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University is actually quite cheap – it just doesn’t look that way
Every year, Canadian governments provide over $2-billion in tax credits, over $1-billion in grants and nearly $1-billion in loan remission to reduce the costs of education to students and their parents. All that money reduces the actual costs significantly… but most of that money comes at the back end, months after students really need it in order to pay for tuition… there are too many players in the game, using too many different funding vehicles.
Tags: ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s Ferguson? Aboriginal uprisings
… society fostered a tier of people who don’t have a stake in society. They are not participants in the economic system… People with jobs to drive to don’t blockade roads. People with their own private property generally don’t loot from and damage other people’s property… A critical mass of unemployed young men with no outlet for their mental and physical energies is a recipe for disaster no matter their ethnicity. Only more harm can come of this…
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Help Not Wanted: Federal Public Service Cuts Have Hit Students Hard
At a time when youth unemployment is high and many university students are struggling to find jobs or co-op placements, the federal government has significantly cut the number of students it hires. New data, presented here for the first time, demonstrates that summer hiring of students in the federal public service has declined by more than a third (36%) from 10,894 in summer 2009 to under 7,000 in the last two summers. Non-summer hiring of students has declined an average of 23%.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Canada tightens rules on immigrant and refugee children
As of Aug. 1, Canada is tightening the rules on which immigrant and refugee children are eligible to come to Canada with their parents. Until that date, unmarried dependants aged 21 and under could be included in their parents’ immigration or refugee applications… According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, “The amendments to the definition of dependent child respond to government priorities of having an immigration system focused on Canada’s economic and labour force needs.”
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, youth
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Ontario must act quickly to help those with developmental disabilities
… the final report of the Select Committee on Developmental Services was clear… these families need services now. There should be no more wait-lists; they have a right to lifelong services and those services should be provided seamlessly. That’s why the No. 1 recommendation among 46 from the committee was that one minister should be responsible for ensuring services are streamlined and fast-tracked — and why the committee’s top priority was to end all wait-lists within 12 months.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Students worry about rising toll of mental illness
Student leaders are asking for four specific commitments: They want Canada’s next government to provide more financial support for vulnerable students, including more grants and low-interest loans… They want improved mental health treatment on campuses… They want reliable mental health information so they don’t have to use anecdotes and perceptions to convince policy-makers that vulnerable students need help. And they want an additional $4.5 million a year earmarked for the Mental Health Commission of Canada to ramp up its anti-stigma campaign…
Tags: mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Funding Denied? Inconceivable! The Fire Swamp of Canadian Student Aid
From year to year, grants that students once qualified for can be modified, eliminated, combined, or replaced by a new program for which they may no longer be eligible. The unpredictability of many of these programs combined with changing government budget priorities means that students who may have successfully accessed the resources available in their province one year can get burned the next– a peril with which Ontario students[ii] are very familiar.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Minimum wage in 2013 just a penny more than 1975, after inflation: Statistics Canada
“While corporate lobbyists have complained bitterly about recent increases in the minimum wage, these improvements have simply restored the minimum wage to mid-1970s levels after it lagged behind inflation in the 1980s and 1990s.” Of the 13 U.S. states that recently raised their minimum wage rate, 10 have experienced above-average job growth… “It’s not the solution to poverty but it improves the purchasing power of young people, which means they have less debt and more opportunities…”
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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