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Put education focus on ABC not PhD
TheStar.com – Opinion – Put education focus on ABC not PhD
February 09, 2009. Carol Goar
Before Premier Dalton McGuinty pours billions of dollars into post-secondary education in his quest to transform Ontario into a “creativity-driven” powerhouse, there is a low-cost possibility he might want to consider.
Studies have repeatedly shown that the single most effective thing a government can do to strengthen the economy is invest in basic literacy.
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Gang project targets 300 youths
TheStar.com – news/parentcentral.ca – Gang project targets 300 youths
February 06, 2009. Donovan Vincent, city hall bureau
One of the largest anti-gang initiatives the city has ever undertaken will roll out this summer, aimed at steering at-risk youths into jobs and school.
The 3 1/2-year pilot project – Ottawa will provide just under $5 million in funding – will offer intensive case management for 300 youths ages 13 to 24 from three Toronto communities where gangs are a problem: Jane and Finch, Jamestown-Rexdale and Weston-Mount Dennis.
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Toronto stands to lose 6,000 daycare spots
TheStar.com – Ontario/parentcentral.ca – Toronto stands to lose 6,000 daycare spots
February 05, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten
Ontario child-care operators are fearing the worst.
With federal funding about to run out next year and no new commitments from Queen’s Park, as many as 22,000 child-care spaces could disappear – including up to 6,000 subsidized spots in Toronto.
There’s no crisis yet, municipalities say, but the lack of new money for child care in last week’s federal budget is making them nervous.
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The truth about sentencing circles
NationalPost.com – Opinion / Full Comment – Pierre Rousseau: The truth about sentencing circles
Posted: February 02, 2009
After reading Jonathan Kay’s article about Christopher Pauchay’s criminal negligence on Saskatchewan’s Yellow Quill reserve (“The folly of native sentencing circles,” Jan. 20), I realized that there is confusion about sentencing circles and aboriginal justice.
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Home care system needs to be fixed
TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – Home care system needs to be fixed
January 22, 2009
Re:Essential home-care workers are hard to find, Jan. 16
Thanks for shining the spotlight on the labour issues that lie at the heart of our broken home care system. Any solution to the shortage of home-care workers in Ontario must focus on the eradication of the unstable and unreliable system of competitive bidding in home care that diverts public dollars away from patient care and into the pockets of for-profit companies.
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Affordable housing belongs in the budget
NationalPost.com – Opinion – Affordable housing belongs in the budget
Published: Thursday, January 15, 200. Tim Hearn
There’s never a shortage of ideas for spending taxpayer dollars and no doubt Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is learning that lesson in spades these days.
Minister Flaherty has reasonable criteria for stimulus to help weigh his options: timeliness, impact, appropriate size, limited duration and contribution to long term goals.
But which stimulus options will achieve the greatest return on investment (ROI)?
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