Wednesday, April 21, 2010   
Long-term prospects bright for younger workers, working moms
Marketplace
Some Canadian economists are predicting that as more and more members of the Baby Boom generation head toward retirement, the labour shortage that this will produce will be generally good news for those who will replace them in the workforce, the Edmonton Journal reports.

The fact that there will not be enough workers within Generation X – those now aged between 30 and 45 years old – to replace the Boomers is “unambiguously positive for the younger generation,” said TD Bank Financial Group chief economist Don Drummond.
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Monday, March 15, 2010   
Helping Canadians to give more
Marketplace
Written by Dave Quist, executive director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

29 to 42. No, those aren’t the words to the latest rap song. It’s a recommendation by the Hamilton-based think tank Cardus to the federal minister of finance to increase the federal charitable tax credit from 29 to 42 per cent. This means Canadians donating to charity would get a higher tax refund for every donation they make.

Why is this important?

The answer has several components. Among them are Canada’s shifting demographics and creating non-governmental capacity to address social needs and giving patterns after that shift occurs.
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Monday, March 15, 2010   
Dr. Dobson retires
Marketplace
Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson may have retired from the ministry he began 33 years ago, but his “passion for God and for families carries on,” Focus on the Family Canada president Terence Rolston told Today’s Family News.

In his final act of transitioning Focus on the Family to new leadership, Dr. Dobson hosted the Focus on the Family radio program for the last time on February 26. By some estimates, 200 million people worldwide tuned in to hear his farewell.
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Monday, March 15, 2010   
Budget includes help for single parents
Family
One item in the latest federal budget suggests to Dave Quist, executive director of the Ottawa-based Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (IMFC), that the federal government “is going in the right direction” on family income-splitting.

Under the Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB), which provides families with $100 a month for each child under the age of six, the amount received is considered income and is therefore taxable. In the case of two-parent families, the amount is included in the income of the spouse or common-law partner with the lesser income. That is obviously not possible in the case of single parents – to their detriment.
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Monday, March 15, 2010   
Humanist couple seeks ban on religious materials in schools
Religious Freedom
A Grimsby, Ontario, couple has filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal that they hope will prevent any religious materials from getting into the hands of local elementary schoolchildren, Canadian Press reported.

Rene and Anna Chouinard, who are self-described humanists, object that for the past 12 years, the District School Board of Niagara has allowed Gideons International in Canada to give New Testaments to grade 5 students whose parents have said they can have one.
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