Posts Tagged ‘participation’
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Health-care unions call Ontario’s one-time $5K offer to nurses ‘demoralizing’
Tuesday, March 8th, 2022
The healthcare unions, which represent a combined 220,000 workers across Ontario, said in their letter that the shortage “requires urgent action to better respect, protect, and pay all healthcare workers.” They say that should begin with repealing Bill 124. That legislation was introduced in 2019, and capped annual salary increases for many public sector employees, including nurses, at an average of one per cent annually for three years.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pensions, women
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With deadline looming, why hasn’t Ontario signed a child-care deal yet?
Monday, March 7th, 2022
Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, said Ontario’s funding of full-day junior kindergarten is irrelevant. “The idea is to use this federal money to build on what already exists,” she said. “If Ontario wants to argue that the federal government should pay a share of public education, then they should make that proposal.”… Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said the $27.2 billion the Liberals have budgeted for the Canada-wide program would not be enough to meet expected demand.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Hard lessons from the siege of Ottawa
Monday, February 28th, 2022
… there is… no guarantee that the undeniable presence in Canada of disinformation-fuelled rage won’t grow. Civil society must resolve to push back against the ugly forces that caused the chaos and criminality in our national capital… It will require long overdue regulation of social media companies making obscene profits while failing to take responsibility for campaigns of hate and racism on their platforms.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Ottawa convoy protest points to a failure of civic education in Canada
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
… Canadians will get an education in civics one way or another… Will it come from a robust and informed curriculum that teaches citizens about basic institutions like parliamentary democracy, charter rights and the differences between federal and provincial jurisdiction? Or will we simply leave it to YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms to fill in the void?
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Sadness rules the day as Ottawa protest comes to an end
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
It was heartbreaking to see so many, ill-informed and hurting, fight for a cause they believe they are defending… Perhaps it was because they were repeatedly lied to… threats of violence… hate on display… so little consideration for the residents of downtown Ottawa… It was sad the residents of Ottawa felt the police couldn’t be trusted to enforce the law… It was sad that Ontario stood on the sidelines of the crisis for so long…
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Why Not 75 Years Old?
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
… since the creation of the RRSP in 1957, the age limit of 71 has never been raised… Given the sharp increase in life expectancy, the age limit of 71 years for converting an RRSP into a RRIF needs to be lifted… this type of change would optimize the mechanics of pension plans, and also encourage Canadians to remain in the workforce, which improves health and also helps with Canada’s looming labour shortage.
Tags: budget, economy, participation, pensions, tax
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How did Ontario’s disgraceful disability support program get so bad?
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
The vast majority of Ontarians with a disability are not on the program. Of those who are, 57 per cent have either mental illnesses or developmental disabilities. Nevertheless, the PCs’ new “vision” for the disabled continues to push the optimistic goal of finding jobs for them… Instead, they are ignored by a provincial government that can afford to give wealthy people a break on their power rates, vacationers a tax break for renting a cottage, maybe even make licence plates free, a cheap political stunt that would cost $1 billion a year.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Solutions exist for Canada’s alt-right radicalization
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
Canadians promote respect for the rule of law, but the protests have documented the truth: the law treats Canadians differently based on their skin colour. RCMP are quickly militarized to push Indigenous people off their land when they blockaded pipelines, but police have not removed white protesters with the same vigour. The hypocrisy of the last three weeks erodes trust in all our institutions.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Strong, stable funding for Ontario’s Universities is an investment in Ontario’s future
Friday, February 11th, 2022
Public funding for universities in Ontario is at record low levels, while tuition fees are high, and academic work is becoming increasingly precarious… OCUFA’s recommendations are to: Increase per-student public investment… to improve Ontario’s rank by one spot among other provinces… restore the enrolment-based funding model… Implement meaningful increases to the Northern and Bilingual Grants, special purpose funding (particularly for Indigenous programming and supports), and research funding…
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, participation
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No good reason for Ontario to delay signing child-care agreement
Friday, February 11th, 2022
… a small minority is trying to weaken the pan-Canadian policy. They are trying to undermine the national approach, for reasons that include skepticism, financial self-interest and old-fashioned nostalgia for the 1950s family… There is no reason to cave to those who seek to weaken child-care policy. For more than 838,000 children five and under years – and for everyone who relies on someone who relies on child care – a solid Ontario child-care agreement can’t come soon enough.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation
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