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Poverty costs PEI over $240 million a year
Friday, January 28th, 2011
January 26, 2011
It is estimated that the total cost of poverty in Prince Edward Island is at minimum between $240 and $320 million per year, which corresponds to about $1,720 and $2,265 per person, per year. These costs are calculated in The Cost of Poverty in PEI, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS)… “in terms of the PEI economy, the cost of poverty is between 5%-7% of GDP, which is significant though similar to the estimated costs in other Canadian provinces.”
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Mental health big part of homelessness
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
January 21, 2011
Structural homelessness — homelessness caused by socioeconomic events such as unemployment or family breakdowns –may be the easiest to remedy… However, homelessness endemic in the single, unattached individual, (by far the largest group amongst the homeless), presents entirely different problems… Poverty with this group is also a constant but somewhat of a side issue. The main problem that presents are those of mental health.
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, youth
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The war on drugs is lost
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
Jan 23 2011
The illicit drug trade will continue as long as there is demand for drugs. Instead of sticking to failed policies, that do not reduce the profitability of the drug trade — and thus its power — we must redirect our efforts to the harm caused by drugs to people and societies, and to reducing consumption… But… Drugs are harmful to health. They undermine users’ decision-making capacity… Cutting consumption as much as possible must, therefore, be the main goal. But this requires treating drug users not as criminals to be incarcerated, but as patients to be cared for.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health
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We’ve become a wimpy state, as well as a nanny state
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
January 20, 2011
… public institutions such as universities, museums and galleries, apparently care not a whit about free expression or individual choice. Their first instinct is to crater to protestors; let the forces of oppression and extremism have their way. Forget about preserving democracy and open debate, officials will act as the forces of censorship want. The trouble with refusing to stand up to threats of protest is that it just begets more threats. For as long as cowardly officials are going to give in, hate-filled activists are going to be encouraged to keep uttering threats.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights
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Slim bridge between Toronto’s two solitudes [housing the poor]
Monday, January 17th, 2011
Jan 17 2011
The recommendations in Vertical Poverty echo the proposals of anti-poverty activists and social agencies. The report calls for a national housing strategy; an Ontario Housing Benefit to help low-income tenants stave off eviction; an increase in funding for non-profit housing; a zoning amendment requiring developers to include affordable housing in residential highrises; a public investment in retrofitting aging apartments and an industry-government task force to tackle the problem of chronic elevator breakdown. In an era of retrenchment, this is going to be a hard sell.
Tags: budget, economy, housing, ideology, poverty
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Communities need to get involved, says philathropist
Monday, January 17th, 2011
January 16, 2011
Successful businesses take risks, and invest in research and development — and community groups should do the same, says Tim Brodhead, a star in Canada’s philanthropic firmament. Brodhead, president of the McConnell Family Foundation, believes community groups need to be innovative when tackling social problems such as poverty and homelessness. And to do that they need to take risks, envision new programs and dream up innovative projects that might take them into unfamiliar territory.
Tags: budget, featured, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Toronto increasingly becoming a city of vertical poverty
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Jan. 12, 2011
…Toronto’s low-income population is concentrated not only by neighbourhood but by building – in the 50-year-old concrete slab towers clustered around the inner suburbs, according to numbers provided to The Globe and Mail. Many are decrepit and crumbling; their elevators are so unreliable that a United Way report coming out Wednesday calls for a task force specifically targeting their repair. Thousands of interviews with residents indicate these buildings have grown notorious for vermin and vandalism.
Tags: economy, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Immigrants use of welfare a mixed bag, documents show
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
January 11, 2011
A review of data from Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada shows… As a whole, immigrants have a somewhat higher incidence of welfare usage than the general population, but some classes of immigrants use the system far less. The data also shows that while welfare usage goes down for both economic class immigrants and refugees the longer they are in Canada, the rate of welfare dependency often rises for family class immigrants.
Tags: immigration, participation, standard of living
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Helping others helps us all
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
Jan. 8. 2011
When I hear people complaining about more crime, I never hear them come up with a solution to the prison overcrowding that exists… Proper rehabilitation programs can prepare people in many ways to overcome addictions, lack of education, poor self-image, anger and emotional issues. .. Can total crime be stopped? No. However, we can reduce it. We can provide the resources that will reduce the reasons for crime.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention
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Poverty makes us sick; it ought to make us angry
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Jan 07 2011
Raphael did a health study in Lawrence Heights a while back. His findings show that the correlation is not between the couch and the potato. “People who are poor don’t have the resources to be healthy. Diabetes is three or four times more likely to occur among poor people.”… the poor have fewer ways to relieve their stress, and stress is a factor of the disease of diabetes, and I don’t know any poor people who are relaxed… “The health care system will treat you fine if you keel over, but we won’t provide you with the resources you need to avoid getting sick.”
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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