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Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of Stephen Harper government
The former Ontario NDP leader, United Nations ambassador and lifelong human rights advocate took aim at the “pre-paleolithic Neanderthals” in office and their role in the decline of Parliament, the suppression of dissent, the plight of First Nations, their blinkered climate-change policy and our plummeting world status… He joins a line of political elders who are taking increasingly harsh stock of this government’s performance.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Three new studies find child care is good for kids and the economy
The Harper government’s indifference to a national child care strategy is notorious, despite study after study touting the social and economic benefits. In just the past week alone, three more studies make a case so compelling for a national, affordable and accessible child care program that it’s difficult to believe even fiscal conservatives wouldn’t jump at it… These three new studies should make the decision a no-brainer.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women
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Sticks, carrots and a real child-care system
The “egregious,” “brazenly illegal” child care the ombudsman profiled must be stopped… make regulated family child care a job worth doing, with the support to do it well… The… most important… step to tackling the problem of unregulated care is to build a real child-care system… Ontario desperately needs such a comprehensive system based on the principles of universal entitlement, high quality and comprehensiveness.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Less wage discrimination for women, aboriginals, and visible minorities in public sector, not higher salaries overall: study
This study compares the wages of full-time public and private sector workers and finds significant gaps in the wages of women, aboriginal workers, and visible minority workers—and that those gaps are bigger in the private sector in every instance… The difference in public and private sector wages results from higher levels of discrimination in the private sector and a more equitable system of pay in the public sector”
Tags: disabilities, economy, Indigenous, multiculturalism, privatization, standard of living, women
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Jian Ghomeshi and the problem of narcissistic male rage
From what dynamics does this narcissistic male anger flow? A narcissist sees and experiences the world primarily with respect to his own needs. It is all about him; other people merely supply or frustrate these needs, seeming to lack individuality, dignity or needs of their own… The growth of a healthy self depends on emotionally rich, attuned interactions with parents who are emotionally present and available. Stressed, depressed or anxious parents, or those who were themselves traumatized, may be incapable of providing their children with such interactions.
Tags: crime prevention, mental Health, standard of living, women
Posted in Child & Family Debates | 2 Comments »
Letting families keep more of their money is good policy
Families that look the same and make the same amount of money ought to be taxed the same amount. The tax code should recognize families as the team they are. Taxing individuals in a household has led to a bias whereby two families of similar means often pay very different amounts of taxes. This puts an unfair strain on families with one lower-income spouse… With national daycare, the government offers only one, one-size-fits-all “choice” at a subsidized price, taking tax dollars from all to do so.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Income splitting won’t help parents who really need a tax break
The federal government seems to expect single parents to live in poverty to raise children and to support them in that impoverished condition… Even with a $2,000 cap, the average benefits paid to the richest Canadians will remain unaffected; this costly tax benefit will not give any more help to those who desperately need child care so they can spend more time in paid work to get by… Parental income splitting will give shockingly expensive tax gifts to the rich while throwing small token payments to middle income families and nothing to those who need real solid programs they can count on the most.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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What does universal child-care mean for working women?
One of the most powerful examples of the link between affordable child care and maternal employment… sits right beside us – in Quebec… up to 86 per cent of mothers have now joined Quebec’s labour force, one of the highest participation rates in the country. Single mothers in particular were significantly more likely to look for work as a result of universal child-care, and were significantly less likely to be poor.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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