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Poverty tax credit a worthy idea
Every other country that uses a form of this idea has better standing in the world comparators on health, life quality, education, addictions, and other related issues. It is very simple science and economics… Let’s dig our collective Canada out of debt, into better health and logically, into more productivity by supporting our whole family. And if you think that sounds like socialism, I say to you that is a mask you put on it out of fear of change.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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The spirit of collaboration is touching all of our lives
… today’s young students have grown up immersed in interactive media and communicating… they learn better through collaboration than being passive recipients… learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy… You will need to participate in change in your workplace, community, country and in causes you join and as a global citizen.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living, youth
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About e-democracy
Many jurisdictions are experimenting with alternate means for citizen engagement in the public policy process… can democracy be improved by more e-based interaction… (?) Before governments and legislators begin swooning to the lure of e-based policy decision-making, there clearly needs to be much more considered examination of the contribution to broad-based democracy over the narrow interests of active participants.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Riots spread outside Swedish capital
In a country famed for its model welfare state, the rioting has exposed a fault-line between a well-off majority and a minority – often young people with immigrant backgrounds – who are poorly educated, cannot find work and feel pushed to the edge of society… seven years of centre-right rule have chipped away at benefits… up to a third of young people aged 16 to 29 in some of the most deprived areas of Sweden’s big cities neither study nor have a job.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Progressive values are on the rise in the U.S. and Canada
The national poll reveals that Canadians, both new immigrants and Canadian-born, overwhelmingly support progressive values such as reducing income inequality, better pensions, and stronger environmental regulations… there is no significant statistical difference between the attitudes… contrary to recent reports that have portrayed the political trend lines of the country as moving in a small “c” conservative direction. If anything, the opposite would seem to be the case.”
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism
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The righteous anger of young men
Thinkers argued that tyrannical ambition, military strife and civil war were caused by denying human beings their basic right to pursue their own material self-interest. Once they enjoyed the balm of security and well-being, the sources of aggression would melt away… What if it were rooted in the capacity of young men for righteous anger, harnessed in the service of what they fervently believe to be a divine mission to bring justice to the world?
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Urban-bound aboriginals pose Canada’s biggest integration challenge, not immigrants
… one of the most striking findings from Wednesday’s census data: the phenomenal growth rate among self-identified aboriginals. In 2001, 976,000 Canadians fell into this category. By 2011, the figure was 1.4-million. About 50% of First Nations with registered status live on reserves, and many of them will be moving to urban areas in coming years, in search of jobs… Current policy, which promotes the preservation of native culture on remote landscapes instead of social and economic development, has had its day.
Tags: Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Private money, public programs? There will always be strings
It’s not a bad thing to help move recipients off welfare. But it is incorrect to assume that paid work alone will improve their lives. There needs to be a range of associated reforms, including health and dental care, improved earnings supplements and lower income taxes for these households. Any initiative supported by social impact bonds must take into account the broader context and, where possible, incorporate related reforms.
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Canada’s universal health-care system makes us live democratically
Our society has decided that we needed to expand what living democratically means to the realms of education and health. We hope to make education universally available to all, a good education, providing more equal opportunity… We also hope to make health care available… so that all have access to something that will enhance the quality of their lives… universal health care is not only about the bodies of our citizens. It is also a statement about the values we want to forward in the body politic.
Tags: Health, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Canadian values can thwart terror
… no one, even bleeding-heart leftists, denies the importance of intelligence-gathering and, in some cases, military intervention. But resisting terrorist activity by violence and the use of force without addressing the causes that bred such cowardly behaviour in the first place is a zero-sum game… history shows that violence begets violence… So let’s do this the Canadian way… [with] a national security policy that includes enhancing social cohesion by assisting vulnerable Canadian communities…
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, participation
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