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Former Conservative MP fined $500; cocaine possession charge dropped." --- A Bronx Cheer for the Conservative Party of Canada: Tough on Crime! (except when it's one of our own, that is.) March 9, 2010 |
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| Canada Ratifies U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - March 11 |
Canada
Ratifies UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
March 11, 2010
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable
Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, today announced
that, with the support of all provinces and territories, the Government of Canada
has ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at United
Nations headquarters in New York City.
(...)
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international
human rights instrument of the United Nations intended to protect the rights
and dignity of persons with disabilities. Parties to the Convention are required
to promote, protect and ensure the full enjoyment of human rights by persons
with disabilities, and to ensure that they enjoy full equality under the law.There
are approximately 4.4 million persons with disabilities in Canada—about
14.3 percent of the population.
Source:
Canada News Centre
Departments responsible:
Foreign Affairs
and International Trade Canada
------- [ * Permanent
Mission of Canada to the United Nations ]
------- [ * Canada's
International Human Rights Policy ]
Human Resources and Skills Development
Canada
------- [ HRSDC
Disability Issues ]
Related link:
Canada Ratifies
Historic U.N. Treaty on Disability Rights
New York and Toronto
March 11, 2010
Today, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Canada ratified the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is a historic and
profound moment in our country’s history. It is Canada’s declaration
to Canadians and the international community that disability is at last to be
recognized as a matter of fundamental human rights – at home in Canada
and internationally. By ratifying this first international treaty that comprehensively
recognizes the rights of persons with disabilities, Canada binds our governments
to its implementation. The Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL)
applauds the Government of Canada for this landmark decision, and indeed all
Provincial/Territorial Governments for their support in taking this step. The
Convention creates a new and lasting foundation on which to build an inclusive
and accessible Canada where rights can no longer be diminished on the basis
of disability. (...)
Source:
Canadian Association for Community
Living (CACL)
CACL is a Canada-wide association of family members and others working to advance
the human rights and inclusion of persons of all ages who have an intellectual
disability. Founded in 1958 by parents of children with intellectual disabilities
who wanted supports and services within the community instead of in institutions,
CACL has become one of Canada's ten largest charitable organizations, and has
grown into a federation of 10 provincial and three territorial associations
comprising of 420 local associations and over 40,000 members.
- Go to the Disability Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/disbkmrk.htm
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans
Affairs) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk2.htm
- Go to the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/hrsdc.htm
- Go to the United Nations Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/un.htm
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| [U.S.] Political Economy: Drawing a New Line - March 6 |
[U.S.] Political
Economy: Drawing a New Line
March 6, 2010
By John Cranford, CQ Columnist
This story highlights the role of Rebecca Blank
(a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Poverty Panel during the
1990s, and now Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, overseeing the
Census Bureau) in developing the new Supplemental Poverty Measure.Rebecca
Blank’s fingerprints are all over this decision. She is one of those single-minded
individuals whose career finally brought her to a place where she could actually
practice what she has been teaching for decades.
Source:
CQ Politics
(U.S. Congressional, presidential and political news)
| The Progressive Economics Forum at the Canadian Economics Association 2010 meetings - May 28-30, Quebec City |
The
Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) at the
Canadian Economics Association 2010 meetings
March 10, 2010
The PEF will once again be hosting panels at this year’s Canadian Economics
Association meetings, May 28-30 in Quebec City. The lineup for the PEF events
includes panel discussions on the following broad topics:
* Was Financialization Rational for Capital?
* Canada’s Economic Security and the Great Recession: What Have We Learned?
* Is There a Market Fundamentalist Message in the Introductory Textbooks?
* Labour in a time of crisis, comparing experiences and prospects in Canada
and the US.
* Perspectives on Happiness in Canada and the United States
* Integrating Climate and Industrial Policies
* Canadian Public Finances and Monetary Policy: Sound Finance or Functional
Finance
Click the link above to see the complete program, including the list of speakers and all sub-topics.
Source:
Progressive Economics
Forum Blog
Related link:
44th Annual Conference
of the CEA
Friday, May 28 - Sunday, May 30, 2010
Quebec City
- Go to the Non-Governmental Organizations Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ngobkmrk.htm
| State of Australian
cities 2010 - March 8 (Infrastructure Australia) |
State of Australian
cities 2010
08 March 2010
This report draws together existing data and information across a range of economic,
social and environmental parameters to provide a national snapshot of the 17
Australian cities with populations over 100,000 at the 2006 Census. It also
highlights emerging trends and issues to promote discussion and debate on managing
growth and change in our urban centres.
Source:
Infrastructure Australia
Complete report:
State of Australian cities (PDF - 9MB, 161 pages)
- Go to the Government Social Research Links in Other Countries page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/internat.htm
| [United Kingdom] The Robin Hood Tax - Tobin Tax Redux? |
The Robin Hood Tax
[ United Kingdom ]
The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax on bankers that would raise billions to tackle
poverty and climate change, at home and abroad. By taking an average of 0.05%
from speculative banking transactions, hundreds of billions of pounds would
be raised every year. That’s easily enough to stop cuts in crucial public
services in the UK, and to help fight global poverty and climate change.
(...)
Who’s in?
Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel (the German Chancellor) and Nicolas Sarkozy (the
French President) have all spoken out in support of a tax on financial transactions.
