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Federal government failing to comply with ruling on First Nations child welfare: tribunal
The federal government has done virtually nothing to comply with a Human Rights Tribunal decision issued in January that ruled First Nations kids are discriminated against because of inadequate funding for child and welfare services… The quasi-judicial tribunal has now issued a second compliance order to force the government to take immediate action and rectify funding shortfalls
Tags: budget, child care, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Why black Canadians are facing U.S.-style problems
To be black in Canada, with small but important exceptions, is to be from a fairly recent immigrant background – either to be, or to be descended from, a postwar immigrant from the Caribbean or Africa… Black Canadians are demonstrably facing different outcomes in employment, in housing and especially in the policing and justice systems that can only be traced to discrimination… black and white citizens were treated dramatically differently in policing, charges, court procedures, sentencing and imprisonment.
Tags: corrections, featured, housing, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Why black Canadians are facing U.S.-style problems
In part, it’s institutional path dependency: Police and judges have always responded to suspects based on traditional patterns… That’s dangerous, because black Canadians are also inordinately excluded from home ownership, neighbourhoods with good public transit and key employment markets… a group of Canadians who live in fringe rental-only neighbourhoods, with less secure employment and access to resources, who face a more hostile police and justice system, hurting their chances of advancement. It’s not too late to stop this spiral.
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Ottawa commits $382 million to begin raising services for on-reserve kids
The movement to fill the gap so that all on-reserve children with a disability or a short-term condition in Canada are treated equally is called Jordan’s Principle; and late Tuesday, Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott and Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett announced up to $382 million will go toward fixing that disparity.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, featured, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Time to soak the seniors
in 1976, 37 per cent of all seniors lived in poverty. Today, it’s about 7 per cent – much lower than the poverty rate for children or any other segment of the population. Canadian seniors are among the most affluent people in the world… There are two simple ways to cut down on the elderly bias in spending… means-test our entitlements … Adjust the “retirement age”
Tags: featured, ideology, pensions, standard of living, tax, youth
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Different tax rules for wealthy and powerful
… 26 wealthy Canadians were offered full amnesty from prosecution or penalty after they were caught hiding at least $130 million in offshore tax schemes set up by the giant accounting firm KPMG… KPMG also appears to have gotten off scot-free, even though internal memos show that the firm planned to collect 15 per cent of all taxes dodged… Its tameness stands in stark contrast to the aggressive probing of the tax avoidance industry by a parliamentary committee in Britain and a congressional committee in the U.S.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, globalization, ideology, tax
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Ottawa must help provinces fix legal aid
People who make twice as much as the legal-aid cut-off still fall below the poverty line… Ontario’s legal aid system is an intractable mess, despite laudable recent efforts by the province to improve it… part of the problem is of the federal government’s own making. A decade of evidence-blind tough-on-crime policies created real burdens for the provinces. At the same time, the federal government has drastically decreased funding for legal aid… in the early 1970s, Ottawa covered half the cost. Now the proportion is around 13 per cent in Ontario.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Indigenous children bear brunt of poverty
… better tracking of the data; improving income supports; bolstering employment opportunities, and implementing long-term solutions. That last recommendation is the key to ending the shameful neglect. The long road out of poverty and despair begins with reconciliation and self-government, and, in the words of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “unlocking the potential of First Nations to improve the lives of their own citizens, including their children.”
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Response to Tax Dodging by Rich Will Show Trudeau’s True Colours
Better to have the justice department prosecute the small fish and cut deals with the wealthy. But this isn’t justice — it’s expediency. The CRA and the justice department have a moral obligation to the Canadian people to name and prosecute those who have grossly and arrogantly flouted the law… Regrettably, there is a distinct lack of public outrage at this disgusting display of privilege, contempt for the public interest and for the law.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Court Challenges Program rises again
The… Harper government… saw the CCP as both outrageous, in the sort of cases it championed, and schizophrenic, in the way it subsidized activists to use unelected courts to overrule legislation created by elected representatives… Restarting this program will not only create another rush by leftists to push the social envelope as far as possible — though they have been doing just fine with Liberal governments and a left-leaning Supreme Court
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