Canadian Social Research Newsletter
August 12, 2007
Welcome to the weekly Canadian Social Research Newsletter,
a listing of the new links added to the Canadian Social Research
Links website in the past week.
The e-mail version of this
week's issue of the newsletter is going out to 1770 subscribers.
Scroll to the bottom of this
newsletter to see some notes and a disclaimer.
IN
THIS ISSUE:
Canadian Content
1. Canadian Housing Equality
Resources (Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation)
2. What's New from Statistics Canada:
--- Labour Force Survey, July 2007 - August 10
3. What's New - from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU-
University of Toronto) - August 10
International
Content
4. The Community Tool Box (University of Kansas)
5. Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social
issues and programs
6. 2007 Child Well-Being Index
(Foundation for Child Development - U.S.) - July 17
7. Human Rights (National Archives, U.K. Government)
8. Australian Policy Online Weekly Briefing - recent content (various
sources)
--- Indigenous health: Saving children's lives is a matter of
long-term will
--- A rising tide? Income inequality, the social safety net and the
labour market in Australia
--- Life expectancy, ageing, disability and demand for disability
services
--- At home in the world: the moral and political language of
homelessness
9. CRINMAIL #905 - August 9 (Child Rights
Information Network)
--- SOUTH AFRICA: 'No biblical justification'
for hitting child [news]
--- UNITED STATES: Bringing A Human Rights
Vision to Public Schools [publication]
--- MAURITANIA: Slavery law passed [news]
--- JORDAN: Schools opened to Iraqis [news]
--- INDIA: Youth Leadership Training Camp [event]
--- EMPLOYMENT - ECPAT - Child Rights and You
[job postings]
10. SiCKO - Michael
Moore and National Health Care: Lies of the Left and the Right
Have a great week!
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1. Canadian Housing
Equality Resources |
Canadian
Housing Equality Resources
This website is produced by the Centre for
Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA), an Ontario-based non profit
human rights organization that has spent the past 20 years challenging
the systemic barriers and discrimination that contribute to
homelessness and housing insecurity.
- incl. links to : Advocate's Guide - Human Rights - Tools - Legislation - Case Law - Other Resources
Source:
Centre for Equality
Rights in Accommodation (CERA)
Related link:
Housing
rights: A Canadian web site
August 7, 2007
The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) has launched a
new web site devoted to housing rights in Canada called Canadian
Housing Equality Resources. It's full of interesting and important
information, and is designed for everyone from the person (or
household) that is experiencing housing discrimination to the housing
advocate. Lawyers and legal advocates will find information on
legislation and case law. And there are lots of practical tools, like
dealing with the media. CERA has been active for two decades on housing
issues and is recognized locally, nationally and internationally as an
important partner.
Source of this brief review:
Michael Shapcott
The Wellesley Institute
Blog
[ The Wellesley Institute
]
- Go to the Homelessness and Housing Links
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/homeless.htm
- Go to the Human Rights Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/rights.htm
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2. What's New from
Statistics Canada: |
What's New from The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
August 10, 2007
Labour
Force Survey, July 2007
Employment was little changed in July, leaving growth so far in 2007 at
1.3%, similar to the growth rate in the first seven months of 2006. The
unemployment rate edged down 0.1 percentage points to 6.0%, the lowest
since 1974.
Related link:
Labour
Force Information, July 15 to 21, 2007
[ Earlier
issues of this report ]
The Daily archives for August 2007 - see for yourself what's been released by StatCan since August 1 by clicking on the archive link and then on the "HTML" link beside each date; use your browser's Back button to return to the archive page.
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk2.htm
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What's New - from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit - August 10 (CRRU- University of Toronto) |
What's New - from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) - University of Toronto
The Childcare Resource and Research
Unit offers a free weekly "e-mail news notifier" service.
Here's the content of the latest issue of this bulletin.
For more information about this
service, including subscription information,
see http://www.childcarecanada.org
10-Aug-07
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What's New
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GENDER INEQUALITY, GROWTH AND
GLOBAL AGEING
Report from Goldman Sachs finds that making it easier for women to work
and have children “could play a key role in addressing the twin
problems of population ageing and pension sustainability.”
