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The world’s nicest, most law-abiding generation
The past 50 years have been a watershed for attitudes toward everything from sexism and human rights to littering (now almost a capital offence). By almost any measure you can find, people across the developed world today are the least violent, most law-abiding, hardest-working and most tolerant generation who ever lived… The biggest measurable change is in violent crime… It’s also awfully hard to complain about kids today. Most are conscientious and well-behaved. They don’t rebel the way the boomers did.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, globalization, ideology, women, youth
Posted in Child & Family History | 1 Comment »
Doctor pushes the boundaries of health-care
… research has to make a difference in people’s lives.” That can be done in three ways… The most direct way is to develop interventions that work, such as Chez Soi (Housing First… The second way is by putting issues such as violence against women in the public eye… The third way is to provide the evidence governments need to design effective policies. They sometimes — in fact frequently — ignore it… “victories are small and few. We have to be determined and persistent.”
Tags: Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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Why the G7 summit must go beyond crisis diplomacy
… the G7 should now commit to eliminating hunger and absolute poverty by 2030. Only if we manage to secure the food supply for the world’s growing population will there be a chance of success for other development measures… The G7 ought to be a model for the necessary transition to a low-carbon economy… Statistics show a reduction in poverty and inequality when more women play an active part in economic life… The G7 therefore wants to give more girls and women in developing countries the chance of vocational training.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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How bias in mental health care hurts women, from the lab to the medicine cabinet
… many experts believe societal roles, family stress, poverty and trauma… contribute uniquely to female rates of mental illness. A recent study… found that those who experienced physical spousal abuse were twice as likely to develop depression and three times more likely to have psychotic symptoms in mental illness, as mothers who weren’t victims of violence… drugs work for many people. But there are compelling reasons why women should be angry about their lack of treatment choices.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, women
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High cost of child care keeps many Toronto families in poverty
… the shortage affects parents of all backgrounds by limiting their economic opportunities, destabilizing family life and, in some cases, pushing them out of town… Nearly 17,000 eligible children are on the subsidy waiting list… lack of affordable child care poses an economic burden not just for families but for society as a whole… a decade after Quebec’s universal child-care program was introduced, 70,000 more mothers were employed, and the province’s GDP was boosted 1.7 per cent.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Women replace high hopes with steely resolve
… particularly demoralizing for Canadian women is that many of the gains they made in the 1980s and ’90s have been lost in the last decade. The guarantee of gender equality in the Charter of Rights has been weakened by the cancellation of the Court Challenges program, which allowed women to exercise their right to challenge sexual discrimination. Status of Women Canada has been slashed, its advocacy role eliminated. Aboriginal women, seeking justice for their murdered sisters, have been rebuffed.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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‘Wild West’ scheduling holds millions of Ontario workers hostage
Many low-wage workers desperately need to take on second jobs but can’t, because employers expect full-time availability from their part-time employees… a practice that causes havoc in the lives of millions of Ontario workers but is almost completely ignored by provincial law. The result in many industries is a “brutal combination” of unpredictable schedules, insufficient hours and poor wages
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit needs a rethink
Here is the big public policy question: is the EI system really the best policy platform for this benefit in achieving effective and progressive outcomes for Canadian families? All families and parents, regardless of their labour force status or work history, should have access to this safety net of compassionate care delivered through a general public program, funded from general revenue.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, women
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Austerity Push Hurt Women Most by Reinforcing Pay Gap, UN Says
Post-crisis macroeconomic policies attempted to stabilize markets and economies, often by enacting deep cuts to social services, but did so without also tackling existing gender divisions, according to the report… while many countries continue to experience low growth and high unemployment, joblessness hits young women the hardest as gender stereotypes leave women more vulnerable to occupational segregation or limit them to unpaid domestic work
Tags: child care, economy, globalization, ideology, participation, women
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A tragic tale of two Gladues
These two Gladue cases illustrate the degree to which Indigenous women are both over-victimized and over-criminalized… Indigenous offenders — and most dramatically Indigenous women — continue to be disproportionately affected by this government’s increased use of mandatory minimums and the erosion of conditional sentences for community-based sentencing where there is no risk to the public.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, women
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