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Delays and fees equal discrimination, law prof alleges in complaint
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
April 2, 2011
“The Government of Canada decides how many immigrants and what type of immigrants, should be permitted to come to Canada each year. This decision is based on consideration of short and long term needs. The economy, social fabric of Canada and demographics of population are just a few examples… To deal with the huge backlog of applicants – there are currently 147,769 parents and grandparents waiting to fill 11,200 spots – “you either increase the size of the pie slice going to parents, and reduce the slice going to millionaires or skilled workers, or you increase the total size of the pie.”
Tags: Health, immigration, rights
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Tory legacy leaves little to attract women voters
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Apr 01 2011
“The whole message that we can’t fund social programs, that there isn’t enough money, is really a direct attack on women and families,”… So what’s going on? Andrea Perrella, director of the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy, suggests goal may in fact be to push more men to the right, a direction in which they started heading in the 1990s as traditional gender roles began to change… If men have turned angry in larger numbers, they tend to vote for that party that best articulates anger.
Tags: featured, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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Ontario’s 3 simple questions
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Mar 27 2011
Ontario voters should ask all parties… three very simple questions: • Will you ensure that Ontario gets the same deal as Quebec or B.C. or Nova Scotia? • Will you commit to treating Canadians in all provinces equally? • Are you committed to investing in Ontario’s economic transformation — just as surely as you are committed to investing in Atlantic or Western Canada? Principled, equal treatment of Canadians and provinces would return our federal-provincial financial arrangements to a principled footing. They would make Canada stronger. They would reduce divisiveness.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living
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A different sort of tax revolt
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Mar 09 2011
These protesters are not anti-tax. Rather, they are insisting that everyone, including rich individuals and corporations, pay their fair share of taxes… A public debate about taxes is urgently needed because it is fundamentally a discussion about the kind of society we want to live in. Tax policy no longer plays a role in redistributing income and wealth, and economic inequality in Canada has reached levels previously seen only in 1929. The Uncut movement appears to be the beginning of a public discussion…
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, tax
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18 countries where women have it way better than in North America
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Mar. 8, 2011
In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re listing 18 countries that have a smaller gender gap than America. This data, published by the World Economic Forum, compares female-to-male professional achievement, educational attainment, health and political empowerment. America sinks in the rankings due to a terrible score on politics. Countries like Iceland elect an nearly equal number of women to office as men, while that’s far from true in the U.S [and Canada].
Tags: economy, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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The Children that Fortune Forgot
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
December 13, 2010
UNICEF released a report titled The Children Left Behind: A League Table of Inequality in Child Well-Being in the World’s Richest Countries that is summed… the United States sits right at the bottom of the OECD nations… The richest nation in the world (for now) is also the one with significant disparity between the top and the bottom. Above all else, the characterizations about the American poor being ‘lazy’ must come to an end. It has contributed to a growing misunderstanding of poverty that has global implications (ie. American aid and welfare policies).
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Winning the Class War
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
November 26, 2010
The ranks of the poor may be swelling and families forced out of their foreclosed homes may be enduring a nightmarish holiday season, but American companies have just experienced their most profitable quarter ever… U.S. firms earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter — the highest total since the government began keeping track more than six decades ago… Anyone who thinks there is something beneficial in this vast disconnect between the fortunes of the American elite and those of the struggling masses is just silly. It’s not even good for the elite.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Equality or barbarism?
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Oct 16 2010
For four decades after the war Canadians joined with citizens in other North Atlantic democracies in creating the most productive and equitable societies in history… For both ethical reasons and the functional need for stability, an expanding role for government and increasing equality came to be taken for granted. Left behind was the belief that individuals and the economy should be left to fend for themselves. In its place was… an idea retrieved from ancient Greece, that democracy meant more than the right set of procedures for selecting and maintaining governments. It also meant government action for the people.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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Ontario’s Growing Gap: The Role of Race and Gender
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
June 15, 2010
A new analysis done by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives discusses sexism and racial discrimination in the Ontario labour market. The findings within the report demonstrate a striking difference between racialized and non-racialized Ontarians.
Tags: Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, women
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Supreme Court upholds restrictions on government documents
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Jun. 17, 2010
In a unanimous 7-0 decision, the court concluded that the freedom of expression protection in the Charter of Rights does not guarantee “access to all documents in government hands.” The ruling overturns a decision in the Ontario Court of Appeal… “Some information… is… entitled to protection in order to prevent the impairment of those very principles and promote good governance.”
Tags: participation, rights
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