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We know police can’t solve the root causes of Toronto gun violence. What’s stopping us from doing what can?
Saturday, December 19th, 2020
Invest early in terms of education, child supports, health, daycare — try holistic approaches to decrease poverty and disparate outcomes for Black, Indigenous and other racialized groups — and you’ll not only improve lives, but you’ll also save money. On health care, on police, on courts, on jails.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, youth
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Canada’s federal leaders will defend your right to wear a poppy, Just don’t ask them to stick up for your freedom of religion
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
No one in politics wants to be associated with billion-dollar companies, tech giants or overpriced food these days, so it was simply a matter of hearing about the poppy ban and pressing “play” on the outrage tape. It’s a little harder, apparently, to work up the nerve to say that Bill 21 is a flagrant slap in the face of freedom of expression and, worse yet, that it is inflicting real, not symbolic damage on real citizens… No one wants to get on the wrong side of that majority opinion in Quebec…
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, rights
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Thanks to Quebec millennials, another referendum isn’t looming
Sunday, November 1st, 2020
… Among those age 55 and older, there is a big difference between francophone Quebeckers and people in the rest of Canada in the proportion saying their provincial government best represents their interests; among those under 40, this difference has disappeared… the differences between the outlooks of young adults in different parts of Canada have never been as small as they are today. Our historically weak transnational ties have been getting stronger under the radar.
Tags: ideology, immigration, jurisdiction, multiculturalism
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Ranked ballots for municipal elections matter and why Doug Ford should care
Monday, October 26th, 2020
… what is Premier Doug Ford afraid of? Municipalities deserve to decide how they conduct their own affairs, including how they elect their leaders. In fact, in referendums in Kingston and Cambridge, ranked ballots were chosen by voters as the way to elect their representatives.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Why Chrystia Freeland needs to reform the charitable sector
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
If we want to ensure transparency and accountability, then charities need to… reflect the diversity of Canada and the communities they serve… Other jurisdictions like Australia have modernized to enable charities to earn revenue from unrelated businesses as long as the revenue is applied to the organization’s charitable mission.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Race does not determine health outcomes — racism does. As medical professionals we see this reflected in stark COVID-19 realities
Thursday, August 13th, 2020
… employment, income, wealth, education, housing and so on — are what ultimately determine who survives or how long we live. In many ways, the single most important protective factor in this pandemic was having the privilege to stay at home. But that’s if you had a home and a job that would allow you to work remotely and take paid leave if sick or unwell.
Tags: Health, ideology, multiculturalism
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Black people more likely to be arrested, charged, shot and killed by Toronto police, Ontario Human Rights Commission finds
Monday, August 10th, 2020
The results are “highly disturbing, and confirm what Black communities have said for decades — that Black people bear a disproportionate burden of law enforcement”… although Black people represent 8.8 per cent of Toronto’s population, Black people represented 32 per cent of the charges in the data set… The charges… involve a high degree of discretion on the part of the officer.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism
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These mental health advocates are working on an alternative to police intervention when someone is in crisis.
Monday, August 3rd, 2020
“When someone is in crisis, they are already feeling afraid, overwhelmed, out of control. They don’t need an officer with a gun and handcuffs showing up… “What they need instead is a mental health expert, who they can trust, who can help them calm down. Someone who can help them feel safer.”
Tags: disabilities, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism
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Trying to avert two Ontario child-welfare deaths a week
Friday, July 31st, 2020
… in 2016, 121 children or youth involved in the system, including those who recently aged out, had died. In 2017, it was 126, in 2018 it was 126 again, and in 2019, 99… But some of the issues… are much broader than those in the child-welfare system. Data is siloed in ways that complicate co-ordination and planning… There are major regional inequalities in available services… “The pandemic really highlighted some of the long-standing issues in the system”…
Tags: housing, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, youth
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We must go back and fetch our forgotten Black history
Friday, July 31st, 2020
Canada’s strategically crafted narrative has created a framework within which racial inequities have simultaneously been upheld and delegitimized through the erasure of Black experiences. It’s actually quite ingenious. If we can’t identify the roots of our systems of oppression, we will never dismantle them. If we don’t recognize the whole of our history, we will never learn from it.
Tags: featured, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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