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=107385
CHUTES OR LADDERS? CREATING
SUPPORT SERVICES TO HELP EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENTS SUCCEED IN HIGHER
EDUCATION
Report from Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
recommends ways for “institutions of higher education and local
planners to work together to assess the needs of nontraditional ECE
students.”
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=107372
TEACHERS, PARENTS, AND
WHÄNAU WORKING TOGETHER IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Final report of a project from the New Zealand Council for Education
Research discusses case studies “in which teachers and parents worked
together to enhance children’s learning and wellbeing.”
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=107371
CHILDCARE: WHAT PARENTS WANT
21-point plan from Daycare Trust (UK) aims to build affordable,
universal, high quality child care for Britain.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=107370
IT TAKES A CHILD TO RAISE A
COMMUNITY: 'POPULATION-BASED' MEASUREMENT OF EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Research brief from UBC’s Human Early Learning Partnership.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=107369
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Child care in the news
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Subsidized child care is a proven
way to increase birth rate [CA]
Montreal Gazette, 10 Aug 07
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=107365
Put poverty on premiers' agenda
[CA]
Toronto Star, 9 Aug 07
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=107367
Baby Einsteins: Not so smart
after all [US]
Time Magazine, 6 Aug 07
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=107368
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New book
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A QUESTION OF COMMITMENT:
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN CANADA
Covell, K. & Howe, R.B. (Eds.)
Wilfred Laurier University Press
Description:
In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all
levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights
of children. A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada is
the first book to assess the extent to which Canada has fulfilled this
commitment. The editors, R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell, contend
that Canada has wavered in its commitment to the rights of children and
is ambivalent in the political culture about the principle of
children’s rights. A Question of Commitment expands the scope of the
editors’ earlier book, The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada,
by including the voices of specialists in particular fields of
children’s rights and by incorporating recent developments.
To order: http://www.wlu.ca/press/Catalog/howe.shtml
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Useful resource for understanding research
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This section of the American website
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections explains how to
evaluate the quality of social science and policy research. Also
included are useful glossaries of terms used in social science and
policy research generally, and in early childhood research specifically.
http://childcareresearch.org/Discover?displayPage=understanding.jsp
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This message was forwarded through the Childcare Resource
and Research Unit e-mail news notifier. For information on the
CRRU e-mail notifier, including instructions for (un)subscribing,
see http://www.childcarecanada.org
The Childcare Resource and Research Unit
University of Toronto, Canada
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Related Links:
Links to child
care sites in Canada and elsewhere
CRRU Publications
- briefing notes, factsheets, occasional papers and other publications
ISSUE files
- theme pages, each filled with contextual information and links to
further info
Link to the CRRU home page:
Childcare Resource and
Research Unit (CRRU) - University of Toronto
- Go to the Non-Governmental Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd2.htm
| 4. The
Community Tool Box (University of Kansas) |
The
Community Tool Box
"Our goal is to
support your work in promoting community health and development.
The Tool Box provides over 7,000 pages of practical skill-building
information on over 250 different topics. Topic sections include
step-by-step instruction, examples, check-lists, and related resources.
"
Source:
Work Group on Health
Promotion and Community Development, University of Kansas
Recommended by:
Tim Aubry, Centre
for Research on Educational and Community Services (University of
Ottawa)
- Go to the Social Research Links in Other Countries (Non-Government) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/internatngo.htm
| 5. Poverty
Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs |
Poverty
Dispatch (U.S). ===> the content of this link
changes each week
- links to news items from the American press about poverty, welfare
reform, child welfare, education, health, hunger, Medicare and
Medicaid, etc.
Source:
Institute for Research on Poverty
(IRP)
[ University of Wisconsin-Madison ]
This week's issues of Poverty Dispatch:
August
9, 2007
* Privatization of Social Services - Indiana
* Welfare-to-Work and Federal Requirements - Indiana
* State Children's Health Insurance Program
* Characteristics of the Underinsured in the U.S.
