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Responses
to Ontario Budget 2007
What
people are saying about McGuinty's "Don't Believe it Budget:
People
from across Ontario are saying Dalton McGuinty's "Don't
Believe it Budget" fails to deliver
Low
Income Families Together (L.I.F.T.)
Too
Little, Too Late! 2007 Provincial budget offers last minute pre-election crumbs,
but does not address poverty
O.D.S.P.
Action Coalition:
People with Disabilities Left in Poverty by Ontario Budget
Income
Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC):
Budget
good first step, but much work remains to be done: anti-poverty activists
CUPE
Ontario
Ontario's
families will wait for years to benefit from McGuinty's "war" on poverty
Wellesley
Institute:
Thanks for the thoughts, but where's the money?
Ontario
Federation of Labour (OFL):
Wait
...Wait ...Wait
Accessibility
For Ontarians With Disabilities Act Alliance Update (AODA Alliance):
What
the Ontario Budget Includes on Disability/Accessibility
John
Tory: McGuinty's Budget: No relief, few results for average taxpayers
Tory
says McGuinty missed an opportunity to use billions in extra money to help families
Daily
Bread Food Bank:
Budget's Ontario Child Benefit gets thumbs up from
Daily Bread Food Bank
Elementary
Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO):
Elementary
Teachers Applaud Government Focus on Education
Community
Living Ontario:
McGuinty Government's Commitment to Developmental Services
Encouraging
Ontario
Association of Food Banks (OAFB):
Food banks welcome focus on poverty --
OAFB welcomes
first step on a long journey to reduce poverty in Ontario
United
Ways of Ontario:
Budget
Addresses Needs of Vulnerable Ontarians
The
Ontario Child Benefit & the March 22nd Provincial Budget
Read
a backgrounder on the Ontario Budget 2007 prepared by the Income Security
Advocacy Centre
New
Federal Policies Affecting Women's Equality: Reality Check -- CRIAW's latest Fact
Sheet
Do
you agree with the federal Conservatives that “women are already equal”?
It
summarizes “facts” and “current government policy” for six
issues.
Read text here, highlighting one detail
from each section.
Commentary
on Sept. 26th Announcement of $1-Billion Funding Cuts
Canadian
Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
CAUT
commentary on Treasury Board funding cuts 
(PDF, 4 pgs, 20 kb)
On
September 26 Stephen Harper’s Conservative government announced a series
of cuts totaling $1 billion over the next
two years. The cuts were announced on the same day the government made a $13.2-billion
payment on the national debt. The cuts affect a vast array of departments but
are concentrated primarily on aboriginal programs, skills and literacy training,
social policy research, legal assistance and research, and funding for Status
of Women Canada. Read More
Support
a National Child Care Program
Momentum
is building for a private members’ bill that would boost child care from
a patchwork of services to a pan-Canadian program. Add your support today by emailing
your member of parliament about this important bill. Read
more and Take Action
Government's
real priorities revealed - Media Statement
We
are deeply concerned about the gutting of the only federal agency that addresses
critical questions pertaining to equality and about what it suggests about what
this government's true intentions are for equality matters in Canada.
Announced Monday, the 5 million dollar cut to Status of Women Canada (SWC) is
a serious attack on the lone federal department engaged in the development of
gender responsive policy and in the fulfillment of Canada's human rights obligations
to women at the international, domestic, and inter-governmental levels.
We
now see the government's real priorities revealed. Read
More
Canadian
Conservative Government Slashes Funding to Wasteful Anti-Family Programs
LifeSiteNews.com,
John-Henry Westen, dd September 26, 2006
OTTAWA, September 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- The budgets of some of the most wasteful and at the same time biased Canadian
government funded programs have been slashed by the new Conservative Government.
Three organizations which have been overtly pushing for same-sex marriage have
been denied millions of tax-dollars they have been receiving for years under the
previous Liberal government. <SNIPED>
REAL Women Canada, a conservative women's
group said in a press release today that they were "especially pleased"
at the cut to Status of Women. "This is a good start, and we hope that
the Status of Women will eventually be eliminated entirely, since it does not
represent 'women', but only represents the ideology of feminists," said
the group. "The Status of Women was established in 1973 under Prime Minister
Trudeau and over the years, it has funded feminist groups to serve as agents of
change, never recognizing that other women have different views and have no wish
to be represented by these feminist organizations."
