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The tax cuts you might vote for, but might not notice
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
Would someone earning over $60,000 notice that they got another $420 a year by 2023 through the Conservative Party’s Universal Tax Cut? … if someone handed you $420 in 2023, you’d notice. But that’s not how this tax cut is going to be delivered. It’ll be incremental… Surely there must be a better way to spend over $5.5 billion a year. Couldn’t this money be better spent on healthcare, housing, infrastructure, and/or paying down the deficit?
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, tax
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It’s time for federal leaders to focus on inequality
Monday, October 14th, 2019
… there’s a real problem when the benefits of wealth and opportunity are not shared by everyone…. while unemployment is the lowest it’s been in decades, the jobs are increasingly not very good ones… When the federal parties talk about jobs on the campaign trail, it needs to be a conversation about good jobs. When they talk about making life more affordable, they should be clear about who they’re talking about and how they’ll deliver. The Vital Signs report is a depressing but timely reminder that income and wealth are highly co-related with race, where people were born, and where they live now.
Tags: economy, housing, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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A primer on Indigenous issues and the pledges in this election
Monday, October 14th, 2019
Indigeneity is intrinsically linked to the environment, and vice versa… One of the issues at the forefront of Indigenous health and wellness and the all-too-frequent inequities in care is the lack of clean, safe drinking water in many communities… Mental health is also a major issue: the suicide rate among Indigenous youth is five to seven times higher than among non-Indigenous youth… Indigenous children are still falling through jurisdictional cracks, and… equitable care should involve [Jordan’s] principle being expanded to family services, education and even the justice system.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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The Affordability Crisis and the 2019 Election
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Canadians have a general feeling of ‘affordability anxiety’ leading into the federal election. For this reason, the Broadbent Institute has created a series of fact sheets that look into three major issues effecting affordability — housing, healthcare and taxes, during the federal election… each fact sheet will include information on a topic as it relates to affordability and the commitments and/or solutions each party has put forward.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, housing, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Where is the ‘how’ in all of the federal election policy promises?
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
No voter expects every detail regarding the implementation of a new proposal to anticipate every twist and turn of how events might unfold… But… the judgment, balance, capacity and relevant experience of those seeking to hold the highest elected office in the country are defogged when there is more robust disclosure on how they intend to put into effect the promises they have been selling.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, poverty
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Blackface and an about-face: How Canada’s promise of reconciliation went wrong
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
While the tribunal’s initial nine orders focused on trying to stop Canada’s discrimination, the September 2019 order was intended to compensate the children and families who were harmed by the discrimination and would not benefit from new reforms. It was a small measure of justice for lost childhoods.
Tags: budget, child care, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Where is the big idea in this election?
Monday, October 7th, 2019
… what would happen if our parties were focused not just on giving things to the middle class, but instead giving something for the middle class to believe in? Some say national pharmacare is just that: a vision for a changed society in which no Canadian goes without the medication she or he needs.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Report aims to put poverty on the agenda in federal election campaign
Monday, October 7th, 2019
… the problem persists in all 338 federal ridings, with First Nations and recent immigrant children impacted the most… In the 68 ridings with the highest rates of child poverty, an average of 32 per cent of children — more than 400,000 — are growing up poor… Twenty-nine ridings with the highest child poverty rates are in Ontario, with 14 of them in Toronto.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Smart health-care policy must include affordable housing
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
The link between housing and health is clear: You can’t live a healthy life if you don’t have a roof over your head. Without stable housing, people die younger, suffer more and have more severe chronic illnesses, make far more emergency room visits, are more likely to be hospitalized and readmitted, and stay longer in hospital when they are admitted.
Tags: featured, Health, homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Liberals committed $13B to affordable housing, report says
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
Legislation passed in June requires Ottawa to advance a human rights-based approach to housing that prioritizes the needs of the most vulnerable and requires regular reporting to Parliament on progress toward meeting its housing strategy goals… “It promotes diverse communities, and builds housing that is sustainable, accessible, mixed income, mixed use and that is fully integrated into the community — close to transit, close to work and close to public services.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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