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Canadas Human Rights
Institutions At Risk - July 28 |
Women's Court of Canada
The Womens Court of Canada is an innovative project bringing together
academics, activists, and litigators in order literally to rewrite the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms equality jurisprudence. Taking inspiration from
Oscar Wilde, who once said the only duty we owe to history is to rewrite
it, the Womens Court operates as a virtual court, and reconsiders
leading equality decisions. The Womens Court renders alternative decisions
as a means of articulating fresh conceptions of substantive equality.
- incl. links to :
* Home * About Us * Blog *
WCC Judgments * Media and Events * Resources * Archives * Contact
Women's Court
of Canada Judgments
The first six WCC judgments were published in the Canadian Journal of Women
and the Law in early 2008. These decisions concern issues that affect the lives
of Aboriginal women, women with disabilities, women living in poverty, women
with children, and women workers.
The WCC judgments are for the following cases:
* Symes v. Canada, [1993] : deduction child care
expenses women taxpayer income
* Native Womens Association of Canada v. Canada, [1994] : funding
freedom of expression women equal constitutional
* Eaton v. Brant County Board of Education, [1997] : placement disabled
special child pupil
* Law v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1999] : discrimination
differential treatment claimant survivors pension
dignity
* Gosselin v. Quebec (Attorney-General), [2002] : programs welfare recipients
security of the person dignity legislation
* Newfoundland (Treasury Board) v. Newfoundland and Labrador Association of
Public and Private Employees, [2004] : pay equity government crisis
hospital workers women
Resources - links to over two dozen useful feminist resources
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Canadas
Human Rights Institutions At Risk
By Shelagh Day, Senior Editor and Publisher, Canadian
Human Rights Reporter
July 28, 2010
It is time to go into worry mode about Canadas
human rights institutions.
Here are some recent developments that cause concern:
Saskatchewans Minister of Justice proposes
to dismantle the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal and send human rights complaints
directly to the courts
The B.C. Law Institute has been asked by the Ministry
of Labour to conduct research and analysis in relation to workplace dispute
resolution mechanisms in British Columbia. The disputes in question include
human rights employment complaints.
* Heather MacNaughton, the widely respected Chair of
the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, was not re-appointed. Human rights watchers
speculate that British Columbia also plans to dismantle its Tribunal.
The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave
to appeal in Canada (Attorney General) v. Mowat, a case about whether the Canadian
Human Rights Tribunal has the authority to award legal costs to a successful
complainant. This case arises because the Canadian Commission has stopped representing
human rights complainants before the Tribunal and courts, and complainants are
increasingly appearing unrepresented, with a high likelihood of losing, or they
are hiring their own counsel.
* more...
The effect of shutting down Tribunals, sending human
rights complainants to courts, and using legal costs as a substitute for public
access, will be to weaken Canadas system of human rights laws and discourage
Canadians from using them.
Source:
Women's Court of Canada
- Go to the Human Rights Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/rights.htm
- Go to the the Canadian Non-Governmental
Sites about Women's Social Issues page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/womencanngo.htm
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SOUNDBITES e-Bulletin - August
31 |
New from
Social Planning Toronto:
SOUNDBITES e-Bulletin
: August 31, 2010
In this issue:
1. REGISTER TODAY for "Common Ground - Schools as Community Hubs: The Vision,
The Challenge, The Opportunity"
2. Coming Together to Address Poverty in Toronto Establishing Roots for
Community Action
3. Social Planning Toronto helps lead the Save the Census Campaign
4. SPT Member Forum Responds to Partnership Project
5. News From Our Partners
6. Worth Repeating - How Census-Gate Will Change Canada
7. Get Involved in Social Planning Toronto
8. About Social Planning Toronto
9. Join us on Twitter & Facebook
Source:
Social Planning Toronto
Social Planning Toronto is committed to independent social planning at the local
and city-wide levels in order to improve the quality of life for all people
in Toronto. It is committed to diversity, social and economic justice, and active
citizen participation in all aspects of community life.
- Go to the Ontario Municipal and Non-Governmental Sites (D-W) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onbkmrk3.htm
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The Happy Planet Index (video)
- August 2010 |
TED : Ideas Worth
Spreading
[NOTE : videos may not work if you're behind a network firewall; if that's the
case, try viewing them at home]
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three
worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever
broader. (...) On TED.com, we make the best talks and
performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than
700 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks
are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. These
videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely
shared and reposted.
