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We are ignoring food security at our peril
The first issue is poverty. According to Food Banks Canada, which is the national umbrella for food banks, there has been a 25 per cent increase in food bank visits between 2008 and 2014. These charities are used by 841,000 Canadians every month (310,000 of whom are children); they received 14 million visits in 2014… One of the negative consequences of the large trading agreements that our federal government has embraced has been a loss in our food processing industry.
Tags: Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Cast your vote: think tank unveils platform to end income inequality
The user-friendly platform, available at GoodForCanada.ca, lays out a four-plank strategy to tackle income inequality, focusing on good jobs, a good safety net, good public programs, and progressive taxation… “The platform also raises the question: how can we pay for it? It outlines a tax plan that asks those who have more to contribute more, for the good of Canada. Spoiler alert: there’s not a single tax cut in our income inequality platform because that’s not how Canada will ever reduce the growing gap.”
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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5 reasons we can’t ignore Indigenous families and children this election
Half of all First Nations children in Canada live in poverty… Indigenous children trail the rest of Canada’s children on practically every measure of well-being: family income, educational attainment, poor water quality, infant mortality, health, suicide, crowding and homelessness… There have been no real increases in funding for social programs on reserves since 1996… A billion dollars would lift all Indigenous children out of poverty
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The fraying of Canada’s social fabric
… if you live in a country where people are left to look after themselves, this embeds the idea that you have no responsibility toward the poor and weak…. “When you change the way society works, our values shift in response… Privatization, marketization, austerity for the poor, inequality: they all shift baselines, alter the social cues we receive and generate insecurity and a sense of threat.”
Tags: Health, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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Women’s issues missing from election campaign
… issues of specific interest to women have yet to hit the radar of the three major party leaders. It’s not clear why women’s issues are so invisible since half a million more women than men cast a ballot in the last election. Among the “asks” the organizers made of party leaders: – To address the root causes of violence against women in Canada. – To act on women’s economic inequality… – To re-invest in organizations and institutions that champion justice and equality for women.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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Federal Surplus Comes with Social Costs, Critics Say
The surplus has been attributed in part to government “lapses” in spending, in which departments do not spend their full allotted budgets for the year… the Ottawa Citizen reported the government underspent by $8.7 billion in total across government departments last year… National Defence, Aboriginal Affairs and Veterans Affairs all saw spending lapses… In the meantime, economic growth leading to employment and other benefits are delayed
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, poverty
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Good for Canada: A platform to end income inequality in Canada
Seizing on the first federal election in recent history where income inequality is a hot button issue, the CCPA recently launched a platform to reduce the gap… Good for Canada… highlights the high cost of income inequality in our country by telling the personal stories of real Canadians—and gives us a way to move forward. The platform, available at GoodForCanada.ca, lays out a four-plank strategy to tackle income inequality, focusing on good jobs, a good safety net, good public programs, and progressive taxation.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, pensions, poverty, standard of living, tax
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The moral need for conservatism
It’s always been a false distinction that less government means less heart… without economic freedom, average people suffer… more central planning, more government, more top-down control – it all makes people worse off, not better off… over the past two decades, real world GDP has increased by about 70%, and the global poverty rate has been cut in half, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.” There you have it. The strongest moral argument for economic conservatism around: Economic freedom ends poverty.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, poverty
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