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Why did prostitution bill go off the rails?
They come up with a perfectly civilized and modern anti-prostitution bill that promotes gender equality and shifts a legal burden from exploited women directly onto to the pathetic men who buy sex. And then what do they do? They insert pointlessly mean bits about which streets prostituted women can literally stand on, making their lives harsher and building a springboard for another court challenge…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Let the buyer of sex beware
This law breaks entirely new ground in Canada, where prostitution is currently legal. Now, the government wants to make it a crime to buy sex, or to communicate for the purposes thereof… Prostitution is essentially a transaction between two people – a sex worker and a client. Legalizing the actions of one, while outlawing those of the other… The selling of sex is forced into the shadows, making prostitutes’ jobs more dangerous.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, women
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Peter MacKay’s prostitution law a failure on all counts
When johns are targeted, prostitutes continue to take steps to avoid police detection; they are unable to screen clients and remain at risk of violence, abuse and HIV. Prohibition of the purchase of sex is as likely to violate sex workers’ rights of security in the eyes of the Supreme Court, as prohibition of the selling of sex… The government says it will spend $20-million to assist sex workers to leave the industry. But does Mr. MacKay seriously think this is going to reduce the number of women selling sex – or improve the lot of those who remain?
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, rights, women, youth
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For aboriginal women, an inquiry is the quickest route to the slowest
… affected aboriginal communities are more interested in action than more talk… Our police forces need to reallocate resources to meet this urgent need… a national action plan… is needed to enhance and better co-ordinate prevention efforts that focus on potential victims, as well as potential offenders… Legalized/decriminalized prostitution is opposed by many aboriginal women’s groups and would only make things worse.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living, women, youth
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For sex workers, the Nordic model still falls short
Laws and policies premised on the Nordic model, which outlaws the purchase of sex or the profiting from its sale, will continue to undermine sex workers’ physical and psychological integrity. Involvement in the sex trade would continue to carry stigma. It would also mean continuing to work in the most clandestine circumstances, leading all too easily to exploitation and violence… the Nordic model is entirely consistent with a moralistic agenda and tough-on-crime ethos.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, women
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Finding fairness in Canada’s income splitting debate
… even by the most favourable definition, almost half of Canadian families would be overlooked in a program that would cost the federall treasury about $3 billion each year. Among those passed over would be single parents, typically women, struggling to raise a family on their own. Their income tends to be low and they have no one to split it with. So they and their children get nothing… The closer a family drifts to Canada’s bottom tax bracket, the less it stands to gain… This policy would provide more relief to the affluent than the poor
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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Women still face barriers to equality
Two measures do appear to make a significant difference. The first is the availability and price of child care. That explains why all three Quebec cities in the index had strong scores. The second is the implementation of pay equity legislation. Cities which required equal-pay-for-work-of-equal-value among municipal workers outscored those with no such policies.
Tags: ideology, standard of living, women
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Canada’s charities deserve better
It’s time to have a frank discussion about charities and their administrative and fundraising costs. Over the past decade, the increasing focus on a charity’s cost of doing business has forced the entire charitable sector to defend itself against a rash of naïve accusations… There are a countless other potential variables, all of which speak louder than a narrow focus on fundraising and administrative costs. A pure focus on the sector’s cost efficiency belittles the importance of charities and the work that they do.
Tags: homelessness, ideology, philanthropy, women, youth
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Lack of pay equity leads to labour pains for midwives
If a pay equity process had been established and maintained by the Ministry of Health, pay equity principles and law would dictate that midwifery work should be valued at nearly double the current compensation. It’s not right that as women front-line workers, we continue to subsidize health care by discounting our labour.
Tags: Health, ideology, women
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Full-day kindergarten offers little academic advantage, study
Full-day kindergartners did fare significantly better in their vocabulary and their ability to control their behaviour and engage in play-based tasks, important elements when it comes to child development, the study showed… the challenge is to improve play-based programs that contribute to lasting change in things like writing and number knowledge
Tags: child care, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living, women
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