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Union leader Sharleen Stewart is bent on making health care a top provincial election issue
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Jun 24 2011
The SEIU plans to mount “the biggest ground campaign” ever seen in Canada. It intends to keep the focus on health care. And it intends to defeat candidates who threaten it. “Our candidate is health care,” Stewart said. “So when we go knocking on doors we’re going to talk to them about health care.” More than half of SEIU’s members work in health care — in hospitals, nursing homes and retirement homes, or providing in-home care and community services. These workers are predominantly female and often among the lowest paid in the system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization, rights, women
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Quebec’s child-care scheme pays for itself, economist
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
June 22, 2011
By 2008, about 70,000 more women with young children had entered the workforce who would not otherwise have been working… The increased economic activity, which includes mothers’ income and consumption taxes, more than covered the province’s $1.6 billion annual child-care costs that year… And it poured more than $700 million in additional revenue into federal coffers… If a similar program existed in Ontario, it would send another $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion to Ottawa… “This is why we say the federal government should make a contribution to Ontario and other provinces.”
Tags: budget, child care, economy, standard of living, women
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Poverty report shows single men faring less well than single moms
Monday, June 20th, 2011
June 15, 2011
A new national study by Statistics Canada shows poverty is still much higher among single mothers than among the general public. But with one in five single moms living in poverty, they have seen a steady improvement for the last 15 years — even during the recession. The same study… found that almost a third of single men are living in poverty. Single men have long wrestled with a poverty problem, and 2009 was no different. The percentage living with low incomes was 30.1, up from 27.9 per cent in 2008.
Tags: poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Governments are failing families on child care
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Jun 18 2011
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has shown nothing but disdain for regulated child care and the transformative effect it can have on families and the economy. In 2006, Conservatives killed a promising national child-care program and replaced it with $100-a-month cheques for parents with children under 6. Since then, Harper has happily handed out $2.6 billion a year of taxpayers’ money through this program without producing any new daycare spaces or enabling parents to afford existing ones.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, women
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Justice Court integrating domestic violence, family court cases opens in Toronto
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Jun. 10, 2011
In a first for the Canadian justice system, a new initiative in Ontario aimed at minimizing the hardships for families in crisis is merging some family court and domestic violence cases. The Integrated Domestic Violence Court will serve people who are dealing with family court issues as well as criminal charges related to domestic abuse… [in the] hope it will resolve such difficult issues faster, with less conflict and more affordably with a one-case, one-judge approach.
Tags: crime prevention, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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Student money: Ending the cycle of poverty
Friday, June 10th, 2011
Jun 9, 2011
As a single mother who entered university to try to break the cycle of poverty, I now find myself in a $48,800/year job (for which having a degree was mandatory) and carrying monthly Canada Student loan costs of $544/month and BC Student Loan costs of $200/month… My son will be entering university in 6 years, at which time, I expect to still be carrying my own debt, and will be unable to provide full support for his educational costs, and so the cycle of poverty continues as he will be forced to amass debt as well.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax, women, youth
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Politicking has hurt county’s poor
Monday, May 9th, 2011
May 7, 2011
A series of federal and provincial governments have left Simcoe County’s poor to suffer the degradations and misery of the street — to suffer the judgment and cruelty of society’s ignorant. According to the 2009 poverty report of the Simcoe County Alliance to End Homelessness, 7,500 people experienced homelessness in 2008. Many of these individuals were women who were sexually or physically assaulted, averaged three or more years of homelessness, and suffered psychological and physical harm from life on the streets (SCATEH 2009).
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, women
Posted in Inclusion Debates | 1 Comment »
It’s not Diane Anderson who should be judged harshly
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Apr. 23, 2011
… she was also strong, resilient, proud and even near what turned out to be her breaking point – when she was consumed with grief and flailing – she was still trying to rouse the bureaucracy to action… What she was offered, for the most part, were figurative hugs for her “issues” by a gathering flock of helping professionals… The concrete things that I believe may actually have helped her – child care… a better place to live… a bit of extra cash… a ride now and then to the agencies that were downtown… never materialized.
Tags: child care, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Stillbirth epidemic claims more lives each year than HIV-AIDS and malaria combined
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Apr. 14, 2011
The vast majority of stillbirths are preventable. In wealthy countries like Canada, where high-tech obstetrics are the norm, stillbirths are linked to smoking, obesity, advanced maternal age, and abnormalities in the placenta and umbilical cord… The real complications are poverty and lack of access to basic healthcare services for women… Stated bluntly, stillbirth is inversely correlated with wealth; the problem exists largely where there is rampant poverty, no education and poor housing, like all conditions that stalk mothers and children.
Tags: Health, standard of living, women
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How to wipe out seniors’ poverty, no extra charge
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
April 2, 2011
In 2007, the Harper government introduced income splitting of pensions… About three quarters (74 per cent) went to households making more than $60,000… less than a quarter of all seniors’ households had incomes above $60,000… If we took that money and targeted it to Canada’s 634,000 poorest seniors, they would each get $1,450 more a year. Enough to make a huge difference in their daily lives. Enough to get rid of poverty.
Tags: budget, ideology, pensions, standard of living, tax, women
Posted in Child & Family Policy Context | 1 Comment »
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