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Stephen Harper offers a record of selective accomplishment
He did introduce a universal child care benefit. To pay for it, his government de-invested in preschool learning and child care centres. His final promise — to cut medical wait times — was a mirage. Harper knew the provinces, not Ottawa, controlled the delivery of health services… Nor did he offer — or attempt — to reduce poverty, strengthen democracy or respect the courts. If voters assumed these were inadvertent oversights, they were wrong… It reflects Harper’s ideology, not the mandate he sought from voters.
Tags: budget, child care, corrections, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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Doctor pushes the boundaries of health-care
… research has to make a difference in people’s lives.” That can be done in three ways… The most direct way is to develop interventions that work, such as Chez Soi (Housing First… The second way is by putting issues such as violence against women in the public eye… The third way is to provide the evidence governments need to design effective policies. They sometimes — in fact frequently — ignore it… “victories are small and few. We have to be determined and persistent.”
Tags: Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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Time to consider a guaranteed minimum income
If we’re truly entering a “world without work,” in which technology replaces more and more jobs, then extending income support to everybody isn’t such a radical idea… No matter how high minimum wages are, they will not help people unable to get a job… The state of technology is such that we’re nearing a place in which the needs of the economy, and the needs of the people in it, can be met without requiring the labour of everyone… A post-jobs world seems unlikely to be a post-work world. Most people want to be productive
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Support a bold campaign to end homelessness
Under a Housing First approach, people are given a place to live as well as some assistance, such as a subsidy to cover rent. Often a support team will help them deal with other needs, such as medical care.
There’s solid evidence this can be life-changing. Giving people a place to put down roots and call their own results in less hospitalization and fewer entanglements with the law, as well as more opportunities for education, employment and a thriving family life.
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canadians seek leadership on inequality
The middle class started losing ground in the 1980s. But most Canadians didn’t realize it… They believed they lived in a nation in which people cared and shared. They regarded Canada’s strong, resilient middle class as its political and economic backbone. Now the trouble signals are too obvious to ignore. Middle class families are struggling financially. The social programs that used to mitigate the disparities in market income… have been sacrificed to budget balancing.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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