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Government faces Aboriginal challenge
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Feb. 14, 2012
Facts that could prove the federal government is discriminating against aboriginal children by underfunding child-welfare services on reserves need to be heard in court, said lawyers for the Canadian Human Rights Commission… The complaint argued the underfunding of child-welfare services on reserves leads to poverty, poor housing, substance abuse and a vast overrepresentation of aboriginal children in state care. However, the federal government argues that because it sends funds to band managers – who administer the services – the government cannot be held responsible for the services delivered.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Top court orders new trial in sex attack on developmentally challenged woman
Friday, February 10th, 2012
Feb. 10, 2012
… the ruling simply means that persons with mental disabilities are not required to meet a more onerous test than any other witnesses before they are allowed to enter the courthouse door and take the stand… “So that persons with mental disabilities report sexual abuse, that it will be treated even more seriously by police and by prosecutors, with some assurance that when their evidence comes before the court, it will be accepted and heard.”
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, rights
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Toronto police ‘whitewash’ crime statistics by hiding race, study says
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Feb 05 2012
the Toronto Police Service got the go-ahead to collect race-based criminal justice statistics in 2010. But they’re still not releasing them publicly to help people determine whether there is a racial bias in policing… Police policy is to make the data public only “when deemed necessary.” And though there have been requests for the statistics, a police spokesperson says, “to date, they have never been released.” … Keeping the data secret does nothing to reduce the stigma suffered by young black males but it does make “quantitative anti-racism research impossible.” That’s not good for anyone.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, rights
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In Canada, unlike the U.S., the American dream lives on
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Jan. 16, 2012
… the U.S. is richer, but it’s also significantly more unequal, and a lot less mobile… For now, at least, the dream of upward mobility in Canada is still alive. Canadians can thank a legacy of sound public policy and a more progressive tax system… [But] Ottawa and most of the provinces are running large budget deficits, and education and health care are already targets as governments hunt for savings. [and] Rising income inequality is chipping away at the opportunities of future generations… wealthy Canadians may be forming exclusionary institutions in a drift toward Americanization.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Fighting poverty
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Dec. 26, 2011
In 2000, the member states of the United Nations declared… the Millennium Development Goals – a set of eight goals and 21 targets dealing with health, education, hunger, gender equality and environmental sustainability… The targets are, in theory, measurable… (But) aid policy doesn’t require wealthy countries to make major domestic changes.
Tags: budget, globalization, Health, poverty, standard of living
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Crime bill cuts concessions to aboriginal circumstance
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Dec. 6, 2011
… Canada has failed to come to terms with the over-incarceration of aboriginal offenders… The Gladue decision urges courts to be more creative with sentencing, to look deeper into causes and solutions and to draw from aboriginal traditions. One of these traditions is restorative justice, which seeks to bring victims and offenders together, enabling offenders to make meaningful amends for the harm they have done. The judicial tool that has allowed for such creative sentencing is the conditional sentence… Bill C-10, the Safe Streets and Communities Act, however, will continue to cut away at the ability of courts to impose these conditional sentences.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights
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Third World conditions — First World ignorance
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Nov 30 2011
When emergency situations occur, First Nations like Attawapiskat must either use the money provided for their basic needs or they must call upon the federal and provincial governments to provide financial assistance. Often they end up using their existing funding to address crisis situations in their communities, with no reimbursement from any level of government. As a result, they go into deficit… It’s not the time for finger pointing or attempting to convince the Canadian public that loads of money has already been spent on aboriginal peoples in Canada, and that accountability and transparency are the answer.
Tags: budget, housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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McGuinty vows to improve First Nations schools
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Nov 22 2011
It is time for Ottawa to engage in an “important” conversation about “unleashing” the provincial government to help improve standards, he said. “They are not good at education. They don’t do education, we do education. And there are now international authorities who say we have the best public education system in the English-speaking world.” Ottawa must correct the funding imbalances so native kids receive the same funding as other children in Ontario schools, McGuinty added. “Let us take this on. Let us work with First Nations and develop a curriculum that speaks to their needs and aspirations”…
Tags: Indigenous, rights, standard of living, youth
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Unions are key to fighting inequity
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Nov 16 2011
The assault on the middle class has taken many forms, including tax cuts to the rich, the shredding of valuable public services, and globalization that allowed companies, especially banks, to pillage at will. The attack also included moves by governments to make it more difficult for people to join unions, and to limit the ability of those unions to bargain effectively on behalf of their members… Unions have traditionally contributed to a healthy middle class in a number of ways…
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Ontario legal aid plan to relax qualifying rules
Friday, October 28th, 2011
Oct 27 2011
Now, 16 years after the Ontario government tightened the rules in a massive overhaul of legal aid, it seems that’s about to change… they plan to loosen the rules over the next three years so more people are eligible for free help from a lawyer. The expansion, they say, will be funded through savings on the administrative side… The report notes Legal Aid Ontario’s cut-offs are substantially below the low-income threshold set by Statistics Canada… Canada is behind much of the world when it comes to legal aid qualifying guidelines…
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