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The Labour Market Agreements: What Did They Really Do?
From 2008 until 2014, the federal government transferred funds through the Labour Market Agreements to the provinces and territories to support labour market programs and employment services for disadvantaged Canadians. In 2013, Ottawa unilaterally cancelled the Labour Market Agreements and replaced them (except in Québec) with Canada Job Fund Agreements. In doing so, Ottawa moved from helping the most disadvantaged to supporting employers to train their own employees.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty
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Here’s why the EI system is not working and what can be done
In the mid 1990s, the federal government shifted from a ‘weeks’ system to an ‘hours’ system, and at the same time they basically tripled the number of hours you needed to work in order to qualify… The second significant development is the rise in the number of self-employed and contract workers which make up the labour force… We’ve got people that are having trouble breaking into the labour market and we’ve got a bunch of workers that have paid into EI that aren’t being covered
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, youth
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Ontario’s affordable housing wait list grows
A record 171,360 Ontario households were waiting for affordable housing in 2015, with average wait times of almost four years, according to an annual report that tracks need across the province… Although the province is giving municipalities more flexibility in the use of federal-provincial housing funds, the need to build more non-profit housing is not going away
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Want to address gun crime? Tackle root causes
Bigger police budgets won’t solve the alarming rise in shooting deaths in Toronto… The people who carry guns do so, almost invariably, as part of the illegal drug trade… the vast majority of the participants in the illegal drug trade at its most violent street level come from desperately impoverished backgrounds. These, then, are the two causes of gun violence: illegal drugs and poverty.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, youth
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Indigenous children bear brunt of poverty
… better tracking of the data; improving income supports; bolstering employment opportunities, and implementing long-term solutions. That last recommendation is the key to ending the shameful neglect. The long road out of poverty and despair begins with reconciliation and self-government, and, in the words of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “unlocking the potential of First Nations to improve the lives of their own citizens, including their children.”
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Health reform in Ontario must include oral health
It is estimated that every nine minutes a person shows up in a hospital emergency room with a dental problem. The minimum cost of each hospital visit is $513. As a result, taxpayers spend approximately $31 million annually to have physicians acknowledge that patients have dental disease, which they cannot treat. When medicare was introduced, primary mouth care was left out. Now we know that you cannot be truly healthy if you have diseases in your mouth. More than 50 years later the disturbing reality is that too many people in Ontario do not have access to basic dental care services.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Shameful Neglect Indigenous Child Poverty in Canada
This report calculates child poverty rates in Canada, and includes the rates on reserves and in territories—something never before examined. The report also disaggregates the statistics and identifies three tiers of poverty for children in Canada, finding the worst poverty experienced by status First Nation children (51%, rising to 60% for children on reserve)… The authors… recommend a poverty reduction plan for reserves that would: report poverty rates on reserves and in the territories; improve direct income support; improve employment prospects on reserves; and begin to implement longer-term solutions.
Tags: featured, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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What we need to know about neoliberalism (before it’s too late)
We expected that governments would act promptly to clamp regulatory restraints on corporate wrongdoers, constrain free markets, re-impose much higher business taxes, and punish financial felons with prison terms and huge fines. Instead, governments have allowed corporations to continue their iniquitous misconduct, and even lavished them with further tax cuts and subsidies… since the politicians we vote for are the only ones with the authority to stop the titans of capitalism from further impoverishing billions, worsening inequality, and eventually wrecking the planet, we find ourselves at an impasse.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, tax
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