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Ford government’s child-care tax credit not much help to low-income families, watchdog says
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
… two-thirds of the estimated $460 million annual cost of the tax credit will go to families who make more than $63,700 a year. That is because low-income families pay very little income tax and are unlikely to spend their limited income on child care… Ontario’s tax credit would need to triple to bring women’s labour force participation up to the level of Quebec… where 86.7 per cent of women with young children are working
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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Giving parents money directly the best approach to financing childcare
Friday, September 20th, 2019
The financial hurdle for a parent considering the merits of working versus staying at home to care for young children can be extremely high… decentralizing the provision of child care by giving money directly to parents provides the advantages of competitive consumer markets: greater choices, innovation in staffing, various facility types, and more flexible hours and modes of care.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax, women
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Canada Research Chairs program announces new, more ambitious equity targets
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
After 13 years of slow progress towards its equity goals, the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program is redoubling efforts to improve diversity within the program. On July 31, the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat… announced more ambitious targets for representation of four equity-seeking groups: women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous people and visible minorities.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, women
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Is giving parents money directly the best approach to child-care funding?
Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
… decentralizing the provision of child care by giving money directly to parents provides the advantages of competitive consumer markets: greater choices, innovation in staffing, various facility types, and more flexible hours and modes of care. // … giving money to parents won’t create more safe, high quality licensed child care… [which] most parents would choose if it was better funded to make it more available, affordable and designed to meet their needs.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, tax, women
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Removing sexism in Indian Act a work in progress
Sunday, September 1st, 2019
Sex discrimination in the Indian Act was a stain on Canada’s record; recent changes are long overdue. What comes next is hard work and some expense, but these are not processes to be feared, for they continue the ongoing effort to define and refine Confederation.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, women
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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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We must take better care of our caregivers — paid or unpaid
Saturday, July 27th, 2019
… PSWs look after the sick, disabled and elderly at a fraction of the cost of institutional care by keeping them at home, where they want to be… the work of PSWs is undervalued through poor wages, non-existent benefits and untenable working conditions that make half of them leave their line of work for greener pastures. The problem, in a nutshell, is that the work of caregivers, paid or not, is undervalued and held in low esteem.
Tags: disabilities, Health, standard of living, women
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Ontario wants to expand midwives’ ability to prescribe medications
Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
Ontario wants to give midwives across the province the ability to prescribe a wider variety medications, a move those in the profession say could help improve patient care. Health Minister Christine Elliott said Monday that consultations are underway to expand midwives’ scope of practice with the body that regulates the profession. She said the province wants to enable midwives to use their education and training more effectively.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, standard of living, women
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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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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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