Plenty of business bigwigs are on-board too. Like Lord Turner (from the Financial
Services Authority), George Soros (the philanthropist) and Warren Buffet (US
businessman extraordinaire). And then there are the hundreds of economists who
have backed the idea, too. This isn’t some crazy pipedream. It’s a
simple and brilliant idea which transcends party politics and which – with
your support – can become a reality.
Isn’t
this the Tobin Tax?
Posted February 11, 2010
The Robin Hood Tax differs fundamentally from James Tobin’s
original concept as its principal motivation is the raising of revenue as opposed
to being a way of regulating speculative financial activity.
James Tobin first proposed his tax in the 1970s as a way of ‘throwing sand in the wheels’ of currency markets rather than harnessing their extraordinary volumes as a means of generating income. More recently the idea of a wider Financial Transactions Tax covering the full range of products traded in the financial markets, has gained ground. Even levied at a very low rate, a yield of $400 billion a year could be realised.
The media as a means of shorthand refer to the Financial Transaction Tax as the Tobin Tax. In fact, Tobin made his proposal specifically about currency transactions. When he made his proposal 30 years ago, the foreign exchange market had a daily value of $18 billion. The market is now worth more than $3,000 billion per day. Tobin’s proposal was for a 1% levy, 200 times the rate the Robin Hood Tax campaign is proposing for the taxing of foreign exchange. The purpose of his tax was to impede daily currency trading and to discourage speculative activity, not as we propose to be a means of raising new revenue to fight poverty, at home and abroad.
The Robin Hood Tax differs markedly from the Tobin tax in that it is born of a different time, proposed at a different rate and designed for a different purpose.
Related links:
The Tobin Tax - from Wikipedia
For 50+ links to Tobin Tax information, go to the The Tobin Tax Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/tobin.htm
| The OSAP diet and the student
lifestyle - March 8 (Macleans OnCampus) |
The
OSAP diet and the student lifestyle
Just how well should students expect to live while in school?
By Jeff Rybak
March 8, 2010
Okay, I’ll be the one to say it. I have no problem at all with
the “OSAP Diet” as exposed by the Toronto Star. Apparently students
funding their studies entirely on government loans are expected to survive on
$7.50/day for food. And my reaction, mainly, is a big “so what?”
(...)
Source:
Macleans OnCampus
Related link:
$7.50
a day is all you get on the student OSAP diet
By Louise Brown
March 7, 2009
Source:
Toronto Star
NOTE: Don't forget to click the "Comments" link at the top of the
article to access 100+ reactions.
The most pathetic comments are the well-intentioned food shopping suggestions
from frugal shoppers (Tsubouchi
Tuna, anyone?).
The commenter who said "My family of 5 lives on about $4 per day for food"
should be summarily dispatched to the Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB)
to help them re-draft their food cost reports. Case studies in a 2008 OAFB study
(see the link below) show that the cost of healthy food purchased from the grocery
store was almost $40 per week for a single person and, for a family of two adults
and a 7-year-old child, $85 weekly. Maybe the commenter's "family of five"
consisted of one adult and four cats. Curiously, though, the $40/wk. amount
for a healthy diet for a single person would actually leave $12.50 in the OSAP
student's pocket at the end of each week.
Related link:
A
Gathering Storm: The Price of Food, Gasoline, and Energy,
and Changing Economic Conditions in Ontario, 2008 (PDF - 1.2MB,
24 pages)
We can end hunger. Think about it.
Source:
Ontario Association of Food Banks
|
From the latest CERC Bulletin:
(Council for Employment, Income and Social Cohesion (Paris) |
From the Council
for Employment, Income and Social Cohesion - Paris
Conseil de l'emploi, des revenus
et de la cohésion sociale - CERC [version française]
Selected reports from
CERC
Bulletin N°200 (March 8, 2010)
(Click the link to see the complete list of studies
in that issue...)
---
. 17
% of European Union citizens were at-risk-of-poverty in 2008 (PDF
- 8 pages)
By P. Wolff
Eurostat
2010
. Child
poverty and child well-being in Italy (PDF - 16 pages)
By D. Del Boca
Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti
de Martiis"
Torino
2010
. [United States]
Low income and impoverished families pay more disproportionately for child care
(PDF - 4 pages)
By K. Smith and K. Gozjolko
Carsey Institute
University of New Hampshire
Durham
Winter 2010
. [United Kingdom] Protect,
support, provide : Examining the role of grandparents in families at risk of
poverty (PDF - 76 pages)
By J. Griggs,
Equality and Human Rights Commission London, and
Department for Social Policy and Social Work, Oxford
March 2010
. Global
wage inequality and the international flow of migrants (PDF - 32
pages)
By M. R. Rosenzweig,
Yale University
Economic Growth Center
New Haven
January 2010
. [The Netherlands]
Child care subsidies revisited (PDF - 68 pages)
By E. L. W. Jongen,
CPB Netherlands
Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
The Hague
January 2010
. Fiscal
and pension sustainability : Present and future issues in EU countries
(PDF - 7 pages)
By A. Zaidi,
European Centre
Vienna
February 2010
. [United States] Supporting
parents of young children in the child welfare system (PDF - 24
pages)
By K. A. Beckmann and alii,
National Center
for Children in Poverty
New York
February 2010
. The
gender inequalities index (GII) as a new way to measure gender inequalities
in developing countries (PDF - 44 pages)
By G. Ferrant,
Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne
Paris
February 2010
. The gender pay gap in the United Kingdom, 1995 -2007
Part I (PDF - 127 pages)
Part
II (PDF - 57 pages)
By W. Olsen and alii,
Government Equalities Office
London
February 2010
. [United States] The
gender wage gap : 2009 (PDF - 4 pages)
From the Institute for Women's Policy
Research
Washington
March 2010
. [Europe] Report
on equality between women and men : 2010 (PDF - 56 pages)
From the European Commission:
Directorate-General
Employment,
Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
Brussels
2010
. [Europe] Revisiting
poverty measures towards individualisation (PDF - 43 pages)
By D. Meulders and S. O'Dorchai
Dulbea
Bruxelles
February 2010
. [United States] The
unemployment gender gap during the 2007 recession (PDF - 7 pages)
By A. Sahin, J. Song and B. Hobijn
Federal Reserve
Bank of New York
New York
February 2010
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More
studies like this
- this link takes you to the table of contents for Bulletin #200.
