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Fighting over the kids [early childhood education]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Fighting over the kids
August 21, 2009.
Two months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s early learning adviser proposed a future where our schools operate as community hubs for families, with 4- and 5-year-olds benefiting from a full day of learning.
Yet, even before the government has committed to fully implementing this welcome vision, elementary teachers are out to make it so expensive that it is unlikely the government could ever afford it.
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Creative thinking on school closings
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Creative thinking on school closings
August 10, 2009.
People don’t like to see a school close in their community. But to ensure high quality education for students in this era of declining enrolment, some schools must.
Over the last seven years, 90,000 fewer children have enroled in Ontario public schools, and the trend is continuing with 56,000 fewer students expected over the next four years. That is the equivalent of hundreds of empty schools across the province.
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Judge blasts ‘tragic’ neglect of legal aid
TheStar.com – Ontario – Judge blasts ‘tragic’ neglect of legal aid: Low pay scale driving criminal lawyers away, with dire consequences for entire justice system
August 04, 2009. Tracey Tyler, LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER
A former Superior Court judge known for his law-and-order proclivities has blasted the Ontario government for its continuing “neglect” of the province’s legal aid plan, warning that continuing down the same path will do irreversible damage to the justice system.
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End of benefits for disabled girl perplexes dad
TheStar.com – Ontario/healthzone.ca – End of benefits for disabled girl perplexes dad
July 30, 2009. Tanya Talaga, Queen’s Park Bureau
Peterborough resident John Wood wants to know why his family was suddenly cut off from a government benefit that helped them pay for his daughter’s prohibitive medical expenses.
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No cause for celebration [Canada’s daycare record is abysmal]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – No cause for celebration
July 27, 2009
Canada’s daycare record is abysmal, and no matter what the federal government tries to claim, parents know it.
Canada was tied for last among developed countries for providing affordable and quality daycare in a UN report. Ontario recently had to come up with $18 million to save daycare spaces that were about to close because federal funding had expired. Toronto alone has 15,000 families on a waiting list for a daycare space they can afford.
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Consultations to address affordable housing shortage
TheStar.com – Canada – Consultations to address affordable housing shortage
July 20, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice reporter
Toronto waiter Anthony Clarke is a model tenant. For 15 years he has paid his rent on time, kept his College St. apartment clean and respected his neighbours.
But since 2001, his landlord has hit him with a flurry of eviction notices Clarke says are aimed at replacing him with a new tenant who will pay more rent in the trendy west-Toronto neighbourhood.
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‘No one should be forced to give up their child.’
TheStar.com – Ontario – ‘No one should be forced to give up their child.’
July 20, 2009. Tanya Talaga, QUEEN’S PARK BUREAU
United Church minister Matt Gallinger wants what every other new parent does – to raise his baby girl at home.
But this common desire may be out of reach for Gallinger and his wife, Ioulia. During delivery, Ioulia’s uterus suddenly ruptured, a life-threatening occurrence for mother and daughter.
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Jail ‘a lazy response to poverty’
TheStar.com – Crime – Jail ‘a lazy response to poverty’
July 19, 2008
Imagine pockets of cities where so many residents are in jail and prison, and for so long, that by the time they are released their incarceration will have cost more than $15 million. Imagine these people being released and returning home to the same place and conditions where the trouble began and, within two years, 4 in 10 are back behind bars.
It is a costly human migration pattern, and it is real.
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Long way to go to aid mentally ill
TheStar.com – Canada – Long way to go to aid mentally ill
July 17, 2009. Jim Coyle
Twenty minutes isn’t much. Time for a coffee break maybe. Or, as an Ontario Legislature committee learned on its recent travels, time enough to hear the story of a family.
It was a mid-week morning in the conference room of a Kingston hotel. The select committee on mental health and addictions was taking submissions. Paul and Denise Finn were next up.
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