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Wealth advantage for Canada’s affluent starts at a young age
Canada’s wealth gap is big and growing — the wealthiest 10 per cent of families enjoy a net worth that’s millions more than families in the middle of the income spectrum — and that wealth advantage starts early in an affluent family’s life. Young affluent families in their twenties have a major wealth advantage: their net worth is already higher than middle class families in their fifties and sixties.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Why Canadian industry needs to fix how it engages with the public
… innovation is more than coming up with a new idea, product or technology. It is equally about innovation in processes. Yet, when it comes to resource development and market access, the inability of Canadian businesses and industry to forge new public-engagement processes to meet heightened environmental standards, disclosure, and, yes, social licence, is as much an innovation failure as anything ranked by the Conference Board.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Why Canadian professors aren’t afraid of their students
… Canadian universities are in the business of mass education. We take entire generations of Canadians, tens of thousands of them recent immigrants, and give them access to the middle classes. Fancy American schools are in the business of offering boutique education to a very tiny, coddled minority, giving them access to the upper classes. That’s a really fundamental difference… The accessibility of the political system… serves to siphon off a lot of political energy, putting it to better use
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Children should be at the top of the post-Truth and Reconciliation to-do list
The last Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples made 440 recommendations but is now a forgotten footnote in Canadian political history… There are consequences to conceding that “cultural genocide” took place – genocide is a crime that would, by necessity, lead to prosecutions. Harper has said he recognizes the UN Declaration on Human Rights as an “aspirational document.” But to lend it more legal weight than that would have implications on land rights, self-government, environmental rights and military policy.
Tags: budget, featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission report
The actual document from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that culminates a six-year examination of residential schools and lays bare the horrors of Canada’s aboriginal children for more than a century.
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, rights, standard of living, youth
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Why do some vulnerable children become radicalized, while most others do not?
… when youth have other ways of accessing the benefits that they get through political violence, they will choose the more adaptive strategies… If we are going to prevent criminal radicalization, we cannot rely solely on better policing, increased surveillance, and more restrictive laws. We will do better when we turn to community activists, youth workers, leaders in our communities, and, most importantly, youth themselves for direction on where to focus our prevention efforts.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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The new key to economic growth is unlocking latent talent
… almost half of today’s professions could be automatable by 2025. Speculation about what will replace them ranges from unexpected opportunities to large-scale unemployment as machines displace most human labour. The first signs of this disruption are already visible. Global unemployment has topped 212 million… Meanwhile, last year, 36 per cent of employers worldwide reported facing difficulties in finding talent, the highest percentage in seven years.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, standard of living, youth
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Education incentive: $1,000 a year to keep some Leamington students in high school
The money, up to $4,000, is put in a bursary for their post-secondary education. The cash incentive and one-on-one support is to help teens not only finish high school but go on to college or university… Poverty affects most of the families involved with the local CAS. About 75 to 80 per cent are among the working poor or living on benefits… Based on a Toronto program, the estimated return rate is a savings of $24 for every dollar spent on helping a child get to post-secondary education
Tags: participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Sex ed curriculum strikes blow to rape culture
What would it look like if instead of — or at least alongside — rape culture we learned about a culture of consent? This is part of what’s being proposed by the Ontario Education Ministry in its new sex education curriculum… that you have to ask someone if they want to have sex, and they have to answer positively… It’s teaching kids that they have a choice. It’s teaching them that they are agents when it comes to sex, not passive objects
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism, standard of living, youth
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