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In reality, rights sytem was broken
TheStar.com – comment/letters – In reality, rights sytem was broken
May 10, 2008
Re:Human rights reforms could trigger unfair proceedings Comment, May 8
I don’t know why David Lepofsky would resort to misinformation in his article. However, as the Chair of the Clinic Human Rights Working Group, a group that includes legal clinic caseworkers in Ontario, it is important to set the record straight on a few of the issues raised.
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Time for fairness for ailing Ontario
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Time for fairness for ailing Ontario
May 10, 2008
The redistribution of income – from wealthy individuals to the less affluent, and from richer provinces to those that are less well off – has long been a defining Canadian value.
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Speak out – before it’s too late
TheStar.com – comment – Speak out – before it’s too late
May 09, 2008. Carol Goar
History is replete with examples of societies in which a privileged minority amassed a vastly disproportionate share of the wealth. But it offers little guidance about how to reverse the trend.
The reason: it has almost never been done.
The problem is not a dearth of tools. There is progressive taxation, universal education and a wide array of social programs.
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Human rights reforms could trigger unfair proceedings
TheStar.com – comment – Human rights reforms could trigger unfair proceedings: New tribunal has been given sweeping power to make rules that override legal safeguards. May 08, 2008. David Lepofsky
You probably don’t know Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal is now considering adopting potentially draconian new rules on how it will handle discrimination claims. This should worry everyone, whether they look through the eyes of a discrimination claimant or through the eyes of a person or organization accused of discrimination.
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First Nations children
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – First Nations children
May 07, 2008
Canada is failing some of this country’s most vulnerable children – those on native reserves who are taken from home and put into foster care, according to Auditor General Sheila Fraser. In a set of findings that demand action, she documented the need for better child services on reserves and the lamentable response from federal officials.
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Inequality rots social foundations
TheStar.com – comment – Inequality rots social foundations
May 07, 2008. Carol Goar
Inequality corrodes a society quietly.
A decade ago, Mel Lastman was astonished to discover that there were homeless people in Toronto. Today we’re inured to the sight of sleeping bags on the sidewalk and panhandlers outside stores, restaurants and subway stations.
Twenty-five years ago, community workers set up food banks as an emergency response to a brief recession. Today, despite one of the longest expansions in Canadian history, they’re permanent fixtures in almost every municipality.
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Canadian income gap narrows — for now StatsCan report suggests
NationalPost.com – news – Canadian income gap narrows — for now StatsCan report suggests
Published: Monday, May 05, 2008. Eric Beauchesne, Canwest News Service
OTTAWA — The rich didn’t get richer in 2006, but the poor did, putting a halt — at least temporarily — to a widening income gap in Canada.
As a result of strong economic growth and gains in employment, pre-tax family incomes rose by 2.1% after inflation, Statistics Canada reported Monday. And thanks to increases in government transfers, after-tax incomes also rose by 2.1%.
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Wake-up call in census data
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Wake-up call in census data
May 03, 2008
The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is flatlining. That was the daunting message this week from Statistics Canada in its analysis of data from the latest census in comparison to the numbers from a quarter-century ago.
For individuals, “median” earnings (the point at which half of the population are higher and half are lower) rose just $53 from $41,348 in 1980 (adjusted for inflation) to $41,401 in 2005, reported StatsCan. That connotes a middle class on a treadmill.
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Statscan’s class war–while the poor get richer: Corcoran
NationalPost.com – fpcomment – Statscan’s class war–while the poor get richer: Corcoran. A new StatsCan report is actually a strong reflection of an economy that has lifted all boats that could be lifted. The problem is that StatsCan buried the news.
Posted: May 01, 2008, 7:25 PM by Jeff White, Terence Corcoran. By Terence Corcoran
Canada doesn’t need any political parties to generate economic conflict.
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David Olive on the census: A country divided
TheStar.com – Canada – David Olive on the census: A country divided
May 02, 2008. David Olive
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
– Plutarch, Greek historian
We have a compassion gap in Canada, a land that by tradition celebrates mutual health and happiness and not the accumulation of wealth.
Yet governments, particularly Ottawa, vacated the field of compassion decades ago rather than building on social-equity innovations of past generations.
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