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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Apr 19 2011
Canada’s employment insurance program is a postal code lottery — your winnings (if any) largely depend on your address. In this respect, the program is unique internationally. A recent study done for the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force compares Canada with 17 OECD countries. It is only in Canada that your region plays an integral part of the EI regime. Simply put, where one lives has a direct and profound effect on the three most important questions a recently unemployed person may ask.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living, tax
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
February 3, 2011
There are many cases of genuine racism and discrimination in Canada. I don’t believe this is one of them. This is the story of a smelly lunch, a disgruntled employee and a powerful human-rights tribunal that slapped a small businesswoman with a hefty fine on the basis of an unsubstantiated grievance. When she didn’t pay up, the other side’s lawyers got a writ to order the seizure of her house.
Small businesses are common targets of frivolous human-rights complaints. Generally, their lawyers tell them to shut up and pay – because if they don’t, it’s going to cost them even more.
Tags: multiculturalism, rights
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Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Oct. 14, 2010
Canada’s legal system should be one of the pillars of the country’s social safety net, but instead it is withering from a lack of resources, say legal aid advocates… The report, titled “Moving Forward on Legal Aid,” calls for dramatic renewal of the legal aid system in Canada with a five-point plan that includes making it an essential public service like health care. While everyone knows the impact of health and education to society… the importance of legal aid in the social fabric hasn’t been understood. Research in the last decade has shown that legal problems affect health and social well-being over all
Tags: budget, Health, participation, poverty, rights
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
October 11, 2010
First Nations children who attend schools on reserves are being left out of the province’s innovative all-day kindergarten plan…. First Nations students already face hurdles others students do not and are among the province’s most vulnerable children, education experts say… The investment required to support full day kindergarten programs on reserves need to come from the federal government, according to Erin Moroz, a spokesperson for Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky.
Tags: Indigenous, rights, standard of living
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
TheStar.com – news/gta -Learning to be a citizen: Newcomers study hard to pass citizenship test with questions on rights, history, government
October 19, 2009. Nicholas Keung Immigration Reporter
On a chilly evening, 15 people crowd into a cluttered classroom at the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office near Don Mills Rd. to learn all they can about Canada: its history, geography, Confederation, aboriginal peoples, national symbols, government structures and most important, the rights and responsibilities of being Canadian.
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – Break the standoff
Published: June 13, 2009.
Summer approaches, so it must be time for another annual confrontation with Mohawk “warriors” intent on flaunting their contempt for the law.
And right on time, a group of militants on the Akwesasne reserve near Cornwall, Ont., has appeared to impose their will, and whatever disruption they can manage, on residents of their own reserve and surrounding regions.
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – Substandard schools fail natives
July 14, 2008. Carol Goar
Here is a wake-up call, if ever there was one.
The 1996 Canadian census showed that 60 per of aboriginal students living on reserves did not complete high school.
The 2001 census showed no change – a 60 per cent dropout rate.
The 2006 census, released earlier this year, confirmed the dismal pattern. Six out of 10 kids living on reserves didn’t graduate from high school.
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