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Low federal taxes are a burden
… military families in poverty; disabled vets needing to use the courts to receive adequate funds to live because they are unable to work, others committing suicide; aboriginal communities lacking drinkable water and decent funding for schools. Unfortunately there are many more examples of what their 50-year low in tax revenue means, especially to civic and provincial governments that now bear many of the costs. Someone has to pay and shuffling it around doesn’t mean it disappears, it just means we will have to pay later.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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More money won’t solve aboriginal woes
Canadians have financed growth in the aboriginal welfare state at a pace that eclipsed even the growth of the Canadian welfare state — and unfortunately with little improvement in the well-being of aboriginal Canadians to show for it. That makes it critical to track existing spending and to offer up policy reforms for federal and provincial governments. That is vastly preferable to the tried-and-failed approach of simply throwing more money at failed aboriginal polices.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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Court challenges show Harper governing in shadow of Trudeau’s Charter of Rights
Court challenges by First Nations are likely to stop the Northern Gateway pipeline. Judges have ruled mandatory sentencing for gun crimes violate the charter and refused to impose victim surcharge fees… immigration reforms were restrained by charter rulings on refugees’ rights. And on the key social questions of our era – same-sex marriage, prostitution, drugs, assisted suicide – the Harper government has been unwilling to stand down the judges…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, rights
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At least 4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools, commission finds
Thousands of Canada’s aboriginal children died in residential schools that failed to keep them safe from fires, protected from abusers, and healthy from deadly disease, a commission into the saga has found…. Schools and the government would not pay to have bodies shipped back to their families. And so they were placed in coffins and buried near the schools… Often, their parents in far-away reserves were never told what happened.
Tags: child care, ideology, Indigenous, rights, standard of living, youth
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Five steps to better schools on First Nations reserves
… Atleo set out five conditions for an acceptable Education Act. These conditions are: 1. First Nations control of education; 2. Assurance of stable and adequate funding; 3. Recognition of the importance of First Nations language and culture; 4. “Jointly determined” oversight of First Nations education rather than unilateral federal oversight; and 5. Ongoing meaningful engagement between First Nations and Ottawa on education matters.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, standard of living
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Parliament finally shines a light on the politics of inequality
The majority report calls on the federal government to “formally review the WITB to determine how it could be expanded or modified to further benefit Canadians.”… “to make early childhood education and child care more accessible and affordable in all areas of the country, including through increased support for affordable early childhood and education and care programs.”… [and to] address… the needs of Aboriginal Peoples, especially in the area of education.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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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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Mandela: Five Lessons for Canada’s Activists
Nelson Mandela made this clear: “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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