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Venezuela’s winning system for saving children through music
TheStar.com – Opinion – Venezuela’s winning system for saving children through music: Innovative music program’s founder and star pupil to be honoured in Toronto
Published On Fri Oct 16 2009. By John Terauds Entertainment Reporter
El Sistema founder José Antonio Abreu and star pupil-turned-conductor Gustavo Dudamel, along with young musicians from Venezuela, are in Toronto for several events.
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Budget cuts put children at risk, Ontario warned [CAS funding]
TheStar.com – Ontario/parentcentral.ca – Budget cuts put children at risk, Ontario warned
October 14, 2009 Tanya Talaga, QUEEN’S PARK BUREAU
Ontario children’s aid societies warn their ability to keep vulnerable children safe will be threatened if they are forced to make severe budget cutbacks to address a shortfall of $67 million this year.
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Tougher sentences don’t prevent crime
TheStar.com – Opinions/Letters – Tougher sentences don’t prevent crime
October 11, 2009
Re:Tory blasts senators for `gutting’ crime bill, Oct. 8
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A funding crisis at children’s aid
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – A funding crisis at children’s aid
October 11, 2009
Children’s Aid Societies watch over and care for our most vulnerable children. So when they are warning us that they don’t have enough money to do that job, we should all pay attention.
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Boost early learning and care for our children – and for our work force
TheGlobeandMail.com – Boost early learning and care for our children – and for our work force: Our piecemeal provincial approach leaves young parents torn between careers and parenting
Published Oct. 09, 2009. Last updated on Oct. 12, 2009. Jennifer Wallner and Luc Turgeon
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Mr. Premier, don’t drag your heels on early learning report
TheStar.com – Opinion – Mr. Premier, don’t drag your heels on early learning report
October 05, 2009. David Crombie, Margaret Norrie McCain
In the next few days, Premier Dalton McGuinty will be making an announcement that could begin a revolution in education and help define his own legacy as a leader.
If the premier follows the blueprint laid out by his early learning adviser, not only will he set Ontario on a course to become one of the best places in the world to raise a child, he will up the province’s competitiveness quotient in the same breath.
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Divorced dads can’t catch a break
TheStar.com – Insight/parentcentral.ca – Divorced dads can’t catch a break
October 2, 2009. Susan Pigg, LIVING REPORTER
More than a decade after a landmark study recommended an overhaul of Canadian divorce law, courts still haven’t caught up to the new reality of Canadian family life. A generation of dads who can’t stand being apart from their children is pushing for change.
When Walter Mueller first walked into the support group, he was asked to draw a picture of his life for the dozen or so men in the room.
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Politics meets community at the emotional opening of North Bay rehab centre
TheStar.com – Opinion – Politics meets community at the emotional opening of North Bay rehab centre
September 25, 2009. Jim Coyle, NORTH BAY
In one of his best-known poems, the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney recommends belief in “miracles and cures and healing wells.”
In North Bay, they believe.
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