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A new chance for disability reforms
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
An income adequate to keep people out of poverty cannot be understated as a means to social inclusion… For federal and provincial programs to provide adequate income, punitive clawbacks by one program of another’s funds must end… Benefits should stack onto each other not cancel each other out. Income supports should also work in tandem with housing, employment, childcare, and other programs to lift people out of poverty.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, participation, standard of living
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‘This is a start’ — advocates welcome Trudeau’s commitment to build national child-care system
Thursday, September 24th, 2020
… the government will make a “significant, long-term, sustained investment to create a Canada-wide early learning and child-care system… to ensure that high-quality care is accessible to all.” … Although details of the actual investment won’t come until the budget, advocates were heartened by the government’s apparent commitment to shift child care away from a market-based system that relies on parent fees.
Tags: child care, disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Long-term care operators call on Ontario government to address severe staffing shortage
Sunday, September 20th, 2020
Doris Grinspun, chief executive officer of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, is so frustrated with the government’s lack of action, she announced on July 31 that she will not reopen the VIANurse program if the province is hit with a second wave of the virus… “Nursing home residents deserve permanent solutions… We are done with Band-Aid solutions.” … The B.C. government unveiled a new program last week that will train up to 7,000 people to work as health care aides in long-term care homes. The government will pay the tuition costs.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, jurisdiction, standard of living
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B.C. moves to dramatically increase access to safe alternatives to illicit drugs
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
… the province significantly expands access to a “safer supply” to combat record overdose deaths caused by toxic street drugs…. the changes are the first step in undoing decades of harm caused by bad drug policy, and show that policy makers are listening to people on the ground. “Now the work begins on what drugs are available, what drugs we can access… we cannot continue to give drug users the least-sought-after drugs and expect them not to access the contaminated supply.”
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Strengthening Canada’s disability community in a post-pandemic world
Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
COVID-19 has had a seismic impact on our society, comparable to that of the Second World War and the population explosion of the 1960s. Following those historic events, Canada responded with ambitious and innovative social legislation designed to meet the needs of a changing world. Those innovations gave birth to the broad social, health and education supports that Canadians enjoy today. The current crisis demands similarly bold solutions.
Tags: disabilities, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canada needs a national income program for people with disabilities
Saturday, September 5th, 2020
With [CERB], imbalances and biases in income security decisions were starkly exposed. Governments clearly expected people with disabilities to live on disability income benefits (such as the Canada Pension Plan Disability and provincial social assistance) of an amount… of half or less than the $2,000 a month provided by the CERB… If anything, should those people not receive slightly more than their peers?
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty
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A long-term care home is no place for younger people with disabilities
Thursday, August 20th, 2020
“We don’t know how many young people are living in LTC homes. What we do know is there are far too many”… Self-directed or self-managed care programs exist all over Europe and in several Canadian provinces… The common assumption… is that institutional care is cost-effective and self-directed care is too expensive. But that’s not true.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Policy reflections about social assistance: Where we’ve been, and where we’re going
Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
We will need to think differently about social policy, so that our social safety net puts people and their social and economic rights at the centre. We need to rebuild our systems to promote equitable outcomes across race, gender, immigration status, disability, and for every person in Canada. Now’s the time to show that we truly are in all of this together.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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It’s time to unify the disability movement
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
A decision to issue one-time, $600 federal payments to Canadians with disabilities, in order to cover the extraordinary expenses they have incurred because of COVID-19, has finally received royal assent. But it’s too little, too late, and reaches too few… To move forward on disability rights in Canada, we must first unify the disability movement.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, participation, poverty
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We must do more to protect people with dementia
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
… 40 per cent of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting a dozen modifiable risk factors, ranging from making sure every child gets an education through to controlling high blood pressure… preventing dementia begins in childhood, not at retirement… countless lifestyle choices and public health measures can have a dramatic impact on our brains, and the health of individuals and societies more broadly.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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