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Take over daycares, Ontario schools told
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral – Take over daycares, Ontario schools told:
Major report proposes sweeping changes to meld daycare and kindergarten into full-day program
June 14, 2009. Kristin Rushowy, EDUCATION REPORTER
Ontario parents of 4- and 5-year-olds should be able to leave their children at school from 7:30 in the morning to 6 p.m. as part of sweeping changes bringing daycare and kindergarten under one roof, the Star has learned.
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If we’re so equal, why aren’t we happy? [Women]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – If we’re so equal, why aren’t we happy? For women, the desire to have it all comes with the obligation to do it all
Jun. 12, 2009. Margaret Wente
In 1963, an angry woman named Betty Friedan published a groundbreaking book about “the problem that has no name.” In it, she described the stifled lives of women in North America – talented, creative, and increasingly educated women who were trapped in the suburbs, leading lives of quiet desperation.
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There’s more to life than GDP
TheStar.com – Opinion – There’s more to life than GDP: Canadians need a new, holistic measure of societal progress that goes beyond economics
June 10, 2009. Roy Romanow
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A hopeful and tolerant generation
TheStar.com – Opinion – A hopeful and tolerant generation
June 10, 2009. Carol Goar
Just as Reginald Bibby wrapped up two years of research on the attitudes, values and behaviour of Canada’s teens, the bottom fell out of the financial market.
The economy shuddered. The job market shrank. The future, which had once looked so bright for the generation born in the ’90s – a cohort which Bibby calls “the emerging millennials” – darkened.
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Make it public and mandatory [a national sex-offender registry]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – Make it public and mandatory
Published: Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Enjoy the delicious irony, Liberals: The law-and-order Conservatives keep trying to kill an expensive national registry for firearms that many police agencies claim to like and to use a lot, yet here they are, desperately trying to rehabilitate a national sex-offender registry that the police don’t have any use for. Perhaps it all just depends on what kind of weapon you are more afraid of?
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Make it public and mandatory [national sex-offender registry]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – Make it public and mandatory
Published June 03, 2009.
Enjoy the delicious irony, Liberals: The law-and-order Conservatives keep trying to kill an expensive national registry for firearms that many police agencies claim to like and to use a lot, yet here they are, desperately trying to rehabilitate a national sex-offender registry that the police don’t have any use for. Perhaps it all just depends on what kind of weapon you are more afraid of?
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Signing a veto on knowing the past: Ontario opens its adoption records today
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life – Signing a veto on knowing the past: Ontario opens its adoption records today, but not every adoptee, or birth parent, is eager for a reunion
Jun. 01, 2009. Erin Anderssen
Joy Cheskes doesn’t want to know the other path her life might have taken – the only family she needs is the one who loved and raised her.
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Emotions high as veil around adoption lifts
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral.ca – Emotions high as veil around adoption lifts: Crush of applications expected as new rules on disclosure take effect
May 31, 2009. Nicole Baute, STAFF REPORTER
Paul O’Donnell wants to meet his mother. His other mother, the one who gave birth to him.
O’Donnell, 45, was adopted as an infant and raised by a gregarious couple. Although he loved them dearly, the differences between them were stark: he was a serious, introverted math whiz; his parents were the most popular couple on the block.
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Tories propose sex registry changes
TheStar.com – Canada – Tories propose sex registry changes
June 01, 2009. Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA- The Conservatives are proposing changes to close gaps in the national sex offender registry that police have identified.
Under amendments tabled today, the government would:
– Automatically include all convicted sex offenders in the registry. Currently, a prosecutor has to apply and a judge has discretion over whether to put someone’s name in the registry;
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