Hello Dennis and all my online peers/colleagues at SDOH:
We never take the time to stop and say thank you to people who make a
difference in our lives. So, this seems like an appropriate time.
Dennis, I appreciate your work. While the volume is heavy I find it easy
from the titles in the message or the sample I the preview pane to
decide what I will and won't open and I like this as I actually prefer
being my own filter. Further, I can't tell you how many times I have
been pondering an issue, looking for info or data, and lo and behold,
into my mail box is something from the SDOH list that is exactly to the
point. I also love the example you have set of generously sharing your
teaching materials, your lectures (where else do we get access to a
colleague's teaching as model and support!) which has a lovely side
benefit - I can feel caught up and satisfied intellectually.
And it is not just about what you send out either. I also like the
discussions that periodically crop up, no matter how feisty they get. I
love feeling connected to so many great minds especially when they don't
agree.
So, in my mind you don't have to do anything other than what you are
doing and have done so consistently and well over the time I have been
subscribed.
Thank you...
Tess
Theresa Healy, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Dept. of Gender Studies and the School of Environmental Planning
UNBC, Prince George, BC. V2N 4Z9
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"Until lions have their own historian, tales of the hunt will always
reflect the hunter." African proverb.
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Diana Liw
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Subject: Re: [SDOH] Canada: Put poverty back on political agenda
Dear Dennis:
Just want to let you know that I totally enjoyed your listserv with the
short time that I subscribed to it (about a week). I thoroughly enjoyed
your articles and comments. Please keep them coming.
>>> [log in to unmask] 11/26/06 5:35 AM >>>
This list has been up and running using the protocol you are
experiencing
for three years.
If you wish to not receive the messages I am sending I suggest you
unsubscribe and search the literature yourself.
Best wishes,
dr
LARRY DEUTSCH <[log in to unmask]>@YORKU.CA> on 26/11/2006 02:35:59
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I genuinely appreciate your communications through SDOH, but have to
admit
finding your frequency and volume excessive. So that I don't have to
unsubscribe, I'd helpfully suggest you limit your e-mailings to one
every
two or three days, at most -- perhaps through consolidation or more
selectivity.
Larry Deutsch
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Subject: [SDOH] Canada: Put poverty back on political agenda
Toronto Star Editorial
Put poverty back on political agenda
Nov. 25, 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/ycdz3p
While their governments seemingly choose to ignore it, the vast
majority
of
Canadians believe there is a growing gap between the rich and poor in
this
country. And, ominously, most Canadians fear that if the gap continues
to
expand, it will lead to more crime and an escalating polarization
between
rich and poor across the land.
But instead of action, politicians appear immune to the mounting
evidence
that we are losing the battle against poverty, despite parts of Canada
having enjoyed years of prosperity and personal and corporate wealth.
Just this week, that message was driven home in two major reports on
poverty. The first, by the Canadian Institute for Health Information,
found
people living in neighbourhoods in Toronto and other major cities with
higher income and education levels were far more likely to say they are
in
very good health than those in poorer ones. The second was the annual
Campaign 2000 report card, which found the national child poverty rate
stands at an unacceptably high level, with 17.7 per cent of all
children
in
this country living in households below the poverty line.
But it was a nationwide poll of 2,000 Canadians conducted by Environics
Research for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives that should
truly
prompt politicians in Ottawa and provincial legislatures to take
notice.
The survey, released this week, indicated that many Canadians saw the
growing rich-poor gap as a symptom of moral breakdown, with people
becoming
greedier and more obsessed with materialism.
Those findings are surprising, given a decade of solid economic growth,
nine straight federal budget surpluses and a relatively low
unemployment
rate. Indeed, 76 per cent of those surveyed believe the rich-poor gap
is
growing * not shrinking. "There is a very strong sense this is a
Canadian
concern," said Armine Yalnizyan, research fellow at the centre. "It is
not
about winners and losers, it's about where Canadian society is headed.
It
is seen to be part of the bedrock of our value system."
Regrettably, those deep-rooted concerns do not seem even to be on the
radar
screen of politicians in Ottawa and at Queen's Park.
For example, in spite of a $7 billion surplus, federal Finance Minister
Jim
Flaherty opted this week to cut taxes and focus on debt reduction,
rather
than giving back to those in true need through measures such as an
income
supplement to Canada's 650,000 working poor.
And provincially, the Liberal government of Premier Dalton McGuinty
refuses
to make up for past damage by the previous Conservative regime by
raising
the minimum wage to $10 an hour, ensuring hard-working families can
rise
out of poverty. And it steadfastly refuses to stop clawing back the
National Child Benefit Supplement from families on social assistance.
Or
to
increase welfare payments to those same families.
Canadians are right to be worried about the growing gap between the
rich
and poor, which has increased steadily through good times and bad.
Between 1996 and 2004, the gap between the lowest and highest income
families rose from $82,500 to $102,700. By 2004, average after-tax
income
was $125,000 for the one-fifth of families with the highest incomes and
a
mere $22,300 for families in the lowest fifth.
If Canadians believe that growing inequality is not right, then why
don't
their governments do something about it?
That's a question being rightly asked by a coalition of more than 700
groups with a combined membership of 250,000 Canadians who are working
to
put the issue of poverty back on the political agenda. Through its Make
Poverty History campaign, the coalition is seeking urgent, meaningful
policy changes by both Ottawa and the provinces.
All that is required is the political leadership to do what is right
for
Canada's poor. For instance, as the Campaign 2000 report card points
out,
the poverty gap * the amount of money needed to bring all poor families
with children up to the low-income cut-off line * is about $5.7
billion,
an
amount that could have been covered by eliminating the GST tax cut this
year. Tax cuts or reducing the poverty gap? That's a political
decision.
None of this can happen, of course, without a recognition by
politicians
that Canadians want action to end the widening disparity between the
rich
and poor. And the way to obtain that recognition will be to make
poverty a
major issue in the next federal election, expected as early as March or
April, and in the Ontario provincial election in October, 2007.
That's where Canadians can start addressing this national shame.
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