In case you were worried, the Financial Post reports that ”new wealth” will continue to be generated in Canada and be one of the developed countries to “have some of the biggest concentrations of millionaire households by 2020.” I’m feeling so relieved, aren’t you? A Deloitte LLP report predicts that 2.4 million households in Canada will [...]
Adrienne Montani’s Blog Posts
Adrienne Montani is the Provincial Coordinator of First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition and a former Vancouver school trustee.
Thousands more millionaires in Canada
May 10th, 2011 · Adrienne Montani · 2 Comments · Children & youth, Poverty, inequality & welfare
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Scrooge is alive and well
December 29th, 2009 · Adrienne Montani · Comments Off · Poverty, inequality & welfare, Taxes
In a Vancouver Sun article (Market wages would make a difference to city’s taxes, December 28, 2009) Philip Hochstein argues Vancouver civic workers who make a living wage should be made to suffer the fate of those in the private sector whose employers get away with paying under $15 an hour for labouring, or $10-15 an hour [...]
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When $300,000 isn’t enough
December 21st, 2009 · Adrienne Montani · 2 Comments · Employment & labour, Health care, Poverty, inequality & welfare
I heard today that the Fraser Health Authority is giving its CEO Nigel Murray a $30,000 bonus on top of his $300,000 annual salary. Put that up against the cuts the Authority is making to services for addicted youth and seniors, among others. Remember that hospital housekeeping workers, who are the first line of defense [...]
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IWD commitments on my wish list
March 5th, 2009 · Adrienne Montani · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Children & youth, Employment & labour, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Women
With International Women’s Day on the horizon this weekend, I’m looking for some commitments. Women are over-represented in low-wage work. So which party in the upcoming election will commit to an investment in BC’s social capital through a living wage policy for the public sector, including public contractors? Stimulating the local economy and adding to [...]
Tags: childcare·children·living wage·Women
Why do BC kids need Finance Minister’s charitable donation to buy them shoes?
February 17th, 2009 · Adrienne Montani · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Children & youth, Employment & labour, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Provincial budget & finance
Minister Hansen donated money for shoes for poor children. Then he delivered a budget that doesn’t help parents who receive income assistance or who are working for the $8.00 per hour minimum wage to buy shoes for their own children. An act of charity that will help several children today compared to a missed opportunity [...]
Tags: budget·child poverty·childcare·inequality·living wage·minimum wage·welfare
Children’s mental health: Are we paying attention?
February 11th, 2009 · Adrienne Montani · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Children & youth, Education, Health care, Poverty, inequality & welfare
According to the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD), 15% or about 1 in 7 children in BC suffer from a mental health problem serious enough to cause significant distress and impair their development and functioning. In children, mental illness supersedes all other health problems in terms of the numbers affected and the degreee of impairment. Think about [...]
School ranking: public shaming with a statistical veneer
February 9th, 2009 · Adrienne Montani · 1 Comment · BC Election 2009, Children & youth, Education
By printing the Fraser Institute rankings of elementary schools the Vancouver Sun gives unwarranted attention and a gloss of respectability to a cynical attempt to create anxiety among parents and educators through public shaming of students, families, educators and to place public schools in a negative light. The FI’s ranking calculation is not a legitimate [...]
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