Hold
your nose & read more
National
Council of Women of Canada (NCWC) Responds to Federal Budget Cuts
Stephen Harper promised to
“take concrete and immediate measures …to ensure that Canada fully upholds
its commitments to women.”
The
elimination of the Court challenges Program will deny legal redress to
poor and marginlized women: the Conservative Government is abrogating CEDAW
Article 2 (c) To establish legal protection of the rights of
women on an equal basis with men and to ensure through competent national tribunals
and other public institutions the effective protection of women against any act
of discrimination. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not include
the financial means by which to access the courts on an equal basis with the wealthiest
citizens or corporations when a individual’s rights have been violated.
Harper’s
Government cut $5 million from the Status of Women budget despite the recommendations
of the Parliamentary Committee, representing all parties in the house, to an increase
in the budget of at least 25%. How does this action live up to his promised commitment
to Canadian women?
Cuts
to Status of Women and Court Challenges Program Undermine Government’s Commitment
to Women’s Equality
FAFIA (Canadian
Feminist Alliance for International Action) Press Release
Ottawa:
FAFIA, a pan-Canadian
alliance of women’s and human rights organizations, is denouncing the $5
million cut to the federal department of Status of Women over two years. These
cuts will be taken from its modest annual budget of $13 million. The grants and
contributions arm ($11 million) of the department was not affected.
“These
cuts will critically affect the federal government’s own commitment to live
up to its equality commitments to women,” said Shelagh
Day, Co-Chair of the Canadian Feminist Alliance (FAFIA).
FAFIA is
also dismayed by the elimination of the Court Challenges Program. “This
Program has provided Canadian women with their only access to the use of their
constitutional equality rights,” said Shelagh Day. “Equality rights
have no meaning in Canada if women, and other Canadians who face discrimination,
cannot use them.” Read More | en
français:
Des coupures à Condition féminine Canada et au Programme de contestation
judiciaire sapent l'engagement du gouvernement envers l'égalité
des femmes
Conservatives
Elimininate Court Challenges Program & Cut $5M from Status of Women of Canada
over next 2 years
The $5 Million cut to Status of
Women Canada (SWC) and the elimination of the Court Challenges Program (CCP),
seriously undermine the Government's commitment to women's equality. The
overall budget at SWC is $24 million. The women's program absorbs almost $11 million
(grants and contributions). That means the department functions on effectively
$13 million, 5 million of which has just been cut over next 2 years.
Here's
the pinpoint URLs to Treasury Board of Canada site with info on the cuts.
English: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/media/nr-cp/2006/0925_e.asp
En français: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/media/nr-cp/2006/0925_f.asp
Notes
from Pay Equity Press Conference, Ottawa, Sept/21/06
Andrée
Côté, National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL)
Bonjour,
my name is Andrée Côté,
and until a few weeks ago I was Director of Law Reform at the National
Association of Women and the Law. NAWL has been forced to lay off it's
staff in the last few weeks and is waiting for the renewal of our funding application
from Status of Women Canada.
The
Harper government response on pay equity this week demonstrates why it
is so important that women's groups receive adequate and stable funding: we need
to have the capacity to defend women's rights, and to respond to retrograde and
ineffective policies that bring us back 20 years. Read
More | plus en français
Pay
Equity: at the heart of equality
Canadian
Labour Congress & Public Service Alliance Of Canada
Press
Release dd Sept. 21, 2006
The
federal government announced yesterday that it is taking a giant step backwards
on the question of equal pay for women workers. More than thirty years after the
adoption of the Canadian Human Rights Act, women still earn less, on average,
than men regardless of their occupation, age or education. Today, a woman earns
72.5 cents for every dollar a man earns. Our equal pay legislation is not working.
