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Vital Signs report challenges Toronto to do better
One child in four in Toronto is being raised in poverty, a number that has hardly budged in 20 years. Five of the 15 federal ridings in the country with the highest rates of child poverty are here, and the city has the highest poverty rate of all large Canadian cities… as Toronto becomes richer it has also become a much more unequal place… The number of people relying on food banks keeps growing, and the need is moving from the central core to the inner suburbs… Housing is at a crisis point.
Tags: economy, housing, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Government must act to end racism in children’s aid system
… four in 10 children in the care of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto are black in a city where only 8 per cent of children are. Worse, the problem is not just in Toronto, but throughout the province… Ontario’s children’s minister, Michael Coteau, refused to promise any funding to implement the report’s 18 important recommendations to address issues of racism in the system. This is unacceptable.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, youth
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More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone
In China, farmers whose land has been turned into factories are making more steel than the world needs. In America, idled steelworkers are contemplating how to live off the land… Trade deals, immigrant labor, automation: As Mr. Arkenbout sees it, these are all just instruments wielded in pursuit of the same goal — paying him less so corporations can keep more. “When they don’t need me anymore,” he said, “I’m nothing.”
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, participation, pensions, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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How to tackle the housing crisis in Canada’s cities
One in five renters spends more than half their income on housing. Emergency shelter occupancy rates are pushing 90 per cent. And 1.5 million Canadians can’t find safe, decent housing they can afford. Housing is less affordable at every income level and that’s having serious impacts on our nation’s prosperity, its productivity and its identity as a place of equal opportunity and inclusion… at the Toronto Housing Summit… we’ll present seven principles to tackle our housing crisis
Tags: budget, economy, Health, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Governments must pony up to address affordable housing crisis
… municipal leaders from across the country… are all in agreement that the federal government should dedicate most of its promised $20 billion in “social infrastructure” money over 10 years to affordable housing. While that would mean abandoning plans to spend some of that money other priorities, like child care and recreational facilities, it would at go a long way to addressing a housing crisis that leaves many thousands of people struggling to find a decent, affordable place to live.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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America’s Sorry State Is No Accident
America is a mess. The world’s sole superpower seems cleaved by race, income disparity and social divisions. Worse, a disturbing number of Americans subscribe to beliefs that are ill-informed, insane or just plain wrong… The only plausible explanation for such aberrant American public opinion is that people in the U.S. are exposed to a vastly different worldview. A misinformation campaign of a scale enormous enough to account for the enfeebled U.S. zeitgeist speaks to how much some special interests gain in investing in and promoting such systemic ignorance.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Should the government rethink the way it deals with charities?
If we accept that there’s a place for charities, and support at least some limits on their political activities, where does that leave us? In short: in need of a complete overhaul of the sector. Rather than one set of rules applying to all charities (regardless of their size and purpose), we need targeted rules that apply differently to different organizations… In all cases, a clearer definition of “political activities” is required and partisan activities should remain strictly off limits.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, philanthropy, poverty, tax
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Is it a housing problem or an income problem?
A system that provided direct funding – income support – to people and families struggling to afford rent would be well within federal capacity to negotiate with the provinces and to administer, say, within existing tax and benefit systems. It would not discriminate among ownership tenures, location or region. Even better, beneficiaries could seek housing that serves their individual needs, not just wherever assisted housing happens to be built.
Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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