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With a looming aging crisis, who is helping the caregivers?
Sunday, April 14th, 2019
“The cost and consequences of caring for an aging family member are high, and higher for women than they are for men, and higher still if there are no workplace, community or family supports to assist them”… the problem with women’s eldercare is that it is ultimately a problem of unpaid work that persists throughout women’s lives, from child care to household chores to emotional labour to end-of-life care… “We will all be caregivers and care receivers at some point in time. We need to figure out how to do this well.”
Tags: disabilities, economy, Health, ideology, participation, standard of living
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New parental-leave benefit inches us ever closer toward gender equality
Monday, April 1st, 2019
… women who take a longer maternity leave are seen as less committed to their jobs by co-workers and managers. This is a foundational fact in the chronic underrepresentation of women in upper management. Reducing mothers’ time away from work by shifting more child-care responsibilities on to fathers could play a major role in correcting this problem.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, rights, women
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After the latest court ruling, solitary confinement’s days are numbered
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Finally, a Canadian court has reached a conclusion that long seemed inevitable: putting a prison inmate in solitary confinement for more than 15 days constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of Section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Not only did the Ontario Court of Appeal make this landmark ruling last week, it also gave Correctional Service Canada an April 13 deadline to bring the new limit into effect.
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Autism layoffs ‘premature,’ says Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Her ministry will hold consultations through the summer to determine how to move forward on more needs-based funding… Taylor accused the Ford government’s plan of putting families “in crisis, and we have a complete disaster of an autism program right now in the province because the minister failed to communicate before she put the policy in place.”
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, participation, youth
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Changes to Ontario’s (still) flawed autism program show Ford government can be pushed back
Sunday, March 24th, 2019
… these announced “enhancements,”… don’t truly fix this flawed program. This still amounts to a $331-million plan that does not meet the needs, especially for those on the high-needs end of the spectrum and girls who are who are often diagnosed later than boys so doubly suffer under the government’s age discrimination, which provides far less funding for kids over the age of six. But the changes are a sign that the Ford government is movable and open, albeit belatedly, to listening to experts.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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New Zealand’s gun ban shows the way. Will Canada be as bold?
Saturday, March 23rd, 2019
Will Canada be as brave as New Zealand, and ban the types of guns that facilitate mass killing of humans? It would take an enormous act of political will. It would take a critical mass of people of to advocate against the weapons. It would involve standing up to the country’s vocal gun lobby… before the next tragedy has people sending their thoughts and prayers. It can be done. New Zealand has shown the way.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights
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Don’t balance Ontario’s budget on the backs of vulnerable kids
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
First he cut a planned welfare increase in half. He ended a guaranteed annual income pilot program halfway through its mandate. Then he ditched a planned $1-an-hour increase in the minimum wage. Now his government is putting the province’s most vulnerable children in danger by putting budgetary pressures on children’s aid societies by changing up their funding formulas. So far that’s resulted in 26 child protection workers being laid off in the Brantford area.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, youth
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Parents rally against Ford government’s autism changes
Friday, March 8th, 2019
the government is boosting spending to clear a wait list of 23,000 children and giving families limited budgets to choose the services they want. Depending on their income, parents will be eligible for up to $20,000 a year for children under 6, with a lifetime maximum of $140,000. Children older than that can access up to $5,000 a year up to age 18, to a lifetime maximum of $55,000. Critics have said those amounts fall far short, as children with severe needs can require up to $80,000 a year in therapy.
Tags: budget, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Children’s agency slams Ford government’s autism funding changes
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Kinark is the only regional service provider — so far — to publicly oppose the changes announced by Lisa MacLeod, minister of children, community and social services last month… Under the overhaul, provincial funding will no longer be administered by nine regional service providers and instead flow directly to families who will use the money to buy therapy from private therapists or publicly funded agencies… A new independent agency to be established in the next year will administer “childhood budgets” to families based on household income and a child’s age.
Tags: budget, disabilities, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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End solitary confinement, says Ontario human rights commissioner in wake of Adam Capay case
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
Solitary confinement continues to be overused in Ontario correctional facilities and should be phased out entirely, says one of the central figures responsible for drawing attention to the plight of Adam Capay, the 26-year-old Indigenous man who spent more than four years in isolation… [The (OHRC) Commissioner found]… details emerging from the Capay case “extremely troubling” and urging the government to end the practice of isolating prisoners for 22 or more hours a day.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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