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… here’s what you need to know about the $40B child welfare agreements
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
After the graves of children who died in Indian Residential Schools were found, countless Canadians stood in solidarity with Indigenous communities and demanded the government not repeat mistakes of the past… public support will be needed more than ever to ensure that the spirit of the agreement is respected and translated into meaningful change for First Nations children.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Laurentian battle suggests fight for Canada’s rural higher education
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
… the hardship created by that lost public investment has fallen heaviest on northern institutions such as Laurentian. That’s because the northern population is less able to afford higher tuition… and its remote location makes its institutions relatively less attractive to outsiders – including the foreign students whose tuition increasingly subsidises Canadian higher education…
Tags: budget, participation, standard of living, youth
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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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What COVID-19 has taught us about caring for our elders
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
A recent survey by the National Institute on Aging found that almost 100 per cent of Canadians aged 65 and older planned to live in their own home for as long as possible. Yet Canada spends 87 per cent of long-term care dollars on institutionalizing people in nursing homes rather than at-home assistance.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, Seniors
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The cost of inaction for youth ‘aging out’ of Ontario foster care is estimated at $2 billion
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
One key recommendation is to rethink the norm of independence at 18. From interviews with youth, all describe profound isolation, loneliness and few caring relationships underpinning the challenges they face. We must shift to a model of interdependence — fostering non-professional caring relationships for youth under state guardianship that extend long after 18.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, homelessness, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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With child-care program Trudeau finds a model for influencing provincial policy
Saturday, December 18th, 2021
… the success of Trudeau’s child-care program has given the federal government a means to mould provincial policy from Ottawa and he said it’s one he could use again… The agreements vary fairly drastically from province to province — a strategy that allows the federal government to push its agenda while maintaining the autonomy and regional differences of its provincial counterparts. Essentially, the government put the money on the table and invited provinces to come and negotiate for their slice.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction
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Taming inflation can be worse than inflation
Friday, December 17th, 2021
While Canadian inflation is running at 4.7 per cent, Canadian wages are also rising. For some of the most disadvantaged workers (new hires), average wages are growing at the impressive rate of 10 per cent a year — putting them well ahead of inflation… And this booming labour market may get better yet, as contracts expire and new ones are negotiated at a time when workers are wielding more power than they have in decades.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology
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Canada Underinvests In Community Care
Friday, December 17th, 2021
Canada’s per capita spending on homecare and other outpatient and day program services falls below the international average. In general, countries that direct higher proportions of health spending to seniors care than Canada also spend more per capita on home care, outpatient care and day programs for seniors.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, standard of living
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It’s time for this generation’s political leaders to tackle the hard issues in Canadian health care
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
Provincial health-care systems differ widely over titles, practices, pay and performance metrics. Their contribution to wider sharing of best practices could be agreeing to some shared definitions, targets and an agency to measure performance… as the pandemic revealed, provinces in a health-care crisis must support each other.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Welfare in Canada, 2020
Sunday, December 12th, 2021
For each province and territory, this report provides data and analysis on the total welfare income that households receiving social assistance would have qualified for in 2020, including COVID-19 pandemic-related supports… The reports look at four different household types for each province and territory.
Tags: budget, disabilities, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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