[ About
TED ]
TED themes
* Technology * Entertainment * Design * Business * Science * Culture * Arts
* Global issues
Sample videos:
Nic
Marks: The Happy Planet Index - "A place where happiness
doesn't cost the earth..." (17-minute video)
Filmed July 2010; posted online August 2010
Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity
-- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the
Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because
a happy life doesn't have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in
the HPI? You might be surprised.
Hans
Rosling : New insights on poverty and life around the world (19-minute
video)
June 2007
Hans Rosling is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
and Director of the Gapminder Foundation
- Go to the Poverty Measures - International Resources
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/poverty2.htm
- Go to the Non-Governmental Organizations Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ngobkmrk.htm
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[Ontario]
Foster children get tuition support - August 25 |
Foster
children get tuition support
August 25, 2010
(...) Less than half of [Ontario's foster children complete
high school by age 21, and less than a quarter of those go on to post-secondary
education. By contrast, 75 per cent of Ontario youth finish high school and
40 per cent get a post-secondary education. (...) Social
policy expert John Stapleton ... says youth should be allowed to stay
in foster homes until they are 21 if they choose to, and that the province should
financially support those in care until age 25. The real de facto age
of adulthood in our society is much higher and people are leaving home much
later. If child welfare agencies are in the position of being a parent to a
child, they should be doing what any normal good parent would, he said.
Source:
Parent Central
[ The Toronto Star ]
- Go to the Ontario Municipal and Non-Governmental Sites (D-W) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onbkmrk3.htm
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Government of Canada Releases
Consultation Draft of Legislative Tax Proposals
- August 27
(3:19pm) |
NOTE: I don't generally copy Finance Canada news releases into my site and newsletter, but whenever the Harper government releases something late on a Friday, I hear even louder alarm bells than usual...
At 3:19pm on Friday afternoon ("Maybe no one will notice,
eh?"), Finance Canada sent out an email announcing a consultation on "draft
legislative proposals to implement tax measures from Budget 2010 along with
several previously announced tax initiatives."
The consultation ends September 27.
August 27, 2010
Government of Canada
Releases
Consultation Draft of Legislative Tax Proposals
Related Document:
Legislative
Proposals relating to the Income Tax Act,
the Air Travellers Security Charge Act, the Excise Act, 2001, and the Excise
Tax Act
The proposals released today include draft legislation
to:
* Provide for the sharing of the Canada Child Tax Benefit and
the Universal Child Care Benefit in cases of shared custody.
* Allow Registered Retirement Savings Plan proceeds to be transferred to a Registered
Disability Savings Plan on a tax-deferred basis.
* Implement disbursement quota reform for registered charities.
* Better target the tax incentives in place for employee stock options.
* Expand the availability of accelerated capital cost allowance for clean energy
generation.
* Adjust the capital cost allowance rate for television set-top boxes to better
reflect the useful life of these assets.
* Clarify the definition of a principal-business corporation for the purposes
of the rules relating to Canadian Renewable and Conservation Expenses.
* Introduce amendments consequential to the introduction in 2011 of new International
Financial Reporting Standards by the Accounting Standards Board.
* Provide legislative authority for the Canada Revenue Agency to issue online
notices where the taxpayer so requests.
* Implement a new reporting regime for aggressive tax planning, taking into
account comments received during post-budget consultations.
* Replace the previous proposals relating to foreign investment entities with
several limited enhancements to the current Income Tax Act and better target
and simplify previous proposals relating to non-resident trusts, taking into
account comments received during post-budget consultations.
* Counter schemes designed to shelter tax otherwise payable by artificially
increasing foreign tax credits.
* Ensure that income trust conversions into corporations are subject to the
same loss utilization rules that currently apply to similar transactions involving
only corporations.
* Limit tax arbitrage opportunities by extending the application of the Specified
Leasing Property rules to property that is the subject of a lease to a government
or other tax-exempt entity, or to a non-resident.
The draft legislative proposals also include other previously announced measures identified in Budget 2010, as modified to take into account consultations and deliberations since their release, as well as an income tax amendment relating to the enactment of the Fairness for the Self-Employed Act:
* The Paperwork Burden Reduction Initiative for small excise
taxpayers, announced by the Minister of National Revenue on March 31, 2009.