- Bulletin #200 contains links to over 30 studies, only 14 of which appear above.
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Information and online resources organized under five themes: Poverty * Social
minima * In-work benefits * Minimum wage * Unemployment and return to work .
- includes links and resources for Canada...
HINT: click on the links in the right-hand margin of each theme page
for more content
CERC Bulletins/Reports/Studies/Working papers
- Click on the links in the left margin of the CERC
website home page for access to a large collection of online resources
- Go to the Government Social Research Links in Other Countries page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/internat.htm
| The Déjà Vu
All Over Again Budget - March 8 (Caledon Institute of Social Policy) |
The
Déjà Vu
All Over Again Budget (PDF - 60K, 13 pages)
by
Ken Battle, Sherri Torjman and
Michael Mendelson
March 8, 2010
The 2010 federal Budget arrived with less drama than usual. Why? Because we
have seen echoes of it before – notably last year in 2009, four years ago
in 2006 and 15 years ago in 1995. The 2010 Budget is effectively the second
year of the stimulus package introduced in 2009. There was a thin sprinkling
of new measures in 2010 related to Employment Insurance, youth, First Nations
education, the Registered Disability Savings Plan, the Enabling Accessibility
Fund and New Horizons for seniors. Aside from that, the Budget was déjà
vu...
Source:
Caledon Institute of Social Policy
NOTE: Scroll down the page you're now reading for links to the 2010 federal budget along with reactions to, and analysis of, that budget.
- Go to the 2010 Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets_2010.htm
| Down but Not Out: Reforming
Social Assistance Rules that Punish the Poor for Saving
- March 2 (John Stapleton for the C.D. Howe Institute) |
Down
but Not Out: Reforming Social Assistance Rules
that Punish the Poor for Saving (PDF - 173K, 6 pages)
By John Stapleton
Toronto, March 2 – Reform is required for social program rules that prevent
the poor from saving in Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax
Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs), according to a study released today by the C.D.
Howe Institute. In “Down but Not Out: Reforming Social Assistance Rules
that Punish the Poor for Saving,” author John Stapleton says that encouraging
asset accumulation, even in small amounts, is crucial in helping to lift people
out of poverty. Yet most Canadian welfare, disability and social service programs
deny or cancel benefits if applicants or recipients place a modest level of
savings in an RRSP or TFSA. Barring a province-led effort at reform, says Stapleton,
the federal government should take the lead by calling on provinces and territories
to exempt meaningful RRSP and TFSA amounts from their welfare asset rules, leaving
individual jurisdictions to decide the appropriate levels
NOTE: this paper includes a table entitled
"Treatment of Registered Instruments in Provincial Social Assistance Programs
in Canada, 2010"
Recommended reading!!
March 2010
For each Canadian province, you'll find information about how the welfare system
treats income from Registered Instruments (including Registered Retirement Savings
Plans, Registered Education Savings Plans, Registered Disability Savings Plans
and Tax Free Savings Accounts). The table also includes current liquid asset
exemption levels for selected family types and sizes in each jurisdiction.
Source:
C.D. Howe Institute
Related link:
Open Policy
John Stapleton's personal website.
John is a Policy Fellow with the Metcalf Foundation and St.
Christopher House in Toronto.
- Go to the Asset-Based Social Policies Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/assets.htm
| International Women's Day - March 8 |
From Status of Women Canada:
International
Women's Day :
Strong Women. Strong Canada. Strong World.
March 8, 2010
- incl. links to:
* Theme * Fact Sheet * Products Available * To Order a Poster * Previous Themes
In 1977, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on member states to proclaim a day for women's rights and international peace. Following the United Nations' lead, Canada chose March 8 as International Women's Day (IWD).
Each year at this time, Canadians celebrate progress toward equality for women and their full participation, reflect on the challenges and barriers that remain, and consider future steps to achieving equality for all women, in all aspects of their lives.
Over time, International Women's Day has grown into a week-long series of commemorative events and activities across the country. International Women's Week 2010 begins on Sunday, March 7 and wraps up on Saturday, March 13.
We encourage all Canadians - women and men, girls and boys - to promote International Women's Day / International Women's Week. Better yet, why not organize your own IWD/IWW event in your community, organization, workplace or school?
Source:
Status of Women Canada
(SWC)
_______________________________________
NOTE to SWC about that IWD theme:
Your 2010 IWD theme is "Strong
Women. Strong Canada. Strong World"
Your 2009 IWD theme was "Strong Leadership. Strong Women. Strong
World: Equality."
