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Shameful Neglect Indigenous Child Poverty in Canada
This report calculates child poverty rates in Canada, and includes the rates on reserves and in territories—something never before examined. The report also disaggregates the statistics and identifies three tiers of poverty for children in Canada, finding the worst poverty experienced by status First Nation children (51%, rising to 60% for children on reserve)… The authors… recommend a poverty reduction plan for reserves that would: report poverty rates on reserves and in the territories; improve direct income support; improve employment prospects on reserves; and begin to implement longer-term solutions.
Tags: featured, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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A new bill is a good start. But gay and trans people need much more
While federal human-rights tribunals have consistently found that transgender discrimination is captured by protected categories such as “sex,” adding “gender identity” and “gender expression” makes this interpretation crystal clear. Perhaps more importantly, the new legislation serves a crucial symbolic function – it tells members of transgender communities that they can use the law to respond to pervasive inequality.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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It’s time for Canada to right historic wrongs against LGBTQ Community
It also high time for Justin Trudeau to right two historic wrongs. First, he should pardon thousands of gay men who were convicted of gross indecency before homosexual acts were decriminalized in 1969. Their only crime was being who they were… We apologize to remind each other of when we fell short in the past, so that we do not fall short in some other way going forward… With this new law protecting the rights of transgender people, Mr. Trudeau has advanced the cause of equality for Canada’s LGBTQ community.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights
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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
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Abortion pill’s sexist regulations deny women true reproductive choice
Doctor-dispensed drugs are a rarity. This condition is usually imposed to ensure that a drug is taken and not trafficked… There is no evidence women who want to terminate a pregnancy would try to sell Mifegymiso on the streets. There is no reason it can’t be dispensed by pharmacists… [or] prescribed by nurse-practitioners or midwives, as it is in many countries… Safety is important, but so is access.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, women
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Native child welfare, yes; judicial overstretch, no
… it is for the government’s budget to allocate spending, if the House of Commons approves it. That is a fundamental convention of the unwritten constitution, going back for many centuries… But last week, the CHRT said that the government hadn’t done enough to fulfill the tribunal’s remedial order. The CHRT is not a court, and its 15 members are not judges. They are appointed for fixed terms, and have a history of pushing and ever torquing the boundaries of human rights law.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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The price of acceptance: Immigrants with disabilities in a system of disadvantage
Denying people with disabilities the right to live in Canada reinforces the stereotype that disability is a “burden,” a deficit within the individual, and an economic risk to Canada health and social services. To change this rhetoric, we need to examine the barriers around a person that prevent them from being included… When we view those who think or act “differently” as deficient, we lose the opportunity to discover new ways to address social and economic problems.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, immigration, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Time for a new perspective on money, inflation and class struggle
… the middle class was largely built on the back of trade union power, working-class struggle and an inflationary increase in labour compensation… To some extent, then, inflation reflects the democratic ability of working people to assert themselves in their fight for higher wages and equitable living standards. Anti-inflationary monetary policy, by contrast, can be seen as the use of state power to suppress the wage demands of workers.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Guaranteed annual income is a second-best solution to inequality
… there are better ways to achieve this – for instance, by instituting a more progressive tax system and raising the minimum wage. Moreover, poverty reduction cannot be disassociated from the discussion over income inequality. We need to work at both ends of the income/wealth spectrum. But guaranteed annual income says nothing about tackling the more perverse elements of inequality… governments may no longer see direct job creation as a priority…
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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