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Canada is doing well … but we could do so much better
I suggest (once again) a flexible HST — raise it on elective spending (luxury goods, complex financial transactions and the mere velocity of money in financial markets) to eliminate the deficit, and reduce taxes on small personal and corporate incomes to ease the conditions of the most vulnerable and provide affordable stimulus… and shift stimulus from the sterility of traditional welfare, other than where there is no practical alternative because of the acute needs of the seriously disadvantaged…
Tags: budget, economy, Health, jurisdiction, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Finland’s social climbers: How they’re fighting inequality with education, and winning
Canada can learn from Finland’s even more comprehensive approach to ensuring that the most deprived children get the same education as the most privileged; it’s not perfect, but it represents a different, and potentially valuable, approach… education systems keep appearing in studies of social mobility… compulsory-schooling laws have a huge effect: With each extra year of required schooling, the lifetime wealth of individuals increases by about 15 per cent.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Big cities are much more unequal than Canada as a whole
… the bottom 95 per cent of Canadians received 74.9 per cent of all income in 2014, but this proportion was just 69.3 per cent in Toronto… Along with the poor, the squeezed urban middle class, especially the young, are increasingly unable to enjoy the benefits of big city life. These growing spatial inequalities will increasingly shape urban politics in the years to come.
Tags: economy, featured, participation, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Canada ignores its own refugees [Indigenous people]
… unlike other refugees, they don’t get a basic income, a guaranteed safe roof over their head, support from groups to help them adjust, free food or business people paying their family’s way and giving them jobs over skilled Canadians. There is no help to start businesses. We don’t let them own houses or benefit economically from selling their resources, yet billion-dollar corporations can pillage these resources for off reserve benefit and profits.
Tags: budget, featured, globalization, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Tracking all homeless deaths is long overdue
The efforts to track all homeless deaths… are an important step toward acknowledging the effects of homelessness and, hopefully, putting an end to it… not knowing how many homeless people die in Toronto each year means the city can downplay the problem and ignore the root causes, especially those of street deaths… Toronto’s wait list for subsidized housing stands at a disturbingly high 172,087, forcing some people onto the streets.
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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‘All for ourselves and nothing for other people’: The takeover of economics by neoliberalism
Inequality, flat incomes, work-life imbalance and unsustainable debt can all to a large extent be traced to this deliberate government policy. Just reversing it would start a recovery. That means returning EI to an actual insurance program, reinstating the federal Canada Assistance Plan which provided strings-attached (read: humane rates) money to the provinces for social welfare, increase the minimum wage to living-wage levels, enforce and enhance labour standards and their enforcement, and make it easier, not harder, for unions to organize.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Find emergency shelters for the homeless
The city has known there is a shortage of shelters for the homeless for years. A 2013 survey found there were 5,000 homeless people in the city, but currently there are only 4,300 beds. And Toronto’s wait list for subsidized housing stands at a stunning 172,087, forcing some people onto the streets… the city’s shelters for women, youth and families [were] all filled past their capacity last Thursday… Shelters for families were completely full.
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, mental Health, poverty
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Kids’ poverty
… the Canada Children’s Benefit is important in significantly reducing child poverty and in helping middle-class families to invest in raising their children. If these goals are important, is it not also important for the benefit to maintain its effectiveness? … why let it erode until 2020? … isn’t it worth $300-million (the estimated cost of indexing to inflation) to protect an investment of $22-billion?
Tags: budget, child care, poverty, standard of living
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