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Solving homelessness will require infringing on individual rights
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
We are stuck between two fundamental tenets of a fair and just society: a person’s right to freedom and personal agency, versus the duty authorities have to protect a person from self-harm and any attempts to harm others. If one of those was to trump the other, it would be the government’s responsibility to stop someone from harming oneself or harming others.
Tags: homelessness, ideology, mental Health, rights
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Embracing good will this Christmas
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
In some sense, our schools, libraries, hospitals, public parks, social housing, legal and social assistance programs all speak to a type of structured good will. These are all places that promote collective caring. These are some expressions of the social dimensions of good will toward all, not just those who can an afford the finer amenities of life.
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Putting economic and social rights at the heart of policy-making
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
Too many people are currently being left behind as changing social, economic, and political tides wash past them… we must help people and communities weather these changes by strengthening how we think about, and develop, public policy. We can do this by prioritizing the human rights and dignities of all Canadians. Not only civil and political rights, but economic and social rights, too.
Tags: featured, Health, homelessness, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Canada shouldn’t welcome birth tourists
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
Birth tourism rankles the public because it feels like cheating… The way to do that is to adopt visa restrictions – denying visas to women who are coming to Canada expressly to give birth, and to crack down on both brokers and birth houses… Canada should remain a welcoming country but not one whose citizenship is for sale.
Tags: globalization, immigration, jurisdiction, rights
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Non-profit groups get five-year freeze on WSIB premiums
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
… non-profit organizations are getting a financial break with a five-year freeze on their Workplace Safety and Insurance Board premiums as the Ontario government agency lowers its average premium rate for all employers by 17 per cent. The freeze will help almost 2,700 non-profits while another 1,600 will see premiums drop…
Tags: disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, philanthropy
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Liberals committed $13B to affordable housing, report says
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
Legislation passed in June requires Ottawa to advance a human rights-based approach to housing that prioritizes the needs of the most vulnerable and requires regular reporting to Parliament on progress toward meeting its housing strategy goals… “It promotes diverse communities, and builds housing that is sustainable, accessible, mixed income, mixed use and that is fully integrated into the community — close to transit, close to work and close to public services.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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How Finland slashed homelessness by 40 per cent
Sunday, July 21st, 2019
… about 15 per cent of the population are paid an allowance to help pay for rent… Such policies are more effective… than rent controls popular in many countries… because they push up housing supply, while rent controls tend to discourage investment in rental properties… “It’s more expensive not to provide the homes and have people on the streets. And when they’re off the streets, there’s more social harmony.”
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Why Canadians need to wake up about populism
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Ordered populism… has four key conditions: A declining middle class, wage stagnation and hyper-concentration of wealth at the very top of the system; Major shifts in social values which see more progressive values displacing traditional social conservative values which… produce a cultural backlash by those seeing themselves falling victim to loss of identity and privilege; A growing sense of external threat…; Declining trust in public institutions plus a rise in ideological polarization. All those conditions are present in Canada. They predominate among less-educated males
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Ontario abandons property ownership as source of jurors
Saturday, April 20th, 2019
Ontario is making a fundamental change to the province’s justice system by vastly expanding the pool of potential jurors to better reflect economic and racial diversity… “Serving on a jury effectively means giving up income in a large number of cases… That barrier still exists. Hopefully this (change) indicates the government is open to making other changes that will help our juries better reflect our communities that they sit in judgement of.”
Tags: ideology, participation
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Toronto may finally have found a better way to build affordable housing
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
The city’s “housing now” report outlines zoning the sites for more than 10,000 units of housing and requiring that at least two-thirds of them be purpose-built rentals. And at least half of those rentals (about 3,700) must meet a measure of affordability… Homeless shelters are bursting at the seams, the wait-list for social housing runs tens of thousands deep, and there are still more renters struggling to keep up with rents that rise faster than incomes…
But it does start to tackle part of the problem
Tags: economy, housing, participation, standard of living
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