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Liberal government to announce plans for inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women
Trudeau stressed his commitment to improving the lives of aboriginals. “For Indigenous Peoples, life in Canada has not been — and is not today — easy, equitable, or fair.” On his pledge to establish a national inquiry into missing women, he said it would be “responsible and responsive (and) informed by all the broad stakeholders that are concerned about this… We need such an inquiry to provide justice to the victims, to provide healing for the families, and to ensure that as we go forward this tragedy is ended.”
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, women
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Because it’s (only) 2015: Trudeau’s childcare still considered his wife’s job
As a society, we have not embraced the idea of collective responsibility for caring for the next generation of Canadians. If individuals choose to have children, then they must be prepared to take financial responsibility for them. It is exactly the same set of ideas that makes any kind of national childcare program so elusive… The unstated – and sometimes even stated – assumption is that women should be taking care of the children.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, women
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Justin Trudeau won by redefining what ‘good government’ can mean
… Trudeau often wasn’t speaking merely of skilfulness or efficiency. He meant morally good. Virtuous. Right. It was a little shocking to hear. It echoed the language of an earlier generation before the relentless Conservative assault on the size, scope and nature of democratic government impoverished our speech and slackened our hopes… it dramatically evoked the notion of a Canadian body politic with a conscience — and a national economy with a human purpose.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, tax, women, youth
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Hear this Election’s Racism Wake-up Call
… our success is in that tolerance, that respect for pluralism, that generous sharing of opportunity with everyone, that innate sense that every single one of us, regardless of where we come from, regardless of what we look like, regardless of how we worship, regardless of whom we love, that every single one us deserves the chance right here, right now, to live a great Canadian life. But this is incredibly fragile. It must be protected always from the voices of intolerance, the voices of divisiveness, the voices of small mindedness, and the voices of hatred.
Tags: featured, globalization, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Closing the Gender Wage Gap
The Gender Wage Gap Strategy Steering Committee… will examine how women are affected by the gender wage gap, at work, in their family, and in their community. They will assess how government, business, labour, other organizations, and individual leaders can work together to resolve issues that may cause the wage gap… The… Steering Committee has created two consultation papers… for organizations, and… for individuals… Public townhall sessions will be held across the province.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Let’s throw off the yoke of patriarchy
Pay inequity is discriminatory – period. We don’t need a fancy show committee of experts to tell us this. More study is nothing more than a stalling tactic for society and governments to confront the real core equity problem in society – patriarchy… The question is why should we underwrite injustice in a supposedly democratic society? … Patriarchy has become so ingrained in our social culture and psyche that it has become normalized and virtually invisible – even when it is blindingly obvious
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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We need action, not just talk, to close wage gap between men and women
Women earned 31.5 per cent less than men in Ontario in 2011… It’s not much better than when the Pay Equity Act was passed in 1987 when the gap was 38 per cent… in 2005, the Royal Bank estimated that if Canadian women had the same labour market opportunities as men, personal incomes would be $168 billion higher each year. The gap can’t be blamed on a lack of women’s participation in the work force, as nearly half of it is female. Nor can it be attributed to a lack of education. Or a lack of women in high-skill jobs.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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Let’s focus on the real barbaric practices
It’s barbaric that almost half of the population of Nunavut cannot access healthy food… that federal cuts have led to defunding of crucial services for women, such as rape crisis centres, shelters and reproductive health services… that more than 1,200 indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing… The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was not created for some at the expense of others. We are all deserving of the rights that are enshrined therein, and we all have a responsibility toward each other.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
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There’s a simple solution to niqabs and oath swearing – but Harper won’t allow it
Women like Zunera Ishaq needn’t feel obliged to wear their veils while swearing the citizenship oath. Religious freedoms can be respected by simply allowing them to take the oath in a room where no men are present. In that case, exposing their faces would not conflict with their religious values. This is what the law calls a “reasonable accommodation,” a gesture that harms no one but allows affected individuals to respect their beliefs.
Tags: featured, globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, women
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