Canadian Social Research Newsletter
January 23, 2005
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 1334
subscribers.
Scroll to
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1. From Status of Women Canada (posted January 21, 2005):
South East Asia Tidal wave and Earthquake Fund |
How
to donate: online - by phone - by mail - in person
Source:
Canadian
Red Cross
1. From
Status of Women Canada (posted January 21, 2005) |
From Status of Women Canada (posted January 21, 2005):
A
Quarter Century of Change - Young Women in Canada in the 1970s and Today
December
2004
" This report presents a statistical picture of the lives of young
women in 1976 and 2001. It uses a range of data to compare and contrast the lives
of women aged 20–29 over a 25-year period."
A
Holistic Framework for Aboriginal Policy Research
October 2004
"The purpose of this paper is to provide a document to support Aboriginal
and non-Aboriginal researchers working in an Aboriginal context and to encourage
them to adopt a holistic approach to Aboriginal policy research."
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Go to the First Nations Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/1stbkmrk.htm
- Go to the
Canadian Government Sites about Women's Social Issues page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/women.htm
2. Financial Results
for November 2004 - January 21 |
The
Fiscal Monitor
Highlights of financial results for November 2004
January
21, 2005
"November 2004: budgetary surplus of $1.7 billion. April to November
2004: budgetary surplus of $10.7 billion."
Source:
Finance
Canada
Links
to earlier issues of The Fiscal Monitor (2004)
- incl. links to each
month in 2004 and to previous years
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Agriculture to Finance) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk.htm
3. British Columbia
Employment and Assistance (welfare) info: |
BC Employment and Assistance (welfare)
Rate Tables
Income Assistance
rates - (effective January 1, 2005)
Disability
Assistance rates - (effective January 1, 2005)
Source:
BC
Employment and Assistance Rate Tables
- also includes the latest rates
for the following: Child in Home of Relative - Hardship Assistance - Hardship
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities - Assets - Payment of Assistance [special
needs] - General Supplements - Health Supplements and Programs - Fees for Medical
Practitioners - Seniors Supplement
BC
Employment and Assistance (welfare) Current Month Statistics - November 2004
Updated January 5/05
Source:
Ministry
of Human Resources (MHR)
Related Links:
BC
Employment and Assistance Policy Manual - detailed info about welfare
in BC
Key
Provincial/Territorial Welfare Links - detailed
info about welfare everywhere in Canada
- Go to the BC Government Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bcbkmrk.htm
4. Guide
to seniors' programs and benefits in BC - October 2004 |
Information
for Seniors:
Your Guide to Programs and Benefits in BC (PDF file
- 536K, 105 pages)
Sixth
Edition - Revised October 2004
Includes links to an excellent collection of
information about initiatives in the following areas : Seniors and the B.C.
Government - Finances - Health Services - Housing - Recreation - Transportation
- Personal Security - Services for Seniors Directory (alphabetical listing of
programs and contacts) - Government Agent Offices in BC - Health Authorities in
BC - Information and Referral Centres in BC
Source:
Office
for Seniors
[ Ministry of
Health Services ]
- Go to the BC Government Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bcbkmrk.htm
5. Child
Protection Publications and Tools - January 21 |
Child
Protection - Publications and Tools
January
21, 2005
"In September 2000, Maria Minna, Canada's Minister for International
Cooperation, launched CIDA's Social Development Priorities: A Framework for Action.
The framework refocuses the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on
its poverty-reduction mandate by increasing investments over five years in health
and nutrition, basic education, HIV/AIDS, and child protection, with gender equality
as an integral part of all these priorities."
- incl. links to two dozen
reports (from 1997 to 2004) on child protection, child participation, war-affected
children, child labour and sexually-exploited children.
