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Helping low-income families is key to ending child poverty in Canada
The federal government also plans to spend $1.9-billion a year on family income splitting, which would mainly benefit high-income traditional families with a stay-at-home spouse to a maximum amount of $2,000 a year. There would be no benefit at all from income splitting for single parents, or for two-parent families in which both earners are in the bottom tax bracket. In short, there will be zero impact on child poverty. Today, the income-tested CCTB and the NCBS combined pay out $10.8-billion a year, of which $3.9-billion goes to low-income families through the NCBS. Next year the UCCB will cost $5.6-billion a year on top of the $1.9-billion cost of family income splitting, to a total of $7.5-billion a year for the measures introduced by the Conservatives since being elected in 2006.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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How keeping the child poverty promise might have changed one life
TheStar.com – News/Canada – Sarah Vanalstyne, 26, grew up in poverty and says her life would have been very different if the Government had kept its 1989 vow to eradicate child poverty. Nov 19 2014. By: Olivia Carville, Staff Reporter Sarah Vanalstyne was just a baby living in a Toronto slum in 1989 when Ottawa made […]
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Children’s rights milestone should inspire more action
It is unacceptable that 17,000 children still die every day from preventable causes and that 57 million children are out of school and another 200 million still can’t read and write by grade four… The Convention on the Rights of the Child turns 25 years old this week… in Canada we spend a meagre 0.27 per cent of our GDP on foreign aid — it is just a matter of political and societal will, and a commitment to invest in the world’s poorest people.
Tags: budget, child care, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Corporate Canada needs to pony up to reduce youth unemployment
Unfortunately, a significant minority of employers are taking advantage of the very slack job market for youth through exploitative unpaid internship positions that are generally illegal unless they are part of a formal academic program… Corporate Canada can clearly afford to do more, and it is in their own best interests to do so since labour force growth will soon grind to a virtual halt and young workers with good qualifications and work experience will be widely sought after.
Tags: economy, privatization, standard of living, youth
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Literacy, numeracy among Canadian graduates better than OECD claimed
… About half of [Canada’s high proportion of graduates who are foreign-born or have degrees from institutions outside the country] had test scores at lower levels. In contrast, only 16 per cent of Canadian-born graduates showed poor literacy skills and 23 per cent had low levels of numeracy. The new data give postsecondary institutions much-needed ammunition against critics who are questioning whether graduates are leaving university ready for employment.
Tags: globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Public funds shouldn’t pay for Catholic schools in secular Ontario
From a principled perspective… it simply does not make sense to continue singling out a sole religion for public support… Sorbara, a Catholic himself… is now pressing for Ontario to follow the lead of Quebec and Newfoundland… Within a secular context, it is easy to imagine an Ontario curriculum embedded with a comparative “beliefs” opportunity for building understanding and empathy regarding different religions. Strengthening a collective “commons” by fostering deeper respect for our differences is the right pathway.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, tax, youth
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Canada’s job market underperforming for years
… using an employment barometer that shows no real problem in the labour market… allows cabinet ministers to claim job-seekers just aren’t trying hard enough to find work; they’re not properly trained; they’re not sufficiently mobile; or they’d rather collect EI than earn a living… The nature of work has changed profoundly in the post-industrial era. Contract work has replaced permanent employment. Jobs are short-term, part-time and sometimes precarious. Wages don’t always provide enough income to live on.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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We can’t legislate lost souls
Much of the public discourse has been about the need to tighten security, to crack down on radical elements in society. But violence is not strictly a public security issue. It’s also a serious and largely neglected public health issue. We’re probably healthier and safer than we have been at any time in history, but the spectre of violence and fear hangs over us… The malaise and desperation that results in young men killing themselves and others is not going to be legislated or policed away.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology, mental Health, youth
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