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Desperate parents pray for federal action amid daycare ‘anarchy’

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

“I don’t feel that the system is broken. I feel that there is no system — that it is total anarchy”… advocates are worried child care will be buried in the new government’s $20-billion social infrastructure fund aimed at also addressing affordable housing, seniors facilities, women’s shelters and recreational/cultural amenities over the next 10 years… past experience has shown that when child-care funding is included as part of broader federal transfers to provinces, not much happens.

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Ontario must make group homes more accountable

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

… a system so lacking in transparency that societies don’t even know which homes — never mind employees — are performing badly. Unbelievably, there isn’t even a public registry or website which notes whether homes are fully licensed by the ministry or operating under provisional permits, which indicate that standards have not been fully met. Nor do local children’s aid societies have a system to share their findings about individual group homes with other societies.

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Ontario’s long-term care problem: Seniors staying at home longer isn’t a cure for waiting lists

Sunday, March 13th, 2016

Often what drives seniors into long-term care is not their own needs, but rather that their caregiver — usually a younger spouse — burns out or falls ill… The province says 116 days is the median waiting to time to find a spot in long-term care… But those numbers can fluctuate wildly… If you’re in hospital and waiting for a spot in long-term care, the wait is about half that of someone waiting at home. But the cost of these patients to the health care system is enormous.

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Child care — Canada’s elusive dream

Friday, March 11th, 2016

Trudeau… is not deviating from Harper’s cash-for-parents model. Political observers hold out little hope of any significant expansion of Canada’s fragmentary, underfunded preschool system. Canadians now have a 44-year-old prime minister with three young children who proudly calls himself a feminist, yet sees no urgency for a national child care program. Trudeau affirmed his “steadfast commitment to promoting full and substantive equality for all women” this week…

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Ontario daycare reforms will mess up social goals

Thursday, March 10th, 2016

… fewer infants may receive care in local daycares. Infants would graduate to the “toddler room,”… at a year old… “toddler rooms” would have to get bigger to meet the demand… because the new regulations provide less incentive to create space for infants, many care facilities are contemplating ending daycare services for children less than 12 months… So what does this have to do with Canada’s poverty reduction strategy?

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How the Trudeau government can fix Canada’s broken bail system

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

In Canada today, there are more legally innocent people in prison than there are guilty ones. The innocent – about 55 per cent of total prison populations – are people charged with crimes, many of them minor, non-violent offences, who are being detained by a system that is punitive, inequitable and ultimately self-defeating… Pretrial detention rates have become unacceptable… The government has said it will reform the bail system. Now it must summon the courage to do it.

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Wynne commits $100M to curb violence against indigenous women

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

It consists of $80 million to support children, youth and families, including hiring 220 social workers; $15.75 million for steps to prevent human trafficking; $2.32 million in police and justice reforms; $1.15 million for violence awareness and prevention; $500,000 for improved collaboration with First Nations and Ottawa, and $750,000 for better data and research to track problems.

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Tories spent less than 1% of $20 million meant for parents of missing or murdered children: watchdog

Friday, February 5th, 2016

… the victims of crime ombudsman, plans to review the program to find out why money isn’t going to families who could use the financial help after dealing with a tragedy. The money is delivered through the employment insurance system and can be taken by either parent, or shared by both… set up by the previous Conservative government, [it] provides $350 a week, before tax, for up to 35 weeks to parents of children under the age of 18 who have been killed or have gone missing as a result of a criminal act.

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Program to help stop sex trafficking is welcome

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

The program… is aimed at: Educating girls on the signs that a “boyfriend” is trying to lure them into sex trafficking; Teaching hoteliers, condo concierges and taxi drivers how they can intervene if they come into contact with a crime in action; Funding a 24-hour hotline that will send out trained workers to provide trauma counselling and court support; Providing transitional housing for up to seven victims of human trafficking at a time to give them round-the-clock aid.

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We need to start caring for caregivers

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

We can no longer afford to treat family care as essentially free labour, undertaken by and within families as a private matter… Family members and friends provide 10 times as many hours of care as paid caregivers do… care work is worth more than $66 billion. Society can’t afford to ignore threats to sustainability of this vast care sector… public supports… extend families’ caring capacity… reducing the risk of institutionalization of the person in need of care.

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