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Some Implications of the Liberal Government’s Tax Changes
While the tax reduction was touted as a tax benefit for the ‘middle class,’ the maximum benefit of $679 also extends to every taxpayer with a taxable income greater than $90,563. One quick fix is to increase the marginal tax rate in the 26 percent tax bracket by 1 percentage point, to 27 percent… lower-income Canadians who are excluded from the tax reduction are slated to benefit from the planned increases in child benefits. But the proposed increases in child benefits are greater for middle-income than lower-income families.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, tax
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First Nations students need more than policy advice
… the time for social reconstruction from the ground up may have arrived. Supporting traditional industries, creating sustainable employment, refurbishing housing, and embracing First Nations community-based schooling is a much better approach… More funding would be a real help, but it will take a generation to rebuild broken trust, foster cross-cultural reconciliation, and engage First Nations themselves in this vitally important work.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, housing, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Better is Always Possible: A Federal Plan to Tackle Poverty and Inequality
… the fight to eliminate poverty and inequality is far from over… This paper… proposes the terms of a comprehensive federal poverty reduction plan. If the government is serious about its campaign pledge to bring real economic opportunities to more people, the practical and affordable policy tools outlined here will take them some way toward that goal.
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Ottawa must do more for Indigenous children
… the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s… denunciated Canada for its long-standing racial discrimination against Indigenous children… Even at the height of regional suicide epidemics we see a bureaucratic lethargy or indifference that is chilling… The tribunal may have ruled on the discriminatory application of child welfare services, but that is just one example of the systemic mean-spiritedness that runs through every department that deals with Indigenous Canadians.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Taxing the rich
… what role does state-sponsored welfare play when the rich refuse to provide employees with enough hours or wages to make a living, and dump the shortcomings in an acceptable living standard onto taxpayers? Stop whacking the rich? Give me a break. / The existence of the one per cent is the trigger for the globalization of illiteracy, unemployment and poverty particularly among the young. Tax the wealthy, by all means.
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It takes more than money to close an education gap
It is argued that… better education for the youth on reserves, even isolated ones, will improve conditions if not solve problems. This assertion assumes that if young people did receive a solid education, they would remain on the reserves, a dubious proposition… The fact of being educated on reserves with so few opportunities, small populations and isolated geographies produces the disparities. We are kidding ourselves if we think otherwise.
Tags: budget, economy, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
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The High Cost of Getting Ahead: How Effective Tax Rates Affect Work Decisions by Lower-Income Families
Secondary earners in low-income families, usually the mother, face punishingly high tax burdens, according to the latest report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “The High Cost of Getting Ahead: How Effective Tax Rates Affect Work Decisions by Lower-Income Families,” author Alexandre Laurin finds that various federal and provincial government benefit programs, once they are clawed back with income, act like hidden tax rates, reducing the gains from work.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax, women
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How to fix Ontario’s fragmented child welfare system
While greater coordination can be achieved through shared services and further amalgamations of children’s aid societies, the greatest gains would come from local service planning and co-ordination across levels of government, and sectors such as child welfare, youth justice, education and developmental services. Simcoe County’s Child, Youth and Family Services Coalition is an example of integrated planning and joint work to improve services.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, standard of living, youth
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On residential school claims, Ottawa must pay what is owed
This is an obvious breach of the spirit of an agreement that was the only proper response to the cruel legacy of Canada’s residential school system, in which for more than 100 years native children were taken from their families, raised in Christian schools and stripped of their native identities. It was a stain on Canada’s history, one that the compensation program, along with the government’s apology and the subsequent report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was meant to help lighten.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, rights, standard of living, youth
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Don’t forget that women’s rights are a recent invention
One hundred years ago, most women won the right to vote in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, thanks to Nellie McClung and her stalwarts… It wasn’t until 1960 that all Canadian women got the vote… Canada needs prominent feminists. But it wasn’t until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose a cabinet with gender parity that Canadians began discussing women’s rights with a kind of fervour. Feminism will not be achieved by women alone.
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