Related Link:
Source:
Canadian
International Development Agency
- Go to
the International Children, Families and Youth Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chn2.htm
- Go to the Children's
Rights Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chnrights.htm
6. New from Statistics
Canada |
What's New from The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
January
20, 2005
Study:
Measurement issues in comparing Canadian and US productivity levels
The
new technical paper A Comparison of Canadian and US Productivity Levels: An Exploration
of Measurement Issues, compares levels of labour productivity in Canada relative
to those of the United States. In doing so, it addresses two main issues. The
first concerns the comparability of the measures of gross domestic product (GDP)
and labour inputs that the statistical agencies of each country produce. Second,
it examines how a price index can be constructed to reconcile estimates of Canadian
and US GDP per hour worked that are calculated in Canadian and US dollars respectively.
Complete
paper:
A
Comparison of Canadian and US Productivity Levels:
An Exploration of Measurement
Issues (PDF file - 390K, 52 pages)
Related
Link:
Update
on Economic Analysis
January 19, 2005
Consumer
Price Index, December 2004
The 12-month increase in the Consumer Price
Index was down to 2.1% in December from 2.4% in November, mostly under the influence
of gasoline prices.
January 19, 2005
Maintenance
Enforcement Survey: Child and Spousal Support, 2003/2004
The report
Child and Spousal Support: Maintenance Enforcement Survey Statistics, 2003/2004
($29), provides data on the collection and enforcement of child and spousal support
payments for cases registered with maintenance enforcement programs.
-
Go to the Children, Families and Youth Links (Government) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chnbkmrk.htm
- Go to the
Federal Government Department Links (Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs)
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk2.htm
7. In Search of Well
Being: Are Canadians slipping down the economic ladder?
- January 18, 2005 |
The
economic well being of Canadians has not advanced in years, say TD economists
Press
Release
January 18, 2005
"The take-home pay of Canadians has stagnated
over the past 15 years, highlighting the need for stronger productivity and for
lower tax burdens, said TD economists in a new report entitled, In Search of Well
Being: Are Canadians slipping down the economic ladder?
Complete report:
In Search of Well Being: Are Canadians
slipping down the economic ladder?
HTML
PDF
version (74K, 4 pages)
Source:
TD
Economics
- Go to the Banks and Business
Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bookmrk3.htm
8. Online Disability
E-Zines - Manitoba, Ontario |
Gateway
News - Paths to Equal Opportunity (Ontario)
Online Newsletter
(monthly)
Content of the January 2005 issue:
* Gift Buying On-line
Lacks Seasonal Cheer for Shoppers With Disabilities
* Ensuring the Health and
Safety of Workers With Disabilities
* More Must Be Done to Tackle Dyslexia
in the Workplace
* Guidelines on Accessible Education
* Hearing Impaired
in the Workplace
* Introduction to Universal Design Workshop. January 17, 2005
*
Bill 118 – Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2004
Newsletter
Archive - back to November 2001
Source:
Paths
to Equal Opportunity
[Accessibility
Ontario]
[Ministry of Citizenship
and Immigration]
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Disability
Research Digest (Manitoba)
- includes links to all monthly issues,
with archives back to June 2001, available in HTML or PDF format.
- each issue
of the digest varies from 12 to 25+ printed pages, and each contains 125-150 links.
Content
of January 2005 Issue:
* Accessibility and Technology*
Advocacy* Employment* General Interest* Government* Health* Legal* Medical* Media*
Policy/Research* Rehabilitation* Conferences
HTML
version of the January 2005 issue
PDF
version of the January 2005 issue (250K, 24 pages)
Source:
Society for Manitobans with Disabilities
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-
Go to the Disability Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/disbkmrk.htm
- Go to the
Manitoba Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/mbkmrk.htm
- Go to the Ontario Government Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onbkmrk.htm
9. A Celebration
of Food Security Work in Canada seeking contributors before February 11/05 |
Recipes
for Success: A Celebration of Food Security Work in Canada
Call for Topics
and Writers (PDF file - 47K, 4 pages)
December 2004
Seeking contributors
to Recipes for Success: a Celebration of Food Security Work in Canada -
"...to be published in both English and French in the spring of 2005 and
will be distributed to a great many people engaged in food security work (...)
across Canada. Please e-mail us a 1200-1500 word description of a great food
security initiative [further defined in the PDF file] that you have undertaken
or know about. What was great about it? What did you and could others learn
from it? Photos also welcome!"
