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Canada Underinvests In Community Care
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
Canada’s per capita spending on homecare and other outpatient and day program services falls below the international average. In general, countries that direct higher proportions of health spending to seniors care than Canada also spend more per capita on home care, outpatient care and day programs for seniors.
Tags: disabilities, economy, ideology, Seniors, standard of living
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How Baby Boomers will change the way Canadians die
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Expanding access not only to doctors and nurses but also to counsellors, social workers and grief experts, as well as special management of medications in the home environment where more people want to die is key, Sumner says… “One thing that members of my generation have taken for granted is that they’re in the driver’s seat as far as their lives are concerned,” he says. “I want to hope that they can drive a lot of this change as well.”
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Liberals promise to end for-profit long-term care in Ontario
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Calling the warehousing of seniors in long-term-care homes “one of the greatest mistakes” of the last century, Ontario’s Liberals are pledging a multibillion-dollar shift to caring for the elderly in their own homes as long as possible… The $2-billion “home-care-first” plan would provide more supports to seniors who could move on to smaller, more-homestyle facilities when they need higher levels of care…
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, participation, standard of living
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What Ontario parents really need to know about the new early learning and child care agreement
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
… with the largest share of the country’s youngest children, Ontario is creating only one new space for every 12 children under six years old in the province… the province will need another 9,000 ECEs, plus support workers to staff new classrooms. As the least generous supporter of its workforce, Ontario won’t achieve its goals until it gets serious about compensation… Increasing college enrolment only adds water to a bucket full of holes.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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On child care, don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
If the plan rolls out as described, it will improve early education for kids, cut costs for families at a time when they are badly pressed, and give the economy a boost by making it easier for women to participate fully in the workforce… All that being said, it’s still true that the Ontario deal is not all it could be. And, indeed, in some ways it is less than advertised… All this will be worked out in the years ahead.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Trudeau and Ford to sign $10-a-day child care deal…
Monday, March 28th, 2022
Ottawa is looking at spending hundreds of millions more to create additional child-care spaces. The cash would be provided under a separate infrastructure fund and offered to all provinces based on their share of the population under age 12. It was considered “a game changer” by those close to Ford… that’s separate from the child-care deal so Ottawa can still say it’s $10.2 billion (for Ontario)…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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With deadline looming, why hasn’t Ontario signed a child-care deal yet?
Monday, March 7th, 2022
Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, said Ontario’s funding of full-day junior kindergarten is irrelevant. “The idea is to use this federal money to build on what already exists,” she said. “If Ontario wants to argue that the federal government should pay a share of public education, then they should make that proposal.”… Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said the $27.2 billion the Liberals have budgeted for the Canada-wide program would not be enough to meet expected demand.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Could a $10-a-day deal hurt Ontario’s thousands of child-care businesses?
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
… nobody is worse off, and more are better off. The new federal funding expands and improves the quality of care, helping licensed businesses stay afloat and focus on the business of care. It creates more better-paid job opportunities… And it reduces uncertainty for parents and providers in tandem, instead of waiting for markets to deliver what they haven’t — quality care where and when it is needed.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, participation, privatization, standard of living, women
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Toronto’s community crisis plan is a welcome shift away from policing mental-health care
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
When people slip through the cracks of our broken mental health care system, they fall right to the police. And then it falls to police to deal with the situation, even though they’re ill-equipped to do so. A functioning community framework, on the other hand, would provide people with the necessary support right in their communities — not locked away in isolated institutions — and from people they know and trust.
Tags: featured, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism
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After decades of delay, national child-care plan proves an ambitious social agenda is possible
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
… now that it’s clear a national child-care system is politically viable, it will be up to the Trudeau government to ensure that the one it’s started to build is strong — and public. The success of Scandinavian-style child care stems from the fact that it is a truly public system — like our school system — with no place for private profit-making, which leads to cutting corners on staff and resources.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, privatization
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