Your 2008 IWD theme was "Strong Women, Strong World"
Looks like SWC can only afford a light edit to its annual inspiring
theme.
What's your theme gonna be next year - "Strong. Strong. Strong."??
Whatever your choice, SWC, it should be a catchier theme, because the 2008,
2009 and 2010 versions still can't make women's groups forget the deep
and cruel cuts in funding for federal women's programs and groups under Stephen
Harper since the fall of 2006.
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International
Women’s Day in Canada: Progress for all?
AS I SEE IT by Carol Metz Murray
March 5, 2010
“Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all.”
For the government of Canada, this year’s theme will have an unpleasant
sting. Our federal government has received a humiliating reprimand by several
UN human rights bodies for its handling of the issues of women’s poverty
and endemic violence against Aboriginal women and girls. In his official 2006
report, National Council of Welfare chairperson John Murphy called Canada’s
welfare rates for women “shameful and morally unsustainable in a rich country.”
Between 2004 and 2009, Canada managed the formidable task of slipping from seventh
to 25th place on the World Economic Forum Gender Gap Index, and was ranked a
shameful 73rd in the 2009 UN Gender Disparity Index.
[Author Carol Metz Murray is Executive director of the
Tri-City Women's Resource Society in Port Coquitlam, BC.]
Source:
Tri-City
News
_______________________________________
International
Women's Day (8 March 2010) is a global day celebrating the economic,
political and social achievements of women past, present and future. The International
Women's Day website provides a free service to women around the world wanting
to share and promote their IWD activity, videos, opinions and ideas. Please
feel free to submit gender-related items for the site that you consider relevant
and useful.
- incl. links to :
* Home * About * 2010 Theme * Events * Pictures / Videos * Jobs * Business &
Finance * Science & Technology * Justice * Health * Other
This service is provided by Aurora,
a company that connects business and professional women
and actively supports the promotion of employer brands and career opportunities
in progressive organisations.
_______________________________________
International
Women's Day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
_______________________________________
- Go to the Canadian Government Sites about Women's Social
Issues page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/women.htm
| Canada Budget 2010 - Leading
the Way on Jobs and Growth -
March 4 (Government of Canada) |
From the federal Department of Finance:
Budget
2010 - Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth
Government of Canada
March 4, 2010
- main budget page, includes links to all budget documents appearing below and
more...
Selected Budget documents:
* The
Budget Plan
* Speech
* Budget
in Brief
* Budget Process
* FAQ
Budget
2010: Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth
News Release
March 4, 2010
Ottawa - The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today tabled a budget
plan that builds on Canada’s economic recovery with action to create jobs
and growth, sustains our nation’s economic advantages and includes a disciplined
plan to return to balanced budgets. “We present today a jobs and growth
budget,” said Minister Flaherty. “In this budget, we are completing
our Economic Action Plan to create jobs now. We are taking additional measures
to protect existing jobs and create new jobs. We are also looking ahead to secure
our long-term economic growth.”
Source:
Department of Finance Canada
_____________________________
Related links:
CBC
Federal Budget 2010 Coverage
March 4, 2010
- links to dozens of stories and features, including:
* Highlights * The deficit * Personal finance * Science and technology * Telecom
* The Cylon Budget * Sports funding * The public service *
Flaherty's frequent words * What they said * Economic snapshots * Spending
cuts coming * much more...
---
CTV Federal Budget
2010 Coverage
March 4, 2010
- incl. links to the following articles and features:
* Budget fights deficit with freeze on future spending
* Tory deficit-slashing plan needs a lot of luck
* Opposition rejects budget, but no election talk
* Feds to reduce growth in defence spending
* Cheaper loonie production to save millions
* Environment, arts get short shrift in new budget
* Budget sets new bank rules for cheques, disputes
* Live Blog: Federal Budget 2010
* much more...
---
What
Quebecers are saying
By Philip Authier
The Gazette
March 5, 2010
The prime minister warned Canadians belt-tightening times
lay ahead and yesterday's budget delivered. Those who
were looking for budget goodies were disappointed, but those arguing in favour
of a prudent transition-style budget designed to get the country out of deficit
were happier because Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's budget spells out $17.6
billion in spending cuts over the next five years.
Source:
Montreal Gazette
---
Budget
2010: Overview and summary
March 4, 2010
The Harper government’s 2010 Budget demonstrates a government that is devoid
of new ideas. It is difficult to believe that they prorogued Parliament and
then introduced a new budget with so little new and positive to show. This budget
includes two major measures: another tax cut for business and ongoing cuts to
federal public services. Tariffs will be eliminated on all manufacturing inputs
at a cost estimated at $1.3 billion over five years. This is on top of further
corporate tax cuts, previously announced, that will cost more than $20 billion
over the next five years.
Source:
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is Canada’s largest union.
With around 600 000 members across Canada, CUPE represents workers in health
care, education, municipalities, libraries, universities, social services, public
utilities, transportation, emergency services and airlines.
Also from CUPE - budget factsheets:
(1-2 pages each, all dated March 5):
* Budget
2010: Health Care
* Budget 2010: Women
* Budget
2010: Climate change and the Environment
* Budget
2010: Early Learning and Child Care
* Budget
2010: Non-Profit Community Social Services
* Budget
2010: Aboriginal Peoples
* Budget 2010: Water
* Budget 2010: Pensions
* Budget 2010:
Privatization
* Budget
2010: Post Secondary Education
* Budget
2010: Employment Insurance
* Budget
2010: Municipal Infrastructure
---
From the Mowat Centre
for Policy Innovation
(School of Public Policy and Governance,
University of Toronto):
Federal
Budget 2010 (PDF - 173K, 2 pages)
This is a status quo budget. While there are no unpleasant surprises for Ontario
or provincial governments generally, long-standing structural shortcomings in
programs such as Employment Insurance (EI) continue to fester.
