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Family law cuts affect more than the poor
Thursday, August 22nd, 2019
… many middle-class Ontarians who used to qualify for free legal help are now faced with the intimidating challenge of appearing in court without advice or paying hefty private legal fees… When people come to court unprepared, it also places an additional burden on court resources… Wasted court time is also a waste of public funds… Ford’s Legal Aid cuts hurt everyone, regardless of income. To view it otherwise is simply wrong.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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First Nations women finally to be treated equally under Indian Act: Bennett
Saturday, August 17th, 2019
… with the remaining provisions of the legislation known as S-3 coming into force, descendants born before April 17, 1985, who lost their status or were removed from band lists due to marriages to non-Indian men dating back to 1869 can now be registered as First Nations members.
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, women
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A true Charter challenge: Empower Canadians with a new Bill of Rights, and our MPs, too
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
… plenty of now-pertinent rights never made it into the Charter: environmental rights, victims rights, housing rights and the rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination and self-government. The Bill of Rights could act as a sort of testing pool, where these new rights are developed and brought to life… A rejuvenated Bill of Rights could act as a democratically protected companion to the Charter, nurturing anew Canada’s living tree constitutionalism.
Tags: jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Cuts to legal clinics a sinister plan to harm the most vulnerable
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Band-aid solutions are not the answer to address systemic issues, so the clinics saw their work as demolishing systemic barriers. Changes in ODSP, housing, employment insurance, and employment equity are directly correlated to the significance of legal clinic organizers building power… Legal clinic boards are not stewards of austerity or executioners of their already pared-down budgets: they should pride themselves of their role as defenders of the public good and of the welfare of their communities.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ontarians pay their doctors $12 billion a year. So why can’t they know where their taxpayer money is going?
Sunday, July 28th, 2019
“We have a great shortage of doctors in needed areas like geriatrics, rehabilitation medicine and family medicine, at least in part because those doctors are underpaid relative to other specialties,” Glazier said. “Having the right mix of specialties to serve the population matters to everyone who cares about our health system and population health.”
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Justin Trudeau made reconciliation a top priority. Four years later, what’s changed?
Sunday, July 21st, 2019
Annual funding for health services, education, children’s programs, housing and more has jumped by 50 per cent, from $11 billion in 2015-16 to more than $17 billion slated for 2021-22… Yet striking disparities remain… “There’s still a huge socio-economic gap between First Nations and the rest of Canadians. And that gap is not going to close in one, two or three years,” Bellegarde said. “You need long-term, sustained investments.”
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Hoping the new attorney general does the right thing
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
Today we are in the midst of writing a new chapter in the history of legal aid in Ontario — a system that has served as a much-emulated model of the world, with the legal clinics having played a central role of its success. A system that is now under attack, with deliberate misinformation about its lack of efficiency as the justification for its obliteration.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Cuts to legal aid mean worse health for vulnerable people
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
Many of my patients have legal needs that require expert intervention to maintain their social and medical stability… for issues ranging from family discord to accessing disability supports… Neighbourhood legal clinics… are now facing crippling funding cuts… When people are denied the ability to advocate for their legal rights, they are left with high levels of stress, in worse poverty, and in increasingly vulnerable situations. This leaves them in poorer health and puts a higher demand on the health system.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Prioritizing fundamental human rights can help us find the clarity we need for good public policy
Thursday, June 27th, 2019
Ultimately, good public policy requires balancing social, economic, fiscal and political considerations. We can get clarity on the best path to pursue if we decide that future public policies prioritize and articulate the dignities and rights that we think all Canadians should be afforded by virtue of being a human being, and not because of where we work.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical, rights, standard of living
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Should there be ‘presumed consent’ for organ donations?
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019
Yes – Ontario, with these things in place, has seen donation rates double to 25 donors per million (DPM). Could an “opt-out” approach help Canada get from a donor rate of 22 DPM toward 40 DPM, the rates in the most successful countries in the world? / No – loosening permission requirements around donation could strike the more circumspect among us as too much boundary revision, too fast, with too little accountability.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
Posted in Health Policy Context | No Comments »
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