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Unsung heroes of the Third City
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Dec 22 2011
The Third City – is made up of Toronto’s low-income neighbourhoods, with their high concentrations of racialized poverty… [where] incomes… have declined 20 per cent or more since 1970… the Third City can also be understood as an urban condition: a set of experiences that together amount to exclusion from the full political, economic and cultural life of our city… But behind the negative media headlines and dire poverty statistics, there are people working hard to stitch together a social fabric torn by decades of rising poverty and inequality.
Tags: multiculturalism, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Giving thanks for civil discourse
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Oct 09 2011
In establishing the CBC, the prime minister claimed that “the country must be assured of complete Canadian control of broadcasting from Canadian sources. Without such control, broadcasting can never be the agency by which national consciousness may be fostered.”… Both the CBC, with its historically insightful documentaries and series programming, such as Ideas and Tapestry, and the Massey Lecture series, with its commitment to publicly accessible scholarship, are not ancillary, but central, to a vibrant Canadian democracy…
Tags: standard of living
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Don’t dismiss the so-cons
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Apr. 8, 2011
Cut across party lines and examine the faces standing with Senators and MPs in support of all-party reports about poverty in Canada, issued in 2009 and 2010 respectively, and you’ll see the presence of so-cons again. Poverty and homelessness aren’t typically identified as socially conservative issues in the media. But we don’t let the media define us… And, like Wilberforce, contemporary theo-cons are committed, not eccentric. And we’re not a spent force yet.
Tags: ideology, participation
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Prisoners of the web
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Mar 10 2011
Jesse Hirsh… began by saying we’re all F.U.C.T., which he said stood for, Fully Under the Control of Technology. Meaning above all the Internet. He said it amounts to their religion; it surrounds their lives with meanings, as Catholicism did in the Middle Ages. It is their spiritual reality, which is a virtual one. Yet nothing in the adult world, especially politically, reflects this as their source of connection and identity… No wonder politics makes little sense to many of them, he said. They know other issues matter but the central reality of their own lives goes unrecognized.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living, youth
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The invention of homelessness
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Sep 18 2010
Over the past two decades, we relied on an increasingly deregulated society in which the “genius of market forces” would meet our needs, in which tax cuts, made possible by cuts to programs that largely benefited poor and average-income people, were supposed to “trickle down” to benefit those in need. The competitive economy required, we were told, wage suppression and part-time jobs with no benefits. By the early 1980s, countries like Canada needed a new term for a new social problem. The word “homelessness” filled the gap… It is a catch-all term for a host of serious social and economic policy failures.
Tags: featured, homelessness, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario politician believed society had an obligation to help those in need
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
September 2, 2010
(John) Yaremko brought his own experience of poverty to the policy table. He advocated for provincial scholarships, health care and a measure of independent living for the disabled through pensions and subsidized housing… As Social Services Minister… He fought for federal funding and got it in 1967 through the Canada Assistance Plan, which brought dollars and national standards to provincial welfare programs… One of Yaremko’s proudest accomplishments was helping to establish ethnocentric nursing homes across the province so that seniors could enjoy living with their own traditions and foods.
Tags: multiculturalism, standard of living
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Planner sought to democratize the city
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
August 17, 2010
An urban planner in Toronto in the booming fifties and sixties, Comay played a key role in shaping the city – in land use, housing, parklands, and the envisioning of heavier traffic patterns. After he left the public sector, his championing of social housing led to the creation of Ontario’s housing ministry… His urban spaces, which were committed to the idea of equal access to all services, were modern, socially just and fully egalitarian. Mass transit was cheap and mass housing available. Living downtown was not just for the rich.
Tags: housing, ideology, participation
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A chance for Huronia’s ‘invisible’ to be seen and heard
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Jul. 27, 2010
… residents and family members [have mounted] a class-action lawsuit against the Province of Ontario, as the operator of Huronia Regional Centre, for systemic neglect and abuse over 133 years, until its closing on March 31, 2009… It’s the first time the courts have allowed a class-action lawsuit against a government-operated residential institution for the developmentally disabled in Ontario and, if it goes to trial, a first in Canada.
Tags: disabilities, rights, standard of living
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MILESTONES IN A QUARTER-CENTURY OF ACTIVISM [on disabilities]
Friday, April 9th, 2010
March 15, 2010
Twenty-five years in the disability movement – here are just a few of the many markers along the way… [from 1983 – 2008]
Tags: disabilities, rights
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CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP: A HISTORY
Monday, October 19th, 2009
TheStar.com – news/gta – CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP: A HISTORY
Published On Mon Oct 19 2009
Before 1915 — People in Canada from the U.K. and Commonwealth countries were British subjects. Others had to live here for five years and be of “good character” to be naturalized.
1921 — A separate status of “Canadian national” was created under the Canadian Nationals Act.
1946 — Canada passed the Canadian Citizenship Act and became the first Commonwealth country to establish its own nationality.
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