- Go to the 2010 Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets_2010.htm
| Speech from the Throne- March 3 (Government of Canada) |
Speech from the Throne
3 March 2010
Ottawa, Ontario
HTML version
- includes links to two previous Speeches from the Throne and FAQs
PDF version
(1.7MB, 26 pages)
Source:
Government of Canada
- Go to the General Federal Government Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fed2.htm
| What is wrong with the Olympics? (The Olympic Resistance Network) |
What
is wrong with the Olympics?
The Olympics are not about the human spirit and have little to do with
athletic excellence. They are a multi-billion dollar industry backed by real
estate, construction, hotel, tourism and media corporations, and powerful elites
working hand in hand with government officials and the International Olympic
Committee (IOC).
So what's wrong?
(Click the above link to read the details for each item below)
* Occupation of Stolen Native Land
* “Security” and Eroding Civil Liberties
* Environmental Destruction and Waste
* Corporatization
* Damage to Communities
* Honouring Exploitation
* Lack of Affordable Housing
* Public Costs and Debt
Source:
The Olympic Resistance Network
---
Olympic
Tent Village:
Behind the Scenes of the
2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics (three-minute video)
Olympic
red tents wrap-up (14-minute Flash podcast)
By Laurel Hogg
March 3, 2010
Olympic Canadian Pavilion wrapped up in red tent protest. We talked to John
Richardson about how the campaign went and what is next for Pivot and the National
Housing Strategy protest.
---
February 28, 2010
Chronicles of the Olympic
Tent Village
Source:
Vancouver Media Co-op
- Go to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Poverty Olympics 2010 Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bc_olympics.htm
| British Columbia Budget 2010 - March 2 |
British
Columbia Budget 2010
March 2, 2010
- main budget page, includes all budget papers below and more
Budget
2010 – Building a Prosperous British Columbia (PDF - 215K,
2 pages)
News Release
VICTORIA — Setting the foundation for decades of renewed economic growth,
protecting vital services, adding to British Columbia’s competitiveness
and building on the tremendous momentum of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter
Games are core elements of the 2010 provincial budget tabled in the B.C. Legislature
today by Finance Minister Colin Hansen.
Budget Backgrounders:
additional budget details to accompany the news release
• New
Support for Communities, Families, and Youth (PDF - 112K, 2 pages)
--- Full-day kindergarten for every five-year-old in the province by September
2011
--- Extra $26 million in funding over three years to support child care programs
for low- and moderate-income families
--- New Property Tax Deferral Program for Families with Children
• A Renewed Emphasis on Sports and the Arts (PDF - 120K, 3 pages)
• Fiscal Plan 2010/11 – 2012/13 (PDF - 122K, 4 pages)
Ministry
Service Plans
- provides an overview of every ministry and associated entity, including how
they intend to achieve their service goals and how they support the direction
laid out in the Government Strategic Plan.
[ Ministry
of Housing and Social Development Service Plan (PDF - 697K, 24 pages)]
<=== responsible for welfare/employment/housing
[ Ministry
of Children and Family Development (PDF - 370K, 21 pages)]
[ Ministry
of Citizens' Services (PDF - 737K, 23 pages)] - sounds Orwellian,
like the Ministry of Truth...
Budget
2010 Consultations
- links to two reports from the Nov/Dec 2009 provincial government's budget
consultations
___________________
Related links:
Budget Analysis
from TheTyee.ca:
* In
Tight Times, Campbell Gov't Chooses to Help Big Banks
Inept budgeters axed $100 million yearly tax revenue from fat financial institutions.
And it gets worse.
By Will McMartin
March 3, 2010
* 'Hangover
Budget' Pleases Few : Housing
spending up,
but Libs draw fire from health, education, environment sectors.
By Andrew MacLeod
March 3, 2010
Finance Minister Colin Hansen today presented a budget that shrinks the civil
service and makes cuts across several ministries while keeping spending for
health and education steady.
* Hansen skips budget shoes, donates dollars to wheelchair sports
* BC budget includes record $2.8 billion deficit, cuts, optimism
* BC
Deficit Budget Cuts Spending, Offers Little Stimulus
Health and education safe but other ministries trimmed, including
environment, housing, aboriginal affairs.
Source:
TheTyee.ca
--------------
BC
Budget 2010 strong on sentiment, weak on vision
March 2, 2010
Iglika Ivanova and Marc Lee spent the day in Victoria at the budget lock-up,
and have just posted their initial analysis of today's budget on Policy Note.
They write: "For a document titled Building a Prosperous British Columbia,
the 2010 BC Budget is underwhelming in its ambition. Budget 2010 shows a government
talking a lot about the legacy of the Olympics but lacking any coherent vision
of how to translate upbeat sentiments into real improvements in British Columbians’
standard of living."
Source:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan
research institute concerned with issues of social, economic environmental justice.
Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices
in public policy debates.
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March 2, 2010
Budget
2010
Premier Campbell and his government took a major dive in public opinion polls
when British Columbians learned in July about the HST, not mentioned during
the election, and about the true size of the deficit, misrepresented during
the election. Is there any reason to think the Campbell government is more credible
now than it was during last year's election? Evidence from the March 2nd budget
suggests they've learned nothing.
