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Legal system slammed for failing families
Friday, September 17th, 2010
September 17, 2010
At one of the most stressful periods of their lives, separating couples are driven to the poorhouse by a family law system that fails to deliver workable solutions while their children are often hurt by a system that doesn’t take their opinions into account, a report by the Law Commission of Ontario says. In one of the most in-depth looks at what ails family law in many years, the report indicts the system for draining parents’ bank accounts, ignoring expert advice in favour of simplistic solutions and leaving children out of the process.
Tags: standard of living, women
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Let’s not forget gun registry’s origins
Friday, September 17th, 2010
September 17, 2010
“We have 14 dead. They are all women.”… The pain of parents and survivors of Marc Lepine’s murderous rampage brought us the long-gun registry. Has the registry, a creation of the Progressive Conservatives, failed us? Has it cost us billions, without making us more safe? Does the government have a better plan to keep guns out of the hands of madmen? Then by all means, bring it on. But let us have no more small, vindictive slurs aimed not at concern for the vulnerable but motivated by a desire to divide Canada just enough to win a slim majority government.
Tags: crime prevention, rights, women
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‘Third wave’ of feminism urged by prominent Canadian women
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Sep. 09, 2010
The second wave of feminism, which began nearly 50 years ago and which followed the first wave of the suffragettes, “was about enshrining in law [women’s] rights,”… The third wave [said Maureen McTeer] has to be about “changing attitudes.” “There’s been a lot of pushback against women’s equality and against what it stands for,” Ms. McTeer said. “There’s a need now to move beyond accepting that law is enough.”
Tags: participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Women at work: still behind on the bottom line
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Sep. 08, 2010
Canadian women best their male counterparts in high school, college and university, but they fall starkly behind on the bottom line – in their paycheques. And the disparity looks even worse when compared with other developed countries. The findings… are partly the result of women often choosing less lucrative occupations than men – social work, say, as opposed to engineering – as well as entrenched biases in the workplace. Less clear is why… Canada lags in pay equity.
Tags: rights, standard of living, women
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Elderly caregivers desperately need help
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Sep 08 2010
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) issued a report in late August called Supporting Informal Caregivers: The Heart of Home Care. It showed that one in six people caring for ailing seniors at home is in distress. The number shoots up to one in three if the senior has cognitive problems such as Alzheimer’s disease, one in two if the senior is aggressive or abusive. These are the first authoritative figures on the problem. Up to now, advocates have relied on estimates or anecdotal evidence… At a time when Ontario is encouraging seniors to stay in their homes for as a long as possible, it is important to know who is providing the support they need.
Tags: disabilities, Health, pensions, poverty, standard of living, women
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Kids and our future
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
September 7, 2010
… full-day kindergarten means that we will give more students the great start they need in school. Full-day kindergarten will give our youngest learners the head start they need on reading, writing and math — so they’re better prepared for all the grades that follow. And, because we know a great education helps build opportunity later in life, it will help more young people break out of the cycle of poverty and achieve their full potential.
Tags: child care, participation, standard of living, women
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Jet fighters wrong priority
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
July 20, 2010
We are appalled at the Harper government’s decision to spend billions of dollars on military jets… (it) calls to all decent Canadians to speak up for a change in priorities in these economic hard times. Women, children, and senior (seasoned) citizens are increasingly vulnerable as a result of cuts to social programs. The homeless and people with mental-health challenges are at risk for their very lives because of the do-nothing or do-too-little measures taken on their behalf.
Tags: budget, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, women
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Lone-parent poverty: Canadian social policy can still do better
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
July 6, 2010
Canada’s poverty rate in the mid-2000s was 12.5 per cent, two points above the midpoint among OECD countries. Unfortunately, further reductions in Canadian poverty are likely to be more complex than welfare-to-work programming. In many provinces, most welfare recipients are no longer “employables”; they are “persons with disabilities.” A high-profile category is the urban homeless, most of whom combine some form of mental illness with abuse of drugs or alcohol. Here, effective policy requires provision of housing and expensive services. The long-term goal of social policy is to reduce the numbers in at-risk groups.
Tags: economy, participation, poverty, women
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G20 Girls: Sandy Lake a world away from G8 or G20 summits
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Jun 18 2010
Aboriginal girls face more gender discrimination than their non-aboriginal counterparts. With a lack of proper health care on many reserves, young women have less access to birth control, medical help during pregnancy and pediatric attention for their babies… one in four aboriginal adults lives in an overcrowded dwelling, and 5,486 of 88,485 houses on reserves do not have sewage… Nearly 70 per cent of on-reserve Indians will not finish high school.
Tags: housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, women
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Ontario’s Growing Gap: The Role of Race and Gender
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
June 15, 2010
A new analysis done by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives discusses sexism and racial discrimination in the Ontario labour market. The findings within the report demonstrate a striking difference between racialized and non-racialized Ontarians.
Tags: Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, women
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