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Ontario’s new attorney general should reverse cuts to legal aid
Monday, June 24th, 2019
The fact is, cutting funding for legal aid will further erode any hope the poor and vulnerable have of receiving justice in a system that’s already stacked against them… If he doesn’t, the fallout will be painful for the poor and immensely costly for taxpayers… who will pay for the costly incarceration of innocent people who are not going to get fair legal representation in bail hearings, criminal cases or immigration and refugee detention hearings.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Gender politics has no place in the classroom
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
… now we’re going to find out — courtesy of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal… whether little girls have the right to maintain their normative, common, practical and realistic world-view and opinion of their own bodies, or whether that is trumped administratively and legally by the existence of the incoherent set of rights inexcusably and forcibly granted to the tiny minority of people who insist that their “identities” are entirely self-generated and absolutely inviolate socially and legally.
Tags: ideology, mental Health, rights, youth
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Fiscal Accountability: The Path Forward
Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Public Accounts Should Reflect Public Sector Accounting Standards… Budgets Should Match Financial Statements… Budgets Should Precede the Start of the Fiscal Year… Estimates Should Be Timely and Reconcile with Budgets… Key Numbers Should Be Accessible and Recognizable… Year-End Results Should Be Timely
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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The Ford government’s proposed wage-cap legislation: Debunking the myths, outlining the facts
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
The Ford government has introduced sweeping wage legislation that will undermine free and fair collective bargaining under the pretense of a fiscal crisis. The reality is that Ontario faces a revenue problem and not a spending problem, as Ford continues to falsely claim… the Ontario government has the lowest per capita program spending in the country. This includes spending on essential public services such as long-term care, childcare, education, transit, water, and infrastructure.
Tags: budget, ideology, rights
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First Nations prepare for influx of new members amid removal of sex-based discrimination from Indian Act
Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Canada’s largest First Nation is introducing a citizenship code to take control over its membership lists as the federal government prepares to enact legislation that could create tens of thousands of new status Indians while removing the last vestiges of sexism from the Indian Act… The concern of the First Nation is that many people who can trace a distant ancestor to the community will turn up after Bill S-3 takes effect to claim a portion of scarce resources…
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, women
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Austerity and the Decline Of The Collective
Monday, June 10th, 2019
1. Austerity is toxic. 2. It is built on a lie, and on a withered idea of freedom and a hollowed out notion of citizenship. 3. Austerity is self-perpetuating, trapping us, stunting our political imagination. 4. We nevertheless do have alternatives… big change is urgent, and bold is exactly what’s needed if we are to meet our challenges and break out of the austerity trap. 5. A new generation of leaders is giving us reason for hope, though clearly there’s no reason for complacency.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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The genetics of genocide: I’m healing so my future daughter doesn’t have to
Friday, June 7th, 2019
Genocide? In Canada? Maybe your first instinct is to deny it. I challenge you to hear the truth in it. All of my relatives already know this to be true because of what we’ve experienced. We’re intimately aware of the reality that Canada doesn’t want us to exist… When you remove women from our communities, or disenfranchise them, the seeds of genocide are planted. Unlike a massacre, with genocide you don’t really see the bloodshed. Instead there is just loss, and it’s usually invisible to those committing it – or worse, denied.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights, women
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What happened to missing and murdered Indigenous women was horrific, but it wasn’t genocide
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
These crimes, though horrific and far too numerous, were certainly not “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part” a particular racial or ethnic group by the co-ordinated efforts of some other racial or ethnic group… 90 per cent of these murders are committed by Indigenous men who knew their victims; 72 per cent of Aboriginal women are murdered mainly in their homes; very few women involved in the sex trade, whether Indigenous or not, are murdered by their clients…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights, women
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All Ontarians will pay the price for Doug Ford zapping public sector wages
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
As much as some Conservatives might dislike debt, or disdain deficits, or begrudge public servants’ salaries, or resent teachers’ summers off, the laws of our land set a higher standard for the systematic suspension of collective bargaining rights. The courts have ruled that you must have good reason(s) — unless, of course, Ford once again intends to overrule any courts that dare to overrule his government by invoking the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Ford government to cap pay raises for public servants in bid to control spending
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
TheStar.com – Politics June 5, 2019. By Robert Benzie, Rob Ferguson, Kristin Rushowy, Queen’s Park Bureau In a bid to rein in spending, Premier Doug Ford is threatening to impose a cap on pay hikes for 1 million public servants. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives on Wednesday tabled legislation that would limit annual wage increases to 1 per cent when […]
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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