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Ontario’s help for Crown wards is a good first step
… a free post-secondary education for all Crown wards has the potential to make a world of difference… The system discharges kids from their foster families when they turn 18, and cuts off a small amount of financial support at the age of 21. Most kids in their late teens and early 20s still need the warm support of their families… However well-received the education funding may be, many other Crown wards desperately need the support of, for example, that $500 a month just to get by in life. They must also be considered.
Tags: budget, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Ontario’s university funding falls further behind
By 2011-12, Ontario universities received 35 per cent less operating funding from the provincial government than the average in the rest of Canada… In 2000-01, the gap was “only” 20 per cent. It has now increased to 38 per cent… Much of the funding shortfall has been made up with skyrocketing tuition fees… the contribution from student tuition and fees – high as they are – still leaves a significant gap… in 2011-12 it was 16 per cent.
Tags: budget, participation, standard of living, tax, youth
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Indigenous poverty: the cost of doing not enough
… poverty impairs educational attainment and health, and in turn, the capacity of poor indigenous children to become economically productive adults… child poverty generates social costs throughout the life cycle… particularly in health-care service… criminal justice, and child welfare… high levels of poverty and related economic inequality lead to social conflict as the aspirations of poor indigenous children who have grown into poor adults are thwarted.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, Health, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Indigenous children face deplorable poverty
… 40% of Indigenous children in Canada are living in poverty… Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children—and that they trail the rest of Canada’s children on practically every measure of well-being, including: family income, educational attainment, water quality, infant mortality, health, suicide, crowding and homelessness… Our map below traces child poverty rates across Canada
Tags: Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Don’t ignore the real issue on prostitution
Swedish legislators started from the premise that prostitution is only and ever a form of sexual violence and exploitation of vulnerable women, men and children. Rather than try to manage or control prostitution, they determined to abolish it, establishing legal and social measures that take aim at the roots of sexual exploitation… Targeting the demand has been demonstrated to be the most effective means of reducing rates of prostitution and sex trafficking.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, rights, women, youth
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The spirit of collaboration is touching all of our lives
… today’s young students have grown up immersed in interactive media and communicating… they learn better through collaboration than being passive recipients… learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy… You will need to participate in change in your workplace, community, country and in causes you join and as a global citizen.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living, youth
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Ontario schools need accountability, not seniority
A 2012 survey… found that 37 per cent of new teachers were completely unemployed, not able to find even a single day of supply teaching work. And only 14 per cent were able to secure a regular full-time teaching job… while seniority-based policies make unions happy, they are not in the best interests of students. Telling principals they can only hire teachers with the most seniority discriminates against younger teachers… It also undermines efforts to ensure we have the best teachers possible.
Tags: budget, rights, standard of living, youth
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Fire Jason Kenney and freeze immigration
About 1.3 million Canadians don’t have jobs. Another million are underemployed or have given up looking for work. The unemployment rate for the young is twice the national average, though they are the most educated in our history. Yet Kenney has kept bringing 250,000 and more immigrants every year. Many of them can’t find jobs, either. Their unemployment rate is twice the national rate. Of those who do have jobs, three in four are not working in their fields — not using the education and skills for which they were selected as immigrants.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living, youth
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Decoding Canada’s ‘skills crisis’: What’s the solution?
… one of the biggest challenges is developing programs and policies that ensure people get the right education and training. Much of the focus has been on the public education system. But private training is becoming critical as a rapidly changing economy means education doesn’t end with graduation… Canadian business spending on training has been in decline, slipping another 13 per cent between 2008 and 2010 to an average of $688 per employee
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, youth
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