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Too many young lives cut short [First Nations]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Too many young lives cut short
September 02, 2009. Carol Goar, SANDY LAKE FIRST NATION
For most of his career, Bert Lauwers was an emergency room doctor in one of Ontario’s busiest hospitals. He was the kind of physician anyone would want to encounter at a time of trauma: calm, efficient and conscientious.
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Act on full day learning
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Act on full day learning
August 31, 2009.
When Premier Dalton McGuinty committed to full-day learning for 4- and 5-year-olds he painted a compelling vision: An integrated system to “help our kids succeed in school down the road, save families time and money and free up thousands of licensed child care spaces.”
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Will all-day school be ready for 2010?
TheStar.com – Ontario/parentcentral.ca – Will all-day school be ready for 2010?
August 31, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter
Six-year-old Ethan Podolsky can’t wait to start Grade 1 next week and go to school all day for the first time.
And his mother, Elissa, hopes her 3-year-old daughter, Lauren, will also get to spend all day at school when she starts junior kindergarten next year.
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Building a bridge to northern children
TheStar.com – Opinion – Building a bridge to northern children
August 31, 2009. Carol Goar, Sandy lake first nation
It began with a box of sweaters. Micheal Hardy, executive director of the North-South Partnership for Children, remembers the moment clearly.
He was working in his office in Sioux Lookout. At the time, he headed Tikinagan Child and Family Services, the aboriginal equivalent of the Children’s Aid Society. The phone rang. It was Maurice Brubacher, director of family and children’s services for Guelph. “Do you want a box of sweaters?”
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Heated health-care debates ignore solutions in our own backyard [supportive living options]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Heated health-care debates ignore solutions in our own backyard: It is not immediately obvious, for example, that urban planning holds one of the keys to a pressing societal challenge
Aug. 31, 2009. Sherri Torjman
Hell hath no fury like a U.S. town hall meeting on health care.
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Early learners need teachers
TheStar.com – Opinion – Early learners need teachers
August 28, 2009. Sam Hammond, PRESIDENT OF THE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ FEDERATION OF ONTARIO
When Premier Dalton McGuinty campaigned for re-election in 2007 he promised Ontario parents “full-day kindergarten.” Perhaps McGuinty was being casual in his use of words or perhaps he knew, as polls show, that parents and the general public overwhelmingly favour a full-day kindergarten program with a qualified teacher in the classroom.
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For a fresh start on adoptions
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – For a fresh start on adoptions …
August 27, 2009
Thousands of Ontarians who want to complete their family with adoption encounter bureaucratic barriers that delay and frustrate their hopes. Meanwhile, we have 9,200 Crown wards, many of these children longing to be adopted. Ontario throws barriers in their way, too.
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Everybody hurts in a social recession [Financial stress can affect our mental health]
The GlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Everybody hurts in a social recession: Financial stress can affect our mental health, the numbers show. Nurturing our human capital is a priority for recovery
Aug. 26, 2009. Michael Kirby
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Teachers and early educators can be classroom partners
TheStar.com – Opinion – Teachers and early educators can be classroom partners: Both roles are needed to deliver high-quality early education to Ontario’s children
August 25, 2009. Rachel Langford, DIRECTOR OF RYERSON UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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Impersonal touch helps uncover domestic violence [online survey]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life/Health – Impersonal touch helps uncover domestic violence: After patients answer an online survey at their doctor’s office they are more likely to disclose abuse to the physician, a study finds
Aug. 25, 2009. Dr. Michael Evans
It’s not often that I find myself using the words “computer survey” and “domestic violence” in the same sentence. The former seems impersonal and cold, the latter emotional, bad and deeply personal.
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