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A catalyst to mend child welfare
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
… youth transitioned out of Ontario’s child protection system… experience low academic achievement, unemployment or underemployment, homelessness or housing insecurity, criminal justice system involvement, early parenthood, poor health and deep loneliness… The inquest presented the opportunity to change that approach, as it focused on the flaws in the system… and suggested how they could be fixed.
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The toll of police work
Monday, October 24th, 2022
Due to tears in the social safety net, many vulnerable people fall through the cracks, and it then falls to police to pick them up. Police therefore become, by default, de facto doctors, nurses and social workers, as they have to deal with issues for which they’re neither qualified nor equipped: homelessness, addictions and mental illness. This adds enormously to operational stress — and to trauma — for overpoliced, vulnerable people who need care, not cops.
Tags: crime prevention, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty
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Ontario should live up to child care deal
Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
… within months of pledging to partner with the federal government, the province was already stripping a series of checks on funding rules that guarded against “undue profits” and “ineligible expenditures” by operators… The federal government, meanwhile, must make clear that Ontario must live up to the deal it signed, in both detail and spirit.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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Ontario weakened its $10-a-day child care funding rules. Now the federal government is demanding answers
Saturday, September 24th, 2022
…the federal government… raised worry that some taxpayer money won’t be used for its intended purpose of reducing parent fees and improving child care services… Ontario revised its guidelines in August, removing a provision that would have limited “undue” profits, eliminating some “ineligible expenditures,” and relieving some of the financial reporting requirements.
Tags: budget, child care, jurisdiction
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Canadians deserve high-quality care, but non-profit hiring crisis is standing in the way
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
Community based non-profits are not given the funds to provide salaries on par with municipalities, schools boards and hospitals… significant wage disparity has meant a mass exodus of non-profit workers. As a result, quality of care for our loved ones is compromised as staff turnover interrupts programs and leaves gaps in staffing, disrupting critical relationships and care systems.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Ontario extending $10/day child-care opt-in deadline to get more operators to apply
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Just a few weeks ahead of September, uptake varies widely across municipalities, with some — particularly smaller areas — seeing all or nearly all operators apply, while other regions are seeing less than half of operators applying so far… In Toronto, the largest region, 587 out of a total of 1,042 licensed child-care centres have applied to opt in — and 32 have opted out — though the percentage of for-profit operators that have applied is much lower than the non-profits.
Tags: child care, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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Why doesn’t Canada let schools provide child care?
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
Canada’s policy-makers could take lessons from other countries who have streamlined early learning and child care within their schools. Instead, they are putting up roadblocks, preventing provinces and territories from using federal child-care dollars to transform schools into one-stop centres for young children.
Tags: child care, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Ontario’s for-profit child-care owners demonstrate why they can’t be trusted to build Canada’s $10-a-day child-care system
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
As families in Ontario wait for child care fee relief, some for-profit child care owners seem more interested in continuing the status quo of sky-high parent fees and rock bottom wages for early childhood educators. They take issue with the new Canada-wide child care system, complaining that it threatens their bottom lines. In doing so, they are proving exactly why they cannot be trusted to build Canada’s $10-a-day child care program. For them it’s profits over parents, every time.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Forget motives. The Trudeau government is getting it right on gun control
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
… it plans to introduce a national handgun “freeze” — not a ban — that will bar future sales, purchases, transfers and importation of handguns by anyone across the country… It would cap the number of handguns held legally by Canadians and prevent them from being sold or otherwise moved around. Over time it would reduce the number of legal guns that find their way into the illegal market and end up being used in crimes…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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US shootings: Norway and Finland have similar levels of gun ownership, but far less gun crime
Monday, May 30th, 2022
European societies that come close to US rates of gun ownership, in terms of gun owners per 100 people, (but with hunting rifles and shotguns rather than handguns), such as Finland and Norway, are among the safest societies internationally with regards to gun violence… Interestingly, the evidence is now indisputable that more guns in a given country translates directly into more gun violence.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction
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