The wage gap is even greater for Aboriginal women, women of colour and women with
disabilities. Read the full release in English
|
en français
Women's
groups fear federal cuts coming
by
Norma Greenaway, CanWest News Service, Vancouver Sun, Sept. 22, 2006
A
leading Canadian women's rights group has been forced to close its office for
lack of money and other federally financed organizations fear a similar fate as
the Conservative government zeroes in on a promise to cut spending by $1 billion
this fiscal year. The prospect cheers Gwen Landolt, vice-president of the pro-life,
pro-family conservative lobby group REAL Women Canada and a fierce critic of federal
funding of ''feminist'' and other special interest groups. ''It's simply an abuse
of taxpayers' money to fund only one ideology,'' Landolt said in an interview.
Read Full article at:
http://tinyurl.com/fl9aw
Conservatives
Take First Step Towards Dismantling Ministry for the Status of Women / Les Conservateurs
Amorcent Le Démantèlement De Condition Féminine Canada
NDP / NPD Press Release dd Sept. 20, 2006
Excerpt: OTTAWA – The future of women’s organisations across
Canada is being threatened as the Conservative Government is taking too long to
review Status of Women Program applications – forcing prominent women’s
organisations to close their doors.
“By
not responding to funding applications, the Conservatives are allowing programs
to shut down, one by one.,” said NDP MP critic for the Status of Women Irene
Mathyssen. "What's next? The entire department? It looks like Bev Oda is
spoiling to dismantle the Status of Women department."
As
of Sept. 12, The National Association of Women and the Law, has closed their doors
due to insufficient federal funding. The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International
Action (FAFIA) will shut down on Sept. 26. Organizations have put in applications
for funding, but have heard nothing from the Minister responsible for Status of
Women, Bev Oda.
English
version
en français
The
Effect of Bill 14 - Access to Justice Act - on Paralegals and the Public
In its on-going opposition
to Bill 14, the Paralegal
Society of Ontario (POS) emphasized the numerous concerns expressed by
both paralegals and non-paralegals to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy.
Read More
Womyn's
Voices Online Consultation - Violence Against Women: Sept. 18 – Oct. 13,
2006
Objective:
Engage women of
Canada, including equality seeking women’s organizations, in the federal
government ICT initiatives and collaborate on developing strategies to eliminate
online violence and exploitation of women.
Outcomes
Activities
Schedule
Register
Blair:
"clamp down on antisocial children before birth"
Setting
out plans for state intervention to prevent babies born into high-risk families
becoming problem teenagers of the future, Tony Blair said teenage mothers could
be forced to accept state help before giving birth, as part of a clampdown on
antisocial behaviour. Read More
Conservatives
Must Come Clean on Agenda for Status of Women Canada
Liberal Party
of Canada Press Release dd August
25, 2006
OTTAWA
– Liberal Critic for Status of Women and Multiculturalism Maria Minna
today called on Heritage Minister Bev Oda to reveal the Conservative government’s
true intentions for the future of Status of Women Canada.
“The
Conservative grassroots community is actively campaigning for the demise of this
important agency which promotes the rights of women in Canada,” said Ms.
Minna. “Ms. Oda must come clean and reveal whether or not she will bow to
the pressure of these extreme right-wing groups or if she will take a stand and
publicly distance herself from their position.”
Recent media reports
indicate that several socially Conservative blogs have begun a campaign to eliminate
the federal agency for the Status of Women. The group REAL women of Canada, which
also opposes same-sex marriage and legalized abortion, launched the campaign because
of their belief that the agency “promotes feminist policies on the false
premise that women in Canada are victims of a patriarchal society.” Read
More
Law
Society Silences Non-Advocacy Paralegals
Imagine
having your ability to make a living severally changed or eliminated, and you
are not able to use your constitutional right to speak out in protest. That
is what the non-advocacy paralegal faces, as the McGuinty government moves forward
with its controversial Bill 14, The Access to Justice Act. The bill,
if passed, would have paralegals regulated by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Read More
Federal
Court orders sign language services
In
a landmark ruling, the Federal Court of Canada has ordered the federal government
to make professional sign language interpretation services available on request
when providing services to people who are deaf or affected by hearing loss. Read
More
Women
& HIV/AIDS
Women
and HIV: The promise of microbicides
Randy
Sheppard, CBC News Online
According
to the World Health Organization, women account for nearly 70 per cent of HIV-AIDS
cases worldwide.
When
most people think about AIDS, they see it primarily as a problem of the gay community
or of those who share needles. And they wouldn't be wrong.
