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What gives with charity crackdown?
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
September 24, 2011
The Harper regime hasn’t been shy to go after charities it disapproves of. Therefore, in recent years, nameless bureaucrats at Canada Revenue Agency have been dispatched across the country to rough up charities – such as those preoccupied with the environment or animal welfare or birth control or international issues – and to threaten them with loss of their charitable status. Because they’re too “political.” … But to use the power of government to silence those you disapprove of? That isn’t just uncharitable. It’s unconstitutional.
Tags: ideology, rights, tax
Posted in Social Security Debates | No Comments »
Immigrants use of welfare a mixed bag, documents show
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
January 11, 2011
A review of data from Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada shows… As a whole, immigrants have a somewhat higher incidence of welfare usage than the general population, but some classes of immigrants use the system far less. The data also shows that while welfare usage goes down for both economic class immigrants and refugees the longer they are in Canada, the rate of welfare dependency often rises for family class immigrants.
Tags: immigration, participation, standard of living
Posted in Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
Don’t be fooled by the statistics
Friday, July 30th, 2010
July 28, 2010
As for the “crime is going down” claim, here’s the reality. Crime rates rose dramatically through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, then peaked and started to fall slowly in the early ’90s across North America. No one knows why… despite continuing small drops in the annual crime rate, they have never returned anywhere near the lower levels of 50 years ago. Combating crime effectively involves not just law enforcement, but addressing issues such as poverty, unemployment and drug abuse.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention
Posted in Child & Family Debates | No Comments »
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