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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
TheStar.com – Canada – Leadership AWOL as economy shudders: Deepening crisis won’t wait 7 weeks for Ottawa to get its act together
December 07, 2008. David Olive, Business Columnist
Somehow the urgency of the present hour has eluded the Prime Minister, who needlessly provoked a constitutional crisis in the midst of global economic peril unmatched since the Great Depression, and a governor general who last week abetted the PM’s recklessness by overturning precedent in granting him the parliamentary adjournment he sought in order to save his skin.
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral.ca – Too many gaps in poverty plan, advocates say
December 07, 2008. Tanya Talaga, Queen’s Park Bureau
Ontario’s $1.4 billion anti-poverty strategy must take a hard look at the “colour of poverty” and include indicators used to measure who is poor that are broken down by race, gender and disability, some advocates say.
Ontario’s ambitious poverty reduction strategy, released Thursday, aims to cut child poverty by 25 per cent in five years.
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Toronto Star – GTA/Social Justice – AT A GLANCE: A look at the expectations and outcomes of key issues highlighted in Ontario’s new anti-poverty plan
December 5, 2008. Noor Javed, Tanya Talaga, Laurie Monsebraaten
EMPLOYMENT
Advocates of low-income workers have long pushed for better protection of temporary employment workers, beefed-up enforcement of Ontario’s employment standards and the hiring of 100 more employment inspectors.
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
TheGlobeandMail.com – Science – Poverty affects way brain works, study suggests
December 4, 2008. The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER — A B.C. pediatrician has co-authored a new study that researchers believe shows that the brains of children from low-income backgrounds function differently from the brains of kids from high-income environments.
Tom Boyce, who serves as the B.C. Leadership Chair of Child Development at the University of British Columbia, said the study found certain deficits in the functioning of the prefrontal cortex in kids from low-income environments.
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/Worth Repeating – Working to break the poverty cycle
December 4, 2008
The following is excerpted from Breaking the Cycle, the provincial government’s poverty reduction strategy, which was released yesterday:
We can break the cycle of poverty. That’s the conviction that sits at the heart of Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy.
We all agree that the moral imperative for reducing poverty is clear: children should have the opportunity to succeed in life, and people facing challenges should be given the tools they need to get ahead.
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
TheStar.com – Ontario – Supreme court refuses autistic parents’ appeal
December 04, 2008. Tracey Tyler, LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER
Parents of autistic children say they’ll be planning the next step in their legal battle for better treatment programs now that the Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear their latest appeal.
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Ministry of Children and Youth Services – Ontario Newsroom – Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Ontario Sets Target To Reduce Child Poverty 25 Per Cent Over 5 Years
TORONTO, Dec. 4 /CNW/ – NEWS
Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy will reduce the number of children living in poverty by 25 per cent over 5 years – lifting 90,000 kids out of poverty – by boosting benefits for low-income families and enhancing publicly-funded education.
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – Islands Of Repression
Posted: November 27, 2008. Ian Hunter
Universities serve many purposes and different communities but, first and foremost, a university should always be a bastion of free speech. How sad then, how in a macabre sort of way funny, that they have become instead (in William Bennett’s elegant phrase) “islands of repression in a sea of freedom.”
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
NationalPost.com – Opinion – Better off in the city
Published: Thursday, November 27, 2008. Mark Milke
Digging through census data is hardly a fun way to spend a few days. But if you think, as I do, that raw numbers might reveal much about people and communities, then mining recently released data from the 2006 census is at least productive. I did just that recently to get a numerical grasp on Canada’s aboriginal population, including those who prosper and those who fail, and with possible clues as to why.
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