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How to stick it to the 1% (if you absolutely must)
The clamour for higher tax rates at the top end of the income distribution is all but deafening. So the new focus on “inclusive growth” is understandable… What the report suggests instead is raising the average rate of taxation that rich people face without raising their marginal rates. How do you do that? By leaving the rate schedule unchanged but removing tax exemptions and deductions that richer people make disproportionate use of.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, tax
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Fix ‘unacceptable’ social inequity to reduce Inuit suicide rates, report urges
six priorities for reducing suicide: • Create social equity • Create cultural continuity • Nurture health of Inuit children • Ensure access to mental health care • Heal unresolved trauma and grief • Mobilize Inuit knowledge for resilience and suicide prevention… “Inuit are speaking for ourselves,” said Obed. “The solutions that we say are necessary should be the foundations that all Canadians and all decision makers and persons who want to help should build on.”
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Canada will never end racism unless it dispels these three national myths first
The data shows us that systemic racism is not getting better. If anything, it is getting much worse, particularly for the most vulnerable and marginalized in racialized communities… after-tax poverty rates among racialized families in Canada were some three times higher than non-racialized families… racial inequities persist and in many cases are widening in a whole host of different arenas including education, employment, health, housing, as well as policing and criminal justice.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Who Knew the Nordics Were Individualist Romantics? [ The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life ]
Far from being docile servants of nanny states… the Nordics are bloody-minded individualists – because they can afford to be. That personal autonomy… means that no one has to stay in an abusive marriage (and risk death) because they need the abuser’s income. No one has to borrow from the Bank of Mom and Pop for the down payment on a condo, because everyone leaves post-secondary debt-free. And when Mom and Pop grow old, the kids don’t have to bear the brunt of caring for them: the whole society does that.
Tags: child care, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Self-regulation is no regulation
… Doctors who sexually assault their own patients not only entirely, unbelievably, escape criminal charges, which would normally apply for any other citizen committing such crimes should a sex assault or rape occur anywhere except in a private office. And they are actually allowed to continue on as usual in their medical professions with a very few and limited restrictions. Seriously? They get to keep working? In the same field? With no police involvement?
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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For transgender people, better health care begins with basic human rights
The lack of legal and human-rights protections often drives transgender people to the fringes of society, for example to sex work. As a result, they have rates of HIV-AIDS that are 49 times those of the general population, as well as high rates of smoking, alcohol abuse, drug abuse and the most damaging health conditions of all, homelessness and poverty. According to the authors of the Lancet articles, the solution begins with legal recognition and rights.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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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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Turns out income mobility in Canada isn’t as impressive as we thought
… some people have been tempted to think: Bigger government (Canada), lower correlation of fathers’ and sons’ incomes. Ergo: big government good. That’s always been a dicey conclusion. In fact, the U.S. has a huge welfare state; it just prefers tax incentives to government cheques. Moreover, several non-Nordic European countries have big states, too, but also relatively high correlations. Now it turns out we don’t have as much income mobility as we thought, despite our big government.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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