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Ottawa should finish the job on advocacy work by charities
… giving charities a wider scope to speak out on public issues would bring with it a host of benefits. It would encourage experts associated with those groups to add their expertise to public debates. It would enlarge the pool of people participating in those debates, since charities often serve as a way for those without a strong voice to speak up. It would provide more opportunities for people interested in policy debates, but leery of traditional political parties, to get involved. Finally, it would help to tip the balance in debates in favour of those with the public interest in mind.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Apology to LGBTQ community first step toward healing
The record of how LGBTQ2 Canadians were treated by their own government, and the human pain and cost that resulted because of that treatment, is egregious… “People were watched, followed, interrogated and purged from their jobs” … Lives were lost to suicide… “All queer Canadians deserve truth and reconciliation for the historical misuses of state power that eroded their human dignity.”
Tags: featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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He’s worked legally in Canada for 37 years but the government considers him ‘temporary’
The share of migrant workers in Canada’s agricultural workforce has doubled in the last decade as what was once seasonal need for harvesters has turned into a year-round labour market reality. The workers pay income tax and employment insurance, and contribute to the Canada Pension Plan. However, their precarious status in Canada makes it difficult for them to exercise their rights and protections under labour laws, making them easy prey for unscrupulous recruiters and bad employers.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, Health, ideology, immigration, participation, rights
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Freeing our people: Updates from the long road to deinstitutionalization
How can we expect any better from society when our own government continues to fund deeply segregated, dehumanizing and dangerous forms of support for people with intellectual disabilities? Out of sight, out of mind has hidden many disturbing facts about intellectual disability from the public for far too long… These wrongs must be righted and further abuse prevented. We need to bring the “left behind” forward if we are to become an inclusive and accessible country.
Tags: disabilities, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Mentally ill people need to be calmed down, not shot
No one is suggesting that police stand there and allow themselves to be stabbed or beaten. De-escalation training teaches that not drawing a weapon in the first place can prevent the threats; offering help instead of screaming “drop the weapon,” can change an interaction… police forces now employ crisis intervention teams that include unarmed social workers, backed up by police who carry shields and tasers instead of guns.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, ideology, mental Health
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The unspoken problem in Pikangikum
The question that needs asking is, how do you reconcile the right of Indigenous people to live on their ancestral lands with the undeniable fact that, in some remote, fly-in communities, there is no viable economy to support them? … Other communities in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), a loose organization of First Nations communities in Northern Ontario, have social problems too, including high suicide rates. But most are much smaller in size. And many have better, if still struggling, local economies.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, poverty, youth
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Province needs strategy to fund ‘systemic’ housing crisis for vulnerable seniors
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorials – Ontario’s government has ignored “systemic” problem of dangerous, unlicensed senior care homes. It needs a strategy to provide proper care and housing for the vulnerable July 24, 2017. By STAR EDITORIAL BOARD Far too often in Ontario seniors and those with mental health issues are forced to live in deplorable conditions, deprived […]
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Freeing our people: Updates from the long road to deinstitutionalization
How can we expect any better from society when our own government continues to fund deeply segregated, dehumanizing and dangerous forms of support for people with intellectual disabilities? Out of sight, out of mind has hidden many disturbing facts about intellectual disability from the public for far too long. We can no longer say that we didn’t know any better. We can no longer say we can’t do any better.
Tags: disabilities, featured, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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The world is getting way, way better, despite what you hear on the news
Just since 1990, more than 100 million children’s lives have been saved through vaccinations and improved nutrition and medical care. They’re no longer dying of malaria, diarrhea… There has been a stunning decline in extreme poverty, defined as less than about US$2 per person per day, adjusted for inflation. For most of history, probably more than 90 per cent of the world population lived in extreme poverty, plunging to fewer than 10 per cent today.
Tags: disabilities, globalization, Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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Tory should commit city money to fixing the social housing problem, then ask the province for help
“The time for action is now. In fact it was before now, because repairing social housing is a moral, economic and social imperative,” Tory said last week. Really? Why, then, do you not increase the city’s allocation of funds to repair the damaged buildings? Why are you promoting a freeze in property taxes instead of a dedicated 1 or 2 per cent increase to build a fund that stops the closures?
Tags: budget, featured, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, tax
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