Source:
Strategic Thoughts
- website of David Schreck
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B.C.
Liberals keep tight lid on spending,
slash several ministries in $40.6-billion budget
The forecast deficit this year is $1.7 billion deficit this year with the government
aiming to return to balanced books by 2013/14.
Source:
Victoria Times Colonist
[NOTE: click the home page link for over a dozen more budget-related links!]
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B.C.
Finance Minister promises turnaround
March 2, 2010
B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen says his government wants to capitalize on
the momentum of the 2010 Winter Olympics to pull B.C. out of the global economic
downturn. Hansen laid out his economic blueprint for the province in the legislature
in Victoria on Tuesday afternoon, highlighting his plans to increase B.C.’s
business competitiveness, maintain social services, bring down the deficit and
balance the budget by the 2013-14 fiscal year
Source:
CBC British Columbia
Also from CBC-BC:
Critics
blast B.C. health, education funding
March 2, 2010
- Go to the BC Government Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bcbkmrk.htm
- Go to the 2010 Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets_2010.htm
|
A Closer Look at Low Wages in BC
- February 24 |
A
Closer Look at Low Wages in BC (PDF - 269K,
9 pages)
February 2010
By Steve Kerstetter for the
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives
Workers in British Columbia earned an average of $21.46 an hour in 2008, according
to the latest annual wage data published by Statistics Canada. This was good
news for workers at the average wage or better, and well above the minimum wage
of $8. The average wage has gone up 25 per cent over the past decade (pre-inflation
adjustment). However, a closer look at the situation of workers in BC reveals
some troubling facts about wages and hours of work, and the workers who are
most likely to have low wages and/or insufficient hours. Hundreds of thousands
of workers are still at wage levels that either trap them in poverty or put
them at high risk of falling into poverty.
Source:
Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives [CCPA] - British Columbia Office
[ Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives - National Office ]
- Go to the Non-Governmental Sites in British Columbia (A-C) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bcbkmrk2.htm
| Northwest Territories Budget 2010 - January 28 |
Budget
2010 - Northwest Territories
January 28, 2010
- incl. links to budget papers and to earlier budgets
- Go to the Northwest Territories Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ntbkmrk.htm
- Go to the 2010 Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets_2010.htm
| Alternative Federal Budget
2010 - March 1 (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) |
From the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
Alternative Federal Budget 2010 - main page
Federal
budget task: Fix Canada's job crisis
News Release
OTTAWA, March 1, 2010
Canada faces its worst job crisis in a generation and the federal government
needs to step forward with a solution in this week's budget, says the Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).Along with the release of its annual Alternative
Federal Budget, the CCPA proposes a six-point job plan to get Canada working
again.
The report:
Alternative
Federal Budget 2010:
Getting the Job Done Right (PDF 2.9MB, 162 pages)
March 1, 2010
Related materials:
* Alternative
Federal Budget 2010: Budget in Brief (PDF
- 210K)
* Getting
Canada Working Again: A Six Point Jobs Plan (PDF - 126K)
Source:
Alternative
Federal Budget 2010
[ Alternative
Federal Budget Updates ] <=== dozens of links to related reports, studies,
fact sheets, etc.
[ Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan
research institute concerned with issues of social, economic environmental justice.
Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices
in public policy debates. ]
Also from CCPA:
Alternative
Federal Budget Roundtable:
Recession, Recovery and Transformation
On November 18th, 2009, in Ottawa, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
(CCPA) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) held an event entitled "Recession,
Recovery and Transformation: Meeting the policy challenges of our time."
The event was filmed by CPAC (Canadian Parliamentary Affairs Channel), and it
is split into three videos (in English and in French). Session titles and speakers/presenters/moderators
appear below.
Session 1: From the Front lines of the Recession
- Andrew Jackson, Director of Economic and Social Policy with the Canadian
Labour Congress
- Bruce Campbell, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- CCPA Inequality Project Director Trish Hennesy (moderator)
- Presenters:
* Teresa Healy, Senior Researcher, Canadian Labour Congress.
* Blair Redlin, Researcher, CUPE National
* Susanne Doerge, Coordinator, City for All Women Initiative
* John Andras, Chair, Recession Relief Coalition
Session2: What kind of recovery?
* Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers
* Larry Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute
* Katherine Scott, Canadian Council on Social Development
Session 3: Policies for a sustainable and transformative
recovery
* Sheila Block, Research Director, Ontario Federation of Labour
* Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
* Marc Lee, Senior Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatvices BC
Related links:
Keep
stimulus money flowing: research group:
'The human recession continues'
March 1, 2010
The federal government should not turn off the taps on stimulus spending when
it releases its budget later this week, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
said Monday. In its annual alternative budget, the independent research group
said the country needs continued economic support.
NOTE: the comments section is often more
enlightening reading than the article itself.
This article has over 200 comments, e.g.:
"$$$$$$$The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives....what the hell is
that?! Who runs it, who controls it and last but not least, why do we need it?
There seems to be a myriad of such vaguely named organizations..."
Source:
CBC
- Go to the 2010 Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets_2010.htm
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What's New in The Daily [Statistics
Canada]: |
Selected content from
The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
March 3, 2010
Employment,
Earnings and Hours, December 2009
1. Highlights 2. Note to users 3. Tables 4. Data quality, concepts and methodology
5. User information 6. Related products 7. PDF
version (2.4MB, 385 pages)
Highlights:
Non-farm payroll employment increased by 22,000 in December compared with the
previous month. This represented the fourth consecutive month of modest gains.
