What the cap on international students means for Doug Ford’s government
Friday, January 26th, 2024
Ontario’s post-secondary sector has become increasingly reliant on the high tuition fees paid by foreign students and has recruited them in staggering numbers… Those numbers are to be cut in half, the federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Marc Miller said this week. Deciding how to divvy up that far slimmer allocation of international students among Ontario’s universities and colleges will be up to the provincial government.
Tags: budget, economy, housing, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction
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Canada has new requirements for international students hoping to come study.
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
… prospective international students will need to show they have access to $20,635 instead of the $10,000 requirement that has been in place for two decades, in addition to paying for travel and tuition. The amount will be adjusted annually based on a Statistics Canada benchmark for living costs… applicants who have already submitted an application for a study permit as of December 7, 2023, will be able to work off campus more than 20 hours per week until [April 30, 2024].”
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration
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Meet the Canadian-born doctors who can’t work in Canada
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
With Canada experiencing such an acute shortage of doctors… the roadblocks thrown up by provinces and regulatory bodies are puzzling. “The country should be grateful that these Canadians are willing to come back and be completely overworked and underpaid… And you didn’t even have to pay to educate them.”
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Senators overwhelmed by emails, calls pushing conspiracy theories about basic income legislation
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
… there’s nothing new about conspiracy theories but the pandemic has “pushed them into hyperdrive,” fuelling a movement of people willing to believe there’s a global movement to “enslave” humanity… people in these online forums are largely unaware of how the government operates — or how a bill is passed through Parliament — and those knowledge gaps “are easily filled with fantasy.” “It’s easy to see a sinister plot when you don’t actually understand how the government works.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, mental Health, pensions, rights
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Ford government appeals to Canada’s top court to keep premier’s mandate letters secret
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Mandate letters traditionally lay out the marching orders a premier has for each of his or her ministers after taking office — and have been routinely released by governments across the country. Ford’s government, however, has been fighting to keep his mandate letters from the public since shortly after the premier took office in June 2018… It’s unclear how many tax dollars and government resources have been spent trying to deny the public access to the mandate letters.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Health-care unions call Ontario’s one-time $5K offer to nurses ‘demoralizing’
Tuesday, March 8th, 2022
The healthcare unions, which represent a combined 220,000 workers across Ontario, said in their letter that the shortage “requires urgent action to better respect, protect, and pay all healthcare workers.” They say that should begin with repealing Bill 124. That legislation was introduced in 2019, and capped annual salary increases for many public sector employees, including nurses, at an average of one per cent annually for three years.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pensions, women
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Ottawa releases early details of landmark $40B First Nations child welfare agreement
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
The non-binding agreement sets aside $20 billion for compensation and $20 billion for long-term reform of the on-reserve child welfare system… The parties have until March 31 to finalize the agreement… The $20 billion dedicated to long-term reform of the child welfare system will be distributed over a period of five years… “Today is about a plan for the future, with First Nations defining and determining a path forward grounded in our rights and the common goal to have our children succeed,”
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Liberals introduce bill to implement UN Indigenous rights declaration
Friday, December 4th, 2020
… the bill would require the federal government to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent with the declaration’s 46 articles… By introducing the UNDRIP bill, the Liberals are fulfilling a promise dating back to 2016 — when Bennett announced Canada would officially renounce its objections to the declaration at the United Nations. The party pledged during the 2019 federal election to implement UNDRIP within the first year of a new mandate, but postponed tabling the bill earlier this year due to the rail blockade crisis.
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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COVID-19 could break Ontario’s mental health system, psychologists have a solution
Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
four major benefits… of publicly-funded psychological care: Freeing up physicians time to focus on primary health care; Providing equal access to mental health care… Decreasing the use of medications to treat mental health issues… [and] Providing earlier treatment, which can reduce severity in the long term and give clients the knowledge and skills to prevent future mental health difficulties.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health
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Some of Ontario’s biggest hospitals are filled beyond capacity nearly every day, new data reveals
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
On any day, one out of six hospital beds is occupied by a patient who doesn’t need to be in hospital, but cannot be safely discharged home. This is a long-running phenomenon in health systems across Canada known as “alternate level of care” (ALC). Lengthy waits for long-term care spaces are the chief cause, but a lack of available home care and other forms of continuing care also contributes.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living
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