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Give native students a real chance
The First Nations Education Act, set to be tabled when Parliament resumes, is a crucial first step toward improving the dismal high school graduation rates among aboriginal Canadians and is long overdue… on-reserve schools should be fairly and reliably funded to bring them on-par with their provincial counterparts… legislation should pave the way for the creation of native-run school boards… [and] the bill should emphasize and support the development of native-based curriculum
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, youth
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Give more Canadian kids better access to mental health care, and save lives
Suicide is the leading cause of nonaccidental death for troubled young Canadians, with some 760 under the age of 24 choosing to take their own lives every year… the cost to Canada of childhood mental health problems and illnesses is staggering, reckoned over a working lifetime. Kirby pegs it at $200 billion… That includes lower educational attainment, lower earnings, time lost at work, and medical costs. That’s a lot of wasted potential and needless suffering.
Tags: budget, disabilities, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Ontario’s professors concerned about new report’s projected rise in tuition and ancillary fees
Most provinces, including Ontario, have introduced complex and unpredictable financial aid measures such as the Ontario Tuition Grant instead of universal measures to address affordability concerns… “even when the Ontario Tuition Grant is taken into account, the Liberal government’s policy of year over year tuition fee increases has eroded the affordability of university education in Ontario.”
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax, youth
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Full-day kindergarten is no magic bullet
Universal early education is widely regarded as a magic bullet that will level the playing field between the haves and have-nots, reduce income inequality, build human capital and ensure that more of our children succeed in the scary new world of the 21st century. Educators, economists and politicians all say so. But what does the evidence say? … a 2010 meta-study by four Duke University authors found that… Kids did better in Grade 1. But their advantage quickly faded.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, youth
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‘Ghetto Schooling’ [Jean Anyon]
“The structural basis for failure in inner-city schools is political, economic and cultural, and must be changed before meaningful school improvement projects can be successfully implemented,” she wrote in a 1995 article in the journal Teachers College Record. “Educational reforms cannot compensate for the ravages of society… To really improve ghetto children’s chances, then… we must ultimately… eliminate poverty… the underlying causes of ghettoization.”
Tags: participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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10 ways to fix Ontario’s youth unemployment crisis
A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that, at 16.4 per cent, Ontario’s youth unemployment rate is among the worst in Canada, worse even than most of the struggling “rust belt” states in the U.S. It’s a complex problem to be sure, but one we are not powerless to address. Here are 10 ways we might begin to ease it.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, youth
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Ottawa’s hollow commitment to the welfare of children
It’s been more than two decades since Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. One of the obligations of that treaty is the establishment of an independent national Commissioner for Children and Young Persons. Yet, Canada has no such commissioner to give voice to the voiceless… Why is there no one playing this role at the federal level? … The youngest members of society remain, in the term used by a Senate committee years ago, The Silenced Citizens.
Tags: child care, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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For Teens Frozen Out of Ontario’s Child Welfare System, a New Bill Offers Hope
Ontario lawmakers are set to vote on a bill that would quash a rule preventing some teens from accessing child welfare support services. Under current Ontario law, if a 16-year-old comes to the attention of welfare services for the first time at that age, he or she is classified as an adult, and can only access adult benefits. Bill 88, the Child and Family Services Amendment Act, seeks to change that.
Tags: homelessness, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Canadians aren’t getting the whole story on the economy
Merely reporting how much debt we are carrying, even relative to disposable income, tells us little… over the last two decades, Canadians’ per capita net worth has more than doubled, after inflation… poverty is declining in Canada, median incomes are rising, while inequality is steady or even falling… youth unemployment… is in fact rather lower than it’s been at most times in the last 40 years
Tags: economy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Cost of university education to rise 13% over next four years: study
“Average tuition and compulsory fees in Canada have tripled since 1990, even after inflation is taken into account… No wonder there is growing public concern over student debt loads, economic and employment uncertainty, and the long-term ramifications being felt by students and their families.” … Ontario is the province with the highest fees and will see its tuition and other fees climb from $8,403 this fall to an estimated $9,517 in 2016-17.
Tags: budget, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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