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Ontario legal aid plan to relax qualifying rules
Friday, October 28th, 2011
Oct 27 2011
Now, 16 years after the Ontario government tightened the rules in a massive overhaul of legal aid, it seems that’s about to change… they plan to loosen the rules over the next three years so more people are eligible for free help from a lawyer. The expansion, they say, will be funded through savings on the administrative side… The report notes Legal Aid Ontario’s cut-offs are substantially below the low-income threshold set by Statistics Canada… Canada is behind much of the world when it comes to legal aid qualifying guidelines…
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How to make inequality obsolete
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Oct 24 2011
While Flaherty seems determined to shelter the rich from progressive taxation, there was no such catering to them on the part of Henry Simons, a founder of the conservative Chicago School of Economics. Simons considered excessive inequality “unlovely” and supported progressive taxation, arguing that capitalism would never survive in a democracy if the general public didn’t benefit from it… The Occupy Wall Street movement has made unbridled greed — so distasteful to Adam Smith and Henry Simons — suddenly controversial.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Higher taxation is back on the table
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Oct. 25, 2011
Social justice is not a phrase to which modern-day Conservatives are winsomely attracted. But they might do well to pay heed. Both here and abroad, the climate is changing… The Milton Friedman foundation, from which the past three decades of economics have taken their cue, is on shaky ground… the long run of wreckage being witnessed now may result in another great turn… Canadians have a history, until recently at least, of accepting higher taxation levels as the price for a more just and egalitarian society.
Tags: featured, participation, standard of living, tax
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Crime bill unfairly targets women, aboriginals, critics say
Friday, October 21st, 2011
Oct. 20, 2011
The majority of women in jail are mothers, and they are usually the primary caregivers in their families… Elements of the new bill will result in more women being held behind bars… “It’s going to increase criminalization and marginalization, and this will certainly have a very negative impact on children,” Booth said. “No one’s really speaking about the impact (on) children when mom and dad are in jail, particularly for aboriginal people and for women… The crime bill means “taxes will need to be raised in order to care for children”…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights, women
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Occupy this: if you’re living here, you’re already one of the ‘one per cent’
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
October 18, 2011
North America and Europe, geographic epicentres of the Occupy Wall Street movement, are the fattest of fat cats, globally speaking… adults in North America, Western Europe and a few Asian countries, most notably Japan, together possess almost all the world’s household wealth (a measure of total assets, including real estate, investments and all other property, net of any debt.), about 88 per cent. Everyone else, the majority of the world’s people, share the remaining 12 per cent.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Medicine’s feminine mystique
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Oct 18 2011
… knowledge, discovered within the past decade, is forcing the medical profession to look at aging women differently… and it’s welcome news that ways are being found to treat women differently. Women don’t yet have equal opportunity in the boardroom. But when it comes to some illnesses, they get more than their share. It’s high time that science reflected that.
Tags: Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living, women
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Elites Foolish to Dismiss Occupy Wall Street
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Oct. 17, 2011
… governments, especially in the U.K. and the U.S., failed to regulate and failed to enforce their own laws. And then, having used public money to revive economies, governments passively watched the bail-out recipients take that money as rewards for mismanagement… the failure of capitalism is so egregious that the poor masses all over the western world saw these shenanigans and need little prodding to take them to the streets… The genie is out of the bottle…
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Canada’s Billionaires
Monday, October 17th, 2011
October 14, 2011
Just in time for the “Occupy Bay Street” protest this weekend, Canadian Business magazine has come out with its annual listing of the richest 100 people in Canada. So in honour of the protestors and their noble cause (demanding more attention to the 99%, instead of the 1%), let’s peruse together the sordid details of Canada’s ultra-rich.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Why we must tolerate hate
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Oct. 17, 2011
A liberal, open-minded law against hate speech? That’s an oxymoron. There’s no possible reconciliation between freedom of speech and hate-speech laws, however they’re written or reformulated. A civilized, progressive society should opt for freedom of speech, period.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, rights
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Protesters Against Wall Street
Sunday, October 16th, 2011
October 8, 2011
At this point, protest is the message: income inequality is grinding down that middle class, increasing the ranks of the poor, and threatening to create a permanent underclass of able, willing but jobless people. On one level, the protesters, most of them young, are giving voice to a generation of lost opportunity… Extreme inequality is the hallmark of a dysfunctional economy, dominated by a financial sector that is driven as much by speculation, gouging and government backing as by productive investment.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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