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Nursing homes don’t have to be grim, depressing places
Three principles are vital for high-quality long-term nursing care… * It fosters person-to-person relationships. * It respects individual differences, while striving for equity. * It offers dignity to older citizens regardless of their infirmities… one-size-fits-all rules reduce the ability of care providers and nursing managers to tailor their practices to the needs of residents. “We’ve become so obsessed with safety and standardization that we’ve taken the life out of living.”
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation
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Child support clawback is a disgrace
The child-support clawback… is so common and so cruel that it is being challenged in provincial legislatures and courtrooms across the country… The philosophy behind clawbacks seems to suggest welfare recipients deserve to live in poverty, that allowing them to keep child support payments would amount to cheating the system… The class action lawsuit says the welfare clawback discriminates against parents who are simply trying to support their children.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Can we really end homelessness?
Homelessness that happens to poor people is no more complex or unsolvable than homelessness caused by natural disaster. We’ve proven beyond any doubt that we can take people directly from the streets and put them into apartments, and by providing them the support they need, we can permanently end their homelessness… Just as our goal in disaster response is housing and recovery, so too must be our response to homelessness.
Tags: featured, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Agenda includes national poverty plan
… a new health accord with the provinces and territories… annual funding increases for First Nations programs… invest in improving the quality of on-reserve education… consultations to set up a National Early Learning and Childcare Framework… [for] affordable, high-quality, flexible and fully inclusive child care… boost federal spending on affordable and seniors’ housing… reforming the Employment Insurance system… expanding the Canada Student Grant for low-income students
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, poverty, youth
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A Liberal Majority Government – What Does This Mean for Food Security?
During the election campaign, the Liberal Party platform put forward several promises that are well in line with Food Banks Canada’s policy recommendations to reduce the need for food banks in Canada… the Liberals have promised to: – Combine several tax credits for families with children into the new Canada Child Benefit… Invest an additional $200 million in education and training for unemployed Canadians…
Tags: budget, economy, featured, homelessness, housing, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario sets 10-year deadline to end homelessness
Due to the complexity and many faces of homelessness, the problem is best fought at the local level, with the help of non-profit and private-sector partners… Looking toward the 10-year goal, municipalities will be expected to have local strategies to end homelessness and a common approach to collecting, measuring and tracking data… “… we now have three levels of government that are, in general, on the same page…”
Tags: homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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