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Tinker, tailor, university grad – guess who makes the most money?
… recent university graduates have fared significantly better than graduates from other postsecondary institutions. University graduates in Ontario have the best employment rates, make the most money and are more likely to get a job in their field than are students with other credentials… Six months after graduation, university graduates earn 30 per cent more than college graduates. The income gap only increases with time
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, youth
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Money alone can’t fix aboriginal education
Aboriginals have won the fight that there should be parallel systems: one for their children on-reserve, and one for others… The reserves themselves, in too many cases, are economic basket cases because of location, size, lack of wage employment, welfare dependency, breakup of families and a litany of other challenges… [It’s] it difficult to compensate for poor social skills, discipline or work ethic if a child is less than ready to learn due to family or community issues.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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How MPP Kevin Flynn became a mental health crusader
The committee members… set aside their party loyalties and worked single-mindedly toward the same goal… so did their determination to submit a report the government could not ignore… They kept it short – 21 pages – and readable… [with] 23 precise recommendations. Within months… the government moved on the committee’s two most urgent recommendations; immediate action to stem the flow of prescription opioids (chiefly OxyContin) and a children’s mental health strategy with dedicated funding.
Tags: Health, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Sugar’s spurned prophet
Lustig is one of a growing number of scientists who don’t just believe sugar makes you fat and rots teeth. They’re convinced it’s the cause of several chronic and very common illnesses, including heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes. It’s also addictive, since it interferes with our appetites and creates an irresistible urge to eat. This year, Lustig’s message has gone mainstream
Tags: disabilities, standard of living, youth
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Conservative jobs plan is coherent, relevant, bold — naturally the provinces hate it
An integrated national labour market… requires a national approach — especially as the population ages, participation rates fall, and labour shortages grow more acute… But, say the provinces, the reduction in federal transfers will force them to cut back on priority programs for literacy and at-risk youth. Will it? The amounts involved, about $300-million, are a tiny sliver out of total provincial revenues (in excess of $300-billion) or even federal transfers (at roughly $63-billion, they are up more than 50% since the Tories took power and nearly three times what they were at the start of the last decade).
Tags: budget, economy, jurisdiction, youth
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Flaherty has done more than anyone to make life more affordable for Canada’s most vulnerable citizens
… he has been the champion for measures like the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan in previous budgets. This time around, he has found money for vocational training for people with autism and labour market agreements to help people with disabilities get the skills they need… he’s… done more than anyone to make life more affordable for some of the country’s most vulnerable citizens.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living, tax, youth
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A standoff on native education ends at Stand Off
Native groups want more money for education – and that’s what Ottawa has promised, to the tune of $1.9-billion. The federal government wants higher education standards for native schools – and the AFN has agreed to small but meaningful steps on that score… All of which leads to a less than perfect outcome: the two levels of government with the least expertise in education, negotating an education agreement that largely sidelines the level of government with constitutional responsibility for education.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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University funding in Ontario falls behind
New data shows that the Ontario government operating funding to universities in 2012-13 did not keep up with enrolment increases. For the first time in a while, the level of funding also failed to keep up with inflation… Inflation-adjusted per student funding has been in decline since 2006-07, but the pace of decline has been picking up. In the latest year alone, it dropped by 2.9 per cent; since its peak in 2006-07, it has dropped 11.0 per cent.
Tags: budget, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s education spending: Going up, but is it going to the right places?
Boards have increased their spending quite sharply over the past decade. In Canada as a whole, expenditures have increased 53 per cent – or 5.3 per cent a year, a rate much higher than inflation… the spending increase was not about having more kids to serve. Teachers and administrators got some of the increase, but not all of it… The area that actually grew the most was capital outlays, which were up by 271 per cent over 10 years
Tags: budget, economy, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax, youth
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At least 4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools, commission finds
Thousands of Canada’s aboriginal children died in residential schools that failed to keep them safe from fires, protected from abusers, and healthy from deadly disease, a commission into the saga has found…. Schools and the government would not pay to have bodies shipped back to their families. And so they were placed in coffins and buried near the schools… Often, their parents in far-away reserves were never told what happened.
Tags: child care, ideology, Indigenous, rights, standard of living, youth
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