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The Canadian social safety net includes a broad spectrum of programs, many of which are run by the provinces and territories. Canada also has a wide range of government transfer payments to individuals, which totaled $176.6 billion in 2009—this cost only includes social programs that administer funds to individuals; programs such as medicare ...
The Coalition supports smaller government, cuts to social spending, abolition of medicare, extra-billing by doctors, lower taxes for the wealthy and is against public sector unions. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] : 197–206 The Coalition was successful in persuading Justice Medhurst of the Alberta Supreme Court to strike down the 1983 federal restrictions on ...
Social movements in Canada (4 C, 4 P) A. ... Films about social issues in Canada (4 C) H. Human rights abuses in Canada (15 C, 13 P) P. Persecution of LGBTQ people in ...
Human rights issues in the first seventy years of Canadian history thus tended to be raised in the framework of the constitutional division of powers between the federal and provincial governments. A person who was affected by a provincial law could challenge that law in the courts, arguing that it intruded on a matter reserved for the federal ...
The Canadian Indian Act helped inspire South Africa's apartheid policies. [18] Many Indigenous people were forced into assimilation through the Canadian Indian residential school system . From 1928 to the mid-1990s, Indigenous girls in the residential school system were subject to forced sterilization once they reached puberty.
Idle No More is an ongoing protest movement, founded in December 2012 by four women: three First Nations women and one non-Native ally. It is a grassroots movement among the Indigenous peoples in Canada comprising the First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and their non-Indigenous supporters in Canada, and to a lesser extent, internationally.
Print-based for the first two decades of its existence, Connexions published more than 4,000 abstracts summarising the content of documents, articles, reports, and books, as well as profiles of organizations and projects, becoming in the process a resource and networking tool for Canadian activists and researchers concerned with social justice ...
Individually it is characterized by people having to make tough choices between meeting basic needs like deciding whether to eat, buy new shoes, pay the rent etc. Studies have found poverty is strongly associated with poorer health, [28] physical and emotional, alcohol and drug abuse, [29] recidivism in the criminal justice system, class ...