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Long-term care workers face workplace violence
TheStar.com – Canada – Long-term care workers face workplace violence
March 11, 2008
Joseph Hall, Health Reporter
Elderly and demented residents are attacking their caregivers in Canadian nursing homes at alarming rates, a York University study says.
Frustrated with inadequate staffing levels, nursing home residents are lashing out with fists, feet and verbal and racial abuse at workers in the facilities, the report says.
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Lack of child care still a barrier
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Lack of child care still a barrier
March 08, 2008
Today, as the world marks International Women’s Day, the theme is “Shaping Progress,” celebrating how far women have come since the day was first marked in the early 1900s.
And there are victories to celebrate, particularly women’s growing role on court benches, their place in universities and their prowess on athletic fields. But in the power fields of business and politics, women remain shockingly under-represented. And in any field, to get ahead women have to make many personal sacrifices.
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Rights on reserves
National Post – opinion/editorial
Published: Saturday, March 08, 2008
We have long advocated an end to the treatment of Canadian aboriginals as members of tribal collectives rather than as individual citizens. In that vein, we welcome the introduction on Tuesday of legislation that would help on-reserve families gain clearer title to their homes, and give aboriginal women matrimonial property rights when marriages break down.
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Child care must serve kids not corporate shareholders
TheStar.com – comment – Child care must serve kids not corporate shareholders
March 07, 2008
Martha Friendly and Margaret McCain
Last fall, news that an Australian-based child care giant was setting up in Canada shook the early childhood community. The expression of interest from the global group of companies raised fundamental questions about the nature of Canadian child care: Is it a public service or a business venture? Is there room for profit-making in the care and education of our youngest children? Is it time to reconsider who should own and operate child care?
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Reading your way to better health
TheStar.com – comment – Reading your way to better health
March 06, 2008
Roy Romanow
Read every day. The prescription almost seems too simple, yet its potential impact for Canada’s health-care system could be sizable.
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Crackdown on smokers harmless, McGuinty says
TheStar.com – Ontario – Crackdown on smokers harmless, McGuinty says
March 06, 2008
Kerry Gillespie, Queen’s Park Bureau
Premier Dalton McGuinty denies that a ban on smoking in cars with kids will lead down a slippery slope to curbing other individual rights.
The government will introduce legislation this spring to make it illegal to smoke in a car with kids, likely under age 16, McGuinty announced yesterday at the Hospital for Sick Children.
It’s a reversal for the premier, who argued against such a ban in the past.
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Activists urge freeze on daycare licences
TheStar.com – GTA – Activists urge freeze on daycare licences
Moratorium needed to keep multinational firm from buying out Ontario centres, advocates say
March 03, 2008
Laurie Monsebraaten, Staff Reporter
Queen’s Park should impose a short-term moratorium on new child-care licences to prevent a multinational corporation from gobbling up centres across the province, advocates say.
The move would be both lawful and prudent, said lawyer Steven Shrybman of Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, in a legal opinion released this week for the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.
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Babies born to teenage dads at risk
TheGlobeandMail.com – Health – Babies born to teenage dads at risk
February 7, 2008 at 10:36 AM EST
CARLY WEEKS
Babies born from teenage fathers are much more likely to be delivered early, suffer low birth weight and even die than those born to older fathers – regardless of the mother’s age – according to a new study by Canadian researchers.
It is the largest study of its kind and is shedding new light on the impact a man’s age can have on birth risks. The findings could have significant implications for the way doctors monitor potential health problems during pregnancy and delivery.
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