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Shelter system bracing for a ‘tidal wave’
… we’re taking beds out of the system, and we have yet to replace them; and the new standards mean that even more beds will be taken out, all in the name of improvements. The irony: we make things better which makes life will get worse for the men, women and children on the street… “The age of the guys on the street is going up. We have regulars, six of them, who are in their 70s. The average age of our men is 61. The tidal wave is coming.”
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Wage-theft victims lost $28M to poor enforcement, statistics show
Victims of wage theft across Ontario have lost out on $28 million over the past six years because the Ministry of Labour failed to collect the pay owed to them by law-breaking bosses, new statistics show. Just $19 million of the $47.5 million stolen from out-of-pocket workers since 2009 has ever been recovered… (Employment Standards Act) enforcement is still largely complaint driven but that many employees face barriers, like fear of retaliation, that inhibit them from making complaints
Tags: crime prevention, economy, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Fix ‘unacceptable’ social inequity to reduce Inuit suicide rates, report urges
six priorities for reducing suicide: • Create social equity • Create cultural continuity • Nurture health of Inuit children • Ensure access to mental health care • Heal unresolved trauma and grief • Mobilize Inuit knowledge for resilience and suicide prevention… “Inuit are speaking for ourselves,” said Obed. “The solutions that we say are necessary should be the foundations that all Canadians and all decision makers and persons who want to help should build on.”
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Canada will never end racism unless it dispels these three national myths first
The data shows us that systemic racism is not getting better. If anything, it is getting much worse, particularly for the most vulnerable and marginalized in racialized communities… after-tax poverty rates among racialized families in Canada were some three times higher than non-racialized families… racial inequities persist and in many cases are widening in a whole host of different arenas including education, employment, health, housing, as well as policing and criminal justice.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Who Knew the Nordics Were Individualist Romantics? [ The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life ]
Far from being docile servants of nanny states… the Nordics are bloody-minded individualists – because they can afford to be. That personal autonomy… means that no one has to stay in an abusive marriage (and risk death) because they need the abuser’s income. No one has to borrow from the Bank of Mom and Pop for the down payment on a condo, because everyone leaves post-secondary debt-free. And when Mom and Pop grow old, the kids don’t have to bear the brunt of caring for them: the whole society does that.
Tags: child care, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Want to improve a child’s health? Sometimes that may mean giving their parents a raise.
HillTimes.com – Opinion – Alberta’s leadership on increasing the minimum wage is a promising prescription for the health of its children. It’s also a bold experiment in economic governance that other provinces would do well to watch closely—and hopefully many will follow suit. July 18, 2016. By CHRISTINE GIBSON, RYAN MEILI When parents bring a child […]
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Why black Canadians are facing U.S.-style problems
To be black in Canada, with small but important exceptions, is to be from a fairly recent immigrant background – either to be, or to be descended from, a postwar immigrant from the Caribbean or Africa… Black Canadians are demonstrably facing different outcomes in employment, in housing and especially in the policing and justice systems that can only be traced to discrimination… black and white citizens were treated dramatically differently in policing, charges, court procedures, sentencing and imprisonment.
Tags: corrections, featured, housing, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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