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Ontario’s affordable housing wait list grows
A record 171,360 Ontario households were waiting for affordable housing in 2015, with average wait times of almost four years, according to an annual report that tracks need across the province… Although the province is giving municipalities more flexibility in the use of federal-provincial housing funds, the need to build more non-profit housing is not going away
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario vows to overhaul child protection system
The new report, written by three government-appointed experts, describes a muddled system where the government loses track of children taken into care, has no minimum qualifications for caregivers and allows a growing number of kids “with complex special needs” to be placed in unlicensed programs… The report, called Because Young People Matter, lays responsibility for the troubled system squarely at the doorstep of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, noting it failed to put province-wide standards and mechanisms in place to ensure children receive high-quality care.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, youth
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Aboriginal youth deserve better future
… the demographic bulge of young aboriginals in Canada will make itself felt — constructively, if we tackle education properly; in more difficult ways if we do not… The challenge is to find a sustainable way to offer a future to its youth. It is a quintessentially Canadian challenge, and applies to all indigenous communities. It is a national project, which should mean not just governments, but individuals, rallying to find solutions. It’s 2016. It’s time to get this relationship right.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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The Social-Policy-Is-Back Budget
March 2016 marked a significant turning point in the country. Social policy is back! It comprises, once again, a vital component of Canada’s DNA. We are particularly pleased with the announcement of the Canada Child Benefit… We do have a concern, however, regarding… the distributional impact of the middle class tax cut is problematic.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, housing, ideology, Indigenous, pensions, tax
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For Trudeau, it’s just a start, though it’s a good start
The big story of Tuesday’s milestone federal budget is Canada’s remarkably altered set of priorities. Variations on a theme of investing in people, they include cities, where more than 80 per cent of Canadians live. They include ending abysmal living conditions in aboriginal communities, which are an international disgrace. And the budget marks the return to a role for Ottawa as a major provider of social housing.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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The magic of “ending homelessness” — and ending up with more
I am not suggesting that thousands of people were not retrieved from the streets and riverbanks and rescued from misery. I am not even arguing against a housing-first approach to homelessness. But if you sell a program on the basis of an unconditional and explicit promise to “eradicate homelessness,” should you not reduce it a smidgen? … Cities, almost by definition, end up with as many panhandlers and tent-dwellers as they are prepared, culturally and financially, to pay for…
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario must make group homes more accountable
… a system so lacking in transparency that societies don’t even know which homes — never mind employees — are performing badly. Unbelievably, there isn’t even a public registry or website which notes whether homes are fully licensed by the ministry or operating under provisional permits, which indicate that standards have not been fully met. Nor do local children’s aid societies have a system to share their findings about individual group homes with other societies.
Tags: child care, disabilities, housing, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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