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The great Canadian experiment to house the homeless
At Home/Chez Soi, funded by the Canadian government, is a randomized controlled trial focused on housing for the mentally ill. At Home/Chez Soi is built around the concept that housing is the first order of business, and then comes support services that honour a person’s choices and offer a range of resources… those who had their own apartments started asking for additional help to keep their home and the stability, privacy and safety it offered…
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Ontario must ban SLAPP suits to protect free speech
Known as SLAPPs (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation), these dubious lawsuits are often brought by deep-pocketed companies with the specific aim of silencing resource-poor defendants… The defendants, usually ordinary citizens or public interest groups, naturally feel threatened by the prospect of massive legal fees, disruption of their activities and the possibility of large damage awards. Even when the lawsuits have no merit whatsoever, they often result in a chill on free speech.
Tags: participation, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada. This is why we, as health professionals, are outraged by the Ontario government’s intentions to challenge an independent tribunal decision to provide OHIP coverage for injured migrant workers… We… demand that the Ontario government provide access to full health coverage and due compensation to workers and families for injuries sustained and lives lost.
Tags: economy, globalization, Health, ideology, rights
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Stimulus can hurt: Canada’s Economic Action Plan ill-suited for all regions
Examinations of the role played by governments… have emphasized the importance of… “automatic stabilizers” — pre-established mechanisms such as employment insurance, social assistance, and prescribed tax adjustments — to alleviate the impact of recessions… simultaneously smooth economic fluctuations while addressing concerns about poverty and inequality.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Canada’s failing grade on disability rights
Discrimination enables economic and social injustice… Canada ratified [the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities] in March, 2010. Yet… In more than three years since ratification, Canada has neglected its obligation to implement and monitor the treaty, and currently has no plan to do so… Canada… needs to give more than lip service to the rights of people with disabilities. Fair treatment is an obligation and a promise, not just a courtesy
Tags: disabilities, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Income levels need to improve for people in poverty
… one way the government could improve poverty rates is to raise minimum wage to a more livable level that coincides with the cost of living… The effects of this plan would be three-fold since a higher minimum wage would decrease the reliance of people requiring social assistance thus saving the government money, plus the government would be collecting more taxes from the additional disposable income that these individuals would now have… saving money on the cost of social assistance and collecting more taxes
Tags: budget, child care, housing, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Let’s work together for the environment and indigenous rights
From preliminary discussions and first principles to the finer points of legislative drafting, this working group continued to serve through several versions of the bill in multiple parliamentary sessions… Co-chairs representing the federal government and indigenous peoples created equality at the table… But the linchpin of this respectful engagement was the sharing of draft legislation with legal counsel for indigenous organizations prior to its tabling in the House of Commons.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights
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Poorhouse wasn’t for everyone, just the ‘respectable poor’
The earliest form of government-funded social assistance, the shelter was one of nine such institutions built across southern Ontario in the last half of the 19th century… The Wellington County poorhouse served as a last resort for those truly in need — as determined by the reeves of the surrounding townships… “If they thought you were a vagrant, a beggar or not deserving of charity, you didn’t get in.”
Tags: ideology, poverty, standard of living
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A better model for the CBC
the federal government currently subsidizes Canada’s private broadcasters to the tune of about $800-million a year. The handouts come in many forms, including foreign ownership restrictions, tax incentives, production financing and regulatory perks… Remove all advertising from CBC and hand the entire market in commercials over to the private broadcasters. In return, redirect some substantial portion of the subsidies flowing to the private industry. Give it to the CBC…
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, tax
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The art and science of giving it all away
… all the social ills we abhorred — poverty, family violence, addiction — stem from unwholesome conditions and influences kids face in the early stages of their lives. It followed, then, that if we want to produce a peaceful, prosperous society, we have to try to create a system where children are well-nurtured, well-cared-for, loved, touched and stimulated to meet the requirements of what we know they need for healthy development.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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