Posts Tagged ‘youth’
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The evidence is clear: National pharmacare for contraception can’t wait
Friday, October 17th, 2025
If Canada’s pre-existing mix of public and private insurance provided sufficient access to contraception, we would have seen little or no change when contraception became free in B.C. But… Our research showed a 49 per cent increase in the use of the most effective contraceptive methods when they were available at no cost.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, participation, women, youth
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Yes, Canada should (mostly) end our temporary foreign worker programs
Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
Make it easy for businesses to recruit from overseas for the most highly skilled and highly paid positions. Make it impossible to bring in temporary workers from overseas for low-wage and low-skill work… hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers to make pizzas, stock shelves or deliver food orders? At a time of rising unemployment and near-record youth unemployment, it makes less sense than ever.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, youth
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Why bolstering post-secondary education for former youth in care is a wise investment
Thursday, August 7th, 2025
When youth age out of care… they are expected to navigate adulthood with no family network, limited life skills and inadequate financial supports. The result is a predictable cycle of poverty, homelessness and criminalization. The cost of this approach is staggering… In Ontario, every dollar invested in extended care from ages 21 to 25 could yield $1.36 million in savings or earnings over a lifetime through improved educational attainment, reduced reliance on social benefits, lower rates of criminal justice involvement and increased contributions through taxes.
Tags: crime prevention, Education, participation, poverty, youth
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Should back-to-school require parent fundraising? Ontario schools are woefully underfunded, and families pay the price
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Taking over boards can be seen as a distraction tactic as the government is asking them to meet growing needs with fewer resources. Instead of increasing funding, which is necessary and long overdue, the government is likely to cut costs in the short term by privatizing services, a trajectory researchers have documented for some time. These shifts to the private sector are shortsighted attempts to balance a budget that only serve to raise the taxpayer burden over time.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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This confidential report reveals Ontario is spending millions to warehouse kids under Children’s Aid care in hotels and other unlicensed settings
Thursday, July 17th, 2025
Ontario is spending millions of dollars a year to warehouse vulnerable kids in hotels, shelters and other unlicensed settings that child welfare agencies are turning to amid a provincewide shortage of treatment options for kids with complex health needs… The use of these placements has soared over the past three years… putting unprecedented strain on children’s aid societies and leaving many kids in unstable or dangerous living arrangements where they are being contained rather than treated.
Tags: budget, child care, homelessness, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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School lunches, the French way: It’s not just about nutrition, but togetherness and bon appetit
Tuesday, July 15th, 2025
… we need to shift from thinking of school lunches as a safety net for kids living in poverty to thinking about them as benefiting the health and well-being of children and their families… the cultural diversity of Canadian school communities is reflected in the food on offer… centralized kitchens can prepare thousands of servings of a main dish daily… to prepare food for daycares and for seniors who were home-bound — something to consider for Canadian cities…
Tags: Education, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Doug Ford’s fiscal time bomb is devastating Ontario’s colleges
Monday, July 14th, 2025
The root of the crisis in higher education lies with the fiscal time bomb planted by Doug Ford’s provincial government when it came to power seven full years ago… The latest job losses and cancelled courses were always foreseeable, because post-secondary funding remains unsustainable… universities say the government’s chronic underfunding will leave them unable to find spots for 80,000 worthy Ontario applicants over the next five years.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, youth
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Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to nearly 10,000 job losses, union says
Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
… the suspended and cancelled programs are not only those primarily attended by international students. “It’s also programs we domestically need, programs like nursing, child and youth care, environmental technologies, specialized art training that is not offered anywhere else,” … the 10,000 reported layoffs represent a staff reduction of about 17 per cent in a workforce of more than 60,000… but is not proportional to the 45 per cent reduction in student enrolment,”
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction, participation, youth
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To solve Canada’s housing crisis, we need to change the way we think about wealth
Monday, June 23rd, 2025
… younger generations are uniquely burdened by Canada’s tax code and its outdated understanding of affluence, which is no longer primarily based on income but on assets. Canadian wealth today is about what you own, not what you make — and whether you own depends largely on when you were born…. younger workers are paying taxes at rates originally meant for the wealthiest Canadians, all while struggling to achieve the markers of even a historically lower-middle-class lifestyle.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Canadian Dental Care Plan expands to include millions of new eligible Canadians
Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
Up to 4.5 million uninsured Canadians between 18 and 64 years-old are expected to join the millions of seniors, children, and adults with a valid Disability Tax Credit certificate already eligible for affordable oral health care services under the CDCP. To date, close to 98% of active dentists, denturists, dental hygienists, and dental specialists in Canada, including those in educational institutions, are caring for patients covered under the CDCP.
Tags: disabilities, featured, Health, poverty, Seniors, standard of living, youth
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