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Hear this Election’s Racism Wake-up Call
… our success is in that tolerance, that respect for pluralism, that generous sharing of opportunity with everyone, that innate sense that every single one of us, regardless of where we come from, regardless of what we look like, regardless of how we worship, regardless of whom we love, that every single one us deserves the chance right here, right now, to live a great Canadian life. But this is incredibly fragile. It must be protected always from the voices of intolerance, the voices of divisiveness, the voices of small mindedness, and the voices of hatred.
Tags: featured, globalization, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Toronto’s geography of inequity
… either we invest in these communities now and fix these trends, or we’ll pay much more later on. “Poverty is expensive” … unemployment and criminal justice costs down the road, if trends don’t change… The policy areas that need to be addressed include quality affordable housing, availability of community services, income security, and what Barata calls workforce development. “With precarity, people aren’t going to get training through work, it’ll be out of pocket, but the market demands it.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, housing, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living
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We need a national housing strategy now
Many people… end up homeless due to difficult life situations — whether it be due to a mental illness, losing their job, or a breakdown in their relationships. But once in the shelter system, getting access to safe, affordable housing is a challenge… when it finally arrives, often people find it unsafe and in a state of disrepair. This situation continues even though we know the cost of one night in affordable housing costs us much less than one night in a shelter, a hospital bed or jail.
Tags: budget, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Back When Ottawa Created a Housing Agency for All Canadians
… CMHC… played a historic post-war role housing tens of thousands of new families, and then a generation later more or less invented social housing to shelter Canada’s neediest… CMHC provided financial backing, mortgage subsidies and operating assistance to hundreds of co-operatives and a wide-range of social housing projects from coast to coast. Most of those agreements are still in place, although the current Conservative government has served notice it will let them expire over the coming years.
Tags: budget, economy, housing, ideology, standard of living
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Affordable housing: A crippling crisis with an obvious solution
Such a prolonged shortage translates into a workforce insufficiently skilled to make Canada thrive in a fiercely competitive global economy. It accounts for a population whose health falls short… And it imposes an expense on Canadian taxpayers in ever rising healthcare costs. It accounts in large degree for higher-than-average crime rates among selected population groups. It imposes a social tax, measured in both dollars and diminished peace of mind, the enormity of which is only hinted at by the expense of our criminal-justice system.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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5 reasons we can’t ignore Indigenous families and children this election
Half of all First Nations children in Canada live in poverty… Indigenous children trail the rest of Canada’s children on practically every measure of well-being: family income, educational attainment, poor water quality, infant mortality, health, suicide, crowding and homelessness… There have been no real increases in funding for social programs on reserves since 1996… A billion dollars would lift all Indigenous children out of poverty
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Making inequality an issue in the election campaign
The [CCPA] Good for Canada platform is described as a series of measures, that if taken, could address income inequality. Good social programs, it points out, help all Canadians become contributing members of society. That would include an affordable housing strategy, a $10-a-day child care program, a national pharmacare program, dental care for all children under 15, investing in First Nations infrastructure and schools, and creating a national action plan to address violence against women.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, housing, ideology, Indigenous, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living, women
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Basic income: just what the doctor ordered
Decades of studies have shown that health care accounts for less than 25 per cent of health outcomes… income, education, employment, housing, and food security — have a far greater impact on whether we will be ill or well. Of these, income has the most powerful influence, as it shapes access to the other health determinants. Low-income Canadians are more likely to die earlier and suffer from more illnesses than Canadians with higher incomes, regardless of age, sex, race or place of residence. No wonder doctors and policy-makers are beginning to line up behind the notion of a basic income guarantee.
Tags: featured, Health, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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