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UN sets goal to end poverty, hunger in next 15 years
The draft agreement… outlines 17 goals with 169 specific targets on issues ranging from ending poverty “in all its forms everywhere” to ensuring quality education and affordable and reliable energy and protecting the environment… The 17 new, non-binding goals will succeed the eight Millennium Development Goals adopted by world leaders 15 years ago… the new plan… recognizes that protecting the environment, eradicating poverty and promoting economic growth and well-being are interlinked.
Tags: globalization, Health, poverty, standard of living
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Everything you need to know about the parties’ platforms, from taxes and terrorism to the environment
Here’s your guide to the four main parties’ record and pledges as the campaign begins: Economy, Taxes And Pocketbook Issues / Security And Terrorism: / Energy And Environment / Infrastructure And Transport / Foreign Affairs And Defence / Social Issues / Democratic Reform And Governance / Justice / Aboriginal Issues
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, Health, ideology, Indigenous, pensions, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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At last, child care on the election agenda
The NDP’s big play caused both the Conservatives and the Liberals to increase their focus on parents and children, and now all three parties have so called plans. Which is best? … The NDP plan is the most intriguing. It’s new social policy, like medicare was in its day. The Liberal proposal is most progressive as it helps those who need it most, but neither it or the Conservative family allowance program address the lack of quality affordable care.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Stop shortchanging workers on jobless benefits
Bédard and Fortin call for a single, national standard for benefit eligibility and duration, to replace the current 62 regional standards based on local jobless rates. Basically, workers would qualify for the same benefits wherever they live. They suggest workers be required to put in 20 weeks to qualify, with a minimum 15 hours per week. Benefits would be based on a worker’s best 20 weeks worth of insurable earnings prior to losing a job. And payouts would reflect the length of time the person had been employed.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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$3-billion tax transfer fails to address real child care problems
Almost $3 billion was transferred to Canadian parents Monday… The transfer is cloaked in egalitarianism… Everybody gets it, even the one-percenters and families with teenagers who don’t need daycare. The poor get it, too. No more. No less… None of the Conservatives’ “family-friendly” initiatives is aimed at the needies… Bringing Canada up to the OECD average spending for child care would – coincidentally – cost between $3 billion and $4 billion
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Heed the Pope’s wise warnings
In its concern for the environment, it challenges our consumerist lifestyle and its capitalist underpinnings and it calls for alleviating poverty and misery in the world not just through charity but through radical social change… The Pope would have been applauded if he told us to be more generous to the poor, but we don’t seem to like to be called upon to alleviate poverty by adopting responsible policies.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living
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In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism
Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global capitalism. He compares them to the “dung of the devil.” He does not simply argue that systemic “greed for money” is a bad thing. He calls it a “subtle dictatorship” that “condemns and enslaves men and women.” … Francis has defined the economic challenge of this era as the failure of global capitalism to create fairness, equity and dignified livelihoods for the poor…
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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