But
over the past half-dozen or so years, the face of AIDS in Canada and the United
States has begun to change quite dramatically. More and more of those acquiring
the disease turn out to be young heterosexual women, infected
by their partners. Read
More
AIDS 2006
16th International AIDS Conference
Time
to Deliver
www.aids2006.org/
Highlights
from the XVI International AIDS Conference,
Monday, August 14 - Friday, August 18, in Toronto,
Canada
Global
Leaders Speak Out: Mr. William Jefferson Clinton and Stephen Lewis - August 15,
2006 -- XVI International AIDS Conference
Read
Transcript and/or View Video of this session
Clinton,
Gates Address Stigma, Other Challenges to Combating HIV/AIDS Pandemic - August
14, 2006 -- XVI International AIDS Conference
Priorities
in Ending the Epidemic: Mr. William J. Clinton and William Gates - August 14,
2006 -- XVI International AIDS Conference
Read
Transcript and/or View Video of this session
Actor,
HIV/AIDS Advocate Richard Gere Says Media is Crucial in Fighting Pandemic - August
14, 2006 -- XVI International AIDS Conference
Women
at the Frontline in the AIDS Response - August 14, 2006 -- XVI International AIDS
Conference
Read
Transcript and/or View Video of this session
Media
and AIDS: Spreading Information Faster than the Disease - August 14, 2006 -- XVI
International AIDS Conference
Panelists at this session discuss the
mobilization of the media industry following the 2004 launch of the Global Media
AIDS Initiative by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a special meeting organized
by the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS.
Read Transcript and/or View
Video of this session
High
Level Session on Leadership: Time to Deliver for Women and Girls - August 13,
2006 -- XVI International AIDS Conference
Read
Transcript and/or View Video of this session
Opening
Address at 16th International AIDS Conference Aug. 13, 2006 by Governor General
Michaëlle Jean
Daily
Roundup for Friday, August 18, 2006 from the XVI International AIDS Conference
Delegates at the
closing of the XVI International AIDS conference in Toronto were reminded that
now is the "Time to Deliver." Read
More
Daily
Roundup for Thursday, August 17, 2006 from the XVI International AIDS Conference
The XVI International
AIDS Conference began today by addressing the need for a coordinated and comprehensive
approach to HIV that includes elements some say are often overlooked, like
human rights and youth. Read More
Daily
Roundup for Wed., August 16, 2006 from the XVI International AIDS Conference
On Wednesday, achieving
universal access to HIV/AIDS was a major focus of the conference. The World
Health Organization released new estimates of global antiretroviral therapy coverage.
Read More
Daily
Roundup for Tuesday, August 15, 2006 from the XVI International AIDS Conference
The latest Daily Roundup includes comments from actor Richard Gere and
former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Read
More
Daily
Roundup for Monday, August 14, 2006 from the XVI International AIDS Conference
The Daily Roundup for Monday,
August 14 looks at the AIDS 2006 theme – Time To Deliver – and
features comments from Bill and Melinda Gates and former U.S. President
Bill Clinton.
Read More
How
you can participate online (free) in the 16th International AIDS Conference -
Aug. 13 to 18, 2006
In
preparation for the 16th International
AIDS Conference taking place in Toronto from Aug.
13 - 18th, 2006, (and to help inform both myself as a conference delegate
and other DAWN members) we've assembled some information on Women
and HIV/AIDS (see below) from the International
Women's Health Coalition (IWHC).
Please
note that portions of the AIDS 2006 Conference will be available for viewing on
the Internet at no cost and with no registration... Webcasts and transcripts,
along with additional coverage, will be accessible at a later date. You can now
sign up now to receive a daily update email during the week of the conference,
providing summaries of each day's developments and direct access to all of the
online coverage. Sign up at www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2006.
For
those of you living in or near the Greater Toronto Area, please note that there
are a number of women's events that will be held in the Global
Village at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. These are open to the general
public (free of charge) as well as to conference delegates.
Here
is the link to the Programme available online: www.aids2006.org/PAG/ProgrammeAtAGlance.aspx.
Any event marked with GV as the venue is scheduled to take place in the
Global Village and does not require a conference badge to attend. As
an example, here are 2 events scheduled at the Global Village (which I am anxious
to attend):
1.