* Measures relating to the income taxation of shareholders of foreign affiliates,
previously released in draft form on December 18, 2009.
* Rules to facilitate the implementation of Employee Life and Health Trusts,
released in draft form on February 26, 2010.
* The introduction of a personal income tax credit in respect of Employment
Insurance premiums paid by self-employed individuals.
References to Announcement Date are to be read as references to todays date. Explanatory notes to the legislative proposals will be posted on the Department of Finance website shortly.
Interested parties are invited to provide comments on the draft legislative proposals by September 27, 2010.
Source:
Department of Finance Canada
| Release of The Fiscal Monitor
- August 27 (Department of Finance Canada) |
Release
of The Fiscal Monitor
News Release
August 27, 2010
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today released The Fiscal
Monitor for June 2010.
Highlights
* June 2010: budgetary deficit of $2.8 billion
* April to June 2010: budgetary deficit of $7.2 billion
Related document:
* The Fiscal Monitor, June 2010
[ earlier editions of The Fiscal Monitor - going back to 1996 ]
Source:
Department of Finance Canada
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Agriculture to Finance) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk.htm
| THE CENSUS LONG FORM QUESTIONNAIRE : Committees, profs, top cops and popes |
Nice
way to Report Census Data 100 person village
(Sub-title by Gilles : THIS is what we lose without the Census long form
questionnaire.)
August 29, 2010
Source:
datalibre.ca
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From the
Globe and Mail:
Census
burden 'colossally inflated,' MPs told
August 27, 2010
Gloria Galloway
Political posturing dominated a debate about the governments decision
to scrap the mandatory long-form census at parliamentary hearing Friday with
Conservative MPs trying to make opposition members seem out of touch with the
common man and their rivals in opposition trying to make the Tories appear out
of touch with common sense. Conservative members of the standing committee on
industry, science and technology did their best to trip up those experts called
by opposition members to defend the mandatory long-form. And opposition members
did the same to the people called by the Tories.
Source:
Science
journal attacks Harpers ban on long census
Provides essential information for planning the future, professors say in Nature
journal.
August 25, 2010
Canada is facing international criticism in the prestigious science journal
Nature over the Harper governments decision to stop requiring that Canadians
fill out a lengthy census questionnaire. Two U.S.-based statistics experts describe
Canadas move as part of a global attack on census taking that is jeopardizing
a vital tool for taking the pulse of nations.
Source:
Globe and Mail
Police
take on Harper over census
By Gloria Galloway
August 23, 2010
The plan to scrap the long-gun registry is not the only policy of the federal
Conservative government that is causing consternation at Canadian police agencies.
The Canadian Association of Police Boards (CAPB) approved eight resolutions
when its members met in New Brunswick last week, including one that calls on
the government to restore the mandatory long-form census.
From The Pope:
Census Offensus
(The Offensive Census)
Papal Encyclical
August 25, 2010
I am aware of the ways in which the Census has been and continues to be misconstrued
and emptied of meaning, with the consequent risk of being misinterpreted, detached
from ethical living and, in any event, undervalued. In the social, juridical,
cultural, political and economic fields the contexts, in other words,
that are most exposed to this danger it is easily dismissed as irrelevant
for interpreting and giving direction to moral responsibility.
Source:
Pope Benedict XVI
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The most comprehensive
resource on the Census issue:
datalibre.ca
datalibre.ca is a blog that's maintained mostly by Tracey Lauriault.
It's inspired by civicaccess.ca, which
believes all levels of Canadian governments should make civic information and
data accessible at no cost in open formats to their citizens.
NOTE: Tracey is on "Census holiday"
until September 2.
Check her latest Census-related blog posts below,
then scroll to the bottom of the Census
Watch page (also Tracey's work)
for links to many other key online resources.
* Wednesday
Census Media Roundup - August 25 (9 links)
* Shrinking
Census Data Reports - August 25
* Tuesday
Census Media Roundup - August 24 (19 links)
* Weekend
Census Media Roundup - August 24 (28 links)
* Guest
Authors: A Critical Analysis of Privacy and Coercion
Related to the Debate About the Long Form Census in 2011
August 23, 2010
Guest authors:
W.T. Stanbury, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia
Ernie Boyko, Adjunct Data Librarian, Carleton University Library Data
Centre
- systematic refutation of each of the Tor speaking points on the issue
* Census
Action Kits - August 22
- Go to the Census 2011 questionnaire links links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/2011_census_questionnaire.htm
| Is there an old-style
Tory in the House? - August 26 (Globe and Mail) |
Is
there an old-style Tory in the House?
