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Ontario backtracks on drug plan deductibles hike for seniors above low-income threshold
Ontario is backing down on a controversial scheme to raise public drug plan deductibles for seniors by 70 per cent to $170 for those above new low-income thresholds, Health Minister Eric Hoskins said Monday… The minister announced another new measure: indexing the income qualification thresholds to inflation, which he said will bring another 30,000 seniors a year under the protection of the low-income program.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, poverty
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New child benefit program an unintended legacy of Harper-era policies
The Conservative fiscal legacy to the new government was… almost $9-billion in annual spending on child benefits in the form of non-redistributive programs, which could readily be folded into the new CCB while benefiting the great majority of families with children… Working families with children earning between $30,000 and $100,000 will receive in the range of $1,000 a year per child more than the they did in the system in place in 2015.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Liberal budget goes a long way to closing native education funding gap
… almost one-third of the funding is geared to “transformation” — creating the native school boards that regulate curriculum and professional development standards… The government is also providing money to roll out Martin’s Aboriginal Education Initiative. His model pilot project in two schools had impressive results, improving literacy to provincial averages by Grade 3, using techniques pioneered in Ontario problem schools.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, youth
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Deficit budget sets new tone for Canada
For more than 20 years, federal budgets have worked to shrink the public’s expectations of the role of federal government in our lives, suggesting that the best government could do was offer a buffet of tax cuts at budget time… a false narrative… that government deficits should be avoided… locked governments into prolonged inaction as roads, bridges, sewer and water systems that our grandparents’ generation built began to crumble; as poverty remained unchecked.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Liberals increase financial aid for students, ease debt repayment rules
Changes to financial aid include allowing low-income graduates to defer their student loan payments until they make more than $25,000 a year, and providing a 50-per-cent increase to federal grants to $3,000 from $2,000 for low-income students. (Middle-income students will see an increase to $1,200 from $800.)… The budget envisions entrepreneurship and innovation centres, apprenticeship training facilities and research labs being built…
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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The magic of “ending homelessness” — and ending up with more
I am not suggesting that thousands of people were not retrieved from the streets and riverbanks and rescued from misery. I am not even arguing against a housing-first approach to homelessness. But if you sell a program on the basis of an unconditional and explicit promise to “eradicate homelessness,” should you not reduce it a smidgen? … Cities, almost by definition, end up with as many panhandlers and tent-dwellers as they are prepared, culturally and financially, to pay for…
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s charity chill continues
Gagging charities certainly would be convenient for some powerful interests, interests with many times the resources and insider influence of the average Canadian charity. But would that really make our country stronger? The answer, of course, is no… It is time to end politically motivated audits of Canadian charities and adopt modern rules that allow charities to play an active role in building the kind of inclusive and sustainable society
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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