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Whew, What a Turn Off! How polarizing tactics can tranquilize voters, and win elections.
Drawing upon the advice of Republican strategists such as Arthur Finkelstein, Harper’s Tories favour propaganda that repeatedly demonizes opponents and calls them names… “Media propaganda can often shore up loyalists to vote for their traditional party; on the other hand, that same propaganda is increasingly peeling off a band of citizens who turn from independence to apathy, even antipathy, toward our political institutions.”
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Northern youth just fodder for Tories’ campaign
When we involve youth, especially under-privileged youth, in a national defence agenda, we tell them that their primary value to Canada is as watchdogs and little else… Why focus so intently on the military contribution these kids can provide? Why not focus on the social value?… a primarily social good that is of benefit to under-privileged youth in communities where not nearly enough of Canada’s bounty is invested just doesn’t play to the Conservative party’s base.
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, poverty, youth
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Helping students, without burdening everyone else
Student loans are usually tied to financial need, in order to make post-secondary education available to the greatest number of people. But this isn’t a good argument for removing the obligation for students to pay the money back. At least with a loan, the liability is funded, even if that money takes time to come back to government coffers… if non-repayable grants become an expectation of government, there will be pressure for all provinces to provide them, including ones that cannot afford to do so.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, tax, youth
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Hope for radical progressives might be found in the tale of Jeremy Corbyn
… millennials have personal memories that do not include the Cold War or double-digit inflation. They have no interest in socialism or social democracy, but they do not associate those terms with positions in a death struggle of organizing principles for civilization. They are children of a dampened business cycle — what economists call “The Great Moderation.” The Moderation blew a tire in 2007, and that is the kind of event that calls verities into question.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, women, youth
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Why we should be wary of Ontario’s high-school graduation rate
Part of the reason the graduation rate is increasing is that standards for graduation have been lowered. … rather than simply blindly pursuing higher graduation rates, we should also be pausing and reflecting on what exactly we want a high-school diploma to mean. After all, while we want as many students to succeed as possible, if we make the bar too low, we run the risk that achieving a high-school diploma will lose all meaning.
Tags: ideology, standard of living, youth
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Universities ‘decolonize’ their courses and campuses
Public officials (with the regrettable exception of the prime minister) acknowledged the damage done by Canada’s racist Indian residential schools; promised to take to heart the lessons of the past; and pledged to build a new national partnership based on trust, mutual respect and a fair sharing of the benefits of the land. But they stopped short of specifics. The universities were commendably explicit. They set clear targets and spelled out how they planned to reach them:
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Protect young people in group homes
Some young people in Ontario’s group homes are being physically and chemically restrained or funneled into the justice system. It doesn’t have to be that way… 1,199 disturbing “serious occurrences” reports about children in care in group homes and other settings in Toronto that were filed to Ontario’s Ministry of Children and Youth Services in 2013. But the ministry doesn’t analyze the data for provincial patterns or trends that could inform guidelines for staff training and youth care.
Tags: child care, Health, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Don’t undermine Ontario’s education advantage
Ontario’s system has become a model of equity and inclusiveness in education and, as a result, in student achievement. Much of this is due to a shift to so-called outcomes-based learning and assessment. In this model, the child is taught as an individual with unique skills and needs and evaluated on the basis of what he or she can demonstrate and the teacher can observe… When classes are too large and teachers denied adequate prep time, the approach is unsustainable.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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The world’s nicest, most law-abiding generation
The past 50 years have been a watershed for attitudes toward everything from sexism and human rights to littering (now almost a capital offence). By almost any measure you can find, people across the developed world today are the least violent, most law-abiding, hardest-working and most tolerant generation who ever lived… The biggest measurable change is in violent crime… It’s also awfully hard to complain about kids today. Most are conscientious and well-behaved. They don’t rebel the way the boomers did.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, globalization, ideology, women, youth
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Universities will help reset relations between indigenous and non-indigenous people
The cohabitation of Western and indigenous knowledge on campuses has the power to open a dialogue among cultures, enhance our mutual understanding and make change happen. There is a moral, social and economic imperative to act… Among the 13 principles to be announced this week is institutional commitment at every level to develop more opportunities for indigenous students. That means everything from community partnerships to financial assistance, academic support and mentorship.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, standard of living, youth
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