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It’s Time to Stop Subsidizing Canada’s Seniors
… the days of this country’s senior citizens living in penury is over, and it has been for quite some time. The poverty rate for seniors in Canada is just 6.7 percent, a figure that’s lower than just about every other demographic—most of whom are asked to subsidize said seniors with their own tax dollars… One particularly ripe piece of low-hanging fruit is the age tax credit, which was established in 1972 to help low-income seniors pay their bills but now amounts to little more than a $3.4 billion annual giveaway.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, pensions, standard of living, tax
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The rise of human rights law in Canada
CAUT.ca – Bulletin/articles/2017/02/commentary February 2017. By Michael Lynk Human rights have become an integral feature of modern law in Canada. Rights that were hardly imaginable at the dawn of our human rights era in 1982 — a fulsome recognition of sexual orientation; disability understood as a social injustice and not simply as a personal […]
Tags: child care, disabilities, Health, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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With universal drug coverage, Canadians could save billions: study
“The benefit of having a universal plan is to make sure that nobody falls through the cracks of our currently fragmented private and public drug coverage system”… basing a universal drug program on an evidence-based list of essential medicines could be a good starting point… the data clearly show it would benefit Canadians without a massive price increase. “It just takes political leadership,”
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living
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Don’t let seniors’ care become a private equity money maker
Research shows that the typical business model for such arrangements is associated with offering a high return on capital and maximizing cash extraction. The property assets owned by the private equity firm are separated from the daily operations of providing resident care… The evidence is clear: Large-scale private equity investments in nursing home facilities too often jeopardize the quality of care and put seniors’ health at risk.
Tags: disabilities, globalization, Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Five ableist things I wish people would stop saying to me
When people say “you seem normal,” it just sounds like they are afraid of neurodivergence and “crazy” people. It’s a veiled form of ableism… People want to see mental health and disability as an individual problem that individuals have and should solve on their own. Talking is often the first step, but what about steps two through 10? When we constantly redirect back to step one, it’s because we’re avoiding the responsibility that we have for helping people…
Tags: disabilities, mental Health, participation
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Money, yes – but mental health needs a plan
We need to steal the ideas behind other countries’ successful programs… We must scale up successful programs… We need to tie more money to more measurement… to address… outcomes… a single, reliable clearinghouse… an accountability requirement for the spending of new mental-health money
Tags: budget, disabilities, mental Health, standard of living
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Missing: a child and youth mental health strategy at provincial and national levels
Increasing mental health knowledge and skills of people working with children across sectors like education, social services and justice would mitigate the untoward effects of mental illness. Canada currently spends too little on mental health compared to other developed countries. The Mental Health Commission of Canada recommends that nine percent of health budgets should go to improving mental health services.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, disabilities, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, youth
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