Thnk about it. Evaluate the performance and results of social in-activists in your neighborhood and decide whether you are receiving value for your tax $$$. Why would you expect positive results from people who would become unemployed if they solved the "problems" they champion?
To implement these principles, the City of Toronto's grants programs will ensure that:
(1) all organizations receiving City grants are non-discriminatory and promote the goals of anti-racism, access and equity;
(2) all organizations receiving City grants take reasonable steps to ensure their services, programs anddecision-making reflect the community they serve;
(3) the City of Toronto's grants programs are accessible to organizations from Toronto's diverse communities, including organizations representing equity-seeking communities; and
(4) all required documentation and conditions will be reasonable and grants will not be withheld if the applicant is taking reasonable steps to comply with City policy.
The State Against Blacks
'The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn't do. . . . And that is to destroy the black family.'
Source
Showing posts with label Cottage Industries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cottage Industries. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Your Tax Dollars At Work...
...but not for you but rather for social in-activists.
Rights group tripled fees paid to consultants after cutback vow
After promising to clean up spending practices at Rights and Democracy, directors of the federally funded human-rights centre have overseen a tripling of the amount paid to consultants.
Never-used whistleblower panel has an $8.1-million budget
Tribunal hasn't heard a single case since it was set up in 2007. A little-known, never-used government tribunal will spend as much as $8.1 million of taxpayers' money by the end of 2012-13, federal documents show.
Rights group tripled fees paid to consultants after cutback vow
After promising to clean up spending practices at Rights and Democracy, directors of the federally funded human-rights centre have overseen a tripling of the amount paid to consultants.
Never-used whistleblower panel has an $8.1-million budget
Tribunal hasn't heard a single case since it was set up in 2007. A little-known, never-used government tribunal will spend as much as $8.1 million of taxpayers' money by the end of 2012-13, federal documents show.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Leftists, Liberals And Social In-Activists Trying To...
...feather their own nests and justify their cottage industries.
Tasha Kheiriddin: Pride parade rides the outrage express
Of course the real issue should be why the government funds all these interest groups and festivals in the first place
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Poverty Homelessness Addiction Are Cottage Industries...
A walk on the drug side
Insite's operations have been filmed many times, but never by a hidden camera
Published on Monday, Mar. 15, 2010 5:40PM EDT Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 3:09AM EDT
Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside is perhaps the most drug-ridden neighbourhood in North America. Misha Kleider is a young Vancouverite with curiosity. He decided to spend a month on the streets and make a film about it.
The result is a compelling documentary called Streets of Plenty, now available in seven parts on YouTube. The scenes of addled, self-destructive addicts are depressingly familiar. The scenes of social agencies eager to supply a homeless person's every need suggest that more social workers are not the answer to Vancouver's homeless problem. The most fascinating scene unfolds at Insite, the controversial supervised-injection facility that has become a flashpoint in the ideological drug wars.
Midway through his experiment, Mr. Kleider “realized that if I wanted to understand the street, I had to do drugs myself.” He tries crack cocaine. Then someone gives him heroin. He has no idea how to use it, so he decides to go to Insite. “Are you fucking stupid?” yells his brother (who's also one of the directors).
The rationale for Insite is harm reduction. Addicts inject their drugs with the help of non-judgmental, government-funded staff. They won't die from an overdose. They're reportedly less likely to contract or transmit HIV and other communicable diseases. Because users know and trust the staff, diversion to treatment programs is more successful.
Insite's operations have been filmed many times, but never by hidden camera. The staff, as advertised, are friendly and welcoming. “We can do everything for you but inject,” says an enthusiastic worker, who shows Mr. Kleider to a booth. A sympathetic nurse in street clothes comes over and perches casually on the table. It's obvious Mr. Kleider has no idea what to do. When the nurse asks him why he's using, he mumbles: “Experimentation, I suppose.” She doesn't ask if he's injected drugs before. She simply mixes up the stuff, ties off his unmarked arm and shows him how to find a good vein.
