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Funding for Katimavik should be included in upcoming budget
… the national exchange and volunteer program was succeeding brilliantly in its mandate to prepare young people to be responsible citizens who make positive change in their own lives and communities until its $16 million in funding was axed in 2012 by the Harper government… It may have been born in the spirit of the anything-goes 1970s, but over the following decades it more than proved its worth… Let’s hope… Katimavik will rise from the ashes. Our young people are worth it.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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Lessons from the battle over an east-end homeless shelter
… there are two ways we can improve the conversation with the local community when a homeless shelter is proposed: increased education and transparency. We must spread the word that the homeless are more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators. And, that in our society there are a multitude of ways that a person, through no fault of their own, can become homeless. To increase transparency… We must be completely clear… you do not get to choose your neighbours.
Tags: crime prevention, homelessness, participation, rights, standard of living
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Internet should be affordable for everyone
Society has gone online, and anyone without reliable, fast Internet service risks being left in the dust. For too many low-income people, that’s exactly what’s happening… Either they do without, and find they can’t fully participate in public life. Or… they pony up for Internet while making a cruel trade-off with other basics like food and rent… Children are potentially among the biggest losers, unable to keep up at school.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Why do autism specialists want to stamp out autistic traits?
ABA is a program that tries to teach autistic kids not to be autistic. Through daily, routine, and monotonous retraining, it takes behaviours that could be considered part of autistic selfhood or autistic language, and pushes them out of children… People who would be good at letting autistics live in the world are repeatedly shut out of the advocacy program… this cult of experts is making a fortune, while spectrum kids are having trouble working out what adulthood means in a world that does not value them
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation
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Integration: A New Strategy
Refugees are especially in need of de facto (and eventually legal) citizenship recognition… The most successful and non-controversial refugee groups are those that are transformed, as quickly as possible, into regular “economic” immigrants: If they’re included quickly in the employment, education and housing systems of the established immigrant community, they will be more likely to stabilize their lives, give up their temporary mindset and become valuable members of their communities.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s Warm Embrace of Refugees
The simple but powerful words with which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada greeted the first group of Syrians resettled under an expedited program stood in sharp contrast to the misery and monumental injustice the earlier images represent… “This is something that we are able to do in this country because we define a Canadian not by a skin color or a language or a religion or a background, but by a shared set of values, aspirations, hopes and dreams that not just Canadians but people around the world share.”
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism
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Liberal government to announce plans for inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women
Trudeau stressed his commitment to improving the lives of aboriginals. “For Indigenous Peoples, life in Canada has not been — and is not today — easy, equitable, or fair.” On his pledge to establish a national inquiry into missing women, he said it would be “responsible and responsive (and) informed by all the broad stakeholders that are concerned about this… We need such an inquiry to provide justice to the victims, to provide healing for the families, and to ensure that as we go forward this tragedy is ended.”
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, women
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No surprise here: Canada a turnoff for some refugees
… refugees are not freeloading hordes seeking to break down the doors of the West, as some would portray it. Rather, they’re badly jarred families trying to calculate the best path to safety and stability. Those who agree to the unsettling ordeal of a transoceanic move will be the few who have knowledge and connections in Canada… the policies denying health care to asylum seekers and the cruel temporary-worker rules and family-reunification restrictions are well known overseas, and the best-qualified people would rather go elsewhere.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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Integrate intellectually delayed into the real workforce
… as many as 35,000 intellectually delayed people across the country may be working in jobs where they are paid minimum amounts, as little as 46 cents an hour, in sheltered workshops, co-ops, or social enterprises. There has to be a better way. These programs, in which people can toil for decades in isolated shops, should be a thing of the past. As much as possible, their workers should be integrated into paying jobs in the community at large.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Hear this Election’s Racism Wake-up Call
… our success is in that tolerance, that respect for pluralism, that generous sharing of opportunity with everyone, that innate sense that every single one of us, regardless of where we come from, regardless of what we look like, regardless of how we worship, regardless of whom we love, that every single one us deserves the chance right here, right now, to live a great Canadian life. But this is incredibly fragile. It must be protected always from the voices of intolerance, the voices of divisiveness, the voices of small mindedness, and the voices of hatred.
Tags: featured, globalization, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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