Submission Deadline: February 11, 2005
Source:
Social
Planning Council of Winnipeg
-
Go to the Food Banks and Hunger Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/foodbkmrk.htm
- Go to the
Manitoba Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/mbkmrk.htm
10. What's New
from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) - University of Toronto |
What's New - from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) - University of Toronto
Each week, the Childcare Resource and Research Unit disseminates its "e-mail news notifier", an e-mail message with a dozen or so links to new reports, studies and child care in the news (media articles) by the CRRU or another organization in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC). What you see below is content from the most recent issue of the notifier.
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NEW POSTINGS AVAILABLE
ON THE
CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND RESEARCH UNIT’S WEBSITE
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21-Jan-05
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WHATS
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Early childhood education and care policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
by
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECD Thematic Review
of ECEC country note discusses key policy issues in Germany.
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CHILD
CARE IN THE NEWS
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Parents in care concern [AU]
Herald Sun, 21 Jan 05
Thirteen
thousand babies in Victoria, Australia will miss out on a child care place as
desperate parents try signing-up before conceiving. Victoria's child care shortage
has reached crisis proportions, with the majority of children on waiting lists
never likely to get a place.
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Get it right from the start [CA]
Toronto Star, 18 Jan 05
Now
that our children are back at school or daycare, we should not let our attention
stray from their needs. For on February 11 and 12, federal and provincial ministers
will make decisions that crucially affect their lives. They will decide the form
and content of the long-awaited national early learning and child care program
- arguably the most important social program since medicare.
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Non-profit daycares favoured [CA]
Toronto Star, 17 Jan 05
The
recent University of Toronto study of profit and not-for-profit child care shows
quality of care is generally lower in commercial daycares than in non-profit centres.
However, child-care advocates worry that Social Development minister Ken Dryden
is downplaying the research for political reasons.
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Building blocks for child care [CA-ON]
Thunder Bay Source, 14 Jan
05
Child care agencies in the Thunder Bay District continued their lobbying
efforts today for a new national child care system. They presented their ideas
on how the system should work on a number of toy blocks.
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Lobby group pushes for universal child care [CA-BC]
Times-Colonist,
13 Jan 05
A B.C. child care group is using a poster campaign to push the federal
government into keeping its election promise of providing an affordable national
day care system.
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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 subscription instructions , see http://www.childcarecanada.org
The
Childcare Resource and Research Unit (University of Toronto, Canada)
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Also from CRRU:
Current
developments in Early Childhood Education and Care: Provinces and territories
Regularly
updated
"This resource is a collection of useful online readings about
current early childhood education and care policy and program delivery issues
in each province and territory. Within each jurisdiction, information is organized
into three sections: news articles, online documents and useful websites."
What's
New? - Links to 100+ Canadian, U.S. and international resources from Jan
2000 to the present.
Child
Care in the News - 200+ media articles from January 2000 to the present
ISSUE
files - links to 20+ theme pages, each filled with contextual information
and links to further info
Links
to child care sites in Canada and elsewhere
CRRU
Publications - links to ~60 briefing notes, factsheets, occasional papers
and other publications
- Go to the Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm
| 11. Poverty Dispatch Weekly Digest
: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs --- January 20, 2005 |
POVERTY
DISPATCH Weekly Digest (Institute for Research on Poverty - U. of Wisconsin)
January 20, 2005
This digest offers dozens of
new links each week to full-text articles in the U.S. media (mostly daily newspapers)
on poverty, poverty, welfare reform, child welfare, education, health, hunger,
Medicare and Medicaid, and much more...
The Institute for Research on Poverty
(IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a free e-mail service that
consists of an e-mail message sent to subscribers each Monday and Thursday, containing
a dozen or so links to articles dealing with the areas mentioned above.