“Now I'm starting to get scared,” Mr. Kleider says in voiceover. “I was hoping she'd break the needle or the cops would come in and shut them down. But she just gave me the needle.”
Mr. Kleider did not set out to do an exposé of Insite. In fact, he's a strong supporter. But many people who've seen the video interpret that scene as a scathing critique. Why didn't the nurse try to talk him out of it when it was clear he was no addict? What happened to the idea of diversion? To them, it doesn't look like harm reduction. It looks like enabling.
Mr. Kleider worries the scene may be misleading. After all, nearly all of Insite's clients are hard-core addicts, not novices. But critics of Insite – some of whom work in the field of addictions themselves – believe the questions raised are valid. They say the facility has erased the line between harm reduction and enabling, and they criticize B.C.'s health policy for favouring harm reduction at the expense of treatment.
Mark Townsend, who works with the Portland Hotel Society, the agency that operates Insite in partnership with the B.C. government, denies the scene raises any issues of concern, and attacks Mr. Kleider for his deceptiveness. “You've got someone who is lying,” he says. “It's irresponsible. … Addiction is a complicated issue and they're seeing an actor pretending and they haven't studied the peer-review stuff.”
The battle over Insite won't end any time soon. Its advocates want to open supervised-injection sites in other provinces. The Harper government wants to stop them. Although B.C. courts have twice ruled in Insite's favour, the feds are asking the Supreme Court for the jurisdiction to shut it down. As for Misha Kleider, his life on the streets came to an abrupt end. The heroin made him so sick he couldn't take it any more. So he went home.
The result is a compelling documentary called Streets of Plenty, now available in seven parts on YouTube. The scenes of addled, self-destructive addicts are depressingly familiar. The scenes of social agencies eager to supply a homeless person's every need suggest that more social workers are not the answer to Vancouver's homeless problem. The most fascinating scene unfolds at Insite, the controversial supervised-injection facility that has become a flashpoint in the ideological drug wars.
Midway through his experiment, Mr. Kleider “realized that if I wanted to understand the street, I had to do drugs myself.” He tries crack cocaine. Then someone gives him heroin. He has no idea how to use it, so he decides to go to Insite. “Are you fucking stupid?” yells his brother (who's also one of the directors).
The rationale for Insite is harm reduction. Addicts inject their drugs with the help of non-judgmental, government-funded staff. They won't die from an overdose. They're reportedly less likely to contract or transmit HIV and other communicable diseases. Because users know and trust the staff, diversion to treatment programs is more successful.
Insite's operations have been filmed many times, but never by hidden camera. The staff, as advertised, are friendly and welcoming. “We can do everything for you but inject,” says an enthusiastic worker, who shows Mr. Kleider to a booth. A sympathetic nurse in street clothes comes over and perches casually on the table. It's obvious Mr. Kleider has no idea what to do. When the nurse asks him why he's using, he mumbles: “Experimentation, I suppose.” She doesn't ask if he's injected drugs before. She simply mixes up the stuff, ties off his unmarked arm and shows him how to find a good vein.
“Now I'm starting to get scared,” Mr. Kleider says in voiceover. “I was hoping she'd break the needle or the cops would come in and shut them down. But she just gave me the needle.”
Mr. Kleider did not set out to do an exposé of Insite. In fact, he's a strong supporter. But many people who've seen the video interpret that scene as a scathing critique. Why didn't the nurse try to talk him out of it when it was clear he was no addict? What happened to the idea of diversion? To them, it doesn't look like harm reduction. It looks like enabling.
Mr. Kleider worries the scene may be misleading. After all, nearly all of Insite's clients are hard-core addicts, not novices. But critics of Insite – some of whom work in the field of addictions themselves – believe the questions raised are valid. They say the facility has erased the line between harm reduction and enabling, and they criticize B.C.'s health policy for favouring harm reduction at the expense of treatment.
