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Am radio or YouTube? How parties reach their supporters
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Feb. 21, 2011
Roughly 56 per cent of Tory voters are male and 41 per cent are over the age of 55. Another 34 per cent are between the ages of 35 and 55 while only a quarter of Conservative supporters are under the age of 34… The television ads featuring the Prime Minister working late into the night were not aimed at young voters, just as the Liberal “Pucapab” YouTube video was not meant for grandma and grandpa. In politics as in business, finding the right audience for an advertisement can be just as important as hitting the right tune.
Tags: ideology, participation, women, youth
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Thousands miss out on government benefits
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Feb 16 2011
Many people don’t get government benefits they’re entitled to because the rules are too complex… The Old Age Security pension… The Guaranteed Income Supplement… The Canada Pension Plan… government should: (1) Ensure that programs are clear and simple. (2) Simplify the application processes. (3) Improve outreach to raise awareness of programs and their eligibility rules.
Tags: disabilities, pensions, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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McGuinty must fixsignature program [child care]
Monday, February 14th, 2011
Feb 14 2011
McGuinty has acted only on that part of his plan and left aside the rest of what was supposed to be a much broader push to meet all the needs of young children and their families… The original plan put forward by Charles Pascal, Ontario’s early learning adviser, would have ended the patchwork of programs and created a seamless education and child-care system. But without that integration, we are seeing the chronically underfunded child-care system crumble from the loss of 4- and 5-year-olds. Their fees have always subsidized younger children.
Tags: budget, child care, participation, standard of living, women
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From the Inside Out: A unified voice [poverty/abuse]
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
February 12, 2011
Violence against women is intimately linked to poverty. In fact, systemic abuse is pervasive and a reality for many of our citizens, particularly if they are children or teens, seniors, people of colour, women, or not part of the dominant class… Does poverty and need make us more grateful and appreciative or does affluence and excess lead us to think we’re more privileged and entitled? … I believe that working with people who face multiple societal barriers keeps me in check and unwilling to perceive myself as better than or more entitled to the rewards of society than anyone else.
Tags: poverty, women, youth
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Ontario child care facing uncertain future
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
February 11, 2011
Parents, educators and children’s advocates praise Premier Dalton McGuinty’s plan to phase in all-day kindergarten and after-school programs by 2015. And they welcome the premier’s promise to reinvest the daycare money from 4-and 5-year-olds into care for younger children. But they say the reinvestment isn’t happening fast enough. “Child-care programs across the province are in crisis… Premier McGuinty said he would free up spaces in child care and actually make it more affordable… But subsidy waiting lists are growing and centres say they are losing spaces and may be forced to close.”
Tags: budget, child care, participation, standard of living, women
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Hollywood needs new script: the rich don’t marry the poor
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
February 11, 2011
… the wealthier or poorer a person’s parents are, the greater the chances that he or she will marry someone from the same financial background, according to a new study… And the results didn’t change much when the researchers adjusted for education and race… Interestingly, wealth affected the success of marriages as well. The richer a woman’s parents were, the more likely her marriage was to fail, irrespective of how wealthy her husband’s family is.
Tags: ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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For parents, a pittance and sneers
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Feb 07 2011
How I wish Stephen Harper hadn’t killed the Liberal daycare plan. The Conservative approach — $100 a month whether you need it or not — shows both disdain and cluelessness. That money wouldn’t buy me a roll of TTC tokens and a snow shovel to get the stroller out of the driveway. Ottawa offers a pittance and a series of sneers. Then it frets about the aging population and how there won’t be enough young people working to pay for their hip replacements and dementia therapy. Do we really wonder why people don’t have more children?
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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For female politicians, equality is hard work
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Feb 04 2011
Women make up only 22 per cent of the House of Commons, but they account for a larger share of membership in cabinet (26 per cent) and in the Senate (35 per cent)… In terms of Commons committee chairs in the current Parliament… Only three women serve at the top of committees, where, it’s often said, the real work of Parliament is done… For the past several elections, roughly 15 per cent of the women who ran for office ended up winning. In the 1970s and 1980s, that figure was closer to six per cent.
Tags: ideology, participation, women
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The child-care challenge: Parents deserve a real choice
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Feb 04 2011
No one wants a one-size-fits-all model in which children are rounded up into daycares every morning. But the fact that not everyone wants or needs it is no reason to deny it to those who do. The 1950s are over. Stay-at-home moms are an increasing rarity. And, despite what Finley may think, mothers (or fathers) don’t give up being parents by putting their kids in child care… choice in child care is important. But it must include affordable, regulated child care. For far too many parents, that will never be an option without a national plan.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, participation, women
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Dust-up over daycare
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Feb. 5, 2011
While 33% of respondents would give a high priority to child care for working parents, 32% would give a high priority to financial support for stay-at-home parents. And so, rather than shove a massive Liberal coast-to-coast daycare program down Canadian taxpayers’ throats, wouldn’t it be better to provide any new funding to the parents themselves — as the Tories argue — and let them make up their own mind? … instead of finding ways to push more babies out of the nest, politicians should look at ways to support all parents’ choices…
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, women
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