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Toronto youth job program gets surprise cash boost
Neighbourhoods in the city’s northwest quadrant targeted for the extra Canada Summer Jobs Program funding include Lawrence Heights, Black Creek, Jane-Finch, Weston-Mount Dennis and Rexdale. It is part of an $18.7-million investment across the city to create 6,305 summer jobs this year, more than double the positions funded by the previous Conservative government. More than 77,000 jobs are being created nationwide. Students aged 15 to 30 who are returning to school in the fall are eligible.
Tags: budget, featured, participation, philanthropy, poverty, youth
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Ontario’s affordable housing wait list grows
A record 171,360 Ontario households were waiting for affordable housing in 2015, with average wait times of almost four years, according to an annual report that tracks need across the province… Although the province is giving municipalities more flexibility in the use of federal-provincial housing funds, the need to build more non-profit housing is not going away
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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From exploited to supported: Phasing out Canada’s lowest wage work programs
[It] is about more than ensuring minimum wage rates and decent workplace conditions for intellectually disabled individuals… It is about transitioning supports from segregated and congregate settings to community participation, community engagement and community employment.” … fram[ing] the shift away from the sheltered workshop model as a “deinstitutionalizing segregated labour markets.”
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Indigenous communities must be part of the global green energy revolution
… energy is a key determinant of economic, social, educational and health outcomes. Without a supply of adequate energy services, other critical infrastructure that supports the provision of clean water, sewage treatment, educational and medical needs becomes problematic… Canada can now begin to promote global leadership in… climate change… but promote universal energy access… And in doing so, we can create export opportunities for our clean tech sector in the global marketplace.
Tags: economy, featured, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living
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To be effective, charities need to invest in themselves
Imagine the impact we could have if instead of treating charities like charity cases, we thought of them, and invested in them, as businesses – helping them scale, become more efficient and deliver a better return on investment? … “Administration and overhead costs” … applies to the amount charities can invest in systems and structures that will define their ability to be successful and impactful. It includes… technology, training, recruitment, financial controls and governance.
Tags: ideology, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Non-profits should provide decent work
Despite growing concern for people trapped in “precarious work” — without job security, pensions or benefits — almost half of the 1 million staff employed by Ontario’s 55,000 non-profit organizations are serving part-time or on contract… Rather than judging non-profits according to how much — or how little — they spend on administration, it would make more sense to give increased weight to factors such as cost-of-living pay increases and provision of living wages for staff.
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
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National initiative seeks to connect youth who experienced homelessness to 180 jobs by end of 2016
HireUp — recognized as the first program of its kind — will function like Workopolis, inviting employers to post available positions on its online website. Partnering social agencies specializing in homeless youth will then submit the resumes of candidates — most of whom have no previous work experience — they feel are ready to enter the workforce. The program is aiming to help connect homeless youth to 180 full-time jobs — and a slew of part-time jobs
Tags: homelessness, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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End head-butting over resource projects
… minerals, forestry, commercial fishing, electricity generation and waste management. These industries account for 20 per cent of Canada’s gross domestic product. They all impinge on the rights, territories and way of life of life of aboriginal communities… “Before any particular project is being considered, the responsible government departments or agencies should be on the ground working with local communities to identify needs, opportunities and help set expectations. This should happen before project proponents enter the scene.”
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Don’t Reward Corporations for Donating Food Waste, Critic Says
The National Zero Waste Council — an organization whose membership includes local governments, businesses and non-profits — wants municipal governments to pass motions urging the Canadian government to create a tax incentive “for food producers, suppliers and retailers to donate unsold edible food.”… Some 40 per cent of the food produced in Canada gets wasted — about $31 billion worth of food, and enough of it is edible to provide 300 million meals, according to the council’s estimates.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, tax
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Trudeau’s promised ‘middle class’ tax cut excludes most Canadians
… the major gains from the “middle class” tax cut will go to individuals with incomes between $89,200 and $200,000, roughly the top 10 per cent, minus the top 1 per cent who will pay higher taxes to pay for the tax cut for those below them on the income ladder… The real losers over the past 15 years and more have been the middle- and lower-income earners who will not benefit much if at all from the new “middle class” tax cut.
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