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Can we really end homelessness?
Homelessness that happens to poor people is no more complex or unsolvable than homelessness caused by natural disaster. We’ve proven beyond any doubt that we can take people directly from the streets and put them into apartments, and by providing them the support they need, we can permanently end their homelessness… Just as our goal in disaster response is housing and recovery, so too must be our response to homelessness.
Tags: featured, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Toronto’s geography of inequity
… either we invest in these communities now and fix these trends, or we’ll pay much more later on. “Poverty is expensive” … unemployment and criminal justice costs down the road, if trends don’t change… The policy areas that need to be addressed include quality affordable housing, availability of community services, income security, and what Barata calls workforce development. “With precarity, people aren’t going to get training through work, it’ll be out of pocket, but the market demands it.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, housing, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living
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There’s a simple solution to niqabs and oath swearing – but Harper won’t allow it
Women like Zunera Ishaq needn’t feel obliged to wear their veils while swearing the citizenship oath. Religious freedoms can be respected by simply allowing them to take the oath in a room where no men are present. In that case, exposing their faces would not conflict with their religious values. This is what the law calls a “reasonable accommodation,” a gesture that harms no one but allows affected individuals to respect their beliefs.
Tags: featured, globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, women
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Treat all Canadian citizens equally under our laws
It’s tempting to not much care what happens to a murderous extremist who scorns our democracy, flouts our laws and seeks to strike fear in our hearts… Modern citizenship is a fundamental status, not something that can be revoked because the government deems a person not deserving. Banishing citizens is a throwback to totalitarian regimes and primitive eras… Whatever their origins, Canadians whose crimes shock the conscience of society should face the full force of the law and the same penalties. There must be one citizenship, and one justice, for all.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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The fraying of Canada’s social fabric
… if you live in a country where people are left to look after themselves, this embeds the idea that you have no responsibility toward the poor and weak…. “When you change the way society works, our values shift in response… Privatization, marketization, austerity for the poor, inequality: they all shift baselines, alter the social cues we receive and generate insecurity and a sense of threat.”
Tags: Health, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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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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