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Ontario’s long-term care problem: Seniors staying at home longer isn’t a cure for waiting lists
Often what drives seniors into long-term care is not their own needs, but rather that their caregiver — usually a younger spouse — burns out or falls ill… The province says 116 days is the median waiting to time to find a spot in long-term care… But those numbers can fluctuate wildly… If you’re in hospital and waiting for a spot in long-term care, the wait is about half that of someone waiting at home. But the cost of these patients to the health care system is enormous.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, mental Health, standard of living
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Ontario to end clawback of child support for parents on welfare
Several options are under consideration to ensure parents who receive child support can benefit from more of this income… The change would be in place by April 2017 at the latest… While the government contemplates transforming income security, welfare and disability benefits for more than 907,000 Ontarians will rise by a modest 1.5 per cent this year… Sousa announced an additional $178 million over the next three years to increase affordable housing.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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Ontario’s early bird budget didn’t get the worm
… the lion’s share of this government’s deficit reduction activities has come at the expense of expanding program spending to improve public services… This budget allocates a 1.5 per cent increase to social assistance benefit rates, including a further increase for single OW recipients… Ontarians who have been living in poverty have been waiting 12 years… for a return to more adequate social assistance incomes. This year’s increases are too little, too late.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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First Nations students need more than policy advice
… the time for social reconstruction from the ground up may have arrived. Supporting traditional industries, creating sustainable employment, refurbishing housing, and embracing First Nations community-based schooling is a much better approach… More funding would be a real help, but it will take a generation to rebuild broken trust, foster cross-cultural reconciliation, and engage First Nations themselves in this vitally important work.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, housing, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Advocates taking Canada’s housing policy to UN
… affordable housing activists are taking their landmark “right to housing” Charter challenge to the international stage… the case… was never heard because lawyers for Ontario and Ottawa introduced a successful motion to strike in 2013. The activists appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which in June 2015 refused to hear the case, essentially upholding the lower court’s view that legislatures, not the courts, are the place to fight homelessness.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Katimavik could be a powerful tool for indigenous reconciliation
Now is a perfect opportunity for a 2.0 version of the national youth service program that worked before and was killed by the previous Conservative government. Over some 40 years, Katimavik engaged youth in volunteerism to attain priorities of national importance, including learning about different Canadian communities. It was designed to breed understanding and acceptance across cultural, linguistic, geographic and socioeconomic divides.
Tags: budget, housing, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Federal Budget 2016: Anti-Poverty Activists Want $3.2B For Affordable Housing
The pre-budget ask from seven groups is aimed at helping the 235,000 Canadians who experience homelessness every year, and social housing providers who are beginning to see the end of federal funding agreements signed decades ago with no new capital funding in sight… It’s an ambitious request… but… Studies suggest homelessness costs Canada $7 billion annually in services and lost opportunities.
Tags: budget, economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Fiscal policy driven by discrimination
“It is only because of their race and/or national or ethnic origin that they suffer the adverse impacts . . . . in the provision of child and family services,’’ the Tribunal ruled. “Furthermore, these adverse impacts perpetuate the historical disadvantage and trauma suffered by aboriginal people, in particular as a result of the residential schools system.’’… This discriminatory system did happen under their watch, she says, although most were never made aware of the inequities perpetrated on aboriginal children.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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