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Whiteness is a racial construct. It’s time to take it apart
Being white in Canada means a lower chance of developing cancer, hypertension and asthma. It also means being less likely to live in poverty… “White fragility,” … is the inability to cope with conversations about race that don’t protect individual white people’s sense of innocence… To hear an accusation of racism is to believe one’s basic morality is in question, which stirs up guilt and defensiveness, leading to anger and avoidance.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Immigration: How a bigger Canada benefits us all
Our declining birth rate means we need many more immigrants to increase our population, but this growth must be planned and implemented… without putting an excessive strain on our communities, services and infrastructure… With thoughtful, strategic population growth, Canada could… strengthen our educational institutions, build big cities with smaller carbon footprints, encourage the flow of ideas and people, spark investment and research in our growing economy, and support families
Tags: economy, immigration, participation, standard of living
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More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone
In China, farmers whose land has been turned into factories are making more steel than the world needs. In America, idled steelworkers are contemplating how to live off the land… Trade deals, immigrant labor, automation: As Mr. Arkenbout sees it, these are all just instruments wielded in pursuit of the same goal — paying him less so corporations can keep more. “When they don’t need me anymore,” he said, “I’m nothing.”
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, participation, pensions, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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‘Canadian values’ conceal Canadian violence
… the suggestion that immigrants need to be screened for repugnant values pretends that violence and intolerance are strange and foreign things in Canada. Sexism, homophobia, and bigotry are imagined to be evils brought into the country by dangerous outsiders, rather than problems deeply rooted in Canadian cultural soil… The problem is not that the barbarians are at our gates. It is that we think the world can be divided into those who are barbaric and those who are not.
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism
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You know, this internet thing might turn out to be big [employment]
Technology has been replacing human labour since at least the days of the knitting machine… The past few decades have seen an endless series of blights that were supposed to condemn us to mass unemployment: downsizing, outsourcing, free trade, Dutch disease. And through it all the proportion of the adult population in employment has risen: from 57 per cent in 1976 to 62 per cent in 1989 to nearly 64 per cent at its latest peak, in 2008…
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, participation, standard of living
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By ignoring free trade’s excesses, we lost those on the margins
At the core of these paradoxes is a conflict of globalization with national sovereignty, and their mutual conflict with democracy – something long understood by political scientists but until recently only dimly perceived by economists. Voters resist both free trade and immigration that threatens their jobs, and nations resist treaties that undermine their sovereignty – even when forgoing them carries an economic cost.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Innovation and talent acquisition can solve our growth dilemma
Canada needs a robust national access-to-talent strategy. We should increase immigration. By 2025, 30 per cent of our population will be 60 and older – to mitigate this imbalance, Canada would need to increase immigration for each of the next five years to one million people. If we focus this intake on skilled newcomers between the ages of 20 and 39, it would shift our overall proportion of that band from 25 per cent to 32 per cent of the population.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, participation, standard of living, youth
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Six pervasive myths about Canada we must stop believing
Myth #1: Canada is a post-racial nation… Myth #2: Canada is a post-colonial nation… Myth #3: Canada welcomes and protects its Muslim communities… Myth #4: Canada is a safe haven for immigrants and refugees… Myth #5: Canada safeguards the rights of LGBTQ communities… Myth #6: Canada isn’t complicit in global human rights abuse
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation
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Why black Canadians are facing U.S.-style problems
To be black in Canada, with small but important exceptions, is to be from a fairly recent immigrant background – either to be, or to be descended from, a postwar immigrant from the Caribbean or Africa… Black Canadians are demonstrably facing different outcomes in employment, in housing and especially in the policing and justice systems that can only be traced to discrimination… black and white citizens were treated dramatically differently in policing, charges, court procedures, sentencing and imprisonment.
Tags: corrections, featured, housing, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Count your blessings, Canada
We have only begun to move down the path to true reconciliation with our indigenous peoples, we have too many pockets of generational poverty still… But. Compared to where we were a generation ago… even a year ago, and more importantly compared to where our closest neighbours, nations and partners are today, as we approach our 149th national day celebration, my grandmother’s declaration rings in my ears, “Count your blessings, Canada…”
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, standard of living
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