitry and impair social and mental development because genes react to the environment… By providing early learning enrichment, it is possible to reverse the impact of adverse circumstances on a child’s brain.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, Health, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
October 02, 2012
It frustrated Mustard that policy-makers let these kids fail. It infuriated him that they refused to acknowledge the costs to society: needlessly high social assistance expenditures, mental-health problems, unemployment, crime, incarceration and chronic illness. But he kept pushing for change
Tags: child care, economy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Friday, September 28th, 2012
Sep 26, 2012
Most addicts stop using by an act of will, and are motivated to do so by simple cost-benefit calculations. Heyman points to age 30 as the usual cutoff, the age when people get serious about careers and mating… Heyman agrees that addicts are genetically predisposed to addiction, but he gives great credit to voluntary control over inclinations.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012
August 31, 2012
this province lags far behind the rest of the country in addressing this complex yet preventable disability, and is unnecessarily relegating far too many people to the margins of society… research suggests that youth with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder are 19 times more likely to be incarcerated, and the incidence of FASD may be as high as three in 10 among federal inmates… It fills prisons with individuals whose permanent neurobiological impairments won’t be fixed through punishment, and eats up resources that could be invested in avoiding victimization and criminality.
Tags: disabilities, economy, Health, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
7 August 2012
A family paying $600 a month for daycare needs to cover an annual bill of $7,200, before taxes… parents in big cities are likely grappling with monthly bills that are significantly higher… “If the lowest-income spouse is not making more than $30,000, I don’t see how it can be worthwhile to pay that kind of money.”… In 1976, 46.4 per cent of mothers with a youngest child aged 6 to 17 were employed. By 2012, that number had surged to 79.3 per cent.
Tags: child care, standard of living, women
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Friday, August 10th, 2012
30 July 2012
Most Canadian mothers with young children took some form of maternity leave after childbirth, Statistics Canada reported Monday, while an expert says fathers are taking more of what she calls ‘‘invisible leave.’’… It’s a lot harder to claim it or even ask for it in the provinces outside of Quebec, she said, where workplace family policies and expectations on men differ greatly. Fathers’ uptake of parental leave hovers around 12% across Canada, Quebec excepted. But in Quebec, fathers took leave in the case of 76% of children…
Tags: child care, rights, standard of living
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