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This house would remove all restrictions on how welfare recipients can spend their payments.
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Welfare recipients are people who receive government help to pay for specific expenses (such as food stamps, money to help pay rent, or subsidies for heating in winter). Welfare recipients are typically only able to spend their payments on the expenses they are provided for.

Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 15-and-Under Semifinals · 2025-01-18
This house supports the Fire Camp program
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California's Fire Camp program allows prisoners to work as firefighters for wages of about $10.00 USD per day. This is one of the highest paid jobs in the American prison labour system. Participants are allowed to earn time off their sentences based on their participation (sentences are generally reduced by two days for every one day worked) and prisoners with a history of escape or sexual crime are not allowed to participate. There are currently about 1000 Fire Camp participants fighting the wildfires in Los Angeles.

North American Debating Championships 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-01-18
This house believes that corporations' focus on ESG has done more harm than good to the environment.
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ESG refers to a set of criteria used to evaluate a company's commitment to sustainable and ethical practices. It is increasingly used by investors, stakeholders, and corporations to assess a company’s impact on the world and its long-term sustainability. Key Components of ESG: Environmental: Includes a company's efforts to reduce carbon emissions, manage waste, conserve natural resources, and address climate change. Social: Covers a company’s relationships with employees, customers, suppliers, and communities. Governance: Relates to internal policies.

Intertext Asian Parliament Debate Open 2025 · Novice Semi-Finals · 2025-01-18
This house prefers the use of emotional rhetoric as compared to dispassionate objectivity as a strategy to advocate for environmental issues.
Intertext Asian Parliament Debate Open 2025 · Novice Semi-Finals · 2025-01-18
This house would remove all restrictions on how welfare recipients can spend their payments.
Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 12-and-Under Grand Finals · 2025-01-18
This house supports Inclusionary Development
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Inclusionary development describes practices where new residential developments are required to include residential units that are affordable to low and moderate income residents of an area.

Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 13-and-Under Quarterfinals · 2025-01-18
This house would remove all restrictions on how welfare recipients can spend their payments.
Infoslide

Welfare recipients are people who receive government help to pay for specific expenses (such as food stamps, money to help pay rent, or subsidies for heating in winter). Welfare recipients are typically only able to spend their payments on the expenses they are provided for.

Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 17-and-Under Quarterfinals · 2025-01-18
This house would allocate public sports funding to encourage grassroots participation rather than invest in prestigious competitions.
Eurasian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Tur 2 · 2025-01-18
This house supports the complete replacement of human teachers with artificial intelligence in schools.
Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 17-and-Under Semifinals · 2025-01-18
This house would introduce a school voucher system
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A school voucher system allows parents to use public funding allocated for their child's education to pay for tuition at a private or charter school instead of a public school.

Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-01-18
This house believes that universities should drastically reduce the number of students they admit
Eurasian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Ön Çeyrek Final · 2025-01-18
This house supports Inclusionary Development
Infoslide

Inclusionary development describes practices where new residential developments are required to include residential units that are affordable to low and moderate income residents of an area.

Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 14-and-Under Quarterfinals · 2025-01-18
This house supports Inclusionary Development
Infoslide

Inclusionary development describes practices where new residential developments are required to include residential units that are affordable to low and moderate income residents of an area.

Asia Schools Open - Asian Parliamentary (Winter Edition) 2025 · 15-and-Under Quarterfinals · 2025-01-18
This house would significantly lower labour regulations for youth (ex. lowering salaries, flexible contracts) in areas with high youth unemployment
- Labor
- Economics
- Social Policy
- Law
Eurasian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Çeyrek Final · 2025-01-18
This house supports the sensationalization (e.g. mass media coverage, movie adaptations) of high profile criminals and their trials
Hart House Winter Open 2025 · Junior Semifinals · 2025-01-18
This house opposes the rise of manifestation
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Manifestation or The Law of Attraction is the belief that you can improve their health, wealth, or personal relationships by using positive affirmation and visualization in order to “attract” the desired changes. For example, to manifest a new job you can tell yourself “I have desirable skills worthy of this opportunity” and imagine yourself in the desired role.

Hart House Winter Open 2025 · Junior Finals · 2025-01-18
This house would ban Kpop survival shows.
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K-pop survival shows are reality competition programs where a large group of trainees competes for a chance to debut in a K-pop group. Contestants undergo intense training and are judged on their singing, dancing, performance, and team chemistry, with eliminations often determined by viewer voting or the Kpop company. Successful shows have led to the formation of popular groups like TWICE and Stray Kids. The majority of trainees do not debut.

Taipei European Novice Tournament 2025 · Pro-Am Semifinals · 2025-01-18
This house prefers a world where graduate programs do not admit students applying immediately after their undergraduate course of study.
North American Debating Championships 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-01-18
This house believes that governments in Latin America should pursue an integration over segregation policy in prisons for gangs
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In order to combat rising gang violence and prison overcrowding, governments generally engage one of two gang imprisonment policies. One is a segregating policy, where the government allocates certain prisons to individual gangs, only putting members of one gang in each facility. The other is an integration policy, where the government places multiple gangs within a singular prison.

North American Debating Championships 2025 · Round 6 · 2025-01-18
This house would create art in disciplined fashion as opposed to a spontaneous fashion
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Disciplined art creation refers to treating art creation as a work routine. It is characterised by blocking regular time slots to work on art and having a plan of what you want to make. Spontaneous art creation refers to treating art creation as something that must be driven by natural drive. It ish characterised by spontenous outbursts of creation following periods of no work you are an artist who is relatively unknown and unable to make a living of your art. Hence, you work a low-skill job and focus on your art in your spare time

The 17th Christ University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-01-17