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Ottawa urged to better fund legal aid
… the federal government has gradually reduced its share of funding for both criminal and civil legal aid. Up until 1995, the report argues, the federal government split the cost with the provinces and territories 50-50. It now contributes just 20-30 per cent of the cost. “Like health care, justice is a shared governmental responsibility,” says the report. “A reinvigorated federal role is imperative if we are to reach equal justice.”
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Report says access to justice in Canada ‘abysmal,’ calls for change by 2030
“Inaccessible justice costs us all, but visits its harshest consequences on the poorest people in our communities”… many people earn just enough money so they don’t qualify for legal aid, but they also don’t make enough to pay for a lawyer. Those people often find themselves on their own in court… that also puts more of a burden on the system.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Fewer people sit below the poverty line now than ever before. Why are we not talking about it?
In 2011, the latest year for which StatsCan has figures, the proportion of the population living on low income — that is, with incomes below the agency’s Low Income Cut-off (LICO) — fell to its lowest level … well, ever. At just 8.8%, it beat the previous record of 9.0%, set in 2010. As recently as 1996, it was at 15.2%. In 1965, the first year for which LICO rates were calculated, it was 25%.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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First Nations urged to implement their own education acts
The proposed federal act threatens the self-determination goal of Indian control of Indian education… “They’re going to say, ‘We passed legislation and if you don’t abide by us we’re going to withhold your funding.’ It’s disrespectful.” The federal government honours and respects francophone language and culture, providing around $18,000 per year per student, he noted. Meanwhile, it provides around $6,500 per student to on-reserve schools
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Income growth for Canadian middle-class families lags behind other groups: report
The lower wage growth for middle-class workers can be attributed partly to technological changes that have increased the demand for skilled workers… For the average male worker, the median annual wage has declined 19 per cent in real terms from 1976 to 1996 (from $42,000 to $34,000), before rebounding by only two per cent from 1996 to 2010. However, the median annual wage for women has steadily increased by 28 per cent from 1976 to 2010 as more women entered the workforce.
Tags: economy, globalization, standard of living, women
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Ontario Court of Appeal message on native justice must force change
Studies and reports repeatedly cite the lack of aboriginals on juries when native people are on trial, even if their fate is supposed to be decided by a fair representation of society… a decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal may finally have the power to create a fairer judicial process for aboriginal people… the court’s split decision quashed a 2008 manslaughter conviction… It will be up to a second jury — which is supposed to include on-reserve aboriginals…
Tags: Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Canadian tax cheats come clean amid close scrutiny of offshore havens
Wealthy Canadians with money stashed overseas have come forward in droves to confess their misdeeds after secret lists began circulating with the names of people apparently evading taxes in foreign banking havens. The Canada Revenue Agency has seen the number of voluntary disclosures of foreign, unreported income rise dramatically…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, globalization, standard of living, tax
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Ontario’s gender pay gap inspires call for Equal Pay Day
Apr 09 2013
Ontario’s Equal Pay Coalition… is… calling on Premier Kathleen Wynne to declare April 9 Equal Pay Day to raise awareness and work to close the province’s 28-per-cent gender pay gap. (On average, a woman makes 72 cents for every dollar a man earns.)… women still have to work an additional 13 years to earn the same pay as men earn by age 65,”… Since 60 per cent of minimum wage earners are women, “a minimum wage increase would be an instant down-payment on pay equity,”
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Ontario must stop imprisonment by race
Mar 01 2013
The disproportionately high rates of incarceration of aboriginal and black youth is the disastrous outcome of complicated social problems. Deep poverty, family breakdown, lack of education and mental health issues, such as attention deficit disorder, need major interventions… many are given jail sentences, even when their crimes are no more serious than those who walk free.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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The rich are getting richer? Yes, no, it depends
Feb. 01 2013
The hard political fact remains that, to raise a lot of money through personal income taxes, a government has to start raising taxes much further down the income ladder. And it’s by looking at this entire ladder, rather than at the top 1 per cent, that a clearer picture of income inequality emerges.
Tags: budget, ideology, tax
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