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The costs and benefits of greater accessibility
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Jun 18 2010
“What we have learned,” the authors say, “leads us to conclude that every day that people who want to learn cannot, that people who want to work do not, and businesses that wish to serve these markets must wait to see what will be required, Ontario is losing extremely valuable contributions from its citizens.
Tags: disabilities, economy, standard of living
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The Rise and Fall of Economic and Social Rights – What Next?
Friday, June 11th, 2010
May 29, 2010
In the last election, over 60% of Canadians voted for parties promising redistributive policy initiatives in housing, pensions, employment insurance benefits, post-secondary education, and programs for people with disabilities. These all involve social and economic rights… Now is the time for the federal government to join in and do its share. Now is the time to act on behalf of the poor and to work for more equality. Now is the time to live up to our decision made in 1976 to build a Canada committed equally to all rights-economic and social, as well as political and civil.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Money for real things like fake lakes, but not poverty
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
June 9, 2010
… the government has decided to send a message to the entire sector and it is ‘watch out what you say. It will cost you a very great deal.’” The irony, said Mr. Barr, is that the strategy won’t work. The CCIC will continue to exist and the sector, he said, will be even more convinced “that the government needs a critical analysis.”
Tags: participation, poverty, standard of living
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When one mistake haunts the rest of your working life
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Jun 08 2010
The reason I can’t return to teaching and can’t find a job commensurate with my experience and education is that I have a criminal record… the effects of employment on mental health can be measured primarily in terms of their influence on one’s self-esteem. When people feel there is a purpose in life, regardless of the source of that purpose, and that they are contributing to society, they feel better about themselves. Regular and meaningful employment gives structure to those who otherwise would remain lost and alone.
Tags: corrections, participation
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Internet ends automatic delivery of White Pages
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
June 4, 2010.
The Yellow Pages will still arrive on doorsteps this fall… And along with the yellow book will be information on how to order a free copy of the White Pages as well, for those who want it. In 2005, the organization implemented a 24-month distribution cycle of the residential directory in select Canadian cities, with residents having to request a directory during non-distribution years. The resulting demand for the residential directory averaged below one per cent while searches for personal phone numbers on Yellow Pages online properties have almost doubled… But for seniors and the poor, that may not be the case, as many of them don’t use the Internet.
Tags: participation
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Unmuzzle the critics [lawsuits against public participation]
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Jun 04 2010
Residents who fight developments increasingly fear they’ll be bankrupted if the proponent retaliates by suing them for legal costs. That’s why the province appointed an expert panel last week to outline legislation to stop “lawsuits from being used to silence critics by imposing long and costly court processes on them.” This is a welcome departure from the government’s previous position that SLAPP suits — an acronym for Strategic Lawsuits Against Pubic Participation — were not a problem.
Tags: participation, rights
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Canada’s inhumane prison plan
Monday, May 31st, 2010
May 29, 2010
The Roadmap is the self-serving work of reactionary, authoritarian palookas… It is counter-intuitive and contra-historical: The crime rate has been declining for years, and there is no evidence cited to support any of the repression that is requested. It appears to defy a number of Supreme Court decisions, and is an affront, at least to the spirit of the Charter of Rights… The whole concept of prison should be terminated, except for violent criminals and chronic non-violent recidivists.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, featured
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Focusing on child poverty was always a dead end
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
27 May 2010
The reality is that the public sector grew because the private (or privatised) sector had already failed… The important thing is to concentrate really hard on backing people and ideas that can generate appropriate earned income for the people who need it most… Shrinking the state will not, in itself, inflate the private sector. That’s a myth. But socially responsible inflation of the private sector must be nurtured, right now, or the inevitable cuts in public services will leave millions abandoned.
Tags: economy, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Founding of the CWP Advocacy Network
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
May 25, 2010
“We have founded the CWP Advocacy Network so as to strengthen the call for progressive social policy in Canada,” says Geraldine King, President of Canada Without Poverty. “Canadian charities are considerably restricted by the Income Tax Act and Canada Revenue Agency policy in the amount of advocacy they can do, or what the CRA terms ‘political activity.’ But the reality is, to effectively address poverty in Canada requires substantial policy and legislative change. That in turn requires an active, vigorous voice on policy and legislation from civil society.
Tags: participation, poverty, standard of living
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Abilities Centre a crowning achievement for Christine Elliott
Friday, May 21st, 2010
May 21 2010
For Elliott, it’s been a 10-year journey that began even before she and husband Jim Flaherty, the federal finance minister, came to fully know of the special needs of one of their own three sons. What she did know, from her volunteer work with the Grandview Children’s Centre and Durham Mental Health Services, was that parents with adult children with special needs, “were really desperate about what was going to happen to their children when they were gone.”
Tags: participation, standard of living
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