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He’s worked legally in Canada for 37 years but the government considers him ‘temporary’
The share of migrant workers in Canada’s agricultural workforce has doubled in the last decade as what was once seasonal need for harvesters has turned into a year-round labour market reality. The workers pay income tax and employment insurance, and contribute to the Canada Pension Plan. However, their precarious status in Canada makes it difficult for them to exercise their rights and protections under labour laws, making them easy prey for unscrupulous recruiters and bad employers.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, Health, ideology, immigration, participation, rights
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Ontario’s jails can’t even count their dead, review finds
“If the purpose of corrections is to contribute to a peaceful and just society by assisting those in conflict with the law to learn to live within it, then the work of corrections must be done in a way that models ethical, legal and fair behaviour,” Sapers says. Ontario’s corrections work doesn’t. It models slop, neglect and randomness.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Law society’s new policy compels speech, crossing line that must not be crossed
This policy crosses a line that should not be crossed. It is not enough that we obey. Now we must also agree and actively promote… “The source of the most insidious peril… is not evil wrongdoers seeking to do harm, but parochial bureaucrats seeking to do good.” I suspect Borovoy would be shocked that his warning would apply so acutely to the governing body of the legal profession.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Ontario’s correctional system needs overhaul, report says
… across the country, and globally, correctional facilities “have put in place a range of measures to help facilitate family contact and support, including child-friendly play spaces, open visiting areas that allow for barrier-free interactions, private family visiting accommodations for longer stays, and mother-child programs that prevent the separation of mothers and young children.
“Ontario’s correctional institutions offer almost none of these opportunities.
Tags: corrections, disabilities, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Top court’s time-limits ruling has hit legal aid hard, lawyers say
Provinces have mostly ignored legal aid as they increase resources to meet strict time limits imposed in a landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling, the head of the Criminal Lawyers Association says… You can have all the judges in the world, you can have all the prosecutors in the world. But if you don’t have defence counsel that are properly trained, properly skilled, those cases are not going to run smoothly.”
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights
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9 Times Canada’s Labour Movement Made History and Shaped the Country We Live in Today
… it’s not that hard to find examples of how the labour movement helped shape the country we live in today. Whether they’re fighting for shorter work days or better wages, the labour movement has done more than just improve working conditions for ordinary people – by standing up to powerful elites, time and again, Canada’s labour movement set in motion series of events that changed the course of history and moved Canada forward. Here are just nine examples…
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Justin Trudeau should finish the job on access to information
Bill C-58, which is now in its second reading in the House of Commons… is the first attempt to amend our access regime since the current law was passed in the pre-digital world of 1983… the legislation would allow the office to issue binding orders that would compel government departments and agencies to release information… within certain timeframes… But the government’s proposed legislation… is “far more conspicuous for what it fails to do.”
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Give First Nations children an equal chance
First Nations children are uniquely affected by federal underfunding of services on-reserve… Your government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on litigation to resist full implementation of the tribunal’s decisions – a move that is incompatible with your pledged support for a new partnership with First Nations, and all Indigenous people in Canada and their governments… We are asking you to implement the tribunal’s decisions immediately…
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, youth
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Now is the time for Ottawa to create a path to progress with Indigenous people
On this day in 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which sets out minimum standards necessary “for the dignity, survival and well-being of Indigenous peoples,” was adopted by the UN General Assembly. Let this be the year that sees the leaders of all federal parties agree to work with each other and with Indigenous peoples to make the full and effective implementation of the declaration a priority.
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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If Wynne’s Liberals were committed to equality, they’d help fund independent schools
Ontario should treat all schools equitably… we’re left with a divided system of education: a Catholic board that’s publicly-funded as a result of the special protections it’s afforded under the constitution, and no funding for other independent faith-based schools. A 1999 UN Human Rights Committee report classified this system as discriminatory.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, youth
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