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We must take better care of our caregivers — paid or unpaid
Saturday, July 27th, 2019
… PSWs look after the sick, disabled and elderly at a fraction of the cost of institutional care by keeping them at home, where they want to be… the work of PSWs is undervalued through poor wages, non-existent benefits and untenable working conditions that make half of them leave their line of work for greener pastures. The problem, in a nutshell, is that the work of caregivers, paid or not, is undervalued and held in low esteem.
Tags: disabilities, Health, standard of living, women
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Overview of the Second Report of the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine: Part II
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
Much of the focus of the Report, including Chapter 2 (summarized above) is on the integration of the healthcare system. Since Part I was published, significant steps have been taken in the province to support such integration… by inviting selected groups to submit a full application to become Ontario Health Teams.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health
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CRA program to help poor file taxes yields noticeable bump in people helped
Sunday, July 21st, 2019
… the CRA says more than 835,000 returns were filed by people who are homeless, Indigenous, newcomers, seniors or disabled. The boost is double those seen in previous years, before the Liberals increased annual spending on the “community volunteer income-tax program” to $13 million in the 2018 budget… “It’s a different program and we get to see the direct impact that we have on lifting people out of poverty.”
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, immigration, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Universal, Single-Payer Public Pharmacare in Canada: An Overview of the Proposed Model
Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
This bulletin summarizes the key recommendations, which include implementation beginning in 2020; an ability for provinces and territories to opt in; new federal legislation and fiscal transfers to the provinces and territories; a $100 cap on annual household out of pocket spending; a national formulary covering essential medicine by 2022 and comprehensive coverage by 2027; and a dedicated process for assessment and coverage for expensive drugs for rare diseases.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Overview of the Second Report of the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine: Part I
Friday, July 5th, 2019
This advice is responsive to certain of the issues raised by the First Report, including the Council’s finding that Ontario’s health care system is not working to its potential. Among the advice offered by the Council through the Report is a list of 10 recommendations to improve health care… grouped into the following four categories: Integration / Innovation / Efficiency & Alignment / Capacity
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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The Ontario government is wrong to offload autism services onto families
Monday, June 24th, 2019
If the health and well-being of children with autism are really the priority here, then the government should build a needs-based autism service program; invest in the human capital of experts and families with lived experience; utilize available public infrastructure and capacity at regional centres; coordinate services and supports across systems; and bring all of these pieces together by helping guide children and families along their journey toward the best life possible
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, youth
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Federal government will implement Senate proposals to strengthen accessibility law, Minister says
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
the Senate committee on social affairs, science and technology adopted several amendments that nearly a hundred disability organizations said were necessary to make the law effective. Chief among them was a call to set a timeline requiring the act to be fully implemented in all areas under federal jurisdiction by 2040, as well as recognition of sign language as an official language among deaf Canadians.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ford still doesn’t understand the difference between charity and government
Saturday, May 18th, 2019
Almost a year into the job, Ford still doesn’t seem to understand the difference between an act of personal charity and the necessary role of government. If Ford is a decent citizen who spends his personal time doing good deeds in the community, that’s really great. But it doesn’t absolve him, as premier, of leading a government with policies that help people, rather than hurt them.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Doug Ford’s government is a axe-wielding agent of chaos
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
If you were serious about preserving or enhancing services while also making administration more effective and cost-efficient, what you might do is sit down with the people doing the work and figure out a plan with them to do things more effectively. And if you succeeded, you’d see better services materialize and costs lowered, and you could announce the proven savings in your next budget… This doesn’t appear to be a government making tough but worthwhile changes. It appears to be a government gleefully wielding a wrecking ball…
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Canadian Jean Vanier’s charity work helped improve conditions for people with disabilities
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Vanier argued that the Western culture of individualism which values beauty, money and success, also creates a gap between the healthy and the disabled. ”We have a fear of accompanying people who are weak … They are seen as a financial and social liability,” he said… He argued that the greatest threat to peace is a widening gap between rich and poor, between strong and weak. But rather than urging people to open their wallets to the less fortunate, Vanier asked them to open their hearts.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, standard of living
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