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Ottawa discriminated against aboriginal children by underfunding services, tribunal to rule
The government’s own documents say the underfunding for welfare on reserves runs between 22 and 34 per cent, compared with provincial rates. Putting an end to the disparity could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. But it would stop what the AFN and the Caring Society say has been decades of clear-cut discrimination on racial grounds that results in indigenous children being needlessly ripped from their homes.
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Does Trudeau’s sunny Canada have room for inequality?
The average full-time Canadian worker in 2014 was paid $48,636. The average minimum wage worker got $22,010. By contrast, the average top-100 CEOs had earned the average worker’s pay by 12:18 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2016 – the second paid day of the year – and the average minimum-wage worker’s pay by 2:07 p.m. on New Year’s Day itself… Oxfam’s new report points out why economic inequality remains one of the world’s great continuing scandals that absolutely nothing is being done to change. Yet there can be no democracy in such an unequal world.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Trudeau must be bold in tackling inequality
The Trudeau Liberals’ plan in tackling poverty and inequality should include an increase in social spending, a flexible employment insurance program, and a more serious tax reform. A rollback from taxes that have been cut from the rich and big business in the last 35 years would be a good point to start. / Show some courage, Justin Trudeau and Bill Morneau, and start to demand that large corporations pay their way in Canadian life…
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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How the Liberals can tackle income inequality
They can systematically close tax loopholes. Canada’s tax code is riddled with deductions credits and exemptions and allowances targeted at specific sectors of the population… They can wind down corporate subsidies that serve little public purpose… Similarly, they can phase out programs… [like] massively expanding the prison system, pouring millions into border security… They now have a chance to reallocate billions of dollars to Canada’s threadbare social safety net.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, poverty, tax
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Fairer property taxes would help address Toronto’s revenue problem
Currently, all properties in the same class (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial) are charged the same tax rate. This means that the lowest valued home pays the same tax rate as the highest valued home… A variable tax rate allows a lower tax “bite” on the less wealthy as the more prosperous shoulder more. With a bigger bite on the wealthy, it also allows more overall revenue to be raised. This would also be good public policy for a city concerned with budget shortfalls and rising income inequality.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, tax
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It’s Payback Time for Women
… the problem is not that employers hate women and children. It’s that they make a common assumption about motherhood: It’s a lifestyle choice, not a wage-worthy job, and no one other than parents should pay for it… Actually, it’s society that’s getting a free ride on women’s unrewarded contributions to the perpetuation of the human race… The universal basic income is a necessary condition for a just society…
Tags: child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women
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Ontario should set up long-promised anti-racism secretariat
Opposition to immigration doesn’t necessarily reflect racial discrimination. It could reflect economic anxiety… “But it’s hard to see how those saying too many immigrants are visible-minority can be motivated by anything but racial or cultural bias.” … the Liberal government passed legislation in 2006 to set up a secretariat to conduct public education and research on racism. But no action was ever taken… now is the time to establish one.
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Moments that tore up the accepted script for women in 2015
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne unveiled a $41-million #WhoWillYouHelp awareness campaign to bring an end to sexual violence and harassment, which she said was “rooted in misogyny.” It was a radical statement for a politician to make, and it brought a calm, pragmatic tone to the incendiary issue. Her voice made a difference… if gender identity can also be fluid… then society’s rigid adherence to a male/female binary loses its significance
Tags: ideology, standard of living, women
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Inequality: Good, Bad and Benign
Poverty and inequality are often treated interchangeably in public debate but in fact are quite different things. Rising poverty generally has not been the source of the recent rise in inequality… the rich may have been getting richer, and the super-rich super-richer, but in most places the poor have not been getting poorer. Despite the widespread uplift, however, acute misery is hardly unknown in our societies. But its source is not growth at the top of the income distribution but deprivation and desperation at the bottom.
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The inequality trap
Inequality is also a trap — not a trap anyone has set for us but one of our own making — because concern with it leads us to focus on the top end of the income distribution when our preoccupation should instead be the bottom, where the bulk of human misery almost certainly resides.
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