Payroll employment has been on an upward trend since August 2009, in contrast
to the previous 10 months when it had declined sharply. Despite recent gains,
payroll employment remained down 380,000 from the peak in October 2008.
[ earlier
editions of this report ]
Related subjects:
* Labour
* Employment
and unemployment
*
Hours of work and work arrangements
* Industries
* Wages,
salaries and other earnings
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March 1, 2010
Canadian economic accounts, fourth quarter 2009 and December 2009
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 1.2% in the fourth quarter,
the largest quarterly increase since the third quarter of 2000. Final domestic
demand advanced 1.1% as consumer spending continued to grow. Real GDP increased
0.6% in December, a fourth consecutive monthly advance. Additional data tables
are available in the Canadian
Economic Accounts Quarterly Review.
Related subjects
* Economic
accounts
* Financial
and wealth accounts
* Gross
domestic product
* Income
and expenditure accounts
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The
Daily Archives
- select a month and click on a date for that day's Daily
Source:
The Daily
[Statistics Canada]
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk2.htm
|
What's new from the
Childcare Resource and Research Unit (Toronto) -March 7
|
What's new from the
Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU):
March 7, 2010
What's new online
This section archives documents that have been featured on the CRRU
homepage. Items are in chronological order by posting date from the most
recent to the least recent. Follow the title link for details.
Women
and children still last: No thank you, Mr. Flaherty!
5 Mar 10
- Press release from Campaign 2000 responds to the federal budget; says "tinkering
with the UCCB... is far from a substitute for a system of accessible high quality
ECEC."
Federal
budget 2010
5 Mar 10
- Government of Canada announces change in taxation rules of UCCB for single
parent families.
Speech
from the Throne
3 Mar 10
- Federal government says they will make changes to the Universal Child Care
Benefit (UCCB) for single-parent families.
Alternative
federal budget 2010: Getting the job done right
3 Mar 10
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives calls for Canada to implement a national
child care strategy that includes public funding, public planning and public
reporting.
Canada
and the Beijing +15 review
3 Mar 10
- The UN Commission on the Status of Women is reviewing implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. CRRU has collected Canada's reports,
civil society response and media articles.
Pre-budget
updates on child care in Ontario
3 Mar 10
- Leading up to the Ontario provincial budget, CRRU is collecting news stories
and reports on current issues in child care in Ontario.
child care in the news
· Feds
must 'step up' to fund child care in Ontario
[CA-ON] 3 Mar 10
· Don't
cut daycare subsidy, city told
[CA-ON] 3 Mar 10
· Full
text of BC Finance Minister Colin Hansen's budget speech
[CA-BC] 2 Mar 10
· Grandparents
risk hardship by taking on childcare
[UK] 2 Mar 10
· Politicians
drop the daycare ball
[CA-ON] 1 Mar 10
· Feds
told to raise taxes, cancel cuts
[CA] 1 Mar 10
· Proposed
daycare hike 'infuriating' for parents
[CA-ON] 27 Feb 10
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policy in Canada and internationally.
- Go to the Non-Governmental Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd2.htm
Poverty Dispatch:
U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs (Institute for Research on Poverty - University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
Poverty Dispatch (U.S.)
- the content of this link changes several times a week
- scan of U.S.
web-based news items dealing with topics such as poverty, welfare reform, child
welfare, education, health, hunger, Medicare and Medicaid, etc.
Latest issues of Poverty Dispatch:
March
5:
General Assistance Medical Care - Minnesota
US Unemployment Rate, February 2010
Unemployment and Jobless Benefits - Michigan
March
4:
State Budget Cuts and Medicaid - Idaho, California
Colorado Benefits Management System and Medicaid
March
3:
Poverty Measurement - New York City
State Cuts to Programs for the Poor - Minnesota
High School Dropout Rate - Massachusetts
Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program
March
2:
Poverty Measurement in the US
Extension of Jobless Benefits
Urban-Rural Income Gap - China
LA Times Series on Grand Junction, CO Healthcare System
March
1:
General Assistance Medical Program - Utah
State Minimum Wage - Maine
Microfinance Institutions
Payday Lending
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- Go to the Links to American Government
Social Research page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us.htm
- Go to the Links to American Non-Governmental Social Research (A-J) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us2.htm
- Go to the Links to American Non-Governmental Social Research (M-Z) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us3.htm
- Go to the Poverty Measures - International Resources page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/poverty2.htm
| United States Census Bureau to develop a Supplemental Poverty Measure - March 2 |
A new poverty measurement tool for the United States:
The Supplemental Poverty Measure
Census
Bureau to Develop Supplemental Poverty Measure
New measurement will complement but not replace existing
statistic
Press Release
March 2, 2010
WASHINGTON—The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau is preparing
to develop a Supplemental Poverty Measure that will use the best new data and
methodologies to obtain an improved understanding of the economic well-being
of American families and of how federal policies affect those living in poverty.
The initiative to create the new statistic is included in the President’s
FY2011 budget proposal.
Source
U.S. Department of Commerce
[The U.S. Census Bureau is a component
of the U.S. Department of Commerce]
---
U.S.
