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Why does drunk driving get more attention than FASD?
In Canada there are more than 300,000 children with this disease. The lifetime cost for each child is five million dollars. So in Canada the cost to taxpayers of caring for those with FASD is in the millions. How can this medical and social tragedy be solved? … All social agencies agree prevention is the logical and cheapest one… Remember it’s not the government who is paying these bills, it’s you.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, disabilities, Health, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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Don’t forget that women’s rights are a recent invention
One hundred years ago, most women won the right to vote in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, thanks to Nellie McClung and her stalwarts… It wasn’t until 1960 that all Canadian women got the vote… Canada needs prominent feminists. But it wasn’t until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose a cabinet with gender parity that Canadians began discussing women’s rights with a kind of fervour. Feminism will not be achieved by women alone.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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When women got the vote
From our perspective, her views were just as prejudiced as her male counterparts. She worried about the negative impact “foreigners” would have on the country and could not fathom how men who could barely speak English were given the right to vote, while white Anglo women were not. Together with several other leading female members of the so-called “Famous Five” — the women who fought the Persons Case in the late 1920s, which established that women under the law were “persons” and therefore eligible for appointment to the Canadian Senate — she was an advocate for eugenics and sterilization of the “feeble-minded.”
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, women
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Program to help stop sex trafficking is welcome
The program… is aimed at: Educating girls on the signs that a “boyfriend” is trying to lure them into sex trafficking; Teaching hoteliers, condo concierges and taxi drivers how they can intervene if they come into contact with a crime in action; Funding a 24-hour hotline that will send out trained workers to provide trauma counselling and court support; Providing transitional housing for up to seven victims of human trafficking at a time to give them round-the-clock aid.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, women, youth
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We need to start caring for caregivers
We can no longer afford to treat family care as essentially free labour, undertaken by and within families as a private matter… Family members and friends provide 10 times as many hours of care as paid caregivers do… care work is worth more than $66 billion. Society can’t afford to ignore threats to sustainability of this vast care sector… public supports… extend families’ caring capacity… reducing the risk of institutionalization of the person in need of care.
Tags: child care, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, women
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It’s Payback Time for Women
… the problem is not that employers hate women and children. It’s that they make a common assumption about motherhood: It’s a lifestyle choice, not a wage-worthy job, and no one other than parents should pay for it… Actually, it’s society that’s getting a free ride on women’s unrewarded contributions to the perpetuation of the human race… The universal basic income is a necessary condition for a just society…
Tags: child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women
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A mixed year for reproductive rights
For many women, especially those with marginalized identities, the body is the battleground feminism fights both for and upon… Many Canadian women who live in poverty, or outside of major urban centres, still do not always have safe, legal and reliable access to abortions, and that is an enormous problem for a country that makes any kind of claim to progress or inclusivity.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
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Child support clawback is a disgrace
The child-support clawback… is so common and so cruel that it is being challenged in provincial legislatures and courtrooms across the country… The philosophy behind clawbacks seems to suggest welfare recipients deserve to live in poverty, that allowing them to keep child support payments would amount to cheating the system… The class action lawsuit says the welfare clawback discriminates against parents who are simply trying to support their children.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Ontario should set up task force to stop human trafficking
… Premier Kathleen Wynne must act immediately to follow up on the recommendation from the authors of an all-party legislative report on sexual violence and harassment that calls for the establishment of a police task force to fight human trafficking… Though trafficking for forced sex was outlawed in the Criminal Code of Canada in 2005, it was only last year that the first pimp in Toronto was convicted under that law… because of a lack of resources and… the political will to fight human trafficking for sex.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty, women, youth
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Moments that tore up the accepted script for women in 2015
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne unveiled a $41-million #WhoWillYouHelp awareness campaign to bring an end to sexual violence and harassment, which she said was “rooted in misogyny.” It was a radical statement for a politician to make, and it brought a calm, pragmatic tone to the incendiary issue. Her voice made a difference… if gender identity can also be fluid… then society’s rigid adherence to a male/female binary loses its significance
Tags: ideology, standard of living, women
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