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Dark Days for Our Universities
What is different now is that Canadian post-secondary must depend more and more on less and less government support… post-secondary schools must do as they’re paid to do. If public money dwindles, it must be found in higher student fees, in corporate funding, in recruiting foreign kids desperate for a Canadian degree… when your teachers or professors protest, as they have every right to, that annoys and embarrasses the government. It will punish you for not imposing the “silence of the deans” on them.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Important child-health bill died with Ontario’s election call
… sometimes stuff that really matters gets blown away in the political whirlwind, and risks being forgotten. That is the case with Bill 135, also known as Ryan’s Law (Ensuring Asthma-Friendly Schools)… not allowing students to carry essential medications like asthma puffers, Epi-Pens, insulin, blood products, anti-anxiety meds and so on – is all too common in Canadian schools… The real tragedy here is the foot-dragging that has gone about this issue for a generation.
Tags: Health, youth
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Warning: Child Poverty Is Hazardous to Our Health
Given what we now know about child poverty and the damage it does to the growing brain, we’d be brain-damaged (and soul-damaged) to let it continue. These children, as politicians love to tell us, are our future and our greatest resource. Yet those politicians treat them like disposable tissues… By 2050, today’s kids will be either tax producers or tax consumers: productive workers, able to support their own families, or people who can’t earn enough to support even themselves
Tags: child care, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Per-student university funding on track to hit lowest level in 50 years
Ontario currently has the lowest level of per-student funding and the highest tuition fees in Canada. Increased public investment would allow universities to preserve the quality of education while ensuring they remain affordable for students and their families… Funding per “eligible” student – those for whom universities receive provincial operating support – will fall 7.5 per cent over the next three years… Whoever forms the next government, it is vital that they reverse this downward trend in funding.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, youth
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Time to end Canada’s temporary foreign worker program
The reason why employers prefer TFWs over Canadians is that the former are essentially indentured labour. The vast majority of low-wage workers from abroad are from poorer areas of the world and will do almost anything to avoid losing their positions with the employers who brought them here and to whom they are tied.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s middle class is doing well? It’s not so simple.
“The study itself is fine… It’s just not getting to the heart of the issue and ignores longer term trends.” Data from the 2006 census shows that median real earnings of individuals working full-time from 1980 and 2005 increased to $41,401 from $41,348 — just $53 over 25 years, Graves said. Canada’s middle class is shrinking and feeling more pessimistic about the future… “As you move from older Canada down to middle age and younger Canada, people are seeing stagnation and in many cases decline,”
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax, youth
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The myth of crushing student debt
Most students do not go to school for free. And some students don’t get enough help. But stories about sky-high tuition… leave out one essential fact. When it comes to tuition… “nobody pays the sticker price.” That’s mainly because of tax credits, which return $2.5-billion a year to students and their parents. Scholarship money has greatly increased, too… Nearly half of all Canadians under 18 now have RESPs in their name, and Canadian families have socked away an astonishing $40-billion in postsecondary savings plans.
Tags: participation, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s charities deserve better
It’s time to have a frank discussion about charities and their administrative and fundraising costs. Over the past decade, the increasing focus on a charity’s cost of doing business has forced the entire charitable sector to defend itself against a rash of naïve accusations… There are a countless other potential variables, all of which speak louder than a narrow focus on fundraising and administrative costs. A pure focus on the sector’s cost efficiency belittles the importance of charities and the work that they do.
Tags: homelessness, ideology, philanthropy, women, youth
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Ontario’s big investment in developmental services is overdue
It’s no secret that Ontario’s system to help people with autism and other developmental disabilities is in crisis. For years, families have begged for help while their children languished on waiting lists for day programs, training or personal support workers… the government is promising that waiting lists for children will be eliminated within two years and those for adults within four. Right now, Ontario spends more than $1.7 billion on developmental services, but some 21,000 adults and children still can’t get the help they need.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Equal opportunity a right that Canada must preserve
When young people cannot build roles as productive participants in an economic mainstream that is supposed to be open, competitive and welcoming, it is not only the legitimate prospects of youth but also the mainstream itself that faces peril… Social capital… is not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity – a priority the right, left and centre must preserve.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax, youth
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