Mark Townsend, who works with the Portland Hotel Society, the agency that operates Insite in partnership with the B.C. government, denies the scene raises any issues of concern, and attacks Mr. Kleider for his deceptiveness. “You've got someone who is lying,” he says. “It's irresponsible. … Addiction is a complicated issue and they're seeing an actor pretending and they haven't studied the peer-review stuff.”
The battle over Insite won't end any time soon. Its advocates want to open supervised-injection sites in other provinces. The Harper government wants to stop them. Although B.C. courts have twice ruled in Insite's favour, the feds are asking the Supreme Court for the jurisdiction to shut it down. As for Misha Kleider, his life on the streets came to an abrupt end. The heroin made him so sick he couldn't take it any more. So he went home.
Answer To Porter's Question - "All The Taxpayers..."
Porter: The new look of politics comes with new ideas
March 16, 2010Catherine Porter
Candidate Cadigia Ali — fluent in four languages — wants to speak for the "voiceless" on city council.
ANDREW WALLACE/TORONTO STARSame goes for Kristyn Wong-Tam and Karen Sun.
Three women, all running for council. They quench a parched brain: despite a brittle mayoral race, passion for the city spurts elsewhere.
They all reflect the city. They are women. They are visible majorities. (Or they will be by 2017, when white in Toronto becomes the minority.) They are exactly what the city needs.
"We talk a lot about diversity. We say diversity is our strength. We don't lack talented people. A lot of talented, diverse, intellectual people made a choice to be Canadian," says Ali, a Somali doctor trained in Italy who works as a medical adjudicator for the province. She speaks four languages. She wants to use all of them to speak for a part of the city she calls "voiceless."
"That's a point I'd like to make," says Ali, 60. "Canada has all these things and we are not using them – languages, minds, talent ..."
Agreed. So why does council still look like the 1950s – mostly white, middle-aged men?
These women don't just look like the city. They have ideas.
Wong-Tam wants to open a women's equality office at city hall to examine budgets with the guiding question: Is this a good deal for women and children?
Wong-Tam, who is running in Ward 27, came to Canada from Hong Kong at age 4. She moved out on her own at age 16 after coming out to her parents. She has a long record as a community activist in the Gay Village. She is a real estate broker, owns an art gallery on Richmond St. and helped launch the Church St. BIA. All this to say, she is super smart.
Some of her thoughts: The city's planning codes should reflect families. New condominium buildings should include a minimum number of three-bedroom units. Downtown sidewalks should be widened to fit wheelchairs and strollers. The same goes for TTC entrances.
"We are systematically removing families from the downtown core," she says. "Urban planning in Toronto is not family-friendly. It's not woman-friendly."
Karen Sun thinks the TTC family pass should include grandparents. I agree – the era of the nuclear family is dead.
She wants to build more spaces in her downtown neighbourhood, Ward 19, where people can mingle. Community cafes in winter, community gardens in summer ...
"How do you build your city so people have places to sit down and meet each other?" asks Sun, the executive director of the Chinese Canadian National Council's Toronto chapter.
Sun is an environmentalist who rides her bike to work and spent two years planting trees in High Park, working for the city. She has a master's degree in planning. She is direct and smart and engaged – what all councillors should be.
She gives one example of what happens when city council doesn't reflect the city. Her office is across from Chinatown, a place often referred to as dirty and smelly. Previously, garbage cans were big and stuffed full with market remains: squid, durian rinds, coconut shells.
Then the city rolled out the new Viacom bins –with the three little holes for garbage. Those holes were too small for Chinatown garbage.
"Coconuts were rolling down the street. People were piling them up against garbage cans. It was just such a mess," says Sun, 35.
So she put out a booklet about perpetuating stereotypes. It asked: "Can a garbage can be racist?" Within a couple of weeks, green bins arrived in Chinatown. Coconuts fit in them just fine.
"Things can be so obvious to you and your community, but if you don't come from the community, you don't see it," she says.
"The question is who gets to sit at the table?"
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About Me
- Unhypentated Canadian
- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.