Why not ask Canadians living in poverty what kind of help they need before drafting solutions?Goar, Carol
The barkeep and blogger who writes as "Scribbler50" was outraged when, in 2003, New York City enacted one of the first comprehensive smoking bans in bars and restaurants: "How can a guy and some board just kick us in the teeth like this This smacks of fascism." If people are aware ...
) have very similar positions on thePort CityAct. They are in agreement that many of its provisions undermine democracy and bypass parliament and existing laws, that it concedes power to China to the extent of making Sri Lanka a semi-colony on...
“Twenty-five percent of all Medicare spending is for the five percent of patients who are in their final year of life, and most of that money goes for care in their last couple of months which is of little apparent benefit.”Quality of life – happiness...
A third factor—inequality—worsens the problem. The most prosperous 10 percent of Americans receive 17 times as much income as those in the bottom 10 percent. In countries with high life expectancies among those at 65—such as Japan, Sweden, and Norway—the top 10 percent makes only five ...
Self-employment (SE) is a growing precarious work arrangement internationally. In the current digital age, SE appears in configurations and contours that differ from the labor market of 50 years ago and is part of a ‘paradigm shift’ from manufacturing/managerial capitalism to entrepreneurial capita...
Youth make up 19 percent of the Canadian population, of them, one-third are less than 19 years of age and 15 percent of them live in rural areas [11]. Compared to urban youth, rural youth face unique challenges. For instance, rural youth are at higher risk of overall injury as they ...