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‘Equal shared parenting’ law doesn’t put kids first
Instead of saying, as Bill C-560 does, that “every child has the right to know and be cared for by both parents,” why not add the words “to the best of their ability”? As they do now, courts should evaluate each case on the individual facts, instead of starting from a false presumption that parents can and should parent “equally.”
Tags: child care, ideology, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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OCUFA criticizes new paper on “faculty productivity”
Ontario’s universities have the lowest level of per-student funding in Canada… our institutions must constantly do more with less. Since the year 2000, the number of students at Ontario universities has increased by over 64 per cent. Over the same period of time, the number of full-time professors has only increased by 30 per cent… Ontario’s student-to-faculty ratio is the worst in Canada at 28:1. In 2000, this ratio was only 22:1.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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After a divorce, equal parenting rights should be the norm
In 1999, a… Joint House-Senate committee report, entitled “For the Sake of the Children,” offered recommendations whose spirit is encapsulated in Bill C-560, which will move to second reading in Parliament on March 25. If passed, Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott’s private member’s bill will serve to amend the Divorce Act to create a rebuttable presumption that equal shared parenting supports the best interests of children whose parents are separating.
Tags: child care, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Three ways Harper’s Bill C-23 undermines democracy
In a truly bizarre move, the Fair Elections Act proposes that the candidate or party that came first in the previous election choose poll supervisors. This would mean that the majority of polls in Canada’s next election would be supervised by an individual appointed by the Conservative Party of Canada, instead of by Elections Canada (a non-partisan body). The most dangerous aspect of the bill is that it prevents Elections Canada from doing its job, which is to protect the fairness of the electoral process
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Social networks add layer of complexity to social work
The uncharted territory around social media poses many challenges for workers, and led the Canadian Association of Social Workers to draw up Social Media Guidelines, published in January this year. It focuses on ethical concerns… They need to be careful and professional and be cognizant of who has access to their information. And where do you draw the line when it comes to tracking people?
Tags: child care, crime prevention, rights, youth
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Follow Toronto’s new report card on social inequity
The new neighbourhood improvement initiative has a more ambitious goal: reducing inequity —including “unnecessary, unfair, and unjust differences” in areas such as health, public safety, income and sharing in the democratic process… social indicators… have been tracked using an innovative new assessment system developed by scientists at St. Michael’s Hospital’s Centre for Research on Inner City Health… they’ve assigned each of Toronto’s 140 neighbourhoods a specific point-score for equity.
Tags: budget, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Professors need to teach more
… how are the professors spending their time? Research. The system is skewed toward research, because research is rewarded by government grants, promotions and prestige… these days, everyone is supposed to be a teacher-scholar, even though there is little evidence that research improves teaching, or that all this scholarly endeavour is worthwhile… using faculty resources more effectively “may be one of the most promising opportunities for universities to increase their productivity.”
Tags: participation, standard of living, youth
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Five Myths to Bust about Minimum Wage Hikes
A larger increase in the minimum wage may lead to some small number of jobs, or more likely hours being cut, but it is useful to remember that a 20 per cent wage hike that reduces a minimum wage worker’s hours by five per cent still leads to a sizable net benefit for that worker… a 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage is associated with a 2.4 to 3.6 per cent decrease in the poverty rate
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Fixing Canada’s Divorce Act
… children who are subjected to the current litigative family law system often suffer from what the Agency describes as “damaged emotional development” due to the conflict and destruction of relationships with their own parents… in 1998, a federal Joint House-Senate Committee presented to Parliament a report, For the Sake of the Children. It proposed a more prescriptive approach to parenting after divorce, including an equal shared parenting presumption for good parents… The bill that’s currently before Parliament is wholly aligned with the recommendations of this report.
Tags: child care, disabilities, featured, ideology, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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How to make the city a classroom and free the students
Our young citizens rightfully expect universities to provide them with high-quality learning experiences that are social, flexible, interdisciplinary and relevant in order to learn how to improve our cities and create a better world. They may need the information and degrees that universities offer, but they also crave experiences that will teach them how to become changemakers, innovators and social entrepreneurs in our cities.
Tags: participation, standard of living, youth
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