Murray and Mulroney: Is there an old-style Tory in the House?
The Canada we know was a blend of the centre and the centre-left. Now its
a hybrid of the centre and the hard right
By Lawrence Martin
August 26, 2010
(...)
But the [Tory] partys hard right now appears, with a few policy exceptions,
to have assumed control of the agenda. And that agenda is about keeping out
boat people, letting in Fox News, building new jails, reviewing affirmative
action, killing the gun registry, playing down climate change, revamping the
census and giving more voice to social conservatives.
Source:
Globe and Mail
- Go to the Ontario Municipal and Non-Governmental Sites (D-W) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onbkmrk3.htm
| CLEO Legal Rights Guides (rental
housing and social assistance) - August 24 (CLEO - Community Legal Education Ontario) |
CLEO
- Community Legal Education Ontario
CLEONet is a web site of legal information for community
workers and advocates who work with low-income and disadvantaged communities.
CLEONet has resources, news, events, and webinars produced by community organizations
and legal clinics across Ontario.
CLEONet is a project of CLEO and is funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario.
CLEONet benefits from the funding that CLEO receives from Legal Aid Ontario
and the Department of Justice Canada.
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Site français :
Éducation juridique
communautaire Ontario
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NEW!
CLEO Legal Rights Guides (
rental housing and social assistance) - August 2010
CLEO is producing these guides to provide people with another way to easily
access essential legal information.
The first two guides are on rental housing and social assistance. Your feedback
is important as we expand to other areas of law.
* Rental Housing
- Repairs, rent increases, eviction and more
* Social Assistance
- Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program: applying, appealing
and more
How Welfare Works in Ontario
- for clients of the system:
Social
Assistance
In Ontario, if you have a low income or no income, you may qualify for help
from one of these social assistance programs:
1. Ontario Works (OW),
which some people call welfare. This program is delivered by municipal governments.
In other words, it is run by the local government of the town, city, county,
district, or region you live in.
2. The Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), which some people
call disability benefits. This program is for people with serious health problems.
It is run by the Ontario government's Ministry of Community and Social Services."
Click the above link to read the rest of the
OW and ODSP general descriptions, then select the program that interests you
in the dark green horizontal band at the top of the page. Clicking Ontario
Works, for example, opens a new subset with the following links:
* Qualifying for OW * Participation Agreements * Living
with a spouse * Support payments and OW * If you are under 18 * Community
Start Up and Maintenance Benefit * OW and working * Proving you still qualify
* Refused, reduced, or cut off * Health benefits when you go off OW
CLEONet
Launches Online Legal Rights Guides
News release
Posted August 24, 2010
Browse
resources by legal topic
* Abuse and Family Violence * Aboriginal Law * Consumer Law * Criminal Law
* Education Law * Employment and Work * Family Law * Health and Disability
* Housing Law * Human Rights and the Charter * Immigration and Refugee Law
* Legal System * Social Assistance and Pensions * Wills and Estates
[ Ressources en français
par sujet ]
[ Resources in 40+ languages
- including Swahili. ]
CLEO
Links
===> 150+ links
organized under the following headings:
* Community Legal Clinics in Ontario * Public Legal Education * International
Public Legal Education * Community Information Centres * Literacy * Social
Justice * Government * Boards and Tribunals * Laws * Domestic Violence * Legal
Services * Other
News
& Events
- Latest news and events about legal issues and law reform
Selected recent news
(from the News & Events link):
Don't
slash food assistance
Posted August 23, 2010
- A Toronto Star editorial says the Special Diet replacement program is unlikely
to meet the needs of recipients with medical conditions unless the government
consults with them before implementing it.
Groups
want input on Ontario's new nutrition supplement
Posted August 23, 2010
- Health and social advocates say they are still waiting for promised Ontario
government consultation on the design of a program to replace the special
diet allowance, according to a Healthzone.ca article.
Hydro
price comparison requirement gets zapped
Posted August 19, 2010 - A Toronto Star article reports that a proposal to
require electricity retailers to give consumers a side-by-side price comparison,
showing what they would pay with or without an energy contract, has been quietly
ditched by the Ontario government.
