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Native despair: face to face with ennui on a reserve
It’s the system that brings a people to that. It’s the Indian Act. It’s an imposed welfare mentality. It’s generation after generation of crushing isolation andpoverty. It’s the deeply ingrained belief that there is nothing else possible and that no one sees us or cares about us anyway. It’s the entire history of Canada and her relationship with native people focused despairingly on our most vulnerable.
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Try to be kinder
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded…sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly. Or, to look at it from the other end of the telescope: Who, in your life, do you remember most fondly, with the most undeniable feelings of warmth? Those who were kindest to you, I bet.
Tags: featured, ideology, mental Health, philanthropy
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One child, one teacher, one pen and one book
Yousafzai called for “a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism.” The Nobel Peace Prize nominee said “the extremists were afraid of education. That is why they’re blasting schools every day… ”For radical Islamists, however, women’s emancipation is the dividing line between modernization and Westernization… even jihadists want modern technology, especially weapons and communication devices, but they don’t want the West’s cultural ideas…
Tags: globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, women
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Do-it-yourself ideology takes hold
Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era, looks at the way communities react to successive shocks such as technological change, globalization, the triumph of market economics, privatization, deregulation, job insecurity, rising income equality and shrinking social programs… “It offers new ways of understanding the sweeping long-term effects of neoliberal policies”… Social resilience is an emerging concept, a do-it-yourself ideology taking hold at the community level.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Give Ontario farmers tax breaks for donations to food banks
… the Progressive Conservatives… want to change the law so Ontario farmers can get tax breaks if they donate unused produce to food banks…. the Tories say amendments to the Local Food Act could cost the province $750,000 a year in tax breaks for farmers, but it would redirect some of the 25 million tonnes of vegetables that now end up in landfills to the dinner plates of the hungry… dairy, pork, poultry and beef farmers have long given their leftovers to food banks through different programs
Tags: ideology, poverty, tax
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Put Canadians first
Refugee health care — which up until recently-included dental care not afforded to native born Canadians — is an unaffordable luxury and frankly, there is no reason to grant unlimited health care services to refugees who have not contributed anything into the communal pot, but who also will be displacing a Canadian citizen in line for our rationed, wait-timed care… Funds can be raised to cover care costs, and medical professionals can donate their time.
Tags: Health, ideology, immigration, rights
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Finally, good news on homelessness
The authors… hailed cities and towns across the country for their creativity, willingness to experiment and determination to prevent, not just manage, homelessness. .. The provinces… fared badly in the report. A few have long-term plans to end homelessness, but lack the political will to implement them. Ontario falls into this category. It is promising a more “strategic and co-ordinated response” to homelessness, but failing to back it up with funding.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, standard of living
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How can we help the poor?
… charity can be unreliable and even sentimental, especially when its aimed at supporting the poor… Canadian opinion-makers increasingly celebrate philanthropic giving while many grow cynical about attempting political solutions to social problems… charity… might be doing the poor more harm than good… “We don’t want to get stuck in this charity-only model. We want to look at economic justice”… “charity is only the first step on the road to justice.”
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
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Indigenous poverty: the cost of doing not enough
… poverty impairs educational attainment and health, and in turn, the capacity of poor indigenous children to become economically productive adults… child poverty generates social costs throughout the life cycle… particularly in health-care service… criminal justice, and child welfare… high levels of poverty and related economic inequality lead to social conflict as the aspirations of poor indigenous children who have grown into poor adults are thwarted.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, Health, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Indigenous children face deplorable poverty
… 40% of Indigenous children in Canada are living in poverty… Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children—and that they trail the rest of Canada’s children on practically every measure of well-being, including: family income, educational attainment, water quality, infant mortality, health, suicide, crowding and homelessness… Our map below traces child poverty rates across Canada
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