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Amnesty International honours Canada’s Indigenous-rights movement
Amnesty International describes the Ambassador of Conscience Award as its highest honour, given annually to those who show courage in standing up to injustice. In announcing the award, Amnesty underlined the fact that although they live in a prosperous country, Canada’s Indigenous peoples are “consistently among the most marginalized members of society.”
Tags: featured, globalization, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ontario urged to tackle gender pay gap with transparency law
The changes proposed by the Toronto-based Equal Pay Coalition would require employers to report and post hourly wage and pay arrangements, including the breakdown of part-time, contract and temporary agency employees as women increasingly bear the brunt of precarious work… The gap sharpens considerably based on race and origin. The pay gap for indigenous women is 57 per cent, for immigrant women it is 39 per cent, and for racialized women it is 32 per cent.
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Alcohol and assault: What all young women need to know
… alcohol isn’t responsible for rape. Rapists are responsible for rape… But if you could do something to reduce the risk… wouldn’t you? There are many things we can do better to reduce sexual violence. We must teach more young men to have respect for women. We must also teach young men and young women alike to have respect for booze. That’s not blaming women – it’s empowering them to manage risk.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, women, youth
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A man who’ll stand up for the rights of other men (and boys) on campus and in society
… 13 years ago, it really was an orphan topic. Nobody could get their heads around the truth, upheld by a mountain of credible data, that almost as many men suffer from intimate partner violence as women do, violence right up to the most extreme level, and including knifings, burnings and pushing down stairs… Hard-line feminists continue to see men who believe they can also be victims and who want to talk about their victimhood as a threat to women’s interests.
Tags: child care, ideology, mental Health, youth
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Who pays when native children fall between the cracks?
Yes, indigenous children must receive medical and social services equal to other Canadians. A tribunal can define those rights, but the precise details of where the money comes from, and where it goes, must largely be left to negotiations among Ottawa, the provinces and First Nations.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, youth
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Ottawa hasn’t earned trust on indigenous child welfare
The government should do as it promised and, as the tribunal’s legally binding order demands, immediately close the funding gap… Ottawa’s slow response has been a persistent source of shame, particularly for a government that so often touts its lofty promises on indigenous issues… energy would be better spent protecting the health and safety of indigenous children than pushing back at the tribunal.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, youth
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Should police be required to collect race-based data to fight discrimination?
In the U.S., race data has proven instrumental in revealing problems of discriminatory policing. Some also point to the Star’s racial profiling investigations as providing the proof of concept that while race-based statistics can be misused to stigmatize vulnerable groups, they can also be a powerful tool to expose and destroy systemic racism.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, rights
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Why trolls love to pick on women
Are trolls just hardcore misogynists? Not quite. “They’re like schoolyard bullies. They seek out people they think are weaker than themselves. They’re looking for someone who’s more submissive and maybe they feel deserves to be degraded in some way. I think a lot of them have problems with women” … Troll behaviour is highly associated with what are known as the “dark” personality traits, which are also far more common in men.
Tags: crime prevention, mental Health, women, youth
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Why Discrimination Is a Public Health Issue
… black and Indigenous children are more likely to be placed in foster care and remain in care longer. They are more likely to drop out of school. In Ontario, they are three times more likely to be incarcerated than non-blacks… The high mortality rate of black men and women is traumatizing and takes an emotional and psychological toll because we see our brothers, sisters and fathers in the victims. “The thing is that as a community, when one bleeds, we all do…”
Tags: child care, corrections, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
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To close the gender wage gap, men must vocally support more equality
… wage equality not only benefits corporate growth, but also promotes global economic prosperity… We still haven’t shaken off the preconceived notion that gender equality is solely a woman’s issue fought by women for women, which in turn keeps breeding the problem. If men are not actively engaged in overcoming gender inequality, how can we ever achieve wage parity?
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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