Posts Tagged ‘ideology’
Premier Ford cries poor but subsidizes $700 million for fossil fuel consumption
Monday, August 5th, 2019
In the last year alone, Ontario provided nearly $700 million in subsidies for fossil fuel consumption… No one wants to see public dollars wasted, least of all the Government of Ontario. If it takes the opportunity to buckle down on fossil fuel subsidies and reinvest those millions wisely, not only will it set the province on a path to a more sustainable future, it will also prove itself to be Canada’s vanguard for smart, fiscal efficiency.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, tax
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The road to real reconciliation will be paved by Canada’s youth
Monday, August 5th, 2019
While Canadian society has advanced on a range of issues – retiring a racist immigration policy in the 1960s, making substantial strides toward gender equality, embracing gay rights – the treatment of Indigenous peoples has been an area of conspicuous inaction. As with other significant movements of the past half-century, young people may now be preparing to show the way forward.
Tags: ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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Ontario must fund the fixes to long-term care homes
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Ford’s administration has pumped up the provincial deficit and fears of it to such heights that it makes spending money seem like a failure of government rather than a proper and necessary response to public need… there’s no excuse for the Ford government to delay concrete improvement by claiming the whole system needs to be revamped… Changes designed to prevent another healthcare serial killer also provide a path to improve the quality of life in these homes.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, housing, ideology, standard of living
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Ottawa finally challenging Ford government’s plan to cancel out-of-country medical coverage
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
The federal health minister noted correctly that the Ontario government’s decision, which is due to take effect Oct. 1, was “inconsistent” with the Canada Health Act, the law governing medicare. That law sets out the criteria that provinces must meet to be eligible for federal medicare funding. One criterion is portability — the requirement that provincial medicare plans cover residents who are temporarily travelling elsewhere in Canada or abroad.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Money has never been cheaper. Should Ottawa be borrowing more?
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Ultralow interest rates are a problem, but also an opportunity. Borrowing has never been cheaper. If the federal government were to increase borrowing, only for a short period and only to fund one-off items such as new education facilities or transit infrastructure, it could finance that at very low costs, locked in for decades.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Ontario government apologizes for autism program changes; needs-based model won’t launch until next April
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Todd Smith, Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, acknowledged for the first time on Monday that changes to the autism program announced earlier this year were poorly conceived. “It’s clear to me that we didn’t get the redesign right the first time. I’m here to tell you we will now”… He added: “We are certainly sorry for the anxiety this has caused parents across Ontario.”
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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In a push for diversity, medical schools overhaul how they select Canada’s future doctors
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Ninety-two per cent of NOSM students have grown up in Northern Ontario, and the other 8 per cent are from rural and remote parts of the rest of Canada. About 2 per cent of applicants are Indigenous, but in the past few years the selection system has been tweaked to increase the number of successful Indigenous applicants, including giving them training to succeed in the interview process.
Tags: Health, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation
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Cuts to legal clinics a sinister plan to harm the most vulnerable
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Band-aid solutions are not the answer to address systemic issues, so the clinics saw their work as demolishing systemic barriers. Changes in ODSP, housing, employment insurance, and employment equity are directly correlated to the significance of legal clinic organizers building power… Legal clinic boards are not stewards of austerity or executioners of their already pared-down budgets: they should pride themselves of their role as defenders of the public good and of the welfare of their communities.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ontario must not leave accused people high and dry
Monday, July 29th, 2019
In yet another display of indifference by the Ford government towards those who can’t afford a lawyer, the province has failed to close a legal loophole so that paralegals and student-staffed legal clinics can continue to serve clients in certain criminal cases… The Ford government has already stripped funds from legal aid… there’s no reason to further restrict access to the current level of affordable or free legal representation
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Does our system for dealing with mentally ill offenders need a rethink?
Monday, July 29th, 2019
it is wrong to characterize a mentally ill person who has committed a violent crime as permanently dangerous. According to a study from 2015, among people who committed a major violent crime and were found NCR, fewer than 1 in 100 went on to reoffend. Treatment often works… something went very wrong in this case… But there is no reason to scrap a system that, in dealing with mentally ill people who have committed crimes, is reducing threats and serving the public interest.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, ideology, mental Health
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