More Albertans to receive $1,200 Critical Worker Benefit
76,500 more workers to receive a one-time payment to recognize the risks they have taken to support Albertans and the economy.
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The Critical Worker Benefit is a joint federal-provincial program with $465 million available to recognize the hard work of critical workers during the pandemic.
During the first round of the Critical Worker Benefit Alberta’s government provided $1,200 payments to over 277,800 workers in the healthcare, social services, education and private sectors who deliver critical services to Albertans or support food and medical supply chains.
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It sounds like a good news story; neighbourhoods scrambling to be next in line for for traffic-calming initiatives. However, communities should take a more critical look at what has happened in some neighbourhoods before clamouring to be next for the city initiative.
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I live in Old Strathcona and, in fact, after our neighbourhood had had some of these experimental traffic-calming measures implemented, the opposite occurred. Traffic has increased, speed has increased and streets that were once bucolic and slow-paced are now loud and dangerous.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified multiple, intersecting forms of inequality faced by women health-care aides in Calgary’s long-term care homes, says a University of Calgary researcher.
Sociologist Naomi Lightman recently completed an analysis of 2016 Census data, in which she studied the demographic profiles, earnings and self-rated health outcomes of long-term care aides.
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“To my knowledge, this is the first data available that captures a representative profile of who is doing this work and how their labour is devalued in Calgary, despite loads of anecdotal evidence,” said Lightman.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified multiple, intersecting forms of inequality faced by women health-care aides in Calgary’s long-term care homes, says a University of Calgary researcher.
Sociologist Naomi Lightman recently completed an analysis of 2016 Census data, in which she studied the demographic profiles, earnings and self-rated health outcomes of long-term care aides.
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“To my knowledge, this is the first data available that captures a representative profile of who is doing this work and how their labour is devalued in Calgary, despite loads of anecdotal evidence,” said Lightman.