* Editorial: Working Poor Families - Michigan
* School Free Breakfast Programs
* Affordable Housing - New York
* Data on People Displaced by Hurricanes - Louisiana
* Adoption Tax Credit and Foster Adoptions
* Early Childhood Education
* States and the Healthy Marriage Initiative
August
6, 2007
* State Children's Health Insurance Program
* Opinions: State Children's Health Insurance Program
* Medicaid Recipients and Access to Care - Kansas, Texas
* Medicaid Birth Coverage - Wisconsin
* Social Security Disability Payments - Wisconsin
* Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - Wisconsin
* Food Insecurity and Assistance
* Homeless Veterans - Florida
* Affordable Housing - Portland, OR
* School Integration by Income - Florida
* Early Childhood Education - Alaska, Washington
IRP compiles and distributes Poverty Dispatches,
links to Web-based news items dealing with poverty, welfare reform, and
related topics twice a week. Each Dispatch lists links to current news
in popular print media. Persons wishing to receive Poverty Dispatches
by e-mail should send a request to rsnell@ssc.wisc.edu.
Past
Poverty Dispatches
- links to two dispatches a week back to June 2006
Poverty
Dispatch Digest Archive - archive of weekly digests* of
dispatches from August 2005 to May 2006
(*For a few years prior to the creation of this new web page for the
Dispatch, I was compiling a weekly digest of the e-mails and
redistributing the digest to my mailing list with IRP's permission.
This is my own archive of weekly issues of the digest back to
August 2005, and most of them have 50+ links per issue. I'll be
deleting this archive from my site gradually, as the links to older
articles expire.)
- 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
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6.
2007 Child Well-Being Index - July
17 |
2007 Child Well-Being Index (CWI) Special Focus Report on
International Comparisons
April 2007 (Published July 19, 2007)
This analysis compares the United States to the United Kingdom, Canada,
Australia and New Zealand. These Anglophone countries share a common
language, similar cultural heritage, as well as comparable political
and economic cultures. The report assembles 19 key international
indicators of child well-being within seven domains of social life.
Child Well-Being Index 2007 Report (PDF file - 204K, 21 pages)
Key Indicator Figures by Race/Ethnicity (Powerpoint presentation - 1MB)
Indicator Figure List Presentation (Powerpoint presentation - 4.9MB)
Child Well-Being Index 2007 Presentation (Powerpoint presentation - 803K)
Earlier editions of this report - back to 2004
Source:
Child
Well-Being Index
[ Foundation for Child Development
]
Related Web/News/Blog links:
Google Search Results Links - always current
results!
Using the following search terms (without the quote marks):
"Child Well-Being Index, Foundation for Child Development"
Web search results page
News search results page (no results)
Blog Search Results page
Source:
Google.ca
- Go to the International Children, Families and Youth Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chn2.htm
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7. Human Rights |
Human Rights (U.K.)
"800 years of human rights in the United
Kingdom explored using original documents from The National Archives"
The idea of "human rights" is a relatively new development in history,
but as this website from Britain’s National Archives notes in its
discussion of the long trajectory of struggles for equality and so
forth, "We could do worse than characterizing this history as the
struggle for human rights." This visually compelling online exhibit
uses original documents from The National Archives to take a long view
of these struggles and movements. Visitors can start their journey
through the site by picking a time period, and then reading an
introductory essay on the period. Each time period includes a timeline
and links to digitized version of relevant documents, such as The Poor
Act of 1601 and a poster for a Staffordshire coal miners’ union public
meeting from 1831. The site is rounded out by a thorough glossary and a
document index.
Source:
National Archives
(Government of the United Kingdom)
Reviewed by:
The Scout Report, Copyright
Internet Scout Project 1994-2007.
- Go to the Human Rights Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/rights.htm
- Go to the Government Social Research Links in Other Countries page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/internat.htm
| 8.
Australian Policy Online Weekly Briefing - recent content
(various sources) --- Indigenous health: Saving children's lives is a matter of long-term will --- A rising tide? Income inequality, the social safety net and the labour market in Australia --- Life expectancy, ageing, disability and demand for disability services --- At home in the world: the moral and political language of homelessness |
APO Weekly Briefing
The content of this page changes each week, and it includes links to a
few book/report reviews, about two dozen new reports, a few job ads and
60+ events (mostly conferences) of interest to social researchers...
