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Poverty and economic inequality
Recommendation 14:
Children must be provided with legal representation to ensure that their best interests are at the forefront of decision-making in high-risk cases (Elrod, 2016; Lovinsky & Gagne, 2015; Martinson & Tempesta, 2018; Tempesta, 2019), which includes providing court appointed and funded lawyers to ensure that children’s claims are meaningfully considered and given due weight (Elrod, 2016).
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Recommendation 25:
Children in temporary care must be kept within an accessible distance to the parent with due consideration to the parents’ circumstances (financial etc). Where a child needs to be close to their home nation, parents must be given financial supports to ensure that there is adequate access to maintain family connection.
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Recommendation 9:
Children cannot learn on empty stomachs. It is recommended that the Provincial Government put in place healthy meal programs in schools.
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Recommendation 13:
Change the City’s definition of social housing so that low income people are not excluded from any social housing.
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Recommendation 13:
Change government definitions of social housing and affordable housing to mean rates that are affordable to people on social assistance, and rents that are income-geared not market-geared.
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Recommendation 91:
Change government definitions of social housing and affordable housing to mean rates that are affordable to people on social assistance, and rents that are income-geared not market-geared.
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Recommendation 66:
Cease ticketing minors for fare evasion in all transit systems in BC.
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Recommendation 4:
Create education materials and training:
- For Indigenous Peoples, about the Code and BCHRT processes;
- Within the BCHRT, to develop cultural competency and safety among BCHRT staff and tribunal members;
- For the general public, through a proactive campaign to highlight specific areas of discrimination faced by Indigenous Peoples.
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Recommendation 4:
Buy or lease SRO hotels, especially near the location of the new St. Paul’s Hospital at the South end of the DTES to prevent them from gentrifying and pushing out low income residents.
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Recommendation 2:
- Strengthen Indigenous self-identity
- Provide a home, a safe environment – with love and no judgement
- Feast – eat together – share stories around the table, and feed the spirit
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