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Child Poverty is family poverty
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007Children are poor because the parents are poor and I know this is obvious to everyone. Child poverty is a vital issue but many of the cures lie in provincial jurisdictions. Social services and...
Listening rather than imposing development, Cite Soleil Haiti model
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007I sit on the board of directors for a Canadian Charity called Third World Awareness. www.twawareness.org This is an excerpt from one of our post project reports. Feel free to visit the web site and...
Senate and electoral reform ideas
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007Utilizing the fact that we have two federal houses we could incorporate two aspects of proportional representation one using MMP (mixed member) and the other STV (single transferable vote) The lower...
CBC and CRTC regulations
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007What should we regulate? Rather than not allowing private conglomerates to buy out each others entertainment crap we should reserve access to alternative voices. Who is really dedicated to...
Affordable housing ideas
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007Here is another concept that I have always been curious about. For years I lived on Queen Street West in Toronto. I lived above a store front on the second floor. One day the owner offered to sell to...
Homelessness and Affordable housing
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007First and foremost it is imperative that the right to safe shelter be included in the Canadian constitution. Access to the security of a permanent residence, a home, is a human right not a reward to...
Conservative Law & Order agenda
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007I am tired of Conservative law and order and social order campaigns being predicated on finding the poorest and most defenceless in society and promising to kick their guts out. This may appeal to...
Supervised injection and alcohol intake sites
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007Supervised injection and alcohol intake sites When my brother was on the street as a psychiatric person, it was the network of people, shelters, soup kitchens, and social services that allowed him to...
Traps to avoid #4
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007"4. The Rationalism Trap. There is a commonplace—and false—theory that reason is completely conscious, literal (applies directly to the objective world), logical, universal, and unemotional....
Reaching out to immigrants and refugees #1
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007One of the questions I have begun to ask myself is how can we reach out to refugees and immigrants when it is our own foreign policies and economic policies that have created the conditions from...