Source:
Australian Policy Online (APO)
With nearly 120 member centres and institutes, Australian Policy Online
offers easy access to much of the best Australian social, economic,
cultural and political research available online.
NOTE: the APO home page includes links to the five most popular reports
on the APO website, and this list is updated each week.
Selected recent content from the APO Weekly Briefing:
Indigenous
health:
Saving children's lives is a matter of long-term will
Posted:07-08-2007
You can't protect children without supporting and involving their
community, argues Fiona Stanley, director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health
Research.
A
rising tide? Income inequality, the social safety net and the labour
market in Australia
Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu and Alicia Payne / National Centre for
Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM - Canberra)
Posted 09-08-2007
In 1996 Australia elected a new Liberal government, ending 13 years of
rule by the Australian Labor Party. The decade since has been marked by
strong economic growth and prosperity, along with substantial changes
in social and labour market policy. This paper highlights some of the
key shifts in the social policy landscape over the period and assesses
the outcomes for income inequality, poverty, income redistribution and
earnings.
Life
expectancy, ageing, disability and demand for disability services
Xingyan Wen / Australian Institute
of Health and Welfare
Posted 07-08-2007
This paper from the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference
re-examines the trends in expected years of life lived with disability
over a period of 15 years (from 1988 to 2003) using the latest
available data. It then gives estimates of current levels of unmet
demand for specialist disability services, and presents data and
commentary relating to projected future demand.
At
home in the world: the moral and political language of homelessness
Andrew Hollows / RMIT University
and Hanover Welfare Services
Posted 07-08-2007
Inspired by the political theorist Hannah Arendt, this paper from the
2007 Australian Social Policy Conference poses the question: what does
it mean to think morally and politically about homelessness? Recent
research by Hanover Welfare Services confirms how moral judgements
about homelessness continue to be informed by a stereotypical focus on
individual attribution and responsibility.
APO Archive
The APO archive is grouped into 23 subject areas, with entries
appearing in reverse chronological order.
* Ageing *Asia and the pacific * Citizenship and the law * Disability *
Economics and trade * Education * Employment and workplace relations *
The environment * Foreign policy and defence * Gender and sexuality *
Health * Housing * Families and households * Immigration and refugees *
Income, poverty and wealth * Indigenous * Media, communications and
cultural policy * Politics and government * Population,
multiculturalism and ethnicity * Religion and faith * Rural and
regional * Science and technology * Social policy * Urban and regional
planning * Youth
- Go to the Social Research Links in Other Countries (Non-Government) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/internatngo.htm
| 9.
CRINMAIL #905 - August 9 (Child Rights Information Network) |
From the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN):
- SOUTH AFRICA: 'No biblical justification' for
hitting child [news]
- UNITED STATES: Bringing A Human Rights Vision
to Public Schools [publication]
- MAURITANIA: Slavery law passed [news]
- JORDAN: Schools opened to Iraqis [news]
- INDIA: Youth Leadership Training Camp [event]
- EMPLOYMENT - ECPAT - Child Rights and You [job
postings]
**NEWS IN BRIEF**
**QUIZ**
Earlier
issues of CRINMAIL
- links to over 200 issues, many of which are special editions
focusing on a particular theme, such as the 45th Session of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of
the Child and the launch of the EURONET
(European Children's Network) Website.
Source:
CRINMAIL(incl. subscription
info)
[ Child Rights Information
Network (CRIN) ]
- Go to the Children's Rights Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chnrights.htm
| 10. SiCKO - Michael Moore and National Health Care: Lies of the Left and the Right |
Michael Moore and National Health Care: Lies of the Left and
the Right
Posted August 7, 2007
In Moore's film the first president Bush is seen dismissing the idea of
socialized medicine, remarking that if you think it could work, "Ask a
Canadian." The fact is that while many Canadians have criticisms of
their health care system, almost none would choose a U.S.-style,
for-profit system. They would laugh at the idea that it would work
better for them.
Source:
Huffington Post (U.S.)
Related links:
SiCKO - the official movie website
MichaelMoore.com - includes "SiCKO Factual Backup"
SiCKO - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Go
to the Links to American Non-Governmental Social Research (M-Z) Links
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us3.htm
- Go to the Health Links (Canada/International) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/health.htm
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