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The Spirit Level Slides
The PowerPoint file… contains 38 of the more important graphs shown on this web site and/or published in The Spirit Level. We hope you will use them in talks, lectures or discussion groups to help increase people’s understanding of the effects of inequality. The slides (and the graphs contained within them) can be downloaded and used freely without permission, on condition you acknowledge their source: The Spirit Level, Wilkinson & Pickett, Penguin 2009.
Tags: child care, corrections, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, standard of living
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OCUFA releases its 2013 Budget recommendations
March 27, 2013
OCUFA made its official submission to the Government of Ontario’s Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (SCFEA). Titled Preserving the Gains We’ve Made, the submission contains a plan to dramatically increase the quality and affordability of Ontario’s universities by 2020.
Tags: budget, economy, participation, standard of living, youth
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Jim Flaherty’s most humane tax break under attack
Mar 25 2013
In 2000, 32 per cent of tax filers owed no money. Today, the proportion is six percentage points higher. But the reason for that is a series of increases in the Basic Personal Amount (currently $10,822), the threshold at which Canadians start paying taxes.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Someone will eventually have to clean up the Conservatives’ tax code
Mar. 23 2013
For entirely political reasons, the Conservatives have offended two core principles of good tax policy… First, they shifted taxes away from those on consumption to those on income, in defiance of sound economic policy. Second, they greatly complicated federal taxes, whereas the proper ambition should be simplification. In both cases, they unwound policies of previous Progressive Conservative and Liberal governments – in the wrong direction.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Children’s Aid Society funding model with “perverse incentives” set to change this year
Mar 15 2013
A new funding formula for Ontario children’s aid societies will not have the same ties to service volumes that critics say encourage “perverse incentives.” Critics point to the current funding model — which is based on historical projections — as the reason one children’s aid society seemingly urged staff to keep files open to secure government funding.
Tags: budget, child care, rights, youth
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Supreme Court reaffirmed Canadian balance on free speech
Mar 17 2013
“It’s a very wise decision. It balances free speech with the need to limit hate… “Canadians value free speech but not to the extent that you may bring women, gays, Jews or Muslims or whoever into hatred and contempt. “The court has reflected the way Canadians see the issue.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s law-and-order agenda weighs heavily on aboriginal people
Mar 12 2013
… the aboriginal prison population has increased 43 per cent in the past five years. Métis, Inuit and First Nations people make up 23 per cent of the prison population, although they comprise just 4 per cent of the population of the country.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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Stress Is Killing Gender Equality in Canada
Feb. 26, 2013
Canada has been oscillating somewhere between 18th and 30th in the world for gender equality… [We need] family friendly policies like reduced and flexible work hours, universal childcare, and 18-month parental leave that can be shared between parents… They were first made in the 1970 report on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women: 43 years ago.
Tags: child care, economy, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, women
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Feminists need to challenge themselves, too
Mar. 04 2013
The range of inflections that are culturally valued in women’s voices (especially young women) are those that often undermine their authority in the workplace… The same hard-to-address truth also goes for body language… Institutional battles to redress women’s underrepresentation in land ownership, politics, and so on must be coupled with individualized leadership and skills training for women
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Ontario must stop imprisonment by race
Mar 01 2013
The disproportionately high rates of incarceration of aboriginal and black youth is the disastrous outcome of complicated social problems. Deep poverty, family breakdown, lack of education and mental health issues, such as attention deficit disorder, need major interventions… many are given jail sentences, even when their crimes are no more serious than those who walk free.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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