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You don’t help disabled workers by hiding them
What these workers – who by all accounts do their jobs well – need is not pity, but respect. They need to be afforded the same rights as other Canadians, including the protection of the country’s labour laws… hiring people with disabilities is good for business because it results in higher productivity, less turnover (which leads to lower training costs) and better responsiveness for customers, who appreciate a work force that reflects their community.
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Between budgets, jobs and combat, how does Harper find time for the niqab?
His point was that those who cover their faces are not making a choice of their own free will – but are victims of subjugation… You can dislike the niqab and still think it’s not the Prime Minister’s place to comment in this way on individual behavior, and to imagine that he knows the reasons why people make the choices they do.
Tags: featured, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, women
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Charity law blocks progress on issues facing Canadians
There is strong suggestive evidence that more than 50 audited charities have been targeted in order to silence criticism and to create a chill among others that might speak out… while the Harper government blocks charities from using tax credits to influence public opinion, it allows corporations to write off as a business expense 100 per cent of the money they spend to derail or support legislation that affects their interests.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, tax
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Why Canada should reinstate long-form census
In 2010, against the advice of the chief statistician and other experts, the Conservative government quashed the long-form census… the National Household Survey has very scant returns from the top and bottom rungs of the economic ladder. With mainly mid-income respondents, the survey creates a façade that Canada is a thriving middle-class society when in fact it is experiencing a widening chasm between the affluent and the impoverished.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Long-form census crucial to understanding povert
Social scientists have long understood that less educated Canadians, recent immigrants, lower income persons, aboriginal Canadians, young adults living alone, and persons with only a cursory knowledge of either English or French are more difficult to reach through standard survey research. This is exactly why the census is so useful. It collects detailed information on specific neighbourhoods, and the data is of high quality due to its mandatory nature.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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A perfect storm for action on affordable housing
We all know that secure, affordable housing is a fundamental determinant of both individual and community health… Let us all… take this responsibility seriously by electing a federal government next fall that will implement a national housing strategy. It has been 30 years since our government made homelessness, transitional housing and the need for affordable homes for every Canadian a top priority. In the meantime, there is much that can be done today.
Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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How Conservatives changed the nature of Canadian immigration
The Conservatives still admit as many refugees as previous governments – about 12,000 a year – but these are either privately sponsored or brought in under the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In either case, refugees to Canada are now far more carefully screened than in the past to ensure that they can integrate successfully. Family-class immigration has virtually vanished under the Tories.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, poverty, rights
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Michael Bryant urges repeal of law that ‘criminalizes homelessness’
… it cost Toronto police almost $1 million in time to hand out $4 million in tickets between 2000 and 2010 — 99 per cent of which are never paid because homeless people cannot afford the fines that range from $60 to $500… Mary Birdsell, of the Justice for Children and Youth Legal Clinic, said the Act is “a primitive and degrading response to homelessness… It is mean, it is bullying, and it is beneath us”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Helping low-income families is key to ending child poverty in Canada
The federal government also plans to spend $1.9-billion a year on family income splitting, which would mainly benefit high-income traditional families with a stay-at-home spouse to a maximum amount of $2,000 a year. There would be no benefit at all from income splitting for single parents, or for two-parent families in which both earners are in the bottom tax bracket. In short, there will be zero impact on child poverty. Today, the income-tested CCTB and the NCBS combined pay out $10.8-billion a year, of which $3.9-billion goes to low-income families through the NCBS. Next year the UCCB will cost $5.6-billion a year on top of the $1.9-billion cost of family income splitting, to a total of $7.5-billion a year for the measures introduced by the Conservatives since being elected in 2006.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Canada takes another step away from once-humane refugee policy
in Canada, a crucial piece of legislation has ensured that refugee claimants have access to life-sustaining social assistance from the day they arrive. The Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act prohibits provinces from requiring any minimum period of residence to qualify for social assistance. Buried in the 2015 federal budget, tabled on Oct. 23 as Bill C-43, is a measure that would erase this prohibition.
Tags: budget, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living
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