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Anti-Muslim hatred has no place in my Canada
Like it or not, religious accommodation is the law, and the schools are devoted to inclusiveness. Our interest is to integrate new Canadians, not segregate them. We want their children to be educated in the public schools, not religious schools. So we’d better make sure the kids (and parents) feel comfortable there… We won’t always agree, especially over symbols that touch our deepest values. Let’s just hope we can keep finding ways to disagree politely.
Tags: featured, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, youth
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Strike at the Canadian Hearing Society is about culture, not costs
People who are culturally deaf believe the role of the CHS should be to facilitate their ability to live barrier-free in a world where audism and ableism are rampant – for example, by providing sign-language-interpretation services… the deaf and hard-of-hearing community is changing and the CHS has to adapt to meet its needs. In an aging world, hearing loss is more common, and more deaf and hard-of-hearing people are in mainstream schools and jobs, thanks to technology.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, rights
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The Case Against Policy Advocacy Deregulation
There are certainly cases in which charities have played a productive role in changing public policy for the better — successful campaigns to combat smoking and drunk driving come readily to mind. And though these contributions have produced clearly beneficial results, it does not necessarily follow that the general regulatory framework should be relaxed or amended to allow charities to engage more actively in public policymaking.
Tags: Health, ideology, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Safeguard Disability Rights – Sign The Un Protocol
With great fanfare in 2010, the Harper government ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). However, it never took the next step of ratifying its Optional Protocol, which is essential for holding Canada accountable for its commitment… Over 26,000 Canadians are looking forward to having Prime Minister Trudeau safeguard disability rights by signing and ratifying the Protocol by the end of 2017.
Tags: budget, disabilities, globalization, ideology, participation, rights
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Canada Without Poverty, the UN and Human Rights
In March-April 2017, Canada will be reviewed for its compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Canada ratified the Convention in 2010 which makes this the first review cycle that applies to Canada… The first step is to provide a written submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. For NGOs, the written submission details ongoing issues and concerns about the state’s human rights record.
Tags: disabilities, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Growing number of migrants renouncing Canadian immigrant status
A large number of these are so-called astronaut parents, who work offshore while their spouses and school-attending children remain in Canada, usually in urban centres… “Some have bought multiple properties. By renouncing their permanent resident status they can stay below the radar and avoid Canadian taxes… “They can visit Canada whenever they want on a 10-year visa. Why would they want anything else?”
Tags: economy, globalization, rights, tax
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Time to recognize Indigenous people as one of Canada’s founders
As we celebrate the 150th year of Confederation surely it is time to recognize that Aboriginal Peoples are intrinsic to what we are as a country. It would be a symbolic gesture but it would go a long way to recognizing and embracing the idea that First Nations have always been much more than refugees in their own country.
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation
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Canadian foundation donates $12-million to support Indigenous people
The Slaight Family Foundation has committed to providing that money over the next five years to 15 non-profit organizations that are engaged with the First Nations, Inuit and Métis on a wide range of initiatives, from health and education to cultural activities and preventing violence against Indigenous women.
Tags: featured, Indigenous, participation, philanthropy
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The Liberals’ First Nations agenda encounters reality
This isn’t a “First Nations issue” except inasmuch as First Nations, as a population, are disadvantaged relative to other Canadians on social indicators that predict a vast catalogue of bad outcomes, from going to jail to homelessness to dying in a fire or getting murdered. Individual white Anglo-Saxon Canadians so disadvantaged run similar risks; individual aboriginal Canadians who are not so disadvantaged do not… truly transformational change on this front will only come with transformational change on the most basic fronts: education, employment, income. That’s a massive job.
Tags: featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Canadian citizenship must be a constitutional right
Particularly heinous is the untold number of Indigenous Canadians that are currently stateless because their parents never registered their births, rightfully fearing their children would be sent to a residential school. Now adults, these Canadians have no rights or benefits. They are citizens of nowhere, unable to legally work, marry, attend school, buy a home, get a loan, drive a car or even take a bus, train or plane without identification.
Tags: ideology, immigration, Indigenous, participation, rights
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