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A pragmatic Ontario budget under trying circumstances
Globe and Mail – Commentary – A pragmatic Ontario budget under trying circumstances
March 26, 2008 at 3:37 AM EDT
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Ontario has little room to manoeuvre, given slow growth, weakening exports, a high dollar, an infrastructure deficit, a relentless health-care budget, and a drain on its resources from six provinces through equalization and federal transfers.
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Budget focuses on retraining
TheStar.com – Ontario Budget – Budget focuses on retraining
March 25, 2008
Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park Bureau
Laid-off workers in the hard-hit manufacturing sector will get more cash to help keep their families afloat if they go back to school to learn new skills under a “second career†strategy in this year’s Ontario budget.
Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said some of the 20,000 people targeted by the plan could get as much as $30,000 to pay household bills and tuition, providing they go back to school for a two-year program.
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James Daw: Something for seniors and students
TheStar.com – Ontario Budget – James Daw: Something for seniors and students
March 25, 2008
James Daw, Business Columnist
Senior homeowners, savers, cyclists, students and the poor will benefit from modest tax relief and assistance in Ontario’s latest budget.
The province’s economy is expected to grow slowly this year, and tax revenues will grow hardly at all. There will be less room to increase spending or provide relief within a balanced budget than in the year just ending.
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Bullying’s roots traced to home
TheStar.com – GTA – Bullying’s roots traced to home
Parents with aggressive kids need to be involved in early prevention and intervention, study says
March 25, 2008
Kristin Rushowy, Education Reporter
Childhood bullies frequently fight with their parents, feel they can’t count on them and aren’t closely supervised, a Toronto-based study shows.
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Say goodbye to ‘Ottawa knows best’
National Post – opinion
Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Phil Fontaine
The recent National Post series, “Rethinking the Reserve,” has renewed public debate and interest about the place of First Nations in Canada and our relationship to the state and the rest of Canadian society. This public spotlight allows us to focus on a key message: Investing in First Nations today pays dividends for Canada’s future. Our well-being is tied to Canada’s well-being as a nation.
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Ignorance fuels fear of crime
TheStar.com – comment – Ignorance fuels fear of crime
March 17, 2008
Re:Residents fight plan for support housing – March 15
What does Steve Tanner think is going to happen if mentally ill people move into a housing complex near his family? Does he suspect greater violence? That’s a misconception.
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Canada’s other two solitudes
TheStar.com – comment/letters – Canada’s other two solitudes
March 12, 2008
Re:Reserve won’t get new school, despite YouTube campaign – March 10
A long list of schools needs to be built on First Nations reserves, and Attawapiskat, on James Bay, just got bumped off the list because needs are greater elsewhere. The children here have been promised a real school instead of makeshift portables for eight years. They are in portables because a diesel spill left their environment toxic.
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Fresh thinking outside government
TheStar.com – comment – Fresh thinking outside government
March 12, 2008
Carol Goar
When Gerard Kennedy was 23 and brimming with confidence, he took a stand he considered risky and politically sophisticated.
The Edmonton Food Bank, which he had just opened, was hit with twin crises. First the price of oil plummeted, throwing many Albertans out of work. Then the government cut welfare rates.
Kennedy sent an impassioned letter to the Ministry of Family and Social Services, outlining the human damage the cutback would do.
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Misplaced priorities
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Misplaced priorities
March 11, 2008
For eight years, children in Attawapiskat have been going to school in cramped portable classrooms after health concerns over decades-old diesel fuel contamination closed the local school.
In most parts of Canada, such appalling conditions would spark public outcry and quick government action. But in Attawapiskat, a remote First Nations reserve on Ontario’s James Bay coast, parents and children are being told they will just have to wait for a new school.
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Lack of child care still a barrier
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Lack of child care still a barrier
March 08, 2008
Today, as the world marks International Women’s Day, the theme is “Shaping Progress,” celebrating how far women have come since the day was first marked in the early 1900s.
And there are victories to celebrate, particularly women’s growing role on court benches, their place in universities and their prowess on athletic fields. But in the power fields of business and politics, women remain shockingly under-represented. And in any field, to get ahead women have to make many personal sacrifices.
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