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Ottawa asks court to overturn tribunal order on First Nations child welfare
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Progress on a child welfare agreement stalled when First Nations twice rejected a $47.8-billion deal last year, and when Ottawa called a halt to formal talks on the issue with First Nations outside of Ontario… if Ottawa refuses to resume negotiations, the Assembly of First Nations, the Caring Society and the National Children’s Chiefs Commission could present the tribunal with an evidence-based reform plan of their own.
Tags: budget, child care, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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Home-care in Ontario can’t keep up — and it’s getting worse
Thursday, July 31st, 2025
… funding home-care is costly, but Ontario cannot afford the alternative. The average per-day cost of home-care is $103. That same per-day cost for long-term care is $201 and a staggering $730 for alternate level care. More importantly, home-care supports what 95 per cent of Ontarians say they want — to remain in their homes as they age.
Tags: budget, Home Care, privatization, Seniors, standard of living
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This confidential report reveals Ontario is spending millions to warehouse kids under Children’s Aid care in hotels and other unlicensed settings
Thursday, July 17th, 2025
Ontario is spending millions of dollars a year to warehouse vulnerable kids in hotels, shelters and other unlicensed settings that child welfare agencies are turning to amid a provincewide shortage of treatment options for kids with complex health needs… The use of these placements has soared over the past three years… putting unprecedented strain on children’s aid societies and leaving many kids in unstable or dangerous living arrangements where they are being contained rather than treated.
Tags: budget, child care, homelessness, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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The push for a national caregiving strategy
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
A fundamental goal of a national caregiving strategy must be to change the narrative about care work and fully articulate the value it provides society and what we stand to lose in economic and human terms if we don’t support carers. A fundamental part of this work involves acknowledging and addressing the outsized burden of care carried by women and racialized people… a national caregiving strategy will make the issue of care politically and socially unignorable and will drive recognition that care work is skilled, dignified, necessary, and worthy of proper compensation.
Tags: disabilities, Health, Home Care, jurisdiction, Seniors
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New child care fees take effect in Ontario on Jan. 1: Here’s what families need to know
Friday, January 3rd, 2025
As of Jan. 1, 2025, fees are capped at $22 per day for children under the age of six — but only if your licensed child care provider is enrolled with the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system… According to a Statistics Canada report, parents in 2023 paid an average of $7,557 annually for the main full-time (30 or more hours per week) child care arrangement for their child five years of age and younger… an average of $630 per month for full-time child care, or $30 per day.
Tags: child care, featured, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Canada-wide child care: It’s now less expensive, but finding it is more difficult
Friday, December 27th, 2024
All provinces and territories have met their affordability targets. Parent costs were reduced by 50 per cent by the 2022 deadline… some jurisdictions are not using the federal funding available to them. Governments have added just over $4.5 billion to their child-care spending since 2020, well below the $15 billion available to date through CWELCC. If concerns about funding is pressing provincial and territorial governments could, of course, add their own funding, but few have done so. Relying on federal funds is now the norm.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, jurisdiction, participation
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Why can’t we die at home? Expanding home care could reduce the financial and environmental cost of dying in hospital
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
Primary-care teams can act as informal managers of home care through facilitating the medical, social and comfort components of care. All of this would still add up to far less than the financial and environmental cost of hospitalization. At a time when we’re pressured to cut costs and reduce harm to the environment, and when we know dying patients would rather be at home, why can’t we help?
Tags: budget, Health, Home Care, ideology, jurisdiction
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How to quell the sharp rise in youth violence in Canada
Friday, November 8th, 2024
Major risk factors for violence include limited access to economic opportunities, family instability and neighbourhood disadvantage. Without interventions that address these risks, vulnerable youth and adults are more likely to engage in criminal behaviour or reoffend. A key vital component of violence prevention is trauma-informed case management… community-based programs… can more holistically support the needs of youth leading to better choices and coping mechanisms.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism, poverty, youth
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Ontario cannot allow a few for-profit child care owners to run roughshod over the $10-a-day child care plan
Monday, October 28th, 2024
The problem with [the cheque-in-the-mail approach or as they like to put it “fund the families directly” with a government tax credit or voucher] as a child-care plan is it’s one that works for for-profit child care owners — and absolutely nobody else. It doesn’t lower parents’ fees. Its value is almost immediately swallowed up when owners raise their fees (and then raise them again). It doesn’t improve wages for hard-working educators. It doesn’t build new child-care spaces… we must not let a small group of owners put their private interests ahead of those of our children, families and communities.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, participation, privatization
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Ontario launches review following Ford criticism of children’s aid societies
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
… deficits are continuing to rise and the audit will examine the underlying issues and possible solutions… Ontario began an overhaul of the child welfare system four years ago, with a focus on keeping more families together and strengthening prevention and early intervention supports, but the unions representing CAS workers said there is little to show for it… “We need to end the for-profit models in all residential care facilities, and introduce province-wide licensing of group homes, to ensure our services place children at the centre of care,”
Tags: child care, jurisdiction, mental Health, youth
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