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Budget 2013: Women cannot afford more tax cuts for the rich
Feb 28 2013
In 2012-13 alone, Canada would have had $40.1 billion more revenue if the 2008-2012 tax cuts had not been made… In recent years, Canadian governments as a whole have made total tax cuts equal to 4.5 per cent of annual GDP. This is why every level of government is crying out for more money, even as they keep cutting taxes.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Supreme Court upholds Canada’s hate speech laws in case involving anti-gay crusader
Feb 27, 2013
The court… upheld the controversial legal concept of speech that is “likely to expose” certain groups to hatred…
[finding it] appropriately balances the fundamental values underlying freedom of expression with competing Charter rights… values essential to a free and democratic society, in this case a commitment to equality and respect for group identity and the inherent dignity owed to all human beings
Tags: ideology, rights, standard of living
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Ontario must rebuild First Nations’ trust in legal system
Feb 27 2013
Ontario’s 300,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit are chronically overrepresented in jails and under-represented on the juries that assess innocence and guilt, or probe deaths… not just on juries, but among all those who work in the administration of justice in this province, whether as court officials, prosecutors, defence counsel, or judges,”
Tags: corrections, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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‘Systemic racism’ toward natives in justice system, Frank Iacobucci finds
Feb 26 2013
“I have called it a crisis, a serious crisis. And I am not an alarmist. We are talking about the lives and liberties of people. I don’t know if you can get more of an important issue subject than that… We can’t continue to treat First Nations as objects. We have to be partners. I don’t care if it is in the justice system or economic development. It is going to take time.”
Tags: Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Ottawa’s aboriginal child-welfare policies slammed at human rights hearing
Feb. 26 2013
… the provinces provide welfare to other Canadian children at rates that are 22 per cent higher than the amount given by the federal government to first nations children… Ottawa is responsible for social assistance on reserves where the levels of poverty and the associated problems are higher than most other places in Canada.
Tags: budget, child care, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Time to change the conversation on austerity
February 24, 2013
…austerity budgets only worsen social conditions while seriously undermining the economy — from the added public-service costs that poverty creates to the untapped potential of single parents unable to access affordable day care, dispirited and heavily indebted students or new Canadians unable to find employment in their field — contributing to the very deficit problem the agenda purports to resolve.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, housing, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Conference Board findings on poverty, inequality should spur change
Feb 05 2013
…the Conference Board of Canada finds in its latest report on How Canada Performs… our national performance is downright “troubling for a wealthy country” when it comes to some key social indicators including the rich/poor gap, and the number of working-age adults and children living in poverty… the child poverty rate has gone up to 15.1 per cent from 12.8 in the past 15 years; working-age poverty rose to 11.1 per cent from 9.4 and poverty among the elderly went to 6.7 per cent from 2.9.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Globe readers talk back on income inequality
Feb. 02 2013
It is true the top 1 per cent pays a higher share in income taxes, but when all taxes (including sales, payroll, property and other taxes) are considered, they pay a lower share of their income in taxes than the poorest 10 per cent, as comprehensive analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has shown.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Makers, Takers, Fakers
Jan. 27, 2013
Mr. Romney… was just repeating a view that has become increasingly dominant inside the right-wing bubble, namely that a large and ever-growing proportion of Americans won’t take responsibility for their own lives and are mooching off the hard-working wealthy. Rising unemployment claims demonstrate laziness, not lack of jobs; rising disability claims represent malingering, not the real health problems of an aging work force. And given that worldview, Republicans see it as entirely appropriate to cut taxes on the rich while making everyone else pay more.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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The rich are getting richer? Yes, no, it depends
Feb. 01 2013
The hard political fact remains that, to raise a lot of money through personal income taxes, a government has to start raising taxes much further down the income ladder. And it’s by looking at this entire ladder, rather than at the top 1 per cent, that a clearer picture of income inequality emerges.
Tags: budget, ideology, tax
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