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Consider how to prevent sexual assault
… we need to think about how to respond to sexual assaults, but we also need to consider how to prevent them… First, we need to initiate conversations about masculinity. Men are bombarded by violent, sexist and homophobic messages from every corner of our culture… Second, we need to better educate young people about consent… Third, we need to provide bystander training that teaches everyone… how to speak up and take action should they witness inappropriate behaviour.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, women
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Ottawa undoing progress made in wake of Polytechnique massacre
Bill C-42, currently before the House of Commons, will further relax controls on handguns and make decisions about the classification of military weapons the purview of politicians rather than police… The police continue to insist that the government must ban military weapons. And some of our political leaders are stepping up — doing the right thing… most encouraging is the emergence of the next generation of gun control activists. Generation Action…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Jian Ghomeshi and the problem of narcissistic male rage
From what dynamics does this narcissistic male anger flow? A narcissist sees and experiences the world primarily with respect to his own needs. It is all about him; other people merely supply or frustrate these needs, seeming to lack individuality, dignity or needs of their own… The growth of a healthy self depends on emotionally rich, attuned interactions with parents who are emotionally present and available. Stressed, depressed or anxious parents, or those who were themselves traumatized, may be incapable of providing their children with such interactions.
Tags: crime prevention, mental Health, standard of living, women
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Daycare is a tough electoral sell, but kids are about more than politics
There are waiting lists for child care across the country, and costs if you do get in are among the highest in the developed world: $925 a month in Ontario, $1,200 in Vancouver, but just $140 in subsidized Quebec… Framed solely as an election issue, it’s only a winner for the segment of the population that currently has drooling small people clamped to its sides. But the droolers have a way of growing up, being useful to society and becoming voters themselves. Look at it that way, and it’s a winner.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax, women
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Too many vulnerable Canadians are denied home care
… more than 790,000 Canadians report that their need for home care is going entirely unmet, or is only being partially addressed… They are among the most vulnerable members of society: the aged, the disabled, and those suffering from a long-term illness. And their treatment is inexcusable. The new data comes from Statistics Canada and it specifically excludes residents of institutions and those in long-term care. More than 460,000 people reported needing home care but receiving none.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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National child care — the promise that’s never kept
Federal politicians of all stripes are keen to promise affordable child care. None wants to be seen as an enemy of small children. But in the end, they never deliver. There is always another priority deemed more important. The need for affordable child care has been on the national agenda since women began to flood into the paid workforce. A national child care program was recommended by the 1970 Royal Commission on the Status of Women
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Baby boom meets daycare bust in Canada
In the wake of Canada’s largest baby boom in 50 years, public spending on licensed child care has barely budged, parent fees are soaring and growth in new spaces has slowed to a trickle… the labour force participation of mothers with children under age 2 grew to almost 70 per cent in 2012, while almost 77 per cent of mothers with children between the ages of 3 and 5 were working… In Ontario, there were licensed spaces for barely 21 per cent in 2012.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, women
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Abused women need our support
In Ontario an average of 30 women are killed each year by intimate partners. Eighty-one per cent of these homicides occur during an actual or pending separation; 66 per cent of these murders happen in the first six months after separation… For a woman to be safe she needs to leave her abuser, but by leaving she puts herself and her children at even greater risk of being killed. We blame her for staying with her abuser and we blame her for leaving. It’s time to move beyond victim blaming and support women when they leave abusive relationships.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, women
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Let’s build a place you’d want to live
It’s time to give last rites to the worn-out medical/institutional model of long-term care. The swelling wave of grey baby boomers will not stand for it. It’s time to develop long-term care that allows seniors, no matter what stage they are at, to live life to the fullest… We need to stop medicalizing old age, even dementia, and to stop drugging people in facilities. We need to normalize old age and its challenges, to start seeing the potential in people no matter how elderly.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, mental Health, standard of living
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Let the buyer of sex beware
This law breaks entirely new ground in Canada, where prostitution is currently legal. Now, the government wants to make it a crime to buy sex, or to communicate for the purposes thereof… Prostitution is essentially a transaction between two people – a sex worker and a client. Legalizing the actions of one, while outlawing those of the other… The selling of sex is forced into the shadows, making prostitutes’ jobs more dangerous.
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