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Ordinary people an untapped force for social change
Why do we continue to see such rates of poverty, inequality and climate threat despite our growing wealth and prosperity as a nation (and civilization)? There’s a certain wilful blindness in many of us. We keep our heads down. We ignore what others are doing. We think our efforts, our approach will be ‘the one,’ despite what has been done before and despite what others are doing now.
In reality we have more than enough solutions to our social economic and environmental challenges. They are just not at scale and that requires as I suggest in the book that we ‘think and act like a movement.’
Tags: disabilities, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Let judges ease the burden on the poor
… set fines can have dramatically different impacts on different people. For some, a $10,000 penalty will be a severe but manageable burden. For others, like Jaques, getting out from under it is an impossible task. It would be fairer if fines were levied in proportion to the ability to pay, as is done in some U.S. states and such countries as Germany and France.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Tories have ‘no plans’ to match poverty aid vow inside Canada: memo
“Unlike most of our traditional like-minded countries, Canada has no plans to apply the Post-2015 Agenda domestically, or to take on new reporting obligations beyond what we are currently producing,” … The memo adds that “there will be international and domestic pressure to commit to domestic action and to report on the targets.” But it says Canada already has a variety of programs at different levels of government, “which aligns well with many of the proposed goals and targets.”
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Legal Aid announces significant expansion
The multi-year plan being announced Monday aims to address the growing needs of a range of vulnerable groups that are over-represented in the courts, including members of First Nations, victims of domestic violence and people suffering from mental illness. The array of new services includes everything from coverage for first-time offenders in criminal cases to complex matters in family courts, where more than 50 per cent of litigants do not have lawyers.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Against all odds, Legal Aid Ontario is getting better
McCamus, who conducted a comprehensive review of Ontario’s legal aid system in 1997, is acutely aware that only the very poor qualify for legal aid. He doesn’t have the authority to raise the threshold. But he has lobbied the government to do it throughout his tenure. This year, for the first time since 1997, the answer was yes.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Ontario’s legal aid system gets some well-targeted help
The new money, the first installment of a two-year plan to invest $9.8 million in legal aid clinics, ill be allocated according to need… Specialty clinics – serving ethnocultural minorities, people with disabilities, industrial accident victims, people with HIV/AIDS, the elderly, tenants and children – will get $1.2 million, and clinics serving francophones and other linguistic minorities will get $600,000.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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A person of different abilities is a person first
One of the biggest challenges facing any person, with Down syndrome or without, is being told what we cannot do. The language we use, the classrooms and special programs we set up, and the job opportunities available all set the tone for a person’s development and success. As we shift from looking at people with disabilities as “disabled,” and move toward a more inclusive model that sees all people as capable, with a range of abilities, our expectations for those with Down syndrome will continue to evolve.
Tags: child care, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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The great divide in Toronto housing
With one in five Torontonians living in poverty, that’s a lot of us left out in the cold, especially aboriginal, racialized and immigrant women who are more likely to experience poverty, precarious employment and lack of affordable housing as a barrier to leaving violent situations. This isn’t just about building more shelters and fixing the backlog of TCHC repairs. While these are necessary, they can never be more than band-aid solutions without careful consideration of how housing, urban planning and community development interact with poverty and inequality.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Letting down Ontario’s disabled
the accessibility act is in danger of becoming “window dressing” and a sham as businesses fail to comply with its most basic requirements. What was needed then, as now, is compliance, beginning with an insistence that reports be filed, with inspections and fines to follow. What was needed then, as now, is a government that is prepared to make a public example of scofflaws, not coddle them. Providing equal access for the disabled will require more robust, effective, visible enforcement than we’ve seen to date.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ottawa should broaden tax break for donations to charity
U.S. laws do more to encourage donating to charities by offering more generous tax breaks to people who give money away… In its spring budget the Conservative government should broaden the tax exemption on capital gains for charitable donations. It should give the same tax treatment to donations of private-company shares and real estate as is now given to gifts of publicly traded shares… That would likely result in additional donations to charities in the region of $200 million a year
Tags: budget, ideology, philanthropy, tax
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