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Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
All people have equal worth and equal rights – and all benefit from living in an increasingly equal society. To achieve this in a country with a market-based economy requires an ongoing process of decommodification, a process that sees important social and economic benefits taken out of the market and transformed into universal rights, such as in health services, education, social welfare and housing.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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The Divorce Act has grown up, but will we?
Monday, March 15th, 2021
Over the last 25 years, non-court alternate dispute resolution processes have evolved, such as mediation and collaborative law. A major step forward was achieved with the amendments to the Divorce Act that came into effect on March 1 of this year… Mediation and collaborative law processes are almost always faster and less expensive than court. They’re also less stressful on the parties, their children and other family members. Ultimately, they are much more likely to result in a resolution that both parties find acceptable.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Supreme Court’s Rosalie Abella prepares to retire as her legacy of defining equality seems built to last
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
Her life’s work has been about defying indifference — to inequality, to discrimination, and to injustice… Her 17-year tenure at the top court has touched on all areas of law. She is a constitutional law and human rights expert, and a fierce defender of the rights of women, people with disabilities, and religious minorities, a judge who frequently cites international law and comparative law in her rulings.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, women
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Our temporary residents provide a resource we can’t ignore
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
The de facto “two-step immigration process” that has emerged in recent years has been primarily driven by business demands for faster intake of newcomers, but could lead to better integration and lives for “low” and “high” skilled workers alike. If temporary foreign workers are good enough to work for us, they are good enough to live among us, permanently, if that is what they wish.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, participation, rights
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Legislating paid sick days is the right thing to do
Thursday, February 4th, 2021
… one of Premier Doug Ford’s first acts of government was a sweeping repeal of labour law amendments that took away equal pay for equal work, paid sick days, and the $15 minimum wage… The legislation that Ford scrapped was the result of a multi-year, province-wide review of working conditions that included workers, unions, employers, researchers and more… What are we waiting for? Provinces must step up now, fill this gap, legislate paid sick days, and make them permanent.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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A TRAGEDY THAT DIDN’T NEED TO HAPPEN: The Pandemic in Long-term Care: A View from Ottawa
Friday, January 29th, 2021
This is what we need: national care standards for long-term care, with residents’ rights equal to those mandated by provisions in the Canada Health Act; a national healthcare labour-force strategy for the recruitment and retention of care staff, especially PSWs; and, an increase in health care funding to the provinces that is tied to improving long-term care. A large majority of Canadians are in favour of eliminating profit-taking from health care.
Tags: Health, housing, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Ontario continues to refuse legislation for paid sick days, says CRSB is enough. But that option is inaccessible for many. Here’s the difference
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Precarious, temporary, and part time workers are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the pandemic while turning our economy and lives. The bare minimum we could do for these workers is grant them paid sick days so they are not scared to focus on their health.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Ontario should mandate paid sick days for all workers
Friday, January 29th, 2021
The Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit isn’t working well. It has delivered benefits to just over 337,000 people when it was expected to reach nearly 5 million workers… Labour laws and standards, but for a handful of federally regulated industries, are a provincial responsibility… They have left workers, especially those in the gig economy and low-wage industries, at the mercy of companies who are predisposed to cut all the corners they can when it comes to providing benefits to workers.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Food banks don’t reduce food insecurity, so why did the federal government give them $200 million in emergency aid?
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
… the emergency food sector… “started quite innocently and very thoughtfully and from a very caring and compassionate place, but … it has zero impact on the overall problem.” … their respective annual reports repeatedly call for policy changesto reduce poverty, from raising social assistance rates to implementing universal child care… While food charities can play a meaningful role in building community… it’s more important than ever to be clear that they’re not the answer.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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The audacity of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream
Monday, January 18th, 2021
Ending poverty… will be much harder than ending segregation, he correctly predicted. After all, “it didn’t cost the nation anything to integrate lunch counters,” but “it will cost the nation billions of dollars to get rid of poverty.” … King appealed for a national policy of full employment, a guaranteed income and a massive investment in affordable housing… Indeed, America has never shown a commitment to “genuine equality,” he said.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, rights
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