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We need to take Canada’s approach to drug addiction and burn it to the ground
Friday, June 19th, 2020
… as policies go, prohibition and jail time have been utter failures as deterrents. Mr. Perrin, the author of Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis, released this year, says politics – fear of a backlash from the electorate – have made our leaders afraid to do the right thing… this has allowed “an unregulated criminal underworld to dictate what is in the drugs that people are taking, forcing those people to play Russian roulette”
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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In the stay-at-home era, why have we so sorely neglected home care?
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
The carnage in congregate care… obliges us to rethink elder care fundamentally. A good starting point is prioritizing home care. Ontario… has a $64-billion annual health care budget, of which $3-billion goes to home care and $4.3-billion to long-term care. (Individuals supplement those costs, often paying thousands of dollars out of pocket.) There are a little less than 100,000 residents in long-term care, and more than 700,000 who get home-care services.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Systemic racism is a Canadian problem, too
Monday, June 15th, 2020
Grappling with such truths is not somehow unpatriotic. It is the sign of a mature society — one honest enough to recognize when it falls short of its values and that believes in those values enough to at least try to live up to them. The reality is that, of course, there is systemic racism in Canada. The question is, in this moment of truth, what are we going to do about it?
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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‘Defund the police’ should be a conservative rallying cry, too
Sunday, June 14th, 2020
Police forces… are an expensive and wasteful way to make people feel secure. Crime rates in cities have been plummeting for decades, and in most big cities are at historic lows. Yet the number of cops, and the cost of policing, has not fallen, nor has anger at police discrimination… A smart policy would use a small professional force for things that police do well…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology
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Less crime, more policing: This disconnect must be fixed
Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
The bottom line is that we spent decades constructing police forces that are expensive, over-militarized and not best suited to the tasks they face in the third decade of the 21st century. In too many situations, they are making things worse, not better. Reformers have been calling for change for a long time, and public pressure may now finally give the politicians the courage to start fixing the problem.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism
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My Black ancestors fled America for freedom. I left Canada to find a home. Now both countries must fight for a better world
Sunday, June 7th, 2020
… some might think that the kind of racism that exists in Canada – in my opinion, more insidious, harder to name and therefore challenge, and always operating under the cloud of plausible deniability – is somehow better than the in-your-face racism of the U.S. But I’ve experienced both, and I’d rather face the enemy that can at least be named than the one Canadians deny even exists.
Tags: featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Canada has a racism problem, and it’s uniquely ours
Saturday, June 6th, 2020
As individuals, we are perfectly capable of descending into racism or intolerance indistinguishable from what we see elsewhere. By accident of history and geography, we have developed a culture of accommodation and compromise. But we also benefit from a political inheritance that sets us apart. Sociologists often make reference to Canadians’ deference to authority. To me, it’s our preference for collectivity that counts.
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism
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There is no economic recovery without adequate child care
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
With Canadian women typically contributing about 40 per cent of household income, there can be no full economic recovery without what economist Armine Yalnizyan has dubbed a “she-covery.” Child care is key to making that possible… Child care encourages participation in the labour market… Investments in the care economy will largely pay for themselves as middle class families engage in greater labour-market participation, higher productivity, rising incomes, and increased tax revenue.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Canada’s soldiers have provided a wake-up call for our long-term care system
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Our inaction, founded in deep societal ageism and persistent under-funding, cumulatively sowed the seeds of the tragedy we have been witnessing. Canada currently spends, on average, 30 per cent less of its gross domestic product on long-term care than the other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, and prioritizes its limited funds on warehousing older adults rather than helping them stay in their own homes.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Justin Trudeau says he’ll seek 10 days of paid sick leave for all workers
Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
Right now there is a patchwork of sick-leave provisions across the country. All provinces require workers have access to unpaid sick days, but only Quebec and Prince Edward Island require paid sick leave. Ontario stipulates three days of unpaid sick leave, while paid sick leave is a decision between employers and their employees, companies and unions… Ottawa “can’t impose” paid sick leave on provinces or employers, but it “can come to the table with money and that would make a difference.”
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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