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The great divide in Toronto housing
With one in five Torontonians living in poverty, that’s a lot of us left out in the cold, especially aboriginal, racialized and immigrant women who are more likely to experience poverty, precarious employment and lack of affordable housing as a barrier to leaving violent situations. This isn’t just about building more shelters and fixing the backlog of TCHC repairs. While these are necessary, they can never be more than band-aid solutions without careful consideration of how housing, urban planning and community development interact with poverty and inequality.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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The solutions at hand for aboriginal women
… both aboriginal and non-aboriginal leaders have spoken of the need for comprehensive improvement in aboriginal Canadians’ lives: better and less crowded housing, education improvement, fighting addictions, job opportunities… the bulk of the problem is bound up in precisely those “sociological phenomena” — poverty, misery, addictions, hopelessness — that can be relied upon to produce violent outcomes in any society, of any ethnicity.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, rights, women, youth
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United Way sketches a path to a fairer Toronto
Toronto has a mayor and Ontario has a premier who are committed to reducing poverty. There are already effective civic partnerships, programs that have succeeded in lifting disadvantaged families up… the United Way does in its latest report, The Opportunity Equation… sets three overarching goals: 1) Give the city’s next generation the tools it needs to succeed; 2) Ensure that work is a path out of poverty; and 3) Share the city’s prosperity more widely.
Tags: economy, housing, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Canada fails First Nations children
The historic motion [Jordan’s Principle] endorsed the idea that meeting the health needs of indigenous children should be a top priority. And Parliament made it clear that the issue of which level of government should pay for health services should not impede the delivery of those services. Unfortunately, much more work still needs to be done on this file. Last week, a bracing report was published, laying bare the social inequities that continue to deprive First Nations children of timely care and assistance.
Tags: budget, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living, youth
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How Harper created a more conservative Canada
Nine years after Stephen Harper was sworn in as prime minister, we are a more conservative land… Absolutely not, you say? Then would you support increasing the GST by two percentage points? Do you want to relax parole eligibility for sex offenders? Would you get behind some big new national program, even if it infuriated Quebec and Alberta? … If a ship filled with refugee claimants appears, should we just let them in? And how do you think your neighbours would answer these questions?
Tags: budget, child care, corrections, crime prevention, economy, globalization, Health, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, pensions, poverty, rights, tax
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We haven’t forgotten the long-form census
The absence of a mandatory long-form census creates growing and troubling evidence-free zones. It allows ideologues of all stripes free reign to define problems and solutions without a clear grasp of the nature of the challenges facing the country, or the likely impact of a range of possible policy options on diverse Canadians. It’s like driving blindfolded, and it mustn’t continue. The last long-form census was undertaken in 2006.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Long-form census is needed for good decision-making
Policy-makers are groping in the dark. So it was good news this week when both municipal and federal politicians shone a new spotlight on the issue… The evidence is mounting that the Harper government’s decision to do away with the compulsory long-form census and replace it with a voluntary National Household Survey – which cost $22 million more to produce – is costing Canada dearly.
Tags: economy, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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How aging boomers will disrupt Canada’s demographic ‘crisis’
Health care spenders, who know that it costs $1,000 to keep chronically ill patients in a hospital bed, $130 to keep them in a care facility and $55 to support them – safely and sensibly – at home should pick one from column C… For everyone’s sake, let’s do what we can to make sure that the boomers’ have their last hurrah at home, in comfort, rather than in care – and in crisis.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, standard of living
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Why Canada should reinstate long-form census
In 2010, against the advice of the chief statistician and other experts, the Conservative government quashed the long-form census… the National Household Survey has very scant returns from the top and bottom rungs of the economic ladder. With mainly mid-income respondents, the survey creates a façade that Canada is a thriving middle-class society when in fact it is experiencing a widening chasm between the affluent and the impoverished.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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