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Ontario government unveils 3-year plan to battle racism
Queen’s Park will introduce a framework for collecting race-based data across various institutions, including in the justice, education, health and child welfare sectors — a move that anti-racism activists have long called for. The directorate will also introduce an action plan for black youth and new legislation to “ensure future sustainability and accountability of the government’s anti-racism work.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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GENDER EQUALITY Who is minding the gap?
Canada is higher than the OECD average in its gender pay gap, ranking as the seventh most unequal of 34 industrialized countries… Despite higher levels of education and more access to the work force, “ women’s efforts to build a better life are hampered by the unequal distribution of unpaid work, the gender barriers to many fields of work, the undervaluing of jobs held predominantly by women, and the often unspoken social norms that offer men higher wages and rates of promotion from the moment they enter the work force”… pay gaps are even greater for racialized and Indigenous women.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, women
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Black health needs to become a priority
Black communities are disproportionately affected by health-related issues such as mental health, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, sickle cell, stroke and hypertension. But they have yet to be adequately addressed effectively within the Canadian health-care system… policy-makers need to recognize that racism and violence along with the social determinants of health play a role in the health outcomes of black communities in Canada.
Tags: Health, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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The rise of human rights law in Canada
CAUT.ca – Bulletin/articles/2017/02/commentary February 2017. By Michael Lynk Human rights have become an integral feature of modern law in Canada. Rights that were hardly imaginable at the dawn of our human rights era in 1982 — a fulsome recognition of sexual orientation; disability understood as a social injustice and not simply as a personal […]
Tags: child care, disabilities, Health, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Victims of abuse in residential schools may never be identified
… [Indigenous Affairs Minister] Dr. Bennett said Thursday that… “Our government is committed to fixing the impact of the administrative split argument… We will be communicating before February 27 with the legal representatives of those who were affected by this issue and that deadline will not affect efforts to find a remedy for those whose claims were rejected or reduced because of the administrative split argument.”
Tags: budget, child care, Indigenous, mental Health, rights
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Unfounded sexual assault cases: A human-rights issue
The OHRC has made enforcing human rights in the criminal-justice system one of its key priorities for the next three to five years. We are also committed to promoting a human-rights culture through education – to address and eliminate, at the source, the kinds of stereotypes that may be behind some of these statistics. This is about our humanity and the true meaning of equal justice for all. Sexual-assault survivors must be taken seriously.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism, rights, women
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Hysteria from Conservatives over harmless motion on Islamophobia
We live in a time both of much more widespread and open expressions of racism — thanks, internet — and of acute hypersensitivity to rude or even frank speech of all kinds. Each feeds off the other. But the alternative to “political correctness” is not bigotry and intolerance, and the answer to racism is not censorship. Indeed, we have too much of that already… The burden of proof is always on those who wish to restrict freedom to show why they must.
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights
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Sixties Scoop survivors win a just victory
Like the residential schools, the “Sixties Scoop” was an attempt to forcibly assimilate indigenous children. The strategy was the same: dislocate them from their family, community and language – and watch the culture atrophy… “The issue is what was known in the 1960s about the existential importance to the First Nations peoples of protecting and preserving their distinctive cultures and traditions, including their concept of the extended family…”
Tags: child care, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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Liberals revive funding for groups that take government to court
The new program will offer a minimum of $1.5-million a year for the defence of minority-language rights. The remaining funding will go the defence of equality rights, democratic rights, freedom of religion, expression and association, and the right to life, liberty and security of the person… the new program will be administered by an independent body, with two panels of experts determining the funding that will go toward official-language rights and toward human rights.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Trudeau government must end foot-dragging on promises to indigenous people
The department [of Indigenous and Northern Affairs] has the long-standing and unfortunate reputation of being incapable of creating improvements, either within its own ranks or for the indigenous people it is supposed to serve… “Until a problem-solving mindset is brought to these issues to develop solutions built around people instead of defaulting to litigation, arguments about money, and process roadblocks, this country will continue to squander the potential and lives of much of its Indigenous population,”
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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