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Media income gap
CBC cites Leonard Cohen, but misses the story
Terence Corcoran, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, May 06, 2008
It was big news everywhere last Thursday -- throughout the day on all-news radio and television, on the nightly news shows and on the front pages of the nation's newspapers Friday: Statistics Canada's latest Census report appeared to show Canadian incomes had stagnated and the poor were getting poorer. The most outrageous of all the outrageous treatments of the story may well have come from The Globe and Mail's tabloid headline:
25 YEARS
53 BUCKS.
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Immigrants' education challenge |
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May 06, 2008 04:30 AM
Mehdi Rizvi
Nearly 1.8 million immigrants came to Canada in the last decade of the 20th century. Of these, about 17 per cent were schoolchildren between the ages of 5 and 16.
Immigrant parents believe that the scholastic achievement of their children symbolizes their own success in this country. Education level is correlated to income, health and living conditions; it normally determines our location in a society. Integrating immigrant children into a new school environment challenges both children and teachers.
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Former 'brown kid' writes book to aid newcomers |
Toronto author's experiences help her in quest to prepare young immigrants for life here
May 05, 2008 04:30 AM
Nicholas Keung
IMMIGRATION/DIVERSITY REPORTER
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Rukhsana Khan and her three siblings grew up in the 1960s in Dundas, Ont. as the only "brown kids" in the school.
"No one knew anything about brown people then. The white kids would say we're not clean, that's why we're brown and dirty. We'd go home and take many showers," she recalls with a chuckle. "When that didn't work. We tried to get rid of the brown by putting baby powder on. It still didn't work."
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The non-existent 'compassion gap' |
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National Post Published: Saturday, May 03, 2008
On Friday, several large Toronto media outlets seriously distorted this week's StatsCan report on income growth in Canada between 1980 and 2005. The Toronto Globe and Mail pointed to one of the statistical sound-bites StatsCan was promoting in its Thursday press release -- that the Canadian median income in 1980 was $41,348 and $41,401 in 2005 -- and declared the Canadian dream imperilled. A similar tone was evident on the front of the Toronto Star, which cited the report as evidence of a "compassion gap."
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