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The case for a new housing benefit
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Aug 28 2011
Declining tenant incomes have been a major underlying reason behind the growth of the affordability problem. In the City of Toronto alone, the median income of renter households fell by an average of $6,396 between 1981 and 2006… A new Ontario housing benefit would extend shelter benefits to the working poor, who also have high shelter costs, while also supporting those on social assistance… A carefully designed, fiscally prudent benefit is smart policy to help low-income renters make ends meet and take pressure off subsidized housing waiting lists.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Canadians Should Make the Rules, Not Big Telecom
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Aug. 1, 2011
… the hearing showed a break in the CRTC’s longstanding practice of shielding big telecom at the expense of the Canadian public. The commission finally admitted that there is an Internet affordability problem in this country, and that change is required to fix this dire situation. It appears that when the CRTC takes the time to listen to Canadians, they see things clearer… one thing is clear: the best way to safeguard the open and affordable Internet is for Canadians to stay informed, engaged and active on these issues.
Tags: participation, rights, standard of living
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A new reason to support the CBC [diversity]
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Jul 30 2011
…we’ve gone from mass media to… “molecular media.” …increasingly any Canadian can be awash in any particular narrow point of view. They can listen to, read or watch the views they support or hold. That means there is a real danger of balkanizing our society — we all may end up in self-reinforcing echo-chambers where all we hear is our own point of view… There is still a role for great broadcasting. CBC/Radio-Canada… gives essential support to Canadian content and the independent production sector that creates it. The result is diverse voices in the media landscape…
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, participation
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Canadian Internet lags behind the rest of the developed world
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Jun 27, 2011
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released data comparing Internet connectivity in the developed world and the results do not look good for Canada. The data shows that Canadian Internet users pay some of the highest prices in the OECD, for slower connections than in many other places… The problem is that the Canadian ISP market is effectively a duopoly, with services being provided by the incumbent phone and cable companies in most major centres.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living
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What is poverty?
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
June 22, 2011
Regardless of the measures used, the reality is that leaving poverty unaddressed costs Canadians far more, both economically and socially… “Poverty results from barriers to social and economic resources that prevent well-being and access to opportunities in the community.” This definition does not include a number below which people must fall, but rather recognizes that, regardless of definition, our failure to address the root causes of poverty is a cost too great to ignore.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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How paying people’s way out of poverty can help us all
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
May. 06, 2011
… there’s an increasing awareness, among even the country’s most wealthy, that poverty reaches beyond the tables of the hungry and digs into their own pocketbooks. When people are poor, out of work or homeless, it hurts the bottom line of all Canadians… the country is becoming economically polarized. And the decades-old dominant economic dogma that growing wealth among society’s highest earners would trickle down to those less fortunate is being challenged by an alternative approach: Eliminate crushing poverty among the lowest earners, and wealth will trickle up.
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Legislation will enforce disability-friendly service
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
May 07 2011
Businesses could face fines of up to $100,000 per day under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) if they don’t meet standards for accessible customer service by the new year. The law requires businesses to develop accessible policies and procedures and to train staff, volunteers and contractors to serve customers with disabilities… research by the Martin Prosperity Institute has suggested that the impact of AODA regulations on Ontario’s economy over the next five years could boost revenues for retail and tourism establishments by $4 billion to $11 billion a year.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, rights
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Judge Ted Ormston is on a mission to change lives [mental health reform]
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Apr 21 2011
The Toronto judge is making life better for millions of Canadians affected by mental illness… In 1998, he… propos[ed] that the Ontario government create a special court for mentally ill offenders.. The new court quickly proved its worth. It steered thousands of sick offenders into treatment, not jail… In 2006, he was seconded from the court to head Ontario’s Consent and Capacity Board… that decides whether individuals involuntarily living in psychiatric institutions can safely be released… His aim: to transform the mental health system.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, rights
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Homelessness alliance likes city’s budget $14M will make difference, group says
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
April 12, 2011
… the city’s new budget… promises $10 million in new investment to fight homelessness and poverty plus a further $4 million in capital funding. “It’s going to be targeted funding to really focus on bringing some of the homelessness numbers down, and decreasing some of the effects of poverty” [chair Marion Wright] said. Next, she said, the federal and Ontario governments should try to measure up to what Ottawa is doing. The number of people who used temporary shelters last year -7,156 of them -was almost unchanged from the previous year.
Tags: budget, homelessness, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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A door opens for the mentally ill
Monday, April 11th, 2011
Apr 11 2011
For the first time, an individual living openly with mental illness was appointed to the Consent and Capacity Board, the powerful tribunal that determines whether Ontarians receiving psychiatric treatment are capable of living outside an institution without endangering themselves or others… The board has 131 members: 45 lawyers, 44 psychiatrists and 42 members of the public… What it didn’t have until last week was anyone who had been institutionalized for mental illness, labelled, stereotyped and limited by the opinions of doctors and the fears of society.
Tags: mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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