Child poverty on the rise
A recent study has reported that child poverty in Canada is on the rise. This is despite the fact that 15 years ago all parties in the House of Commons declared that they would reduce child poverty. A booming economy has not helped many children in Canada. The study remarks that many of Canada’s poor are working poor, families where low wages simply cannot pay for all the necessary needs. The study suggests raising the minimum wage to $10 hour. In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, why is 1 child in 6 living in poverty?
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What will another four years of Bush be like?
Well everybody else is writing about the election, so I figured I might as well. The largest question I have coming out of the George W. Bush vistory is: what will happen in the next four years? Will there be more invasions? Will terrorism actually buckle under the defenses put up by the Bush administration, or will the American foreign policy breed more terrorists? Does the Bush administration actually have a plan for maintaining civil liberties while they fight their war on terror? When will the American military pull out of the war in Iraq that has killed up to 100,000 Iraqis and over 1000 Americans? . When will billions of dollars be spent on solving the social ills in America before they are spent on sending weapons to war zones? These questions remain in my mind and only the next four years will answer them. I pray that my worst fears, and many others do not come true. Instead I pray for a mighty flood of justice, a flood of justice like that spoken of in the sacred book, a book where George W and I find a common faith, but a radically different theology.
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