Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
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Federal budget should close gap between rhetoric and resources
The government should… index the Canada Child Benefit to inflation, fix the EI system by creating fair and universal criteria for access, and pay for… affordable housing… [and] the $155 million in emergency relief it promised to First Nations children living on reserves… On the revenue side… it should continue to invest in tax compliance… [and] limit or scrap some of the many loopholes… that benefit the richest with no evident contribution to the public good.
Tags: budget, featured, housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, tax
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The Liberals’ First Nations agenda encounters reality
This isn’t a “First Nations issue” except inasmuch as First Nations, as a population, are disadvantaged relative to other Canadians on social indicators that predict a vast catalogue of bad outcomes, from going to jail to homelessness to dying in a fire or getting murdered. Individual white Anglo-Saxon Canadians so disadvantaged run similar risks; individual aboriginal Canadians who are not so disadvantaged do not… truly transformational change on this front will only come with transformational change on the most basic fronts: education, employment, income. That’s a massive job.
Tags: featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Black health needs to become a priority
Black communities are disproportionately affected by health-related issues such as mental health, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, sickle cell, stroke and hypertension. But they have yet to be adequately addressed effectively within the Canadian health-care system… policy-makers need to recognize that racism and violence along with the social determinants of health play a role in the health outcomes of black communities in Canada.
Tags: Health, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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With universal drug coverage, Canadians could save billions: study
“The benefit of having a universal plan is to make sure that nobody falls through the cracks of our currently fragmented private and public drug coverage system”… basing a universal drug program on an evidence-based list of essential medicines could be a good starting point… the data clearly show it would benefit Canadians without a massive price increase. “It just takes political leadership,”
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living
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Ottawa should name a children’s advocate
… according to UNICEF our children are falling behind those in other affluent countries in four key areas: income, health, education and life satisfaction… Campaign 2000, which measures child poverty annually, found it had actually gone up to 18.3 per cent in 2016 from the level of 15.8 per cent it was at back in 1989.
Tags: child care, featured, Health, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Better medicare the prescription for Ontario
Calls for user fees on top of what the government already pays us, and arguments to let rich Ontarians pay for faster services, undermine values shared by most doctors and patients. Not to mention, they also fly in the face of the evidence. Besides violating the Canada Health Act and Ontario’s own laws, user fees and similar charges disproportionately impact those least able to pay, who also happen to be the Ontarians most in need of care.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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Prescription from ER doctor: expand public dental programs
… they come to the hospital because they have nowhere else to go. For children in low income families, we have a public dental program called Healthy Smiles Ontario. For anyone over age 17 (including seniors), we have nothing… there were almost 61,000 visits to emergency departments in Ontario for dental problems in 2015, or one visit every nine minutes… Based on the average cost of an emergency room visit, the Association of Ontario Health Centres estimates it costs the province at least $31 million annually.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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John Tory’s Valentine’s budget lacks heart
Mayor and Council could ask the average homeowner to pay an additional $8 a month in property tax in 2017, allowing the city to fund child care subsidies for up to 1,000 more children, rent supplements for 2,000 more families, and affordable rental housing for 500 additional families — all big steps toward addressing the unacceptably long wait-lists for these supports… Or… reintroduce a $60 vehicle registration tax — at a far lower cost to drivers — which could fund a reduction in TTC fares
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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