Social Fabric
Women in the Canadian Economy
As a young woman in Canada, I have not felt discriminated against. Throughout my university career, my gender didn't seem to matter and professors encouraged me to pursue a PhD and the life of an academic as much as any of my male fellow students.
In Tight Times, Campbell Gov't Chooses to Help Big Banks
Inept budgeters axed $100 million yearly tax revenue from fat financial institutions. And it gets worse.It used to be said of the New Democrats (when they were in government during the 1990s), that, such was their lack of business and financial expertise, they couldn't run a lemonade stand.
Sadly, with Gordon Campbell and his BC Liberals, British Columbia today has a government whose fiscal acumen is so abysmal, so evidently lacking, that they appear incapable of operating any business enterprise of any size.
School grows greener graduates; Dedicated students teachers staff at Reynolds High School lead way in environmental education
Over the last few years, the Green Spaces Project has gone from concept to reality, with landscaping, gardening and educational activities transforming areas of the school into welcoming and sustainable micro-ecosystems.
The Cleveland Model : Green worker Co-ops
Something important is happening in Cleveland: a new model of large-scale worker- and community-benefiting enterprises is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy. The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL)--a worker-owned, industrial-size, thoroughly "green" operation--opened its doors late last fall in Glenville, a neighborhood with a median income hovering around $18,000.
BC School Closures: A Cure Worse Than the Disease
The number shut by BC's Liberals is 176 and climbing, but here's why the savings will likely prove a mirage.
Forty-four of B.C.'s 60 school districts have closed 176 schools since 2002, and over 50 more closures are certain or threatened over the next couple of years. But demographic projections suggest that closures are a short-term solution that will create a long-term problem.
B.C. school trustees to superintendents: We need more information
Province to cut $10 million from community services for children, families
The B.C. government plans to cut an estimated $10 million in funding from organizations that provide services to some of the province’s most vulnerable children and families.In a confidential letter sent last month, executive directors in the Ministry of Children and Family Development were told that cuts to contracted agencies would be necessary by April 1, because “it is no longer possible to achieve the fiscal targets for 2010/11 without baseline reductions to funding for community service providers.”
Study shows 50% rise in likelihood of England's poorest teenagers going to university since mid-90s
Findings follow report on growing inequalities. Richest teenagers much more likely to do degree
Teenagers from the poorest homes in England are 50% more likely to go to university than they were 15 years ago, according to a study that will be welcomed by the government after other recent reports found that Britain had become a more unequal nation.
The government-commissioned Hills report, published yesterday, showed inequality is greater than it was in 1980.
Cariboo-Chilcotin trustees ready to break law about budgets
School trustees in Cariboo-Chilcotin say they will draft a budget to maintain quality education, even if it means breaking the law, according to a story in the Williams Lake Tribune."The board will develop a budget for the coming year that retains quality education for our students," trustee Bruce Mack is quoted as saying. "We recognize that with the current funding projections that this may mean a deficit budget."
'Red Tent' Campaign Planned for Homeless during Olympics
Pivot Legal wants city to let it provide 500 tents to people sleeping on Vancouver's streets. Picture homeless people camped on downtown sidewalks. Big yawns inside bright red tents as the sun rises on another Olympics day. Early next month, Pivot Legal Society hopes to ask city council's permission to start handing out 500 collapsible shelters to Vancouver's most needy. Pivot's rights activists want to confront a city enthralled by Olympic jubilation with the reality of local poverty. And test the limits of constitutional law.
