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Monday, June 27th, 2016
… when we say income security, we are talking about all low-income people, not just the welfare wall and the disincentives to getting off social assistance.” … Former Conservative senator Hugh Segal… was appointed last Friday to help design the pilot, including possible test sites, delivery models and evaluation methods. Segal’s discussion paper is due at the end of the summer… Income security reform and the basic-income pilot are happening in parallel because “one needs to inform the other”
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Friday, June 24th, 2016
… aboriginal children… are 130 per cent more likely to be investigated as possible victims of child abuse or neglect… and 15 per cent more likely to have maltreatment confirmed… black children are 40 per cent more likely to be investigated for abuse or neglect… and 18 per cent more likely to have maltreatment confirmed… On average… only 2 per cent of children are removed from their home due to sexual abuse and 13 per cent for physical abuse. The rest are removed because of neglect, emotional maltreatment and exposure to violence between their parents or caregivers.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
… some people have been tempted to think: Bigger government (Canada), lower correlation of fathers’ and sons’ incomes. Ergo: big government good. That’s always been a dicey conclusion. In fact, the U.S. has a huge welfare state; it just prefers tax incentives to government cheques. Moreover, several non-Nordic European countries have big states, too, but also relatively high correlations. Now it turns out we don’t have as much income mobility as we thought, despite our big government.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
This article traces Canada’s legislative progress following the federal government’s ratification of the two Covenants that codified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 40 years ago – the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The author urges the new federal government to restore its commitment to these two Covenants and the re-integration of social rights within legislation and programs
Tags: budget, featured, globalization, homelessness, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
Neighbourhoods in the city’s northwest quadrant targeted for the extra Canada Summer Jobs Program funding include Lawrence Heights, Black Creek, Jane-Finch, Weston-Mount Dennis and Rexdale. It is part of an $18.7-million investment across the city to create 6,305 summer jobs this year, more than double the positions funded by the previous Conservative government. More than 77,000 jobs are being created nationwide. Students aged 15 to 30 who are returning to school in the fall are eligible.
Tags: budget, featured, participation, philanthropy, poverty, youth
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Saturday, June 18th, 2016
Ontario families on social assistance will not face provincial clawbacks when the new Canada Child Benefit kicks in on July 1… almost 260,000 children in families who rely on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program will benefit from the full amount of their federal child benefit payment. The new program replaces the current child benefit and supplement as well as the taxable Universal Child Care Benefit with a single non-taxable benefit. The average Canadian family is expected to receive an additional $2,300 a year under the new initiative.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
Canada’s new child benefit, which will begin arriving in mailboxes after July 1, will slash child poverty by 40 per cent, the largest single drop in the country’s history, according to the federal minister in charge of the initiative… “It will cut child poverty from about 11.2 per cent to 6.7 per cent . . . and lead to the lowest child-poverty rate ever in Canada.” As highlighted in the Liberals’ election campaign last summer, the Canada Child Benefit will pull about 300,000 children out of poverty.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Monday, June 6th, 2016
People who make twice as much as the legal-aid cut-off still fall below the poverty line… Ontario’s legal aid system is an intractable mess, despite laudable recent efforts by the province to improve it… part of the problem is of the federal government’s own making. A decade of evidence-blind tough-on-crime policies created real burdens for the provinces. At the same time, the federal government has drastically decreased funding for legal aid… in the early 1970s, Ottawa covered half the cost. Now the proportion is around 13 per cent in Ontario.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Saturday, June 4th, 2016
That some four million Ontarians alone are suffering that social deficit prompted… an Ontario Retirement Pension Plan that would top up inadequate federal income supports. Millions of Canadians have not saved enough for retirement… millions of Canadians have been unable to save, lacking sufficient income to do so… the middle class hasn’t had a pay raise in three decades, adjusted for inflation. Another factor is “precarious employment.”
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Saturday, June 4th, 2016
… a last-ditch effort to revive CPP expansion is muddying the reform waters… Updating the CPP, whose maximum payout is a mere $13,110 annually, requires seven provinces with two-thirds of the population. Realistically, the only way to achieve reform is to stick with a “modest” CPP expansion that is minimalist, hewing to the lowest common denominator and taking the maximum amount of years to phase in… Ontario’s nightmare scenario is more talking, dithering and deferring by Ottawa and the other provinces.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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