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Justin Trudeau won by redefining what ‘good government’ can mean
… Trudeau often wasn’t speaking merely of skilfulness or efficiency. He meant morally good. Virtuous. Right. It was a little shocking to hear. It echoed the language of an earlier generation before the relentless Conservative assault on the size, scope and nature of democratic government impoverished our speech and slackened our hopes… it dramatically evoked the notion of a Canadian body politic with a conscience — and a national economy with a human purpose.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, tax, women, youth
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A Liberal Majority Government – What Does This Mean for Food Security?
During the election campaign, the Liberal Party platform put forward several promises that are well in line with Food Banks Canada’s policy recommendations to reduce the need for food banks in Canada… the Liberals have promised to: – Combine several tax credits for families with children into the new Canada Child Benefit… Invest an additional $200 million in education and training for unemployed Canadians…
Tags: budget, economy, featured, homelessness, housing, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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Modern Treaties Boost First Nations Income, Benefit Resource Companies
… Aboriginal rights over their ancestral land are, in many cases, not well defined… Comprehensive Land Claim Agreements, which began in the 1970s, have sought to clarify who owns the land and its resources.” … by clarifying property rights, treaties reduce the transaction costs for extractive industries such as mining and facilitate their development. Such clarification paves the way for more resource projects that may increase demand for local workers.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, jurisdiction, 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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Ottawa returns to normal after Stephen Harper’s dark decade
It is hard to convey the palpable relief that had wafted across the capital by lunchtime the day after the stunning collapse of the Harper regime… An Ottawa officialdom, quietly, confidently, steering the good ship HMCS Canada back onto its true course: the sensible middle-power nudging the more powerful on the international stage toward good, and the nation domestically toward some small degree of greater fairness and some small victories for social justice.
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation
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Providing safe drinking water on reserves is simple. Just do it
Drinking water on reserves is a federal jurisdiction. Ottawa provides 80 per cent of the funding… in July there were 133 Health Canada drinking water advisories in 126 First Nations communities… One-quarter have been ongoing for more than 10 years. [Some] have been boiling water since the 1990s… Every Canadian needs clean drinking water. It’s not a complicated position, morally or technically. The money is there and the problems are fixable. No more excuses.
Tags: Health, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, 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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Affordable housing: A crippling crisis with an obvious solution
Such a prolonged shortage translates into a workforce insufficiently skilled to make Canada thrive in a fiercely competitive global economy. It accounts for a population whose health falls short… And it imposes an expense on Canadian taxpayers in ever rising healthcare costs. It accounts in large degree for higher-than-average crime rates among selected population groups. It imposes a social tax, measured in both dollars and diminished peace of mind, the enormity of which is only hinted at by the expense of our criminal-justice system.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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5 reasons we can’t ignore Indigenous families and children this election
Half of all First Nations children in Canada live in poverty… Indigenous children trail the rest of Canada’s children on practically every measure of well-being: family income, educational attainment, poor water quality, infant mortality, health, suicide, crowding and homelessness… There have been no real increases in funding for social programs on reserves since 1996… A billion dollars would lift all Indigenous children out of poverty
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Making inequality an issue in the election campaign
The [CCPA] Good for Canada platform is described as a series of measures, that if taken, could address income inequality. Good social programs, it points out, help all Canadians become contributing members of society. That would include an affordable housing strategy, a $10-a-day child care program, a national pharmacare program, dental care for all children under 15, investing in First Nations infrastructure and schools, and creating a national action plan to address violence against women.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, housing, ideology, Indigenous, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living, women
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