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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – Why won’t Ottawa honour its First Nations treaties?
Posted: March 23, 2009. Nelson Leeson and James Eetoolook, of the Land Claims Agreements Coalition
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
TheStar.com – Insight – A case for keeping the door open in downturn: Though some struggle, newcomers bring benefits in tough economic times
March 22, 2009. Nicholas Keung, IMMIGRATION REPORTER
In the early 1990s, with signs of a recession looming, Cynthia Lai rushed to sell her downtown condominiums, anticipating a real estate market crash similar to those of previous economic downturns. She miscalculated.
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Smart first step in poverty fight TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Smart first step in poverty fight
March 21, 2009
When Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that his government would reduce child poverty by 25 per cent, he included a gigantic escape hatch, saying it could only be done with Ottawa’s help and a growing economy. Wisely, he’s decided not to play that card.
Yesterday, McGuinty announced $400 million to increase Ontario’s child benefit for low-income families; and $600 million to match federal money to repair and build new affordable housing.
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Yes, these children can
March 21, 2009. MARGARET WENTE
We Canadians like to congratulate ourselves that our society is less unequal than it is in the United States. Our schools are better, our income distribution is fairer, and our poverty is less entrenched.
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion – Inequality too important to leave to academics
March 20, 2009. Carol Goar
Last May, the leaders of the world’s major market democracies became so concerned about the widening gap between rich and poor that they asked the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to take an urgent look at income inequality in all 30 member countries.
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion – The unseen hand in the economy
March 20, 2009. Helen Burstyn, Chair of the Ontario Trillium Foundation and President of the Canadian Club of Toronto
Daily headlines remind us that the economic crisis is driving down employment and wiping out private sector profits. But in the sector where I work, there are no profits to wipe out, because it’s not-for-profit.
And while fewer workers are on the job in the private sector, there seem to be more volunteers working in the field than ever before.
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
TheStar.com – Canada – Resurrection of Harrisites boggles mind
March 20, 2009. Jim Coyle
Sweet mother of mercy, but colleague Robert Benzie’s front-page report this week that the ghouls of the Common Sense Revolution were rising from the crypt must have had Ontarians across the province scrambling for garlic cloves and crosses.
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
NationalPost.com – Full Comment – The CBC is Canada’s eyes and ears
March 20, 2009. Curt Petrovich
I was 24. I looked out that jet window to the landscape sprawling below just before I landed in my new life as a radio reporter for the CBC. It looked like Mars. A smattering of buildings on reddish earth. Not much else until my eyes met the horizon.
I flew to Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) in 1986 hoping to kick-start my journalism career. I lived as a minority amongst Inuit and tried to tell stories about this place to Canadians.
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion – What Ontario has to do to fix the hole in welfare
March 18, 2009. Don Drummond, Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group, and John Stapleton, Metcalf Foundation Fellow
Our welfare system provides Ontarians with a false sense of security.
Many assume it has been designed to offer temporary protection to individuals who are ineligible for Employment Insurance, or no longer able to participate in this program.
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion – How did Canada become so unequal?
March 18, 2009. Carol Goar
Perceptions take a while to catch up to reality.
Most Canadians think they live in one of the fairest, most equitable countries in the industrial world. They believe their social programs are generous by international standards.
That was true until the mid-1990s. It isn’t now.
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