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The Spirit Level Slides
The PowerPoint file… contains 38 of the more important graphs shown on this web site and/or published in The Spirit Level. We hope you will use them in talks, lectures or discussion groups to help increase people’s understanding of the effects of inequality. The slides (and the graphs contained within them) can be downloaded and used freely without permission, on condition you acknowledge their source: The Spirit Level, Wilkinson & Pickett, Penguin 2009.
Tags: child care, corrections, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, standard of living
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Supreme Court reaffirmed Canadian balance on free speech
Mar 17 2013
“It’s a very wise decision. It balances free speech with the need to limit hate… “Canadians value free speech but not to the extent that you may bring women, gays, Jews or Muslims or whoever into hatred and contempt. “The court has reflected the way Canadians see the issue.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s law-and-order agenda weighs heavily on aboriginal people
Mar 12 2013
… the aboriginal prison population has increased 43 per cent in the past five years. Métis, Inuit and First Nations people make up 23 per cent of the prison population, although they comprise just 4 per cent of the population of the country.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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The deadly mixture of guns and class in Toronto Mapping
Mar 03 2013
… the recent uptick in gun violence in Toronto mirrors the same fault-lines of economic and social disadvantage that exist in U.S. cities… The vast majority of gun murders from 2000 to the present have occurred in the city’s service class areas, and that figure rises to nearly 400 gun murders, almost 90 per cent, when we include the red working class clusters.
Tags: crime prevention, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario must stop imprisonment by race
Mar 01 2013
The disproportionately high rates of incarceration of aboriginal and black youth is the disastrous outcome of complicated social problems. Deep poverty, family breakdown, lack of education and mental health issues, such as attention deficit disorder, need major interventions… many are given jail sentences, even when their crimes are no more serious than those who walk free.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Time to change the conversation on austerity
February 24, 2013
…austerity budgets only worsen social conditions while seriously undermining the economy — from the added public-service costs that poverty creates to the untapped potential of single parents unable to access affordable day care, dispirited and heavily indebted students or new Canadians unable to find employment in their field — contributing to the very deficit problem the agenda purports to resolve.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, housing, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Prime Minister whips up fear of criminally insane killers
Feb 15 2013
Across the nation, employers, workers, doctors, lawyers, academics, community activists, caregivers and brave individuals raised their voices this week in a collective effort to combat the stigma of mental illness.
There was one discordant note. Last Friday, Stephen Harper announced his latest tough-on-crime bill. It targeted people found “not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health
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Ontarians with mental disabilities lost in legal system
Jan. 08, 2013
Up in the clouds, provincial bureaucrats are developing multi-year strategies to phase in the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Down on the ground, she is fighting to get her clients disability support benefits, keep a roof over their heads, make sure they show up for their court hearings and steer them through a process that is alien and bewildering.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, mental Health, standard of living
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How India’s rape culture came to Canada
Jan 3, 2013
Many of the South Asian immigrants who’ve settled in Canada since the 1970s have been so afraid of losing their culture that they have ferociously clung to some of their worst customs… I sometimes feel like I have walked through a time machine, sending me back to rural India, a village in Pakistan, or an Afghan mountain cave… Perhaps a new generation will help push for change.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, multiculturalism, standard of living, women, youth
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Creating shared prosperity will benefit everyone
December 27, 2012
Inequality need not be a partisan, left-right issue. If we learn from the scientific evidence regarding the multi-dimensional costs of inequality, we will realize that creating a shared prosperity benefits all sectors of society (not just poor people). And then policy-makers from both ends of the political spectrum can join in building a more balanced and efficient society.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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