A
quick way to ease poverty
Posted August 18, 2010 - A Toronto Star editorial says urging people to get
jobs and then stripping them of the financial benefits that come with work
makes little sense, but that is just what Ontario's welfare system does.
Women's
Court of Canada offers alternative thoughts on equality judgments
Posted August 17, 2010 - According to its web site, the Women's Court of Canada
is an innovative project bringing together academics, activists, and litigators
in order literally to rewrite the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
equality jurisprudence.
- Go to the Ontario Municipal and Non-Governmental
Sites (A-C) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onbkmrk2.htm
- Go to the Guide to Welfare in Ontario page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onwelf.htm
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What's New in The Daily [Statistics
Canada]: |
Selected content from
The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
The two first links below are to articles on
gambling and income replacement in the
August 2010 issue of Perspectives on Labour and Income:
August 27, 2010
Gambling,
2010
* Net revenue from government-run lotteries, video lottery terminals (VLTs),
casinos and slot machines not in casinos rose steadily from $2.73 billion in
1992, before levelling off and remaining at around $13.7 billion since 2007
($13.75 billion in 2009).1
* Net revenue from pari-mutuel betting (horse racing) dropped from $532 million
to $355 million over the same period (1992 to 2009).
- includes the following tables and charts
Table 1 Gambling revenues and profits
Table 2 Characteristics of workers
Table 3 Characteristics of jobs
Table 4 Household expenditures on gambling activities
Table 5 Household expenditures on all gambling activities by income group, 2008
Chart A Net revenue from government-run gambling has levelled off recently
Chart B Gambling gross domestic product (GDP) turned down before the rest of
the economy
Full article:
HTML
PDF
(115K, 5 pages)
Related subjects:
* Economic
accounts
* Income
and expenditure accounts
* Families,
households and housing
* Household
characteristics
* Income,
pensions, spending and wealth
* Household
spending and savings
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August 27, 2010
Income replacement during the retirement years
* Highlights
* Full article:
HTML
PDF
(136K, 8 pages)
Abstract:
This article examines the extent to which family income of individuals in their
mid-fifties is 'replaced' by other sources of income during the retirement years.
It does so by tracking various cohorts of tax filers as they age from their
mid-fifties to their late seventies. Earlier work examined this question for
the 50% of the population with strong labour market attachment during their
mid-fifties. This paper extends that work to include 80% to 85% of the population.
Source:
Perspectives
on Labour and Income
[Click "View" for the current issue or
"Chronological index" for earlier issues of this publication.]
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August 26, 2010
Payroll
employment, earnings and hours, June 2010
Between June 2009 and June 2010, the average weekly earnings of non-farm
payroll employees rose by 4.0% to $853.50. This was the fastest year-over-year
increase since February 2008.
- includes two tables:
* Average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees
* Number of employees
Related report:
Employment,
Earnings and Hours
This publication presents a timely picture of employment, earnings and hours.
The tabulations focus on monthly labour market information and some historical
data series.
NOTE: the report itself is posted about a month later than the release in The
Daily.
Click "View" to see the latest issue of this report online; click
"Chronological index" for earlier issues.
Related subjects:
* Labour
* Employment
and unemployment
* Hours
of work and work arrangements
* Industries
* Wages,
salaries and other earnings
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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
- Go to the Employment Insurance Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ei.htm
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What's new from the
Childcare Resource and Research Unit - August 30
|
What's new from the
Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU):
August 30, 2010
What's new online:
[This section archives documents that
have been featured on the CRRU homepage..]
Children
in Europe -- Playing outside: Why does it matter?
25 Aug 10
- Latest issue of Children in Europe examines the use of outdoor space across
the EU and the benefits that unstructured play and the natural environment offer
to young children.
Online
guide to ECEC credentialing
25 Aug 10
- Website developed by the Child Care Human Resources Sector Council allows
users to search, compare and browse requirements to work in ECEC across Canada.
Provision
of child care services in Reggio Emilia, Italy
25 Aug 10
- Speech by Sonia Masini, President of the Province of Reggio Emilia, to a meeting
on implementing the Barcelona child care targets across Europe.
