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To stop youth violence in Toronto, we must solve its root causes
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
25 July 2012
Alarming gaps exist between neighbourhoods that are doing well and those that are falling behind. These are serious challenges that put our entire city at risk… First, we need to build youth leadership at a community level… Second, we need to improve access to supports that provide young people with positive options… Third, we need to increase youth employment… Finally, we must restore mixed-income neighbourhoods… This poverty isn’t just concerning because of where it’s located, but also because racialized communities are disproportionately affected.
Tags: crime prevention, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The best countries for kids: Can you guess where Canada ranks?
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
25 July 2012
Japan… is the best place in the world to be a kid. In second place is Spain, followed by Germany, Italy and France. Canada comes in at No. 6, ahead of Switzerland, Norway, U.K. and the Netherlands… the study ranks how child-friendly a country is based on three factors: health, education and nutrition. It measures the number of children who are in school, the chances of a child dying before the age of five and the number of underweight children…
Tags: child care, standard of living, youth
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Employers discriminate against older adults, Canadians tell pollster
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
22 July 2012
Nearly three-quarters of Canadians believe workplaces are shunning older job applicants based solely on their age, a worrisome finding given labour force trends in Canada… Only nine per cent said they would hire someone aged 18 to 24, or aged 55 to 64. And only three per cent said they would hire someone over the age of 65… some experience is great, but it really doesn’t matter if you’ve had 10 years or 30 years of experience — once you’ve got a good amount, you don’t need tonnes of it” to be among the favoured age group for hiring…
Tags: economy, participation, youth
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A university degree’s value is incontestable
Saturday, July 21st, 2012
Jul. 20 2012
In 2009… those with a bachelor’s degree had an unemployment rate of 5.2 per cent, about 2.5 points below the national rate. Those with graduate degrees were doing even better, at 4.6 per cent. By comparison, those with only a high-school degree had a jobless rate of 9.1 per cent, and those with only “some” high school faced an unemployment rate of 15.9 per cent… The income gap between those with university credentials and those without starts slowly in the first few years after graduation, but after a decade, the gap is wide and stays there.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Toronto’s priority neighbourhood programs mustn’t be abandoned
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
July 16, 2012
An $85 million pool of one-time cash is set to evaporate over the coming year and there’s no new sources of money in sight… projects include after-school tutoring, leadership skills development, an urban farm project, and a host of other “youth focused” initiatives… Council did approve one positive change. A website called Wellbeing Toronto will track a wealth of data on each neighbourhood. It will measure indicators on crime, economic progress, education levels, the environment, and health status, among other criteria.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The long climb from inequality
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Jul. 14 2012
The real issue is equality of opportunity – the ability of people in the lower class to move up the ladder. Equality of opportunity is what we care about the most. We want to believe that we live in a meritocratic society where everyone has an equal chance to succeed. But that is less and less the case. And the remedies are not at all obvious… It’s not that lower-class parents are paying less attention to their kids than they used to. The gap arises because educated parents are investing far more time, effort and money in their kids than ever before… Racial disparities are narrowing, but class disparities are widening dramatically.
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Copyright law a win for consumer, educators, and telecoms as court reins in multiple fees
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
July 12, 2012
Consumers and educators emerged victorious in several significant Supreme Court of Canada rulings that effectively modernize Canadian copyright law. Thursday, the court released its judgments in five different cases that touched on tariffs set by the Copyright Board governing music downloading, photocopying textbooks, videogames and movie and TV soundtracks… while it’s unfair for a teacher to photocopy an entire textbook to avoid buying it, the average teacher copies fewer than 10 pages per student per year, Andrew says. Countries like the United States, Germany and Japan already have similar guidelines in place
Tags: budget, rights, youth
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The government should be the first to fight youth unemployment
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Jul 11, 2012
Beyond the financial issues youth incur due to unemployment, being out of work for a year or more can have a “scarring effect”… In an increasingly competitive business world, Canadian youth continue to struggle to penetrate a shrinking job market, and those struggles risk having negative impacts on long-term earnings and career paths if long-term unemployment solutions are not put into action… any policies aimed at the employment and education needs of today’s youth will reap them tenfold the benefits in the future.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Ottawa’s cuts to young offender programs are short-sighted and costly
Sunday, July 8th, 2012
July 06, 2012
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has slashed funding for programs that help keep young offenders out of jail and able to make something of their lives… This $36-million cut was not highlighted in the recent federal budget. It was not discussed with the agencies that provide these important services to troubled youth. Provincial ministers, who are the federal government’s partners in keeping Canada safe, were not consulted. The cut was made public last week in an announcement masquerading as good news.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, youth
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The true north LGBT: New poll reveals landscape of gay Canada
Sunday, July 8th, 2012
Jul 6, 2012
The Forum Research poll, commissioned by the National Post… found that 5% of Canadians identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. And contrary to the popular wisdom that the same-sex marriage rate is surprisingly low, the poll found that a third of LGBT people say they are in a same-sex marriage… Forum’s 5% figure jibes with the latest number out of the United States, where a University of California Los Angeles think-tank last year found 4% of Americans are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
Tags: participation, rights, youth
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