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Hope on the horizon for seniors
TheStar.com – comment – Hope on the horizon for seniors
May 02, 2008. Carol Goar
Paul Williams calls himself “a professional cynic” who is savouring a rare burst of hope.
Williams, a health policy professor at the University of Toronto, has spent the past 20 years trying to convince politicians, bureaucrats and medical authorities that most seniors don’t belong in nursing homes. Few listened. Even when he did get a sympathetic hearing, nothing changed.
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Mother’s plea wins her home care help
TheStar.com – parentcentral.ca – Mother’s plea wins her home care help
May 02, 2008. Rob Ferguson
A weary Mississauga mom is celebrating a temporary win over bureaucrats who slashed home care for her seriously ill 5-year-old daughter.
Bowing to pressure, health officials agreed yesterday to restore Alessia Commisso’s overnight care for 30 days so her mother can rest.
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Seniors wealthier than before
TheGlobeandMail.com – census/seniors – Seniors wealthier than before
May 1, 2008 at 9:20 AM EDT. TOBI COHEN, Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The number of seniors living in poverty has declined dramatically over the past 25 years as incomes for those over 65 more than doubled, according to the latest census data released Thursday by Statistics Canada.
Figures show the median income for couples over the age of 65 reached $45,674 in 2005, up 55.8 per cent from 1980.
“Part of that is due to the increase in private retirement income,†Statistics Canada analyst Rene Morissette said.
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Mother pleads for help after home care cuts
TheStar.com – healthzone.ca – Mother pleads for help after home care cuts
May 01, 2008. Rob Ferguson
Exhausted from attending to a 5-year-old daughter with a rare disease who needs 24-hour care, Sonia Commisso came to the seat of government yesterday looking for help.
She didn’t get it.
But Commisso left Queen’s Park knowing that she finally got the attention of Health Minister George Smitherman, whose office hasn’t replied to a February letter she sent pleading for assistance.
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Tiny charity stands up for seniors
TheStar.com – columnists – Tiny charity stands up for seniors
April 28, 2008. Carol Goar
The title seemed too grand at first: “Watchdog for Ontario Nursing Homes.”
Guardian Angels was a tiny charity, run out of Betty Miller’s house in the small Niagara town of Virgil. Its members were ordinary folks whose parents or partners had suffered neglect, humiliation, pain and frustration in long-term care facilities.
Miller wasn’t an expert on nursing home legislation. She didn’t have contacts or influence at Queen’s Park. She’d never set foot in most of Ontario’s 622 nursing homes.
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Bill would give grandparents more access to kids
TheStar.com – parentcentral.ca – Bill would give grandparents more access to kids
Maria Babbage April 24, 2008
A proposal that would see Ontario join other provinces in giving grandparents more access to their grandchildren gained widespread support in the legislature today, prompting several politicians to drop their usual defences and share deeply personal stories.
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Options studied for kindergarten
TheStar.com – parentcentral.ca – Options studied for kindergarten
Kristin Rushowy, April 23, 2008
Is it full-day kindergarten, or isn’t it?
Depends on whom you ask about the Liberal government’s promise to implement all-day learning for the province’s 4- and 5-year-olds.
Elementary teachers say it should be provincial curriculum, taught by them, in schools, and that’s certainly the perception among parents. But others say it will incorporate daycare centres and early childhood educators.
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Thousands of foster kids to get RESPs
TheStar.com – parentcentral.com – Thousands of foster kids to get RESPs
Laurie Monsebraaten, April 23, 2008
Queen’s Park is ordering Ontario children’s aid societies to set up registered education savings plans for all kids in foster care younger than age 6 receiving Ottawa’s $100-a-month child-care benefit.
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Domestic violence victims to get same-day help
theTorontoStar.com – news – Domestic violence victims to get same-day help
April 17, 2008 THE CANADIAN PRESS
Victims of domestic violence in Ontario will get same-day support to help them and their children escape abusive spouses under a new program funded by the province, Attorney General Chris Bentley said today.
The government is spending $1.7 million to have victims contacted within 24 hours of being informed that charges have been laid, which Bentley said will grant them access to the services they need more quickly.
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