Wednesday September 17, 2014 – 11am
Posted Sep 17, 2014 12:42:49 PM.
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11:00- Transgendered minor hockey players can now choose which dressing room to use
Patrick Burke, co-founder of You Can Play
Minor hockey players in Ontario are now able to choose a dressing room based on whether they see themselves as male or female following settlement of a human rights complaint against Hockey Canada. The agreement, which also includes an educational component, is aimed at protecting young transgender players from discrimination and harassment.
Jesse Thompson, 17, of Oshawa, Ont., who filed the complaint in August last year, said he was pleased with the result. The new policy, which applies to all minor players in Ontario under the auspices of Hockey Canada, also calls for the organization to educate its trainers and coaches on discrimination and harassment as well as on gender identity and expression. Hockey Canada refused to discuss the settlement but gender rights activists both inside and outside the sports world applauded. Hockey Canada has also agreed to provide information about its amended policy to everyone involved with the organization and to post its new dressing room policy on its Ontario websites.
11:30- Minimum Wage; Local or Provincial issue?
Stephen Gordon, Professor of Economics at Laval University
Why should a fast food worker in downtown Toronto make the same as one in Northern Ontario? There’s a pretty good chance that the next federal election will have something to do with the state of the middle class. Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair has revived the idea of a federal minimum wage as a way to tackle poverty and income inequality. Anti-poverty activists have been pushing for Ottawa to reinstate a federal minimum wage since it was scrapped in 1996, arguing that it acts as a guidepost to the provinces when setting their own minimum wage, which now range from $10-$11 an hour across the country. Others say that any minimum wage legislation is guaranteed to be a job-killer. There are two things one needs to know about the minimum wage, employment and poverty in Canada: 1. In Canada the link between minimum wage increases and lower employment levels is stronger than in the U.S. 2. Minimum wage increases do not help the poor.
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