Plans New Measure for Poverty
By Sam Roberts
March 2, 2010
The federal government announced on Tuesday that it would begin producing an
experimental measurement of poverty next year, a step toward the first overhaul
of the formula since it was developed nearly a half-century ago by an obscure
civil servant in the Social Security Administration. While the original definition
— the cash income collected by a family or individual — will remain
the official statistical measure for eligibility and distribution of federal
assistance for the time being, “the new supplemental poverty measure will
provide an alternative lens to understand poverty and measure the effects of
antipoverty policies,” said Rebecca Blank, the under secretary of commerce
for economic affairs
Source:
New York Times
---
New
formula to give fresh look at U.S. poverty
By Amy Goldstein
March 3, 2010
The Obama administration Tuesday embraced an alternative way of defining what
it means to be poor, stepping gingerly into a long-running debate over whether
to revise the method that has been used to measure poverty for decades. Under
a "Supplemental Poverty Measure" announced by the Commerce Department,
the government is augmenting, but not replacing, the formula that determines
how many people are considered to be in poverty, taking into account a wider
range of expenses and income to try to create a truer portrait of which Americans
are financially fragile
Source:
Washington Post
---
What
Gets Measured Gets Done:
How a Supplemental Federal Poverty Measure Will Drive Smarter Policy
By Melissa Boteach, Jitinder Kohli
March 2, 2010
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,” said New
York City Mayor and business magnate Michael Bloomberg in 2007 describing the
need for an updated poverty measure. How was the traditional federal poverty
measure calculated?Now it seems he is getting his wish. The U.S. Census Bureau
announced today that it will be developing an alternative way to measure poverty.
This new method will better reflect the realities facing struggling families
and ways in which current government programs can help them to get back on their
feet. Unlike the traditional poverty measure, which is based in a 1960s reality,
this supplemental measure will provide a more accurate accounting of household
budgets and better determination of whether a family has enough resources to
meet its most basic needs.
Source:
Center for American Progress
Video:
Fixing the Federal Poverty Measure
Everything (OK, almost everything) you wanted to know about poverty measurement
in the U.S., in one three-minute video.
Observations
from the Interagency Technical Working
Group on Developing a Supplemental Poverty Measure (PDF - 138K,
8 pages)
Related links:
Measuring
Poverty: A New Approach (U.S.)
1995 - 536 pages
Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance: Concepts, Information Needs, and Measurement
Methods
Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council
Read it Online
Source:
National Academy Press (NAP)
---
Changing
the Federal Poverty Measure...or Not
By Diana M. Pearce
March 4, 2010
Change in the outdated federal poverty measure is long overdue. Nevertheless,
the Department of Commerce's announcement of a new Supplemental Poverty Measure
(SPM) should be greeted with caution. It will not change things nearly as
much as its proponents hope, and may have some unexpected effects.
What the SPM will do, is rise as living standards rise, rather than fall further and further behind -- as is the case with the current poverty measure. Indeed, the latter is "frozen" at the level of a basket of goods and services adequate for families in the 1950s, updated only for inflation. It does not allow for rapidly increasing costs, such as health care and taxes or "new" costs such as child care.
What the SPM won't do is raise the thresholds very much. Because
it only includes some costs -- housing, utilities, food and clothing -- it starts
at not much above the current, much too low level. In fact, since it will also
introduce geographic adjustments reflecting differences in housing costs, the
SPM is likely to result in lowering thresholds in less expensive areas such
as rural counties or the South below the current federal poverty measure. In
short, the SPM is a measure of deprivation, not a full measure of what people
and families need to meet their basic needs...
Source:
Huffington Post
Author Diana Pierce is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Center for Women’s Welfare (School of Social Work) at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is also the developer of the Self-Sufficiency Standard], which "defines the amount of income necessary to meet basic needs (including taxes) without public subsidies (e.g., public housing, food stamps, Medicaid or child care) and without private/informal assistance (e.g., free babysitting by a relative or friend, food provided by churches or local food banks, or shared housing)."
_________________________________
So how does that compare with
the way we measure poverty in Canada?
_________________________________
On the Canadian Poverty Measures page of this site, you'll find over 400 links to information on a range of poverty measures used in Canada, from Statistics Canada's Low Income Cutoffs, Low Income Measures and Market Basket Measure to the subsistence poverty measure (also known in the social advocacy community as the "calorie-from-starvation diet") prepared by Christopher Sarlo for the Fraser Institute, along with a few poverty measures used in the Canadian non-governmental sector.
The Canadian Context:
In 1997, the head of Statistics Canada at the time (Ivan Fellegi)
went on record to say - in an article entitled On
poverty and low income - that his agency's low income cut-offs should
not be used as the "official" poverty line for Canada. Thus, in the
absence of any official poverty measurement tool, social researchers in government
and in NGOs have been free to simply pick and choose which measure supports
their view that (a) poverty is becoming a worse problem, or (b) poverty is becoming
less of a problem.
There is one critical difference between the way Canadian and American governments
measure poverty --- in the U.S., a person's or household's eligibility
for certain programs (excluding state welfare to families with children
provided under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program) is directly
tied to the official federal government poverty measure. The list of programs
that use the Health and Human Services poverty guidelines to determine eligibility
is not insignificant --- it includes Food Stamps, the
National School Lunch Program, certain parts of Medicaid, and the subsidized
portion of Medicare' s prescription drug coverage, among others.
- Go to the Poverty Measures - International Resources page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/poverty2.htm
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