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Ontario’s ethnocultural legal clinics get new funding
After years of stagnant funding to assist vulnerable groups with unique language and cultural needs, the so-called ethnocultural legal clinics are expected to receive a $86,000 raise in annual operational funding… The… Clinic(s) — which serve minority groups across the province — were concerned the new funding would be based simply on the poverty rate of the population within a clinic’s geographical boundaries, and not reflect actual caseloads that go far beyond.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Ottawa harasses injured soldiers
The department does not appear to be understaffed or underfunded… There is nothing wrong with its mandate… But when it comes to tasks requiring judgment or sensitivity it consistently falls down… It responds to complaints with form letters telling them how to comply with the rules… Canada’s troops… should never have to beg for rehabilitation or support when they come home with broken bodies or tormented minds.
Tags: Health, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Family caregivers need support
… the former Liberal leader got one thing right: he recognized unpaid caregivers as the backbone of Canada’s health-care system and offered them support… Seeking to undercut the Liberals on the eve of the 2011campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a family caregiver tax credit of less than $1 a day. It applies to just 18 per cent of the 2.7 million Canadians who sacrifice their income, career prospects and sometimes their health to care for loved ones.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
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Open 24-hour homeless shelter for women now
… women are at serious risk of sexual and physical abuse at night after other shelters and services are closed. So why isn’t there a shelter a year and a half after that shocking assault, and two years after community activists pointed to the need for one? It’s a story of incompetence and finger-pointing that must stop now. The shelter needs to be opened, immediately.
Tags: budget, Health, homelessness, mental Health, standard of living, tax, women
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How restorative justice re-connects fairness to justice
One of the most important reasons that restorative justice has gained global recognition and respect is that it gives a real voice and choice of process to victims of wrongdoing, something that the justice system continues to be woefully incapable of providing. Those who have been wronged can participate in person, through an agent or lawyer… On a deeper level, restorative justice attempts to re-connect fairness to justice and in doing so, it repairs relationships.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Tax benefits and new legislation ring in the new year
… all families… will see their Universal Child Care Benefit increased from $100 to $160 per month for children under the age of 6… In Ontario, the Liberal government says it is committed to seeing that the province has the lowest smoking rate in Canada. The new rules prohibit the sale of tobacco on post-secondary campuses and schools, and prohibit smoking on all restaurant and bar patios as well as children’s playgrounds and publicly owned sport surfaces.
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Breaking down bureaucratic hurdles to create a safe haven for abused children
In March, representatives from advocacy centres across the country will convene in Calgary with Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre representatives to establish national CAC standards for child interviews and other practices… “This was about creating a different culture, a different environment, a different practice and a different outcome for kids,” Kennedy insists. “You have to keep pushing all the time.”
Tags: child care, crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, mental Health, standard of living
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Ontario must heed alarms on aid for kids in crisis
two issues in particular that need immediate attention: The first is that black kids are way overrepresented in the system. Just 8 per cent of Toronto children under 18 are black, but 41 per cent of kids in care are black. The second is that we’re over-medicating kids in the system. The reporters found that 48.6 per cent of those aged 5 to 17 in foster and group homes are taking behaviour-altering medications. The number jumps to 74 per cent for 10- to 15-year-olds in group homes.
Tags: child care, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, pharmaceutical, poverty, youth
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Secretive and often overzealous care agencies protect children largely at parents’ expense
Child protection agencies have sweeping powers in Canada —powers that, in many aspects, span wider than police. And just as sweeping in many jurisdictions is the privacy under which child protection agencies and government ministries operate. It’s a realm where freedom of information laws do not apply… Ontario has just given investigative powers into such cases to an independent body, but it doesn’t cover parental complaints… a growing number of families and critics say it is really a way for governments to protect themselves.
Tags: child care, disabilities, poverty, rights, youth
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Ontario’s most vulnerable children kept in the shadows
A Star investigation has found Ontario’s most vulnerable children in the care of an unaccountable and non-transparent protection system. It keeps them in the shadows, far beyond what is needed to protect their identities. “When people are invisible, bad things happen,” says Irwin Elman, the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth. Child protection through children’s aid societies costs taxpayers almost $1.5 billion a year — a 300-per-cent increase since 1999.
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