First
round Early Years Centres
25 Aug 10
- Government of Prince Edward Island announces the first 36 centres that will
implement the Preschool Excellence Initiative.
more
WHAT'S NEW ONLINE »
child care in the news
·
Riverdale kindergarten wins reprieve
[CA-AB] 25 Aug 10
·
UK childcare takes bigger bite of parents' wages [UK]
[UK] 25 Aug 10
·
Childcare fees may rise up to $35 a day
[AU] 25 Aug 10
·
Assurances of fair funding are a facade
[CA-BC] 24 Aug 10
·
Family holiday? Don't forget to pack grandma!
[UK] 23 Aug 10
·
Childcare workers to teach grades 1,2
[CA-PE] 12 Aug 10
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- Go to the Non-Governmental
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|
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:
August
27:
Hurricane Katrina Recovery at 5-Year Anniversary
Overhauling Low-Performing Schools
Food Stamp Program Enrollment - Wisconsin
Joblessness in the US
Flooding in Pakistan
August
26:
Depression among Mothers of Infants in Poverty
State Budget and Programs for the Poor - Texas
Supplemental Security Income and Refugees
State Childrens Health Insurance Program - Kentucky
August
25:
Race to the Top
Medicaid Reform - Florida
Medicaid Application Process and Enrollment - South Carolina
Medicaid and Family Planning - Wisconsin
Food Stamp Program Enrollment - Montana
Costs of Chronic Homelessness
August
24:
Race to the Top Grant Competition
Childrens Mental Health Post-Hurricane Katrina
General Assistance Medical Care - Minnesota
Recession and Rural Hospitals - Georgia
Recession and Health Insurance Coverage
August
23:
State Cuts to Family Services - Texas
The Homeless and Access to Health Care
Child Care Subsidies - Georgia
Poverty Measurement in Arab Nations
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Past
Poverty Dispatches
- links to dispatches back to June 2006
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Institute for Research on Poverty
(IRP)
[ University of Wisconsin-Madison ]
- 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
|
Australian Policy Online
- selected recent content (August 29)
|
Australian Policy Online
(APO)
APO is a news service and library specialising in Australian public policy reports
and articles from academic research centres, think tanks, government and non-government
organisations. The site features opinion and commentary pieces, video, audio
and web resources focussed on the policy issues facing Australia.
[ About APO ]
NOTE : includes links to the latest APO research; the five most popular downloads
of the week (see below)
appear in a dark box in the top right-hand corner of each page.
-------------------------------------------------------
Week ending August 29, 2010
Most viewed this week on APO:
1. A
social inclusion action plan: opportunities and challenges
2. A scan of disadvantage in Queensland 2010
3. Australian sustainable energy: Zero carbon Australia stationary energy plan
4. Community activity and service delivery models: an overview of Brotherhood
centres
5. Leaving
Care and Homelessness: A CHP Sector Forum
[You'll find these links on the APO home page.]
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New Research : Social Policy |
Poverty
- topics include:
* Community * Cultural diversity * Families & households * Gender &
sexuality * Immigration & refugees * Population * Poverty * Religion &
faith * Social Inclusion * Social problems * Welfare * Youth
Week ending August 29,
2010
Most viewed this week in the Social Policy area:
1. A social inclusion action plan: opportunities
and challenges
2. A scan of disadvantage in Queensland 2010
3. Leaving Care and Homelessness: A CHP Sector Forum
4. Community activity and service delivery models: an overview of Brotherhood
centres
5. Technology developments in the digital economy
[You'll find these links on the APO Social Policy page.]
- Go to the Social Research Links in Other
Countries (Non-Government) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/internatngo.htm
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Latest issue of CRINMAIL (children's rights newsletter):
25
August 2010, CRINMAIL issue 1189
In this issue:
- Europe's asylum policies must give children a chance
- Global Employment Trends for Youth
- Swaziland - next victim of ritual killings
- Commentary on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
- International youth report on corporal punishment
- West Africa: Youth forum on violence against children
- Bangladesh bars enforced Islamic dress code
- El Salvador: UN children's expert makes first visit
- Malta: Children's Commissioner investigates detentions
- Egypt: Children's participation (event and call for papers)
- Also includes:
* World news * Reports * Events * Laws * Issues
* Advocacy * Challenging breaches * Take action * Campaigns * Toolkits
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editions focusing on special themes, 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 Website.
NOTE: see http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chnrights.htm
for the table of contents for, and links to, several months' worth of
issues of CRINMAIL.
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