Posts Tagged ‘youth’
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Fraser Mustard’s vision for kids lives on
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
October 02, 2012
It frustrated Mustard that policy-makers let these kids fail. It infuriated him that they refused to acknowledge the costs to society: needlessly high social assistance expenditures, mental-health problems, unemployment, crime, incarceration and chronic illness. But he kept pushing for change
Tags: child care, economy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Don’t fear the education revolution
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
September 21, 2012
A return to three-year undergrads would move students more quickly to two-year masters and three-year PhD programs, or the workforce. It would free up teachers and class and lab space. It would reduce students’ tuition expenses… Online study doesn’t have to mean home study… The latter would be more enriched than before, since the fundamentals would have been imparted online.
Tags: budget, tax, youth
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Re: Don’t fear the education revolution, Sept. 23
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
September 29, 2012
… it was disappointing to see David Olive using the language of the Harris government by calling faculty and administrators self-interested. Are educators more self-interested than bankers, investors, and business owners who neither wish to support publicly funded education nor pay for training themselves?… David Olive’s column is riddled with questionable assumptions, misleading facts and logical mistakes.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Young Canadians facing deep declines in standard of living
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
Sep 28 2012
While policies that can create minimum wages and some social housing are important, they do little to help the typical 38-year-old today who has debt that is more than 100 per cent of household income because of housing and tuition costs. A generation ago, the norm was around 40 per cent. So we must look to other policy mechanisms that will reduce time and income pressures as younger Canadians start jobs, careers and homes.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, housing, pensions, poverty, standard of living, youth
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ADHD drugs suspected of hurting Canadian kids
Friday, September 28th, 2012
September 26, 2012
… doctors, nurses, pharmacists and parents are reporting that they believe attention deficit drugs are causing major health problems in patients, many as young as 6 and 7 years old… Health Canada, which collects these adverse reaction reports, does not alert the public to the magnitude of these side effects… It has allowed the industry to largely police itself.
Tags: Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, rights, youth
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Character of country has changed
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
September 21, 2012
… In 2011, building on a trend established in 2006, only 39.2 per cent of Canadian census families… had children. A significantly larger number – 44.5 per cent – had no children. And the proportion of those without children is rising. “Traditional” nuclear families – married couples with children – now make up barely more than a third of families, 31.9 per cent. That’s well down from 37.4 per cent in the 2001 census.
Tags: ideology, standard of living, women, youth
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Technology and the shrinking middle class
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
Sep. 20 2012
The revolution Mr. Milner describes is part of a sea change in how the economies of Western industrialized nations work – and one that is hollowing out the middle class.
Mr. Milner’s focus is on what he calls the three big “stories” in business innovation: “platform,” “free” and “e-commerce.”… the biggest impact of the e-commerce revolution… won’t be on the number of jobs in the economy; it will be on how well they pay.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Forget Occupy, the real divide is generational
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
Sep. 21 2012
Those under 45 are squeezed – squeezed for time at home, and squeezed for money because they’re burdened with higher student debt and paying higher housing prices with lower wages. And when they choose to have kids, they are squeezed for child-care services, which often cost the equivalent of another mortgage… Championing social policy for generations facing tough times is a big part of Canada’s legacy.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living, youth
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‘Family values’ versus public education
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
September 17, 2012
We cannot say we want schools to be equitable for some but not others. Public schools are exactly that — public schools. They must be equitable and represent the diversity that exists in our society. Equity must be equally applied to all stakeholders, for all of our neighbours and fellow citizens… No community should expect to impose a burden on public schools that, as a system, we cannot and should not bear.
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights, youth
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Local poverty advocates call for national food strategy for children and youth
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
Sep 10 2012
… food security, stable housing and adequate income are closely aligned when it comes to moving people off social assistance and on to independence… from 1945 to 1960 there was co-operation between federal and provincial governments to create a national housing strategy… and… the national health-care system… the solution starts with a fundamental commitment… “We’re asking government to make that commitment.”
Tags: Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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