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Canadians with disabilities need real work, real pay, real leadership
A new national policy framework should help enable people with disabilities to attain postsecondary education, to participate in training and vocational rehabilitation and to obtain and hold gainful employment in inclusive workplaces, on an equal basis with other people. Greater attention is needed on workplace practices and the role of disability management, bolstered by federal investments through intergovernmental agreements, grants and tax measures.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ombudsman Calls For Systemic Overhaul To Help Adults With Developmental Disabilities In Crisis
In Nowhere to Turn, the Ombudsman reports on his office’s investigation of more than 1,400 complaints from families of adults with developmental disabilities who are in crisis situations, including being abandoned, abused, unnecessarily hospitalized and jailed… These “extreme and egregious cases” highlight a dire need for greater supports, services and more rigorous monitoring – and amount to “a modern-day version of institutionalization,” Mr. Dubé says in the report.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Inquests have become as lost as these seven aboriginal youths who left home and perished
… the inquest system, once the purview of the medical doctors who serve as coroners, has morphed into a highly politicized process and a fine source of work and income for lawyers; that lawyers quite directly run the show; and that jurors are not expected to think for themselves… The bulk of the recommendations, via the lawyers to the jury, deal with sweeping changes to aboriginal education in this country. They would require truckloads of additional public money.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Liberals should reconsider this capital-gains oversight on donations
In the United States, gifts of appreciated capital property are exempt from capital-gains taxes. Removal of this barrier would also help Canadians donate more, as our per-capita donations are one half of donations by Americans… All stakeholders strongly recommend the Liberals consider implementing this important measure in the 2017 budget.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, philanthropy, standard of living, tax
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At last, reconciliation with First Nations actually seems possible
Paradoxically, given the news coming from communities like Attawapiskat, there is an optimism that change is actually coming… The shift will see First Nations granted far greater autonomy, allowing the government to concentrate on “problem” reserves through a more regional policy… At the very least, a more autonomous model of citizenship based on indigenous traditions, kinship systems and laws will leave no one else to blame if it doesn’t work… “That is empowerment, and to me, that creates hope.”
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Supreme Court recognizes rights of Métis and non-status Indians
The Supreme Court ruled that “Indians” in Sec. 91(24) of the Constitution Act of 1867 — which lists the areas over which the Canadian government has sole jurisdiction — does not just refer to First Nations with registered Indian status and Inuit peoples, but to all aboriginal peoples in Canada, including Métis and non-status Indians. There were 213,900 non-status Indians and 451,785 Métis people in Canada counted in the 2011 Census, but they have often been relegated to what Abella described as a “jurisdictional wasteland” between provinces and the federal government when it comes to the provision of services, or holding someone to account for their absence.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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The magic of “ending homelessness” — and ending up with more
I am not suggesting that thousands of people were not retrieved from the streets and riverbanks and rescued from misery. I am not even arguing against a housing-first approach to homelessness. But if you sell a program on the basis of an unconditional and explicit promise to “eradicate homelessness,” should you not reduce it a smidgen? … Cities, almost by definition, end up with as many panhandlers and tent-dwellers as they are prepared, culturally and financially, to pay for…
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s charity chill continues
Gagging charities certainly would be convenient for some powerful interests, interests with many times the resources and insider influence of the average Canadian charity. But would that really make our country stronger? The answer, of course, is no… It is time to end politically motivated audits of Canadian charities and adopt modern rules that allow charities to play an active role in building the kind of inclusive and sustainable society
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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Ontario Budget 2016: A Wintery Outlook For The Poor
Our coalition is thankful for budget measures that provide some relief to low-income families and seniors, including: * Access to free higher education for students from families with incomes under $50,000… * A $175 million commitment over the next three years to alleviate an affordable housing crisis; * Steps to reduce prescription drug costs that will benefit 170,000 low-income seniors… Yet on other fronts, the budget is disappointing.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Advocates taking Canada’s housing policy to UN
… affordable housing activists are taking their landmark “right to housing” Charter challenge to the international stage… the case… was never heard because lawyers for Ontario and Ottawa introduced a successful motion to strike in 2013. The activists appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which in June 2015 refused to hear the case, essentially upholding the lower court’s view that legislatures, not the courts, are the place to fight homelessness.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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