An interactive session hosted by Association for Women's Rights in Development
(AWID)
Where's
the Money for Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS?
AWID will share
its 'hot off the press' research on resources for women's rights organizations
and HIV/AIDS. Come share and learn if women are being short-changed and become
part of the strategies to mobilize more resources for women's rights. For more
info, contact awid@awid.org.
When:
Sun. Aug. 13, 2006 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Where: Global Village,
Main Stage, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
2.
Hosted by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW),
International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) and AWID:
In
Her Own Words: Violations of Women's Human Rights and HIV
Moderated by Charlayne Hunter-Gault (CNN-Johannesburg)
This panel will
expose rights violations that have led to the growing number of women who are
now living with HIV, calling for greater respect and promotion of women's rights
within the HIV/AIDS response. Panelists from different parts of the world -- HIV+
women activists and policy analysts -- will identify where appropriate policy
or program interventions might have made the difference in terms of HIV status,
treatment and community response. For more info, contact Cami Hilsendager at chilsendager@iwhc.org.
When:
Mon. Aug. 14, 2006 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Where: Global Village, Main
Stage, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Women
and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts
Women are increasingly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
Young people, especially young women, are disproportionately at risk.
Women and girls do not have access to comprehensive information and services.
The biggest HIV/AIDS risk for many
women and girls is marriage.
Sexual coercion and violence lead to a greater chance of infection. Read
More
With Women Worldwide: A Compact to End HIV/AIDS
Outlines
priority actions for making global HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care strategies
work for women. Developed by a group of women advocates for use in 2006 negotiations
on HIV/AIDS and beyond. ... Read More
Women
and HIV/AIDS: Women's Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS:
An Overview
The
Context: Women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS Worldwide
In January 2002, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan announced that for
the first time, women represented half of HIV-positive individuals worldwide,
and more than half in sub-Saharan Africa, the region of the world hit hardest
by the epidemic. HIV/AIDS had become a generalized epidemic in many African countries,
moving from high-risk groups such as sex workers and injection drug users to the
general population, largely because of pervasive gender inequality. The combination
of social and political inequalities and severe poverty is lethal to women in
the developing world, rendering them disproportionately vulnerable to the virus.
... Read more
The
Commitment: Addressing Women's Realities Despite
women's disproportionate vulnerability, few programs aimed at curbing the pandemic's
spread target them or reflect the realities of their lives. If we want to stop
HIV/AIDS—in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America, in Eastern Europe, and in
Canada and the United States — we must do two things: ... Read
more
Colleagues:
Empowering Women on the Ground
IWHC's
colleagues worldwide are providing young people with the information, skills,
and strategies to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS, and advocating for policies
that mandate the gender-sensitive comprehensive sexuality education that will
enable future generations to reach adulthood in good health. They are also working
to erode the gender inequalities that fuel the epidemic's spread by advocating
for women's sexual and reproductive rights and focusing attention on the realities
of women's lives. For example: ... Read
more
ATHENA:
Advancing Gender Equity and Human Rights in the Global Response to HIV/AIDS
As the world enters
the third decade of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, women — especially the
young and the poor — are increasingly affected. Because gender inequity fuels
HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS fuels gender inequity, it is
imperative that women and girls speak out, set priorities for action, and lead
the global response to the crisis. The ATHENA
Network was created to realize this imperative.
ATHENA
strives to bridge the communities around the world that are addressing gender,
human rights, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. Further, ATHENA
promotes the leadership and participation of women and girls, especially those
living with HIV/AIDS, as central to the global response. Through these efforts,
we are guided by four central mandates for our collective work – the indivisibility
and intersectionality of issues and experiences; the need for independence and
integrity; the inclusion of grassroots and indigenous groups; and the importance
of intergenerational exchange, new voices, and the involvement of youth. Read
More
A Dose of Reality: Women's
Rights in the Fight against HIV/AIDS
The
global HIV/AIDS pandemic is taking a catastrophic toll on women and girls. The
number of HIV infections among women and girls has risen in every region in recent
years, and in sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls constitute nearly 60 percent
of those living with HIV. In some countries, the HIV infection rates for girls
are many times higher than for boys. The rising number of HIV infections among
women and girls is directly related to violence against women and their unequal
legal, economic, and social status.
