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What to consider when you consider giving to charity
As a major Oxfam report pointed out earlier this year, in 2015 the wealth of the richest 62 people on Earth was $1.76-trillion and growing fast. Forbes calculates there are 1,826 billionaires in the world, worth a total of $7.05-trillion… In a rational, decent world, [charities wouldn’t] need to go around begging for 10 more dollars to deal with humanitarian emergencies. But it’s not and they do… get angrier about obscene inequality. You won’t be sorry.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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No. 2 ranking on index makes Canada one of world’s best countries
Canada ranks first in the world in access to advanced education… We also have the lowest level of violent crime and lead the world when it comes to religious tolerance. Tolerance, in fact, is one of our strong suits: we’re second-best in our view of immigrants and third most tolerant towards homosexuals. Though we’re No. 2 on personal rights, we scored first on all but one of the indicators that make up that measure, including political rights, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
Tags: globalization, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Dear non-indigenous Canadians: It’s time to begin reconciliation
First, we must learn more about “prior occupancy.” The concept is not some unreasonable indigenous idea that is suddenly used as some political weapon. It’s part of the history of common law and civil law and international law – all invented by non-indigenous peoples… when indigenous parties commit themselves to activism, negotiations and litigation, it is not anti-settler. It reinforces the rule of law… Second, we think more fully about the implications of indigenous socio-economic circumstances.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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The sterile, vapid, chauvinistic alley of identity politics
If sex and race, in one instance, improve the judging mind that possesses the “right” combination, it is surely the case that in other circumstances, they will restrict and degrade it. To argue otherwise would be sexist and racist. Surely, the engine of “difference” doesn’t drive in one direction only, doesn’t belong to just one sex, or select ethnicities? … It is a regressive principle, one that places unpassable frontiers on human understanding and empathy.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Ageism is getting old. Let’s end it
Most reasonable people would agree that depriving someone of their basic rights to independence and choice because of gender or race is wrong. Yet when it comes to our senior citizens, many of us do just that… Stripping a person of his or her independence in the name of helping actually hurts far more than it helps… The more we prevent them from taking care of themselves, the more care they need. It creates a dependent mindset… hinders a person’s ability to recover from severe disability and shortens lifespan.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Proper housing is a crucial a health issue
Social factors, like housing, income and wealth, educational background and race are more powerful determinants of health outcomes than our behaviours, genes or even the health-care system. And yet, experts in health are often trained to focus on the provision of health-care services, often sending patients back into the social and economic conditions that made them sick… As health-care providers, we know the actual prescription needed is safe, secure and affordable housing.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, economy, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Aboriginal youth deserve better future
… the demographic bulge of young aboriginals in Canada will make itself felt — constructively, if we tackle education properly; in more difficult ways if we do not… The challenge is to find a sustainable way to offer a future to its youth. It is a quintessentially Canadian challenge, and applies to all indigenous communities. It is a national project, which should mean not just governments, but individuals, rallying to find solutions. It’s 2016. It’s time to get this relationship right.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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How Covenants Make Us
… there are four big forces coursing through modern societies. Global migration is leading to demographic diversity. Economic globalization is creating wider opportunity but also inequality. The Internet is giving people more choices over what to buy and pay attention to. A culture of autonomy valorizes individual choice and self-determination. All of these forces have liberated the individual, or at least well-educated individuals, but they have been bad for national cohesion and the social fabric.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Why Canada should foster a ‘second-chance’ society
We don’t need infrastructure just as make-work projects or to maintain our bridges, roads and sewers, but also as social infrastructure to enhance all of our lives, regardless of our incomes: transportation networks that work, neighbourhoods and parks that buck the market tendency to segregate and separate… a sense of identity that values and fosters diversity, where newcomers not only “integrate” but the mainstream also bends, adapts, and redefines itself.
Tags: featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Katimavik could be a powerful tool for indigenous reconciliation
Now is a perfect opportunity for a 2.0 version of the national youth service program that worked before and was killed by the previous Conservative government. Over some 40 years, Katimavik engaged youth in volunteerism to attain priorities of national importance, including learning about different Canadian communities. It was designed to breed understanding and acceptance across cultural, linguistic, geographic and socioeconomic divides.
Tags: budget, housing, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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