The
weekly Canadian Social Research Links Poverty Dispatch Digest is a compilation
of dispatch e-mails, with the kind permission of IRP.
Here's a one-day sample of the subjects covered in the Poverty Dispatch Weekly Digest:
January 20, 2005
Today's subjects include: State Medicaid Costs // Medicaid Costs, Wisconsin, Mississippi, New York, Idaho // Health Care Plan Cuts - Tennessee // Children's Health Insurance Program Spending - Texas // "Focus on Poverty" Tour - Minnesota // Minimum Wage - Wisconsin // Homeless Students - Arizona // Homelessness - Washington, D.C. // Affordable Housing - Los Angeles // World Poverty
NOTE: "Poverty Dispatch is now being compiled and distributed to e-mail subscribers twice a week -- Mondays and Thursdays. We plan to maintain a broad coverage of poverty-related issues as reported all week in U.S. newspapers and other news sources."
Most
of the weekly digests below offer 100 links or more to media articles that are
time-sensitive.
The older the link, the more likely it is to either be dead
or have moved to an archive - and some archives [but not all] are pay-as-you-go.
[For
the current week's digest, click on the POVERTY DISPATCH link above]
The Poverty Dispatch weekly digest is a good tool for monitoring what's happening in the U.S.; it's a guide to best practices and lessons learned in America.
Subscribe
to the Poverty Dispatch!
Send an e-mail message to John Wolf < jwolf@ssc.wisc.edu
> to receive a plain text message twice a week with one to two dozen links
to media articles with a focus on poverty, welfare reform, child welfare, health,
Medicaid from across the U.S.
And it's free...
Source:
Institute for Research
on Poverty (IRP)
[ University of Wisconsin-Madison
]
POVERTY
DISPATCH description/archive - weekly issues back to July 2004 , avg.
100+ links per issue!
NOTE: this archive is part of
the Canadian Social Research Links American
Non-Governmental Social Research page.
For the current week's digest, click on the POVERTY DISPATCH link at the top of this box.
Recently-archived POVERTY DISPATCH weekly
digests:
(You'll find 100+ links in each of the digests below)
- January
13, 2005
- January
6, 2005
- December
27
- December
13-17
- December
6-10
- November
29 - December 3, 2004
- 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
12. A Practical Plan
to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals -
January 17 |
New
report to Annan proposes solutions to problems of world poverty
News
Release
17 January 2005
"United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
today launched a 3,000-page document which research team leader, Special Adviser
Jeffrey Sachs, called 'a unique report'recommending that rich countries double
their investments in poor countries to reach the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) of halving extreme poverty by 2015 and going beyond to eliminate it by
2025. The report comes at a time when more than one billion of the world's six
billion people live on less that $1 day, and 2.7 billion live on less than $2
a day."
Complete report:
Investing
in Development:
A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
HTML
Table of Contents + links to PDF files for each chapter
PDF report
all in one file:
Low
Resolution (3.6 MB)
High
Resolution (33.2 MB)
Source:
The
Millennium Project
"At the United Nations
Millennium Summit in September 2000 world leaders placed development at the heart
of the global agenda by adopting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which
set clear targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental
degradation, and discrimination against women by 2015."
-
Core Millennium Development
Goals - Documents and Websites
Related Link:
Statement
by the Honourable Aileen Carroll on release of economist and anti-poverty campaigner
Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Project Report
News
Release
January 17, 2005
Source:
Canadian
International Development Agency
- Go to the United Nations Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/un.htm
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Statement
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Useful Conversions
Source:
Mark's Humour Site
http://humour.50megs.com/
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton ton
1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
365.25 days: 1 unicycle
2200 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
10 cards: 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
10 rations: 1 decoration
100 rations: 1 C-ration
10 millipedes: 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent
10 monologs: 5 dialogs
5 dialogs: 1 decalog
2 monograms: 1 diagram
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
2 wharves: 1 paradox
100 Senators: Not 1 decision
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