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Media & Policy News: 13 August 2012

August 13, 2012

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Canadian Medical Association releases a report today on health and income – they say, “What is particularly worrisome for Canada’s doctors is that in a nation as prosperous as Canada, the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ appears to be widening.”

  • CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/08/10/health-income-cma.html
  • The Tyee: http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Health/2012/08/13/Canadians_health/
  • The Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1241160–ottawa-grades-poorly-in-cma-s-annual-report-card-on-health-care
  • And here’s the report:http://www.cma.ca/multimedia/CMA/Content_Images/Inside_cma/Media_Release/2012/reportcard/CMA-2012National-Report-Card_en.pdf

Kenora to vote to shut City’s child care centre, as province should bear costs:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/story/2012/08/08/tby-kenora-daycare-closure.html

Also from Kenora, housing and homelessness funds are “a shell game”:
http://www.kenoraonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2773&Itemid=4

National Issues

The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour on Harper’s plans for a low wage labour market in Canada:
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/Stop+Harper+wage+plan/7041409/story.html

Canada Without Poverty makes a federal pre-budget submission:
http://www.cwp-csp.ca/2012/08/cwp-2012-pre-budget-submission/

Report from the Canadian Human Rights Commission provides a benchmark to measure the inequities faced by Canadians with disabilities:
http://www.examiner.com/article/canadian-adults-with-disabilities-lack-equal-opportunities

Here’s the report: http://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/pdf/reports/rerpd_rdepad-eng.pdf

An interesting examination of Preston Manning and the Carleton University school for Conservative apparatchiks:
http://albertadiary.ca/2012/07/preston-manning-is-no-saint-as-secretive-carleton-university-scheme-illustrates.html

International

From the Olympics files, does having a bad attitude cause disability?:
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/01/bad-attitudes-do-not-cause-disability-any-more-than-good-attitudes-guarantee-health/

UK wants to run call centres from prisons, calling it rehabilitation, with David Cameron urging business to “seize the opportunity that working prisons offer”:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/09/prison-call-centre-plans-revealed 

Romney has a new ad out hammering Obama for “gutting” Clinton’s 1996 welfare reforms that precipitated a whole new round of media coverage and analysis. Instead of posting links to all those articles, I thought I’d just share with you this wonderful one:

  • “The real problem with welfare is that it stopped helping the poor”:http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/the-real-problem-with-welfare-it-stopped-helping-the-poor/260857/
  •  OK, just one more. Here’s a “fact check” from ABC news:http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/fact-check-does-obama-want-to-gut-welfare-reform/
  • And something from the Washington Post about the conservative pedigree of “just writing cheques”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/08/obama-doesnt-want-to-just-write-welfare-recipients-checks-but-what-if-we-did/

And a good little article on the race to the bottom in Wisconsin:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-flanders/the-f-word-crushing-worke_b_827913.html

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