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Canadians open door to learning-disorder drug
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – Canadians open door to learning-disorder drug
February 24, 2009. CAROLYN ABRAHAM
An eight-year effort by Canadian scientists has connected a crucial brain protein with the power to learn, raising the possibility that learning disabilities could be corrected with a drug.
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Ninety dead children
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Ninety dead children
February 24, 2009
The shocking death of 90 children and teenagers in 2007, all involved with Ontario’s child protection system, cries out for an accounting. Irwin Elman, the province’s child advocate, rightly labels this loss “too high by any standard.” His office is the ideal agency to address these deaths, given its mission to identify threats to vulnerable children and to advocate on their behalf.
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Open child-death files: NDP
TheStar.com – ParentCentral – Open child-death files: NDP
February 24, 2009. Tanya Talaga, Laurie Monsebraaten
Queen’s Park is “stonewalling” the provincial child advocate in his bid to get more information about 90 children in Ontario’s child welfare system who died in 2007, says New Democratic Party Leader Howard Hampton.
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What’s stopping cigarette crackdown?
NationalPost.com – FPComment – What’s stopping cigarette crackdown? Teenagers can buy 200 illegal cigarettes for as little as $6…
February 24, 2009. Benjamin Kemball
Governments lose billions of dollars in unpaid tobacco taxes every year from the sale of illegal cigarettes. And it is only getting worse.
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Child Welfare Tragedy – Why did 90 children die?
TheStar.com – ParentCentral.ca – Star Exclusive: Child Welfare Tragedy: Why did 90 children die? Ontario’s child advocate was appalled to learn how many in the province’s welfare system die each year and is equally shocked at how difficult it is to get answers
February 23, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten, SOCIAL JUSTICE REPORTER
Ninety children known to Ontario’s child welfare system died in 2007, according to the latest report from the chief coroner’s office – a number the province’s new child advocate says is shocking and should trouble us all.
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Better home care would help wait times
TheStar.com – Opinion – Better home care would help wait times
February 22, 2009
Re: Province to cut ER waits, Feb. 20
I am baffled about the reason the Ontario government is continuing to use millions of dollars to treat the symptoms of a critical illness in our system (i.e. ER wait times), rather than addressing the cause.
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Busting through bafflegab on mental health woes
TheStar.com – Canada – Busting through bafflegab on mental health woes
February 20, 2009. Jim Coyle
It usually takes a machete to hack through the thicket of acronyms and bafflegab when bureaucrats come calling at Ontario Legislature committees.
Such was the case this week when senior officials of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care were summoned before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts to explain some of the shortcomings in community mental-health service identified in this year’s report by the auditor general.
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Hospitals uneasy over ER targets
TheStar.com – Ontario/healthzone.ca – Hospitals uneasy over ER targets: Until programs set for elderly, cutting wait times will be a tough go, hospital association warns
February 17, 2009. Theresa Boyle, HEALTH REPORTER
At the same time the province is rolling out new initiatives to address long waits in emergency departments, the president of the Ontario Hospital Association is warning that budget shortfalls could compromise the efforts.
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