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Employment equity laws ensure workplace fairness
Feb 01 2013
… last June, without notice or public consultation, Canadians woke up to discover that one of their important protections, the mandatory obligations of federal contractors to plan and work toward discrimination-free workplaces had been eliminated by a legislative amendment buried deep in the Federal omnibus budget bill.
Tags: multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Income inequality spikes in Canada’s big cities
Jan. 28, 2013
… in Canada’s three largest cities—Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal—the bottom 90% make less today than they did in 1982. They’ve seen drops in income of $4,300, $1,900, and $224, respectively. The top 1% in those cities saw pay increases of $189,000, $297,000, and $162,000, respectively… This new data shows how extreme income inequality has become…
Tags: economy, privatization, standard of living, tax
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The Ontario justice system is ‘a cattle call of lawyers’
Jan 16, 2013
Contrary to popular belief, lawyers are capable of acting like adults. We can handle booking court appearances without judicial supervision and are not averse to change. Hopefully not contrary to popular belief, lawyers want what is best for their clients and the public, and what is best for both is an efficient 21st-century court system.
Tags: budget, rights, standard of living, tax
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What kind of nation is a first nation? We need to decide
Jan. 12 2013
in Canada, the term “first nations” has been widely used, accurately, to describe non-Inuit indigenous groups since the 1980s – but the nature of that nationhood has not been fully defined in a mutually agreeable way. This question is at the root of the new wave of activism, centred around the Idle No More protests. The uniting factor is a desire for a new relationship between Canada and the indigenous nations within its borders.
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights
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Ignoring research [mortality rates]
Jan. 10, 2013
… the gap in premature mortality between the rich and poor results in unfairness for the poor when retirement benefits are delayed or tax expenditures to support retirement saving are provided… But [the Economist puts] too much emphasis on the lifestyle choices of the poor… Why not act directly to decrease the premature mortality gap by decreasing socio-economic inequality through more progressive taxation enlightened labour market policy and poverty reduction policy?
Tags: Health, ideology, standard of living, tax
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First Nations: The Long Shadow of Assimilation
Jan. 3, 2013
$7.5 billion – Estimated annual cost of doing nothing to resolve First Nations employment and social problems in Canada (in 1996 alone)… $169-$189 million – Estimated federal government underfunding of capital expenditures on reserves annually. The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) says 40 new schools, at a cost of $12.5 million each, and 85,000 housing units would have to be built to meet current needs.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Of aboriginals, Métis, First Nations, Inuit and Indians (status-holding and otherwise)
Jan 10, 2013
Métis and non-status Indian communities have wanted some government to have responsibility to assist them in maintaining their cultures and in facing their challenges… the decision logically implies that the federal government will need to take on some responsibilities, help support structures for cultural self-determination and so on… The decision may render past provincial legislation concerning Métis or non-status Indian lands unconstitutional.
Tags: Indigenous, rights, standard of living
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Why the court’s Métis decision is wrong
Jan. 09, 2013
Canada is a strange place. On the one hand, we trumpet diversity and the equality of all, regardless of origin. But on the other, the very history of this country is enmeshed in racial distinction… treaties, created for all time a division between the original inhabitants (commonly referred to as Indians) and the newcomers… Ever since, natives have been trying to figure out how to escape the limitations of the Indian Act. Yet they are unwilling to scrap it.
Tags: Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights
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What the Métis decision means for Canada
Jan. 09 2013
… the broad Canadian mainstream are likely to be themselves confused and resentful on being told they owe “hundreds of billions” of dollars, along with restitution and guilt; and that the Métis and non-status Indians have now joined status Indians on an equal footing.
Tags: Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Placing #IdleNoMore in Historical Context
Jan. 4, 2012
#IdleNoMore is an explicitly non-violent movement, which accounts for its relatively wide spectrum of both Native and non-Native support at the moment… However, if the life of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence continues to be recklessly put in jeopardy… I predict that the spectre of political violence will re-emerge in Indigenous peoples’ collective conversations about what to do next.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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