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Laurentian, province broke act while cutting French programs, report finds
Friday, April 1st, 2022
The report determined Laurentian and the Ministry of Colleges and Universities were focused on Laurentian’s financial difficulties, while the Ministry of Francophone Affairs failed to take an active role. This led to a situation where no one was ensuring the protection of language rights under the French Language Services Act… Laurentian said it welcomed the report and would work with the two ministries to implement the recommendations.
Tags: budget, participation, rights, standard of living
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CAS employees fight for funding
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
June 8, 2010
According to the union’s provincial office, 200 new directives came about when Queen’s Park introduced amendments to the Child and Family Services Act in 2006. But a failure to boost CAS funding has resulted in some agencies facing bankruptcy in 2009, while many others are facing operating deficits this year… Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci said the Liberal government has increased, not cut or maintained, funding to the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies in recent years… funding went up while factors such as the number of children in care grew by less than 1%
Tags: budget
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