Abuses
of women's and girls' human rights impede their access to HIV/AIDS information
and services, including testing and treatment. Those who do obtain HIV services
sometimes face disclosure of their confidential HIV test results by public health
officials without the women's consent. This heightens women's risk of being ostracized
by their communities and abused by their intimate partners.
Governments
around the world have done far too little to combat the entrenched, chronic abuses
of women's and girls' human rights that put them at risk of HIV. Misguided HIV/AIDS
programs and policies, such as those emphasizing abstinence until marriage, ignore
the brutal realities many women and girls face. By failing to enact and effectively
enforce laws on domestic violence, marital rape, women's equal property rights,
and sexual abuse of girls, and by tolerating customs and traditions that subordinate
women, governments are enabling HIV/AIDS to continue claiming the lives of women
and girls. Read
More
Women
and HIV/AIDS: The Barcelona Bill of Rights
As
we enter the third decade of HIV/AIDS, women, especially the young and the poor,
are the most affected. Because gender inequality fuels the HIV/AIDS pandemic,
it is imperative that women and girls speak out, set priorities for action and
lead the global response to the crisis. Therefore, women and girls from around
the world unite and urge all governments, organizations, agencies, donors, communities
and individuals to make our rights a reality. Read
More
Remarks
by Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa to High-Level Panel on U.N.
Reform in Geneva
There is a crying
need for an international agency for women. Every stitch of evidence we have,
right across the entire spectrum of gender inequality suggests the urgent need
for a multilateral agency. The great dreams of the international conferences in
Vienna, Cairo and Beijing have never come to pass. It matters not the issue: whether
it's levels of sexual violence, or HIV/AIDS, or maternal mortality, or armed conflict,
or economic empowerment, or parliamentary representation, women are in terrible
trouble. And things are getting no better. Read
More
Four
Steps for Canada: Stephen Lewis and Canadian civil society groups demand action
on global AIDS crisis
Platform presented
to Prime Minister Stephen Harper in advance of AIDS Conference
Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for
AIDS in Africa, today joined the Global
Treatment Access Group (GTAG) and the Make
Poverty History Campaign
in calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take decisive action
in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
The
Global AIDS Crisis: Four Steps for Canada is a civil society platform for
action to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS globally and to improve the quality of life
of people living with HIV/AIDS. The platform has already been endorsed by more
than 80 organizations across Canada, including the labour movement, faith groups,
AIDS organizations, student groups, human rights advocates, and humanitarian and
development organizations. Read More
The
stigma surrounding abortion continues in New Brunswick - Open Letter from Dr.
Henry Morgentaler
The
New Brunswick government continues to deny women access to publicly funded abortions.
Under the current Medical Services Payment Act, to have an abortion covered by
Medicare, women are obliged to have the approval of two doctors in writing and
the abortion must be performed in a hospital by a gynecologist. This leaves women
with no family doctor or an anti-choice doctor no option other than the Morgentaler
Clinic in Fredericton. This discriminatory practice must stop. Read
More
Vancouver
Sun, columnist Daphne Bramham slams the Women's Economic Justice Report on Guaranteed
Livable Income
In the July 22, 2006 Vancouver Sun, columnist Daphne Bramham
slams the Women's Economic Justice Report on Guaranteed
Livable Income. (page C4) See article here: http://tinyurl.com/fs3kj
She
states: "Far from helping women like them, this report makes the whole idea
[guaranteed income] seem ridiculous." and "The 72-page report by Cindy
L'Hirondelle reeks of a sloppy, sentimentalist view of nature, a vision of an
idyllic, Rousseau-ian rural life minus the peasants." and"Please, somebody
tell me that the Victoria Status of Women Action Group's recently released list
of benefits of a guaranteed annual income wasn't written for David Letterman."
Read More
R.E.A.L.
Women file complaint against Ontario Chief Justice
The
R.E.A.L. Women clan are at it again ... Now they've filed a formal complaint
against Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry with the Canadian Judicial Council,
alleging judicial misconduct.
Open
Letter/Petition to Mr. Harper demanding that the Gov't of Canada stop supporting
Israeli violence
I
hope you will add your names to this
