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Turn the CBC into a Canadian Netflix
CBC Radio… has managed to increase the number of listeners by being distinctive and (almost) non-commercial… but CBC TV can be strikingly unoriginal. One suggestion for The National would be to cut back on the recitation of daily news events… and to restore a form of explanatory journalism — the “why” and not the “what.”… Or an even more radical idea… Stop broadcasting the CBC altogether and move everything online.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, tax
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What about a gold medal for social justice?
Imagine… if we gave gold, silver and bronze medals to businesses that created new well paying jobs or for those organizations and governments that were dedicated heart and soul to creating real economic opportunity for the shrinking middle class and the growing number of Canadians who find themselves on the outside looking in.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Making real changes on poverty
If we consider the social challenges faced in Ontario in purely budgetary terms, it makes sense to invest in serious poverty eradication programs… “A growing body of research demonstrates that efforts to eliminate poverty would more than pay for themselves over time. In fact, the economic benefits would likely be double the cost.” … Summoning the political will to confront the paradox of so much poverty in the midst of so much wealth will reap huge dividends for Ontario.
Tags: economy, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Our right to vote is imperiled here and abroad
… it is counterintuitive to shut down debate on a bill that it claims will “uphold the great principles of democracy that built this country.’’ Such unseemly haste merely allows charges of cheating, disenfranchisement and voter suppression to grow from opposition paranoia to something more substantive… Although a law denying the vote to Canadians who have lived abroad for more than five years was first passed more than 20 years ago, it was not enforced until 2007, after Conservatives came to power.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights
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A hard Pope for capitalists to love
… who doesn’t love this Pope? More than a few rich capitalists and conservatives who feel targeted by Francis’s frontal attacks on what they believe to be a fundamentally moral undertaking: wealth creation. Where they see capitalism as the economic system most conducive to development of one’s God-given talents, the Pope sees a tool of oppression… Francis seemed to take a direct shot at U.S. Republicans by denouncing “trickle-down theories” as “crude and naive.”
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canadian values include feeding the poor
… perhaps it’s not government’s job to serve kids breakfast, but it is its responsibility to ensure that our progressive tax system is fair, that people who work full time earn a living wage, that all Canadians have an equal opportunity to succeed, that other levels governments have sufficient funding to provide social assistance and that charitable organizations and the businesses and individuals who support them have the wherewithal to help families in need.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Mandela: Five Lessons for Canada’s Activists
Nelson Mandela made this clear: “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Time to bring Madiba’s values to Canada
A world of justice can be built only if we act justly with our opponents. A true community can come about only if we learn to work together, even when confronted by adversarial attitudes… Now is the the time for Canadians to look across this land, where chronic poverty, derelict housing, suffering children and avoidable deaths and diseases still prevail – perhaps only a street, a neighbourhood or a reserve away… Our aboriginal brothers and sisters await a vast movement of all toward justice.
Tags: globalization, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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How we lost count of some of our most marginalized citizens
Roderick Ryner thinks about how he lost track of his poor, his unemployed, his sick and disabled and the people struggling with their schooling in the northern Ontario district of Cochrane… He’s referring to data he no longer has from the long-form census that Ottawa discontinued in 2010… to advise municipal, provincial and federal governments
Tags: disabilities, Health, poverty, standard of living
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Canada: It really is our home and native land
We’re hooked on the place we call home and so, very quickly, are new arrivals. First comes belonging to family and then comes Canada… In a testament to how well our multiculturalism still works, EKOS finds no differences in values held by native-born and foreign-born Canadians… [However]… the bonds that hold Canadians together are unravelling, leaving a nation profoundly polarized along fault-lines of age, education and the workplace.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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