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Small victory for aboriginal women
The Prime Minister refused to acknowledge any “sociological” link between dramatic overrepresentation of aboriginal women in the homicide statistics and the miserable conditions in which they lived. Their deaths were merely crimes that the police had a “good track record” of solving. A dialogue among the willing — all 13 provincial premiers and territorial leaders, two federal cabinet ministers, the leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, the Native Women’s Association of Canada… may not offer the ultimate solution but it is the best option at this juncture.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
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Prime Minister, this isn’t how we should do things in Canada
Through all the rhetoric, take note of how our government classifies terrorism. It applies only to terror allegedly plotted and committed by Muslims, not “murderous misfits” like those in Halifax who weren’t “culturally” motivated… The government that says it is committed to protect Canadians is the same one that alienates the very communities it needs to empower and work with.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, women
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Family caregivers need support
… the former Liberal leader got one thing right: he recognized unpaid caregivers as the backbone of Canada’s health-care system and offered them support… Seeking to undercut the Liberals on the eve of the 2011campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a family caregiver tax credit of less than $1 a day. It applies to just 18 per cent of the 2.7 million Canadians who sacrifice their income, career prospects and sometimes their health to care for loved ones.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
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A fact-based approach to addressing campus assault
… there is no evidence that sexual assaults are on the rise in Canada. In 2013, the rate of the most serious (Level 2 and 3) police-reported sexual assaults was at its lowest point for any year save one since 1998, when it was nearly 50% higher. It is no doubt true that the vast majority of sexual assaults aren’t reported to police, but there is no evidence to suggest that the number of unreported assaults is growing.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
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Real change for aboriginal women begins with the end of prostitution
On Dec. 6, 2014, Canada’s new prostitution legislation came into effect. Prostitution survivors, aboriginal women’s groups, anti-violence workers, and equality rights advocates and scholars celebrated the decision to criminalize johns, pimps, and third-party advertising for sexual services, and to decriminalize prostituted women in most circumstances… While not quite yet the “Nordic Model” of prostitution policy, we are beginning to move in the direction of equality for all women by working to abolish prostitution.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, women
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Open 24-hour homeless shelter for women now
… women are at serious risk of sexual and physical abuse at night after other shelters and services are closed. So why isn’t there a shelter a year and a half after that shocking assault, and two years after community activists pointed to the need for one? It’s a story of incompetence and finger-pointing that must stop now. The shelter needs to be opened, immediately.
Tags: budget, Health, homelessness, mental Health, standard of living, tax, women
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Canada is 17th in children’s health. We can do much better
Children do better, families do better, and countries do better when nations invest in early childhood programs… in terms of return on investment, early childhood education yielded $8 for every $1 spent in terms of cost savings associated with reduced remedial education, juvenile justice involvement, health and social services use and increased school completion… programs that target not only children but also their mothers and other caregivers appear to have the most profound and persistent effects on children’s health and development.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Why women don’t stay in Alphaville
Alphaville – a realm that’s wide open to brainy Type-A women, but still populated overwhelmingly by Type-A men… it is wide open to gifted women – as long as they resemble alpha men. Such women are not that common… The women don’t feel they’ve been cheated or shut out. They think their lives are great. On every measure of psychological well-being, they scored about the same as the men… “there are multiple ways to construct a meaningful, productive and satisfying life.”
Tags: ideology, women
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Consider how to prevent sexual assault
… we need to think about how to respond to sexual assaults, but we also need to consider how to prevent them… First, we need to initiate conversations about masculinity. Men are bombarded by violent, sexist and homophobic messages from every corner of our culture… Second, we need to better educate young people about consent… Third, we need to provide bystander training that teaches everyone… how to speak up and take action should they witness inappropriate behaviour.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, women
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Helping low-income families is key to ending child poverty in Canada
The federal government also plans to spend $1.9-billion a year on family income splitting, which would mainly benefit high-income traditional families with a stay-at-home spouse to a maximum amount of $2,000 a year. There would be no benefit at all from income splitting for single parents, or for two-parent families in which both earners are in the bottom tax bracket. In short, there will be zero impact on child poverty. Today, the income-tested CCTB and the NCBS combined pay out $10.8-billion a year, of which $3.9-billion goes to low-income families through the NCBS. Next year the UCCB will cost $5.6-billion a year on top of the $1.9-billion cost of family income splitting, to a total of $7.5-billion a year for the measures introduced by the Conservatives since being elected in 2006.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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