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Canada loses ground on literacy
Seven years ago, the bank issued a national call for action, urging policy-makers and corporate leaders to make literacy a national priority… Ottawa and the provinces… invested money and effort in raising literacy levels… Net impact: Less than zero. The national score was weighed down by the performances of two groups: immigrants and the Aboriginal Peoples.
Tags: economy, immigration, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, youth
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Now the hard work begins: Keeping provincial budgets balanced
… fiscal readjustment has had a negative but unavoidable impact on Canadian economic growth. The government sector is now the lagging edge of the economy. It is projected to grow by 1 per cent in 2013 and just 0.4 per cent in 2014, and is a major reason why the Canadian economy is growing at an annual rate of less than 2 per cent over all.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, Health, ideology, immigration, standard of living, tax
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Canada: It really is our home and native land
We’re hooked on the place we call home and so, very quickly, are new arrivals. First comes belonging to family and then comes Canada… In a testament to how well our multiculturalism still works, EKOS finds no differences in values held by native-born and foreign-born Canadians… [However]… the bonds that hold Canadians together are unravelling, leaving a nation profoundly polarized along fault-lines of age, education and the workplace.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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Once-admiring Americans decry today’s Canada
Since 2006, Stephen Harper’s government has been incrementally tightening Canada’s borders and turning away increasing numbers of refugee claimants from countries with abysmal human rights records. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the pace accelerated sharply… Harvard scholars zeroed in on the policies Ottawa has used to transform Canada from a welcoming nation to an inhospitable bastion… It has hired gatekeepers who understand that their role is to discourage claimants.
Tags: budget, globalization, immigration, multiculturalism
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Canada’s widening gap a looming crisis
For 146 years, we’ve built this country based on a simple premise — and a higher purpose: that helping our neighbour, looking out for one another and giving everyone a shot at success is the best way to build a society. It is again time to focus on sharing our prosperity more widely — to make sure we continue on an inclusive path, where everyone feels they have a stake in their community and their country. And where they will participate and know that their voices will be heard.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, participation, standard of living, tax
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Meanness is a way of life in Ottawa
Today, the nastiness is deep and systemic… lack of civility has become a way of life in Ottawa — from committee meetings to tribunal hearings to everyday communications in which civil servants treat groups and citizens like Blackstock in a manner that suggests they have been actively targeted… society’s weakest are being hurt the most… “It’s vicious because there always has to be a bad guy … Meetings are sullied by derisive comments aimed at those perceived to be unfriendly to government… They’re bully tactics.
Tags: budget, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights, women
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Ottawa launches business incubator visa
… entrepreneurs seeking permanent residency in Canada must first gain the support of an angel investor group, venture capital fund or new business incubator before they can apply for the startup visa. The backers are supposed to provide seed money and mentorship to fledgling companies in order to help them attract investors and grow their startups into sustainable businesses that can create jobs in Canada.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, privatization, standard of living
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Report calls for cap on temporary foreign workers
A new report is calling for a cap on the number of temporary foreign workers admitted to Canada on an annual basis, pending wholesale changes to the beleaguered program that currently risks taking jobs away from young Canadians entering the labour market and lower-skilled Canadian workers… “One could imagine a fee structure where the fee rises with the number of temporary foreign workers hired in a given year and with the number of years for which an employer hires temporary foreign workers”
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, standard of living, youth
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Case study highlights conflict between bureaucrats, Minister Kenney on direction of multiculturalism programs
… bureaucrats embraced a set of assumptions laid down in the days of Pierre Trudeau and maintained by every Conservative and Liberal government that followed: Multiculturalism programs should foster mutual tolerance among cultural communities. Citizenship should be easy to acquire, and citizenship classes and programs should emphasize the federal government’s contribution to peacekeeping, the United Nations and expanding civil liberties at home and abroad. The Harper government saw things differently.
Tags: ideology, immigration, jurisdiction, multiculturalism
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Reconciling Muslim practices with Western principles
… it will take great effort to develop Islamic practice that has a Canadian tone, with regional variations. This implies ceasing blind importation of overseas cultural practices, or consultation of overseas imams who have no desire to understand Western cultural context… We need intelligent, dispassionate discussions of how Western principles, such as gender equality, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression and critical inquiry, meld with overarching Islamic principles.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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