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Dissolve CCACs: Nurses association
Sunday, October 14th, 2012
October 6, 2012
… calling for 14 CCACs… to be dissolved because they are top-heavy with administration costing the system millions of dollars… The RNAO is proposing the 3,500 case managers working for CCACs — 3,000 registered nurses and 500 social workers and other health professionals — be transferred to the primary care system under the direction of the 14 Local Health Integration Networks in the province.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, standard of living, tax
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Look for the party that will do the most to help those in need
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
September 19, 2011
The Liberals have taken some steps to address issues during the last eight years, such as dental care for children from low incomes and child tax credit, but as far as raising assistance rates to any livable rates, that seems to never gain traction. And the only party that I have heard tout the Guaranteed Annual Income that has been proposed time and again from Conservative Senator Hugh Segal is the Green Party… Our economy will grow if everyone has a chance to participate, and that includes those who are struggling every day to be included.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty
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Welfare still isn’t enough to live on
Monday, August 15th, 2011
August 15, 2011
“if governments had pegged rates to inflation, the welfare rate today would be $932 a month.” For all of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s talk when he was campaigning in two elections about raising the rates and getting rid of poverty in this province, his government has only managed to raise the rates by 3% or 4% over the years. As I said the rate is now at $592 and less then it was in 1993… In November 2010, McGuinty appointed a commission to do an extensive review of social assistance in this province… But… the final report will not be released until July 2012, long after the provincial election.
Tags: ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Canadians must try to understand what it means to be poor
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
August 10, 2011
Knowing something –such as that many Canadians are poor –is one thing. Understanding the significance of being poor is quite another. If you can’t picture the suffering, you aren’t going to appreciate the imperative to help… the demeaning grind of poverty looks very different than it did in 18th century France, but poverty remains dispiriting and painful… how do we get to the point that the suffering around us caused by poverty becomes intolerable and we insist upon action? Our failure to reach that level of motivation is even more disconcerting now that the gap between rich and poor is growing…
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Rogers death was a turning point
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
August 10, 2011
The drug overdose death of Kimberly Rogers, 40, who was eight months pregnant, resulted in province-wide debate, a coroner’s inquest and a new direction for the health unit… Medical officer of health Dr. Penny Sutcliffe testified at the 2002 inquest… addressing the inadequacies of social assistance rates to fund a healthy diet and other issues relating to welfare. About that time, the health unit began to focus on the link between the social and economic health of a community and the physical health of its citizens
Tags: corrections, ideology, mental Health, poverty, women
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Illusion of welfare state
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
August 9, 2011
… higher tax rates do not necessarily equal higher revenues when compared with a moderately taxed nation. A high-tax, inefficient tax regime can slow economic growth and encourage tax cheating and depress tax receipts… for decades, government borrowed massively to finance current social programs out of future tax revenues and handed the bill to future generations. It led to the illusion that the welfare state was sustainable.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Mental health big part of homelessness
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
January 21, 2011
Structural homelessness — homelessness caused by socioeconomic events such as unemployment or family breakdowns –may be the easiest to remedy… However, homelessness endemic in the single, unattached individual, (by far the largest group amongst the homeless), presents entirely different problems… Poverty with this group is also a constant but somewhat of a side issue. The main problem that presents are those of mental health.
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, youth
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CAS employees fight for funding
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
June 8, 2010
According to the union’s provincial office, 200 new directives came about when Queen’s Park introduced amendments to the Child and Family Services Act in 2006. But a failure to boost CAS funding has resulted in some agencies facing bankruptcy in 2009, while many others are facing operating deficits this year… Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci said the Liberal government has increased, not cut or maintained, funding to the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies in recent years… funding went up while factors such as the number of children in care grew by less than 1%
Tags: budget
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