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Ontario parents who fail to pay support can lose car
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Nov. 8, 2010
Starting December 1, people caught driving [with a suspended licence for failing to pay family support] will have their vehicles suspended for seven days… Such a remedy is a punitive measure that goes beyond the transportation ministry’s jurisdiction and does not take into account legimate reasons for missed support payments, says Lloyd Gorling, founder of Ex-fathers, an advocacy group for divorced dads… “How are you going to make support payments if you can’t get to work?”…
Tags: rights, women, youth
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Feminomics: calculating the value of ‘women’s work’
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Oct 30 2010
According to the old maxim, a woman’s work is never done. It certainly never counts, a least not by the economic formulae that figure out the wealth of a nation… This past summer, the Conservatives, in rewriting the long-form census, eliminated only the section on unpaid work. That means that, in the future, StatsCan won’t be able to tell us with any certainty that men perform an average of 2.5 hours of unpaid work per day while women do 4.3 hours, like they did in 2005.
Tags: ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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Pension reform should aid women
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Oct 18 2010
Retired Canadian women aren’t getting their fair share of federal pension benefits compared to men, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said Monday… that’s just another reason the entire system of retirement benefits needs to be overhauled with an eye to phased-in “modest” benefits increases… As of December 2009, the average annual CPP retirement benefit for women was $4,906.56, compared with that of men of $7,128.24 or about 69 per cent.
Tags: pensions, women
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Feminism loses its way on prostitution
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Oct 11 2010
If prostituting women is just like any other job, why are the vast majority of prostituted women survivors of incest and childhood sexual abuse (65 to 90 per cent) before entering the industry?… why did researchers conclude that 2 out of 3 women in the sex industry suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder? Allowing a minority of women in prostitution to argue “choice” on the backs of the majority who are out there, in perfect storm of oppression, neglect, abuse and human trafficking, is absurd…
Tags: crime prevention, mental Health, rights, women
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Feminists split over judicial decision overturning some legal restraints on prostitution
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Oct 09 2010
They’re split over whether the ruling will make sex workers safer — or merely pump up profits for pimps and help organized crime to traffic women. At the heart of this dispute is a wide ideological gap between feminists who believe that no woman is a commodity to be bought and sold and those who insist that, as with abortion, a woman has the right to control her body — while not risking life and limb.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, rights, women
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Women need their chance to lead
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Oct. 08, 2010
In the U.S., roughly 50 per cent more women run the top 1,000 companies… In Canada, fewer women preside over significantly smaller empires. The number of women corporate officers here has grown only by 2.8 per cent since 2002. To make this charge is not an act of tokenism, charity or correctness, it is a corporate and political challenge. It is time for Canadians to… show some leadership when it comes to women and leadership.
Tags: participation, women
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Liberals unveil $1B home care plan
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Oct 05 2010
It’s… a reply to the question of what Liberals would do with approximately $6 billion they said can be saved by freezing the Conservatives’ planned cuts to corporate taxes in the next few years… Ignatieff’s “Family Care” policy plan has two parts: one would give six months of employment insurance benefits to caregivers, while the other would provide up to $1,350 a year to people who are providing home care to the elderly or ill.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, standard of living, women
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Women are changing the face of philanthropy
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Oct 03 2010
Women… are changing the face of philanthropy, as part of a global movement propelled by the increasing wealth, influence and independence women wield, says Beverley Wybrow, president and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation. One example: From 1967 to 2002, Canadian women’s incomes rose by 81 percent, compared with 32 per cent for men, according to Statistics Canada… Many women today use their influence to give more strategically, and in different ways, than men or women did in the past…
Tags: philanthropy, standard of living, women
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Don’t regulate prostitutes. Rescue them
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
October 5, 2010
In the pathetic demi-monde of lower-tier prostitution — streetwalkers, drug addicts, child-trafficked aboriginal children — it isn’t regulation that is needed. Robert Picton’s victims wouldn’t have taken advantage of (or been welcome at) legal brothels. Such women, neither autonomous nor opportunistic, are victims of circumstances, who haven’t the luxury of choice. These women don’t need the “harm reduction” of legal enablement. They need rescue. Their plight would only worsen with legalization, because it would discourage efforts to save them.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, poverty, rights, women, youth
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False populism and the myth of the gun-hating Toronto elite
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Sep 18 2010
… it’s intriguing to see our Conservatives… attempting to graft American categories onto the Canadian political system. That’s what federal House Leader John Baird was doing this week when he described the dispute over the long-gun registry as a battle between authentic Canadians and the “Toronto elites.” It was a direct steal from the language of U.S. right-wing populism, which pits so-called real Americans (also known as God-fearing patriots) against an alien conspiracy usually referred to as the liberal elite… There’s a right populism in Canada too, but of a different sort.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, women
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