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Canada should fix refugee system
The problem isn’t a lack of open hearts or willing hands. It isn’t even a lack of money. The stumbling block to bringing more desperate people to this country is that it has become next to impossible to connect them with the people ready to welcome them here. The refugee system has become so tangled and slow that asylum seekers languish in camps while would-be sponsors wait in frustration.
This is an eminently fixable problem…
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, philanthropy
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‘Anchor strategy’ is a smart way to fight poverty
Unlike industries, which can thrive or fail, big public institutions generally stay embedded in a community, like an “anchor.” They typically employ a lot of people and dispense a great deal of money. Ontario universities and hospitals, alone, spend $9.9 billion on goods and services yearly, according to the report. Allocating just a small portion of that outflow to communities and local small businesses could channel hundreds of millions of dollars to people who truly need it.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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It’s well past time for a Canadians with Disabilities Act
In this country, there is no comprehensive legislation protecting the rights of people with disabilities. What we have instead is a mish-mash of vague principles and tame enforcement bodies… in the United States, the ADA was proactive – it forced governments and private businesses to tear down barriers or face punishing sanctions, and it gave people with disabilities legal tools to demand change. In Canada, we continue to treat inclusion of people with disabilities as a privilege rather than a right.
Tags: disabilities, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Privatized city cuts public adrift
… the public realm in all its forms is under attack. An alignment of factors — civic impoverishment, widespread cynicism and the politics of conservatism — has made the abandonment of these shared goods and services seem desirable. Having allowed the public realm to fall into disrepair, if not disrepute, we would rather sell it off than pay the price of rehabilitation. And because taxes are toxic, the public sector’s hands are tied. Privatization has become the new mantra.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Canada’s government shamefully refuses to implement the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
… UNDRIP is a fairly simple document that affirms the legal rights of indigenous people to “freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.” It stipulates that indigenous people should not be discriminated against and that they should be able to freely practice and revitalize their customs — rights that most Canadians take for granted… It constitutes, as outlined in Article 43, “the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world.”
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Canada must rebuild trust, and make amends for residential school abuse
Canada has already paid out $1.6 billion to the 80,000 survivors to settle a class-action suit, and another $2.5 billion to nearly 30,000 who suffered serious abuse. Beyond that, the commission urges a number of measures — both symbolic and practical, and some controversial — to ease the pain and redress the wrongs… At root, this report is a summons to change. This is advice to build on, starting with a push to improve conditions in native communities. Symbolism won’t mean much if people continue to suffer from neglect and want.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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We should let charities shape public policy
… corporations are able to deduct 100 per cent of the cost of involvement in advocacy and lobbying from their gross income, thus greatly reducing their taxes. Canadian citizens get only a small tax credit for donating to a charity that does public policy work. If citizens were to lose that benefit, as charities disappear or give up their charitable status, this would tip the financial scales in favour of corporate influence even further than they already are today.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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People with disabilities deserve to be paid a legal wage
It’s time for the government to ensure that all workers in this country, regardless of ability, are paid a legal wage. Ottawa must begin by shutting down this disgraceful sheltered workshop and all others of its kind. The workers now employed there should be placed in the competitively paid positions they are perfectly capable of filling. Surely the federal government doesn’t need to save a few bucks on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens.
Tags: disabilities, economy, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s Charity Law Needs Reform: Report
The report calls for Canada to establish clearer rules about what constitutes political activity and provide a more generous limit on allowable political activities. Charities impacted by federal audits applauded the reports’ recommendations. Environmental Defence executive director Tim Gray said the findings put Canada’s laws in context with other western countries.
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, rights, standard of living, tax
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Government disability policies work at cross purposes
About one Ontarian in seven has some kind of disability. Any of us is just a disabling disease or an accident away from becoming disabled ourselves. Is this how we would want to be treated? … According to federal statistics, the poverty rate for people with a disability is 14.4 per cent, more than twice the rate for seniors… Disabled people below the poverty line have income clawed back by the provincial government. How can that be right?
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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