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Good news on child poverty greeted by same old pessimism
… according to Statistics Canada, between 2008 and 2011, the number of poor children in Canada declined by nearly 70,000. That doesn’t mean job done, should we wish to accept it as such: Not least among the native population, there is real, wrenching poverty in Canada, and it’s to our great collective discredit… Campaign 2000′s 2013 Report Card provides compelling evidence against futility. It is, in short, good news…
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Breaking the poverty cycle
… the Youth Futures program… help[s] children living in social housing get out of the rut… The seven-month program offers high school kids leadership training, CPR courses and paid part-time jobs to let them get their bearings. Each teen can also spend two weeks at a university or college campus taking courses that show them their options after graduating. “That makes it easier for them to demystify what it’s like to go beyond high school and gives them the supports they need to be successful.”
Tags: housing, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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People with mental disabilities fear police
Few had ever seen a mobile crisis intervention team… The officers who answered their calls for help — or the 911 calls placed by friends, family members or concerned bystanders — burst into their apartments or rooming houses, barked out orders and traumatized them… They feared they would be shot or jolted with electric current. They still fear their police records will follow them wherever they go. And they doubt things will ever change…
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Ontario must enforce equality rules for disabled
… the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act… is little more than whimsical window dressing because the vast majority of businesses don’t comply with the basic rules. To make matters worse, the government has done nothing to enforce those rules… 70 per cent of Ontario’s private businesses with 20 or more employees (about 360,000 across the province) have not bothered to comply with the law’s most basic reporting requirements.
Tags: disabilities, rights, standard of living
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Food-bank usage still near record levels in Canada, study says
One in eight people at food banks are employed… Single people are increasingly turning up at food banks, while a growing proportion are on disability supports which aren’t sufficient to meet basic needs… Food banks – never meant to be a permanent solution for people living on low incomes – have been assisting more than 700,000 people each month for much of the past 15 years. “The problem they address has never been as severe, for as long a period, as it is now”
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Promises for transparency failing the disabled
Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development has refused to give a volunteer group for the disabled important information on hard-won rights for equality. They’re looking for details on the compliance and enforcement of the province’s standards for accessibility in private businesses and organizations. In other words, the very information that would prove whether the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act is actually working — or not.
Tags: disabilities, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Homelessness in decline thanks to federal efforts, minister says
… about 4,000 people in Toronto have moved into permanent housing in the past eight years, Candice Bergen told the National Conference on Homelessness on Tuesday. “These are some of the strongest results that we’ve ever seen in any attempt to reduce homelessness”… The government, she added, is committed to expanding the so-called Housing First program that is driving the trend.
Tags: homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Five Things You Didn’t Know about Co-ops
As of 2012, there were an estimated 1.4 million co-operatives in existence worldwide. Far from being a product of the flower-child era, co-ops are among the world’s oldest and most resilient forms of social enterprise… so far-reaching is their influence that in 2009 the United Nations passed a unanimous resolution naming 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives, to recognize their contribution to our social and economic landscape.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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All professions should be forced to learn about aboriginal residential schools: judge
The chairman of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission says all professions should have to undergo mandatory training about residential schools as the country tries to undo some of the deep-seeded trauma inflicted by the policy to “take the Indian out of the child.” … “This requirement should be imposed upon all of those who are treating aboriginal people… professionals who have not been trained in cultural competence,”
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, standard of living
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Meal Smokescreen
Perhaps school meal programs could make a difference if they were part of a comprehensive and effective anti-poverty strategy that enabled families to meet their basic needs… Otherwise, meal programs are simply another smokescreen allowing us to feel good about feeding hungry kids and implicitly blaming their parents for their irresponsibility… If we really cared about children, we would ensure that they and their families could live in dignity, with the resources they need for food, shelter, clothing and social inclusion.
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