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Part-time economy: Full-time solution?
Mar 15 2013
The Walmart economy is sometimes blamed for the spread of “McJobs.” In reality, low pay is the villain. Canada’s union advantage could prove to be a practical model for globalization with a human face.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, philanthropy, poverty, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Stress Is Killing Gender Equality in Canada
Feb. 26, 2013
Canada has been oscillating somewhere between 18th and 30th in the world for gender equality… [We need] family friendly policies like reduced and flexible work hours, universal childcare, and 18-month parental leave that can be shared between parents… They were first made in the 1970 report on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women: 43 years ago.
Tags: child care, economy, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, women
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Feminists need to challenge themselves, too
Mar. 04 2013
The range of inflections that are culturally valued in women’s voices (especially young women) are those that often undermine their authority in the workplace… The same hard-to-address truth also goes for body language… Institutional battles to redress women’s underrepresentation in land ownership, politics, and so on must be coupled with individualized leadership and skills training for women
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Budget 2013: Women cannot afford more tax cuts for the rich
Feb 28 2013
In 2012-13 alone, Canada would have had $40.1 billion more revenue if the 2008-2012 tax cuts had not been made… In recent years, Canadian governments as a whole have made total tax cuts equal to 4.5 per cent of annual GDP. This is why every level of government is crying out for more money, even as they keep cutting taxes.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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The globalization of local politics
Feb 01 2013
This is globalized contact in myriad forms… Guess what they find: outsiders are the global majority — by miles. Authoritative males are few — and you don’t need them to learn what’s going on, or their blessing to act. There’s also a mingling effect due to vast migrations, based on economic needs and dislocations. This all runs counter to the explicit agenda of economic globalization, which plays people off against each other, isolates them and forces them to compete… change cuts many ways… As for Ontarians, we may have been last in line to get our woman premier but hey, we’re the first to have a lesbian grandmother premier.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, women
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How India’s rape culture came to Canada
Jan 3, 2013
Many of the South Asian immigrants who’ve settled in Canada since the 1970s have been so afraid of losing their culture that they have ferociously clung to some of their worst customs… I sometimes feel like I have walked through a time machine, sending me back to rural India, a village in Pakistan, or an Afghan mountain cave… Perhaps a new generation will help push for change.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, multiculturalism, standard of living, women, youth
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Women made gains in 2012 but don’t declare victory just yet
Dec. 26, 2012
Harper’s government has cut funding to women’s organizations, withdrawn Canadian support for family planning in developing nations and permitted Conservative MPs to introduce bills aimed at preventing sex selection of babies by restricting abortion… Despite the hoopla about men failing and women triumphing, equality still eludes the female half of Canadians who mostly remain segregated in the lowest paying jobs and carry the burden of child-rearing.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Immigrant women changed the face of Toronto
Dec. 16, 2012
They developed a network of support services for themselves and future generations of newcomers. They created training and employment programs for women with no Canadian experience, no connections and no way of getting a foothold in the workforce. They set up female-run businesses that employed newcomers… where they could earn a living wage, become citizens and break down the barriers that had confronted them. They made multiculturalism work.
Tags: immigration, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Early learning is a better bargain than universities
Dec. 06, 2012
“The benefits of early childhood education far outweigh the costs”… every dollar spent produces $1.50 to $3 in benefits. There are parents who refuse to place their toddlers in “institutionalized child care” and politicians who equate early learning with babysitting. But their beliefs are rooted in ideology, not neuroscience or an understanding of the nation’s economic needs.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living, women
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In Search of Child Care
Dec. 1, 2012
0.3 – (the) Percentage of Canada’s GDP that is spent on early childhood education and child care, falling short of the one percent of GDP both UNICEF and the OECD recommend governments devote to such programs for children under five, as a minimum… 75 – (the) Percentage of Canadian moms of children aged three to five who work in the paid labour force.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, women
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