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Canada can’t let labour mobility create an underclass of TFWs
… the TPP is rewriting the rules of business for the 21st century, including those with respect to labour mobility. Half of the 12 negotiating countries have large economies and aging populations, and the other half are populated by younger people with fewer opportunities. Labour mobility is an obvious solution to this apparent labour imbalance in the global market. But it’s crucial that we decide whether this happens through recourse to temporary, precarious work, or through a more just pathway of immigration leading to citizenship.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, immigration, participation, rights, standard of living
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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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Trudeau’s victory is a triumph for decency
Millions were repelled by Conservative efforts to scare people into voting for the status quo… Trudeau spoke out fiercely and repeatedly for human rights… rejected a Tory economic model that left too many behind, and refused to be shackled by the conventional wisdom that budget-balancing trumps all. That progressive vision informed his promises of greater tax fairness, his bold investment in job-creating infrastructure and his pulling together of a generous, equitable child benefit from a hodgepodge of Tory programs that collectively favoured the affluent.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, immigration, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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Voters delivered a moral judgment on Stephen Harper
In electing Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, the voters were saying they’d had enough of mean-spiritedness in politics… But by this election, that non-Conservative majority was determined to see them gone… faced with a choice between the Liberals and a social democratic party posing as Liberals, voters opted for the real thing… The Liberal leader is hardly a radical. His father, Pierre, wasn’t either… But the Liberal leader is different in style. He is sunnier; he exudes optimism; he seems more open.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Campaign 2015 forced Canadians to face hard truths
The racial and religious harmony on which we pride ourselves is more tenuous than many of us realized. / We are willing to settle for “economic stability” rather than growth. / We have embraced the notion that strengthening the middle class is the role of government [marginalizing those who truly need help]. / Our humanitarian instincts remain strong [concerning refugees]. / We’re becoming a do-it-yourself nation. / We haven’t figured out how to keep our priorities — health care, the environment, our children’s future — on the election agenda.
Tags: economy, Health, immigration, multiculturalism, philanthropy, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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Stop ‘streaming’ students in Grade 9
The OECD… recommends a “common curriculum” until the senior years of high school so that kids won’t see their post-secondary options limited… Keeping them in the academic stream for their first year, at least, can lead to higher pass rates, give more teens a chance to go onto university if they choose to, and stop the practice of seeing vulnerable poor and racialized groups over-represented in the applied courses.
Tags: featured, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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How Stephen Harper changed the character of Canada
One by one, Canadians have lost the tools they need to understand what their government is doing and make informed choices about the future… “Small” changes add up. They transform the face of a nation and the character of its people. They prevent Canadians from finding out what is being done in their name, with their dollars. They erode empathy and trust. Please don’t shrug. This matters. Where the trajectory goes from here is up to us.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights
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Prime Minister’s Office ordered halt to refugee processing
The Prime Minister’s Office directed Canadian immigration officials to stop processing one of the most vulnerable classes of Syrian refugees this spring and declared that all UN-referred refugees would require approval from the Prime Minister, a decision that halted a critical aspect of Canada’s response to a global crisis… Canada issued visas to only 308 UN-referred refugees from Syria through the first eight months of this year…
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Yes, let’s have an election on citizenship
Citizenship is weird. It is not one of those “Canadian values,” about which party leaders love to debate. It is rather the precondition for participating in those debates. In other words, citizenship is a right. As a right, you either have it or you don’t. If you have it, it can’t be taken away by someone with power, just because you don’t accept their notion of Canadian values — as you might remove it from them, if you had the power, because they didn’t conform to your values chart.
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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