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Aboriginal people still unequal
A new report compiled by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)… shows Canada’s aboriginal people: have lower median after-tax income; are more likely to collect employment insurance and social assistance; are more likely to experience physical, emotional or sexual abuse; are more likely to be victims of violent crimes; and are more likely to be incarcerated and less likely to be granted parole.
Tags: budget, corrections, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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SDHU studies effects of wealth on health
Sudbury’s most economically deprived areas had more than four times as many emergency department visits for mental health episodes as the more well off parts of the city… if the social gap between rich and poor neighbourhoods were eliminated there would be 14,077 fewer emergency department visits per year in the city, 1,783 fewer hospitalizations for all causes and 9,706 more people in the City who rate their health as excellent or very good.
Tags: Health, housing, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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The real problem with Canadian health care
The Canadian health-care system was originally designed around hospitals and, to a fault, it remains so today — a system whose hospitals struggle to cope with changing patient demand, an aging population… higher costs, global budgets imposed by provincial capitals, fast-developing technologies, rigid rules, new drugs and the social inequities that lead to poor health… medical personnel spend as much time discussing patients’ social and economic conditions as their physical health needs. What often brought patients to the internal medicine ward were the results of their unsatisfactory social and economic conditions.
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, Health, housing, mental Health, poverty
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The Aboriginal population: younger and more troubled
Forty-nine per cent of First Nations people live on reserve, where education is provided by band councils using federal funds – and where other studies found that about 60 per cent fail to graduate…. lack of education is but one facet of the troubled lives of many aboriginals… “In order for the numbers to change, the government is going to have to address root causes such as poverty and discrimination…The focus cannot just be on education. It has to be broader than that.”
Tags: crime prevention, Health, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The deadly mixture of guns and class in Toronto Mapping
Mar 03 2013
… the recent uptick in gun violence in Toronto mirrors the same fault-lines of economic and social disadvantage that exist in U.S. cities… The vast majority of gun murders from 2000 to the present have occurred in the city’s service class areas, and that figure rises to nearly 400 gun murders, almost 90 per cent, when we include the red working class clusters.
Tags: crime prevention, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s homeless showing
Feb. 26, 2013
it’s been 20 years since federal funding was frozen for housing programs, longer than that since the gradual withdrawal from housing began. Today, Canada is the only G8 country without a national housing strategy, and it shows: It’s estimated about 300,000 Canadians are homeless, and about 1.7 million Canadians have trouble affording their housing.
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Time to change the conversation on austerity
February 24, 2013
…austerity budgets only worsen social conditions while seriously undermining the economy — from the added public-service costs that poverty creates to the untapped potential of single parents unable to access affordable day care, dispirited and heavily indebted students or new Canadians unable to find employment in their field — contributing to the very deficit problem the agenda purports to resolve.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, housing, ideology, standard of living, youth
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First Nations: The Long Shadow of Assimilation
Jan. 3, 2013
$7.5 billion – Estimated annual cost of doing nothing to resolve First Nations employment and social problems in Canada (in 1996 alone)… $169-$189 million – Estimated federal government underfunding of capital expenditures on reserves annually. The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) says 40 new schools, at a cost of $12.5 million each, and 85,000 housing units would have to be built to meet current needs.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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