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Research project gets mentally ill Canadians off the streets
NationalPost.com – News – Research project gets mentally ill Canadians off the streets
Published: Monday, November 23, 2009. Laura Stone, Canwest News Service
Sandra Dawson woke up one morning with a bright idea.
She would quit her job as a video editor in Vancouver, take all her money out of the bank and move to Seattle. There, she would have a revelation.
It didn’t happen.
Penniless, Ms. Dawson moved back after a few days to her mother’s basement — another manic episode that shook her once stable life.
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Street kids’ toughness only skin deep [homelessness]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Comment – Street kids’ toughness only skin deep
Published On Mon Nov 23 2009. By Carol Goar Editorial Board
A young, able-bodied panhandler asks you for spare change. Unless you’re remarkably non-judgmental, your first thought is: Why doesn’t this kid get a job or go to school or at least do something useful?
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Shortage of funds, surplus of suffering [child welfare on reserves]
TheStar.com – Opinion/comment – Shortage of funds, surplus of suffering: Inadequate funding for child welfare on reserves will perpetuate chronic social problems
Published On Sun Nov 22 2009. Paul Martin, Cindy Blackstock
With the passing of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Canada must wrestle with the bleak reality that more First Nations children are in child welfare care today than were forced to live in residential schools at the peak of their operation.
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CAS needs help now
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – CAS needs help now
Published On Sun Nov 22 2009
In less than a month, an agency that cares for some of Ontario’s most vulnerable children in northern First Nations communities plans to close its doors because it can’t afford to pay its bills.
Payukotayno James and Hudson Bay Family Services is not alone. The vast majority of our children’s aid societies are facing budget shortfalls because the province has changed the funding rules.
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Children’s rights treaty readily signed, readily ignored
TheStar.com – News/world – Children’s rights treaty readily signed, readily ignored
Published On Fri Nov 20 2009. By Lynda Hurst
CANADA CAN’T BE PROUD
Canada’s major change has been the 2003 Youth Criminal Justice Act, which cites the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in its preamble. Ottawa has also strengthened laws against sexual exploitation and now has a national strategy on Internet exploitation.
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Hospital discovers sick children need a legal cure
TheStar.com – Opinion/parentcentral.ca – Hospital discovers sick children need a legal cure
November 20, 2009. Carol Goar
It came as a surprise, even to the director of social work at Sick Kids hospital, that 56 per cent of the children admitted to Canada’s largest pediatric health institution are from low-income families. These youngsters account for 65 per cent of patient deaths.
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Sticking it out in marriage is a good thing
NationalPost.com – Sticking it out in marriage is a good thing
Posted: November 19, 2009. Barbara Kay
A just-released study from the Vanier Institute of the Family < http://www.vifamily.ca/library/cft/divorce_09.pdf > by York University professor Anne-Marie Ambert, Divorce: Facts, Causes and Consequences, vindicates assumptions many conservatives hold instinctively, and may provoke some discomfort in “progressives.”
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Broke children’s aid forced to cut jobs
TheStar.com – News/Ontario/parentcentral.ca – Broke children’s aid forced to cut jobs
November 18, 2009 Tanya Talaga, QUEEN’S PARK BUREAU
Provincial children’s aid societies have begun to issue layoff notices and some are threatening bankruptcy as they struggle with a $67 million shortfall.
In northern Ontario, Payukotayno James and Hudson Bay Family Services has sent layoff notices to its 120 management and front-line staff, said Marcelo Gomez-Wiuckstern, director of communications for the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies.
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Promise to world’s children remains unkept after 20 years [poverty]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Comment – Promise to world’s children remains unkept after 20 years: Even in a rich country like Canada, poverty continues to stunt too many young lives
Published On Wed Nov 18 2009. Miles Corak Professor of economics with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa
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