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What I learned at law school: The poor need not apply
… what does poverty feel like? Usually it starts with anger. You are angry at yourself, your family, and the indifferent forces that eventually grind you down. You push against these feelings because you don’t have the luxury – you have to keep on. You feel vulnerable. You teeter between risks not taken because the difference between failure and success is homelessness. Or you take stupid risks because you have nothing to lose… anger and envy will paralyze you. You need to deal with it somehow.
Tags: poverty, standard of living, youth
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Income inequality is hurting social inclusion in Canada
… 4 per cent of Canadian households control 67 per cent of total wealth, and… middle and low incomes have stagnated or decreased… Recent immigrants, visible minorities, aboriginal people, people with disabilities, seniors, youth and sexual minorities all struggle with exclusion… We need programs to increase labour mobility, and tax incentives for companies that hire and invest in young Canadians… a review of the Income Tax Act to ensure progressivity and fairness, and to stimulate job creation.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, tax, youth
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No evidence Conservative tax credit made kids more active, analysis shows
… the credit is more likely to be used by higher income Canadians, is more likely to be used by parents of boys and only 15 per cent of survey respondents agreed the credit allowed them to enrol their children in programs they would not have otherwise been able to access. “It remains unclear whether the availability of the CFTC actually does increase participation in physical activity”… tax credits tend to reward behaviour that is already taking place.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax, youth
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Good parenting key to breaking cycle of poverty
For some, simply meeting kids’ basic needs – food, clothing, shelter – can be overwhelming, leaving little time and energy to meet their often obscure intellectual and emotional needs. Yet these requirements, invisible or not, are vital to children’s long-term development, and not meeting them causes untold damage. In this sense, the greatest challenge children face isn’t financial poverty, but relational poverty… a lack of the interaction, affection and play that provide vital stimulation to infants’ rapidly developing brains.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, poverty, youth
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Ottawa set to enforce standards for schools on reserves
The Conservative government is proposing an overhaul of education on First Nations reserves to bring schools up to provincial standards, with Ottawa temporarily taking over schools that fall short… Under the new act, the councils will continue to be responsible for schools on their reserves. They can maintain the status quo if they wish, but the act empowers them to contract the job out to a provincial school board or to a private company if they prefer.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Newly released case files reveal details of Huronia Regional Centre children
The two children arrived in the institution a month apart. They died a month and one day apart. Each of their stories, as documented in letters, medical notes and admissions records… provide a window into how Ontario treated people with developmental disabilities for more than 100 years… a $35-million settlement… promise[s] to disclose 65,000 documents such as police reports, witness testimony and internal incident reports.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
Posted in Inclusion History | 2 Comments »
Report calls for cap on temporary foreign workers
A new report is calling for a cap on the number of temporary foreign workers admitted to Canada on an annual basis, pending wholesale changes to the beleaguered program that currently risks taking jobs away from young Canadians entering the labour market and lower-skilled Canadian workers… “One could imagine a fee structure where the fee rises with the number of temporary foreign workers hired in a given year and with the number of years for which an employer hires temporary foreign workers”
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, standard of living, youth
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Canadians have most degrees, highest tuition fees: reports
“While Canada continues to do well in terms of the number of students who go on to university and college, there are some real questions about the long-term sustainability of students and families being asked to pay what, according to the OECD, are some of the highest tuition fees in the world.”
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Who are really the ‘entitled’ ones here?
In today’s job market internships are a means of squeezing free labour out of qualified workers whose only other option is making $8 an hour serving $4 coffees at Starbucks… interns are expendable, thanks to a dire economy for which today’s youth are blameless… Is it any wonder that young people are cynical about their place in the social contract? … some CEO’s are being paid 200 times the salaries of their lowliest employees. How does that look to the unpaid intern?
Tags: economy, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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We are failing young Canadians on mental health
There are up to 795,000 children and youth (up to the age of 24) in Ontario who have at least one mental health issue, the most common of which are anxiety disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity, conduct disorder, depression and substance abuse… only one in four of these children receives the mental health help they need.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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