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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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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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