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A national inquiry would empower First Nation women
What really is needed is not just an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, but a broader public inquiry into how to empower the First Nations community, and women in particular. Such an inquiry should look at how First Nation community life and governance is contributing to the problem of missing and murdered indigenous women.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Ottawa’s unjust approach to disability insurance
CPP-Disability is social insurance. It provides income support to people with significant disabilities who have paid into the system through their and their employer’s contributions. It’s an important source of income for many Canadians with disabilities who are no longer able to work… lengthy delays and the cumbersome process are not the only problems. The federal government has also changed the rules so that people making claims no longer have the right to a hearing.
Tags: disabilities, pensions, poverty, standard of living, women
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An inquiry means legitimacy
… we must know why our sisters and daughters are being disproportionately targeted and we must develop a strategy for prevention. It is for this reason that we need a collective response. That response is the launching of a public inquiry… A public inquiry would provide us all with a more comprehensive understanding of the issue and a road map for ensuring that this stops… This is a national crisis that cries out for an informed and aggressive national response.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, Indigenous, women
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Therese Casgrain, feminist icon, written out of public history under Stephen Harper’s government
Therese Casgrain, a feminist icon and Quebec heroine who died in 1981, has been quietly removed from a national honour, to be replaced by a volunteer award bearing the prime minister’s banner… It honoured Canadian activists such as June Callwood until it was eliminated — unannounced —by the Harper government in 2010. An image of Casgrain and her namesake volunteer-award medal also disappeared from Canada’s $50 bank note in 2012, replaced by the image of an icebreaker on a new currency series.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, women
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Canadian families desperately need a national child-care program
Quality child-care gives kids a good start early in life. It’s particularly important for youngsters from low-income and single-income families. It allows more women to enter the workplace, boosting family revenues and enhancing the Canadian economy. And it would help provide parents with a healthier work-life balance… Now, more than ever, Canada needs a national child-care plan.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, women
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Baby boom meets daycare bust in Canada
In the wake of Canada’s largest baby boom in 50 years, public spending on licensed child care has barely budged, parent fees are soaring and growth in new spaces has slowed to a trickle… the labour force participation of mothers with children under age 2 grew to almost 70 per cent in 2012, while almost 77 per cent of mothers with children between the ages of 3 and 5 were working… In Ontario, there were licensed spaces for barely 21 per cent in 2012.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, women
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Abused women need our support
In Ontario an average of 30 women are killed each year by intimate partners. Eighty-one per cent of these homicides occur during an actual or pending separation; 66 per cent of these murders happen in the first six months after separation… For a woman to be safe she needs to leave her abuser, but by leaving she puts herself and her children at even greater risk of being killed. We blame her for staying with her abuser and we blame her for leaving. It’s time to move beyond victim blaming and support women when they leave abusive relationships.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, women
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Income Inequality: The Big Split
Fourteen per cent of all income in Canada is now received by the top one per cent, up sharply from eight per cent in the 1980s. For every $1 increase in national earnings over the past 20 years, more than 30 cents have gone to the top one per cent… the majority of Canadian families with children under 18 would get no benefit at all from the Conservatives’ income splitting scheme – despite being the express target of the policy.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax, women, youth
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