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Ignatieff’s serious plan for home care
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Oct. 11, 2010
The Liberals’ promise to cancel a planned cut in the corporate tax rate from 18 per cent to 15 per cent, and reallocate the money to caregivers marks a clear point of distinction… the Liberals… will need to counter the argument that cancelling the tax cuts could compromise economic growth. Canada needs more and better home care. How to pay for it economically, and without crippling the public finances, will be a challenge, for all governments and political parties. At least Mr. Ignatieff has had the courage to raise the subject.
Tags: disabilities, Health
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Feminism loses its way on prostitution
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Oct 11 2010
If prostituting women is just like any other job, why are the vast majority of prostituted women survivors of incest and childhood sexual abuse (65 to 90 per cent) before entering the industry?… why did researchers conclude that 2 out of 3 women in the sex industry suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder? Allowing a minority of women in prostitution to argue “choice” on the backs of the majority who are out there, in perfect storm of oppression, neglect, abuse and human trafficking, is absurd…
Tags: crime prevention, mental Health, rights, women
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The era of quiet, forbearing seniors is over
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Oct 11 2010
… there are 6.9 million of us; 22 per cent of the voting population (probably more because we have a high propensity to vote). Governments are aware of this. In recent years, they have made sporadic efforts to plug the holes in Canada’s elder care system. But most of their initiatives have been badly designed or grossly inadequate… Seniors with dementia and severe disabilities are being warehoused in unregulated private retirement homes. They can’t get into government-supervised nursing homes because there is a backlog of 24,000 applications. Caregivers are burning out. Volunteers are pulling back.
Tags: participation, pensions, standard of living
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Feminists split over judicial decision overturning some legal restraints on prostitution
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Oct 09 2010
They’re split over whether the ruling will make sex workers safer — or merely pump up profits for pimps and help organized crime to traffic women. At the heart of this dispute is a wide ideological gap between feminists who believe that no woman is a commodity to be bought and sold and those who insist that, as with abortion, a woman has the right to control her body — while not risking life and limb.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, rights, women
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Welcome plan for home care
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Oct 07 2010
We should be grateful when people choose to care for ailing relatives. Not only does that choice allow the sick person to remain in more comfortable surroundings, it also alleviates the burden on hospitals, nursing homes and an inadequate home-care system… Ignatieff’s two-pronged policy, announced Tuesday, would cost $1 billion. The Conservatives immediately pounced on this price tag and called it “reckless” spending. But the Liberals have costed it out: their plan would be funded by cancelling the Conservative government’s planned corporate tax cuts.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Liberals unveil $1B home care plan
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Oct 05 2010
It’s… a reply to the question of what Liberals would do with approximately $6 billion they said can be saved by freezing the Conservatives’ planned cuts to corporate taxes in the next few years… Ignatieff’s “Family Care” policy plan has two parts: one would give six months of employment insurance benefits to caregivers, while the other would provide up to $1,350 a year to people who are providing home care to the elderly or ill.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, standard of living, women
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Don’t regulate prostitutes. Rescue them
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
October 5, 2010
In the pathetic demi-monde of lower-tier prostitution — streetwalkers, drug addicts, child-trafficked aboriginal children — it isn’t regulation that is needed. Robert Picton’s victims wouldn’t have taken advantage of (or been welcome at) legal brothels. Such women, neither autonomous nor opportunistic, are victims of circumstances, who haven’t the luxury of choice. These women don’t need the “harm reduction” of legal enablement. They need rescue. Their plight would only worsen with legalization, because it would discourage efforts to save them.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, poverty, rights, women, youth
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Give fathers their rights back
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Sept. 22, 2010.
s there anyone who believes that our family court system doesn’t need reform? Perhaps some aging radical feminists who are content with the fact that fathers are offered shared or sole residential custody in only about 6% of court-contested cases. And of course the myriad of professionals — lawyers above all — who benefit financially in dragging out litigation, mostly unrelated to children’s best interests, and who perpetuate a dehumanizing and heartbreaking — but lucrative –winner-take-all style of “justice.”
Tags: ideology, rights
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Gun control is everybody’s concern
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Sep 26 2010
… registering a gun would not make any person I know (and I know many rural folks, having family who live in the country) feel like a criminal. Like driving a car or purchasing alcohol, there are certain requirements in place to reduce the risk of harm. Likewise, owning a gun requires the owner to care for that gun so that the likelihood of harm, either by accident or as a result of the gun being stolen, is reduced… it is not a magic solution to end gun violence… But it is one step in the right direction…
Tags: crime prevention, rights
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Registry no threat to freedom
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Sep 21 2010
It’s hard to grasp exactly what freedom is under assault here. All that’s required is registration — which is about as coercive as being obliged to put recyclable garbage into a separate bin… But licensing and registration help prevent guns falling into the wrong hands… The system holds gun owners accountable, allowing guns to be traced back to their owners. This discourages owners from storing guns carelessly, or giving or selling them to unlicensed individuals.
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