Dear Dennis,

I totally agree with Diana -- what you are doing is great!!!!  Please 
don't stop.  Thank you.

Greg

Quoting Diana Liw <[log in to unmask]>:

> 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 AM
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> Please respond to Social Determinants of Health <[log in to unmask]>
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> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:
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> Subject:    Re: [SDOH] Canada: Put poverty back on political agenda
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>
>
>
> To:  Dennis Raphael
>
> 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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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dennis Raphael
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 8:48  AM
> 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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