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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
TheStar.com – Business – Slow start for disabled accounts: Only one bank to offer registered disability savings plans within contribution deadline
December 20, 2008. Beth Marlin, Special to The Star
For people with severe, long-term disabilities, there are only a few more banking days left in 2008 to take advantage of up to $4,500 in first-year grants and bonds under the federal government’s new registered disability savings plan.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
TheStar.com – Ontario – Dental program expansion just the ‘first phase’: Province committed to eventual $45M initiative for low-income people, but critics see holes in plan
December 19, 2008. Tanya Talaga, Queen’s Park Bureau
An extra 30,000 underprivileged teens will have access to urgent dental care starting in the new year, thanks to the Ontario government’s anti-poverty strategy.
The Liberal government is expanding the Children in Need of Treatment program, extending the cut-off age to 18 from the current 13. Last year, the program paid for 30,890 treatments.
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
TheStar.com – living – ‘Worthy’ poor should include everyone
December 13, 2008. Helen Henderson
Two days before Ontario announced its strategy for reducing poverty this month, a non-profit think-tank released a comprehensive study linking overall health to income in Canada.
Called Poverty Is Making Us Sick, the survey by the Toronto-based Wellesley Institute noted lack of money can and does have a “devastating” effect on physical as well as mental well-being. As reported in the Star, it also documented the positive health gains that come from every $1,000 rise in annual income.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – UN daycare wake-up call
December 12, 2008
Parents who rush to get on daycare waiting lists long before their children are even born won’t be surprised to hear that Canada ranks last among developed nations in providing this vital service.
We’ve long heard of mothers who want to work but can’t afford to get a job because the daycare bill would be higher than their paycheque. But the United Nations Children’s Fund report released yesterday is still a wake-up call about just how bad things really are here.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – Teachers deserve extra training for learning disabled
December 12, 2008
My son, who was diagnosed with a learning disability (LD) in Grade 2, is now in Grade 11. We have had some great school years and some horrible ones. It has been a long, frustrating process toward getting him to think that maybe he is smart and will be okay in life.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
NationalPost.com – opinion/editorial – Less jail, more crime
Published: Thursday, December 11, 2008
Before anyone gets too excited by a Statistics Canada report released on Tuesday showing the number of young offenders in Canadian jails has fallen 36% since 2002, consider this other StatsCan revelation: Violent crime committed by young people between the ages of 12 and 17 has “increased steadily over the past two decades. The 2007 rate was more than double the rate reported in the mid-1980s.”
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
TheStar.com – Canada/Parentcentral.ca – Child-care report card: Canada fails
December 11, 2008. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter
Canada ranks last in the first comparison of child care services in 25 developed countries, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.
The report card, to be released today, shows Canada failed on nine of 10 measures aimed at ensuring kids get the best start in life, including providing subsidized child care for 25 per cent of kids younger than 3 and spending 1 per cent of GDP on early childhood services.
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
TheStar.com – Canada – Hardship of welfare getting harder
December 10, 2008. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter
Welfare incomes in Canada are increasingly inadequate to meet basic needs, according to a report to be released today in Toronto, with Ontario seeing the harshest loss over the past two decades.
In 2007 dollar terms in Ontario, between 1992 and 2007, a lone parent’s welfare declined by almost $5,500, or 25 per cent, from $21,931. A couple with two children saw a loss of almost $8,150 (or 28 per cent, from $29,207), says the report.
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