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Ontario denies dignity in death
Provincial laws are discriminatory even in death. Ontario Works and ODSP are a social net for people in need. Non-status immigrants deserve this support like all Ontarians, especially since they often do the dirty, low-paying and dangerous jobs other Ontarians don’t want. If Rob Ford can vote with the rest of council to make Toronto a sanctuary city, Kathleen Wynne should be able to do the same for Ontario.
Tags: ideology, immigration, poverty, standard of living
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Raising minimum wage won’t help end poverty but giving the poor more money will
If we really want to help the poor, here’s a radical idea: give them more money. Only do so directly, using the tax and transfer system, rather than fixing wages and hoping some of it reaches them. Take from the rich and give to the poor, and at least you have some idea of who is paying, and who is benefiting, with less room for the former group to evade their responsibilities to the latter. And you leave wages to get on with the job for which they were intended, which is to see that all available labour is employed.
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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When it comes to giving, Canadians are quietly generous
The 2013 index suggests that Americans are more than twice as generous as Canadians, based on the share of their income donated to charity (1.33 per cent versus 0.64 per cent for Canadians). This portrait is misleading and unfair because it focuses almost exclusively on tax-deductible giving… Statistics Canada… found that almost every Canadian (94 per cent) aged 15 and older gave money, goods or food in 2010. The average cash gift was $446.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
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Why are citizens increasingly filling up bread lines?
It’s been more than 25 years since the nation dedicated itself to ending child poverty and it has since doubled. Unemployment continues to climb with each succeeding year, regardless of supposed financial recoveries… To say we have no answers is to admit that 2014 will look much like the year just passed. For such a highly educated and diverse society, this is a sell-out that is beneath the example of ingenuity and sacrifice set by our parents and grandparents.
Tags: economy, homelessness, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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It’s time to build democracy 2.0
Some say that the overarching problem of our time is inequality and, indeed, this has been quite dramatically increasing. But surely a problem so easily solvable (if the will exists) cannot itself be a root cause… “Big government” used to be seen as the guarantor of order and social services. Now it is seen as partisan, dysfunctional, wasteful and often corrupt in the service of special interests… Our ways of democratic governance… do not seem up to the modern world’s challenges.
Tags: ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Cut the capital gains tax, cut the income gap
Many would consider making major donations to social service agencies, such as United Way/Centraide, if they weren’t required to pay capital gains tax on such gifts… Social service agencies have already benefited enormously from the removal of the capital gains tax on charitable gifts of listed securities… In addition to this crucial support for people who have little or no income, our proposal would also provide incremental funding for health care, education and arts and culture.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, philanthropy, poverty, tax
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Canada loses ground on literacy
Seven years ago, the bank issued a national call for action, urging policy-makers and corporate leaders to make literacy a national priority… Ottawa and the provinces… invested money and effort in raising literacy levels… Net impact: Less than zero. The national score was weighed down by the performances of two groups: immigrants and the Aboriginal Peoples.
Tags: economy, immigration, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, youth
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Good news from Canada’s aboriginal communities
On some of the poorest reserves in the North, kids are thriving… One Laptop per Child Canada, a charity that provides laptops to aboriginal children… come fully loaded with HD video, YouTube streaming, 60 literacy programs, a physical fitness app, a nutrition app, a financial skills app, math games, activities that help kids cope with bullying, alcohol, solvents, family violence, drugs and depression and 25 books written by First Nation, Métis and Inuit authors
Tags: Indigenous, participation, philanthropy, standard of living, youth
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Low-income social housing residents anxious as Ottawa ends subsidies
… the mortgages on many social-housing properties have now been paid off, so the government has fulfilled its commitment. “To suggest that because these agreements expire, every single complex can no longer provide subsidies to people based on their income is not true; many of these complexes will be in as good shape now, or better, once these agreements expire because the subsidy equalled what the mortgage payment was…
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario needs information to ensure shelter money is well spent
The Ministry [MCSS] must properly detail the successes and failures of women’s emergency shelters to improve services… in 2011-12, overflowing shelters turned away more than 15,000 women seeking help. That huge number could make the case for additional beds but the lack of follow-up to see if those women were accepted at other shelters — or left to fend for themselves — renders the number meaningless.
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