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Sunday, November 25th, 2012
Nov 24, 2012
… we must innovate in social policy. First… a wealth tax to fight poverty, by which the taxpayers design and operate, like charities, methods for combating poverty. This would incentivize the wealthy and the financially most astute to reduce poverty, as the tax would decline as defined poverty declined. And let us abolish imprisonment for all non-violent offences except the briefest periods, the most egregious offenses, or the chronic recidivists.
Tags: corrections, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
October 27, 2012
Usually, he said, media come down to the mean streets, talk to the homeless person and drive cheerfully away. “I know exactly the internal struggles and mindset, because at the heart of poverty it’s not just about social injustice. More importantly, it’s about social exclusion… It is hope’s absence that’s “the greatest fallout of living in poverty,”
Tags: Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
October 14, 2012
Faith communities find themselves in the usual bind. On the one hand, they seek to alleviate immediate needs by providing food and shelter through programs like “Out of the Cold.” On the other, they know that these acts of charity and decency implicitly give a kind of licence to politicians to do little and to expect religious institutions to shoulder too much of the burden of looking after the disadvantaged.
Tags: budget, homelessness, ideology, participation, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
… our province is “falling behind the rest of Canada in terms of growing poverty, increasing inequality and flagging financial support for vital social programmes… “Ontario’s current sprint toward austerity is occurring in the context of grave inequality” because “income inequality has outpaced the rest of the country since the 1990s.”
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, poverty
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Oct. 08, 2012
the most recent federal budget reveals that the 19,000 job cuts announced therein were… targeted very precisely at researchers, statisticians, scientists and other organizations who might use data to contradict a government which believed that evidence and rational compromise are not the tools of enlightened public policy, but barriers to the pursuit of an agenda based on ideology over reason.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
Mar 02 2012
History shows us that poor people’s silence will be met with government inaction. As American academics Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward put it in their classic book Regulating the Poor, “A placid poor get nothing, but a turbulent poor sometimes get something.” The Drummond report tells poor people they must wait. Now it is up to the poor to reply: “We will not.”
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Monday, August 27th, 2012
18 August 2012
Civil society organizations; groups like charities, unions, women’s organizations and others play a critical role in our society. They provide a voice that is not clearly heard at the political level… Sometimes these views are not popular… But sometimes they mobilize us as a society to change the way we think. For our current federal government, that appears to be unacceptable… When a government silences the voices it does not want to hear, or when we silence ourselves out of fear, it is not an attack on individual organizations, it is an attack on democracy.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, rights
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
7 August 2012
… after a contentious public meeting in October 2011… Council refused to give them a “zoning compliance letter,” effectively deeming the group home illegal… Jo-Ann Seamon, of the Human Rights Tribunal by the Human Rights Legal Support Centre, called the case “heart-wrenching.” She said she found it hard to believe there were “people who are ‘scared’ of people with developmental disabilities.”
Tags: disabilities, housing, ideology, mental Health, rights
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
6 August 2012
“Instead of using technology to bridge the communications gap between voters in their communities and the media, the media have used it to turn their backs on the public, forging closer links with the people reporters cover rather than with the people who used to read, watch, and listen to their reporting.”… there is a “gulf” between Canadians, on one side, and politicians and the media, on the other. “The media have come to identify more closely with politicians than with the public,” Mr. Waddell writes.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Saturday, August 18th, 2012
3 August 2012
When violence strikes a community, we all suffer… The most successful way to avert crime is a concerted effort to get at the root causes of violence… diverse racialized youth, who experience isolation and see no hope for the future are at greatest risk of violence… We need… all sectors to unite in an ongoing commitment to work together to build an inclusive and caring society by investing in our youth, in our communities, and in our social infrastructure.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living, youth
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