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Support a bold campaign to end homelessness
Under a Housing First approach, people are given a place to live as well as some assistance, such as a subsidy to cover rent. Often a support team will help them deal with other needs, such as medical care.
There’s solid evidence this can be life-changing. Giving people a place to put down roots and call their own results in less hospitalization and fewer entanglements with the law, as well as more opportunities for education, employment and a thriving family life.
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Crafting a plan to tackle poverty from the ground up
Toronto has the highest rate of child poverty, more working poor and the largest inequality gap of any city in the country. It is a recipe for urban decay and social unrest that anti-poverty activists say the city can no longer ignore… it is costing us money already. And it’s going to cost us more in community health and urban decay down the road if we don’t act… “This is an investment in the future. An investment in prosperity. An investment in people.”
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, housing, ideology, immigration, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Silence of the charities
The CRA’s rules around what constitutes “political activity” are murky and confusing; there is little transparency about how those rules are applied; charities subject to audit often have to spend precious resources putting together documents for auditors and providing legal training for staff; and most important, many charities are self-censoring for fear of breaching the 10 per cent rule and facing shutdown by the CRA.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, tax
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Ontario puts $587 million toward goal of ‘ending homelessness’
The Liberal government is committing $587 million over the next two years to deal with the growing problem of homelessness.
And of that Toronto will receive $223 million from the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative (CHPI)… “We are committed to ending homelessness. Having a home is a very important first step to leave poverty,” Treasury Board President Deb Matthews said.
Tags: budget, economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Small victory for aboriginal women
The Prime Minister refused to acknowledge any “sociological” link between dramatic overrepresentation of aboriginal women in the homicide statistics and the miserable conditions in which they lived. Their deaths were merely crimes that the police had a “good track record” of solving. A dialogue among the willing — all 13 provincial premiers and territorial leaders, two federal cabinet ministers, the leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, the Native Women’s Association of Canada… may not offer the ultimate solution but it is the best option at this juncture.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
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We can do better than the long form census
For good or ill, we are becoming more and more comfortable with sharing our data, as we leave traces of our activities and identities across the Internet… We are getting better at linking data… and developing the technical, legal and administrative tools to safeguard privacy while facilitating research and access by government and civil society groups… rather than trying to recreate the old system… [let’s] think about what a new system might look like, and to ensure that it meets the needs and expectations of Canadians.
Tags: ideology, rights, standard of living
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Time to repopulate Canada’s arrival cities
Up to now, gentrification has been a force of good: Because six out of seven immigrant families purchase houses, and studies show that even poor immigrants have usually become home owners… The next generation of immigrants won’t be able to follow.. [and move] into the middle class. No casually employed person, immigrant or otherwise, can afford a house downtown in a big Canadian city any more… immigration and poverty are both now almost entirely suburban phenomena.
Tags: housing, immigration, participation, poverty
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How keeping the child poverty promise might have changed one life
TheStar.com – News/Canada – Sarah Vanalstyne, 26, grew up in poverty and says her life would have been very different if the Government had kept its 1989 vow to eradicate child poverty. Nov 19 2014. By: Olivia Carville, Staff Reporter Sarah Vanalstyne was just a baby living in a Toronto slum in 1989 when Ottawa made […]
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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John Tory pledges to work at reducing child poverty in Toronto
The report shows clear divides along socio-economic, cultural and geographic lines… It identifies three key areas that underline child poverty: Unemployment, lack of supports and poor access to community services… the rate of unemployment, 8.4 per cent, was the highest of any major Canadian city in 2013. Meanwhile, services such as childcare in Toronto remain “prohibitively expensive and in too short supply”… even middle-income families are squeezed out
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The world is not awash in refugees: Open the gates
It would take a load off those much more burdened countries, and help reduce the risk of more instability in the Middle East. Canada is taking fewer refugees than it ever has, at a time when its economy needs people… we need to dispel the popular belief… that to open the gates for one crisis is to be overrun… For most of the past 20 years, international refugee numbers have been very low… taking in refugees is not just a responsibility but a way to return stability to the world… it is neither permanent nor overwhelming.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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