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Austerity Canadian-style, now in Britain? Pity

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

November 12, 2010
The British government is happily taking a page from the Canadian playbook of the mid-1990s, when our own age of austerity reshaped public policy and the role of the state. Massive federal budget cuts in 1995 devolved responsibility for a range of social programs to the provinces and territories who, in turn, pushed costs onto municipalities and hospitals, schools and universities, community organizations and households. One result of this cascade of downloading is that undergraduate university tuitions have more than doubled across Canada and tripled in Ontario since 1995.

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What happened to Canada’s education advantage?

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion/Comment – What happened to Canada’s education advantage?  We steered away just as the world was entering the knowledge economy.  When Mike Harris was premier, funding for education was cut by $1 billion, including a 25 per cent cut for universities.
Published On Tue Oct 20 2009.   Roger Martin

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Disabilities not a reason to send a person to ‘jail’ [warehousing people with physical, developmental and psychiatric disabilities]

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

TheGlobeandMail.com – Life/Health – Disabilities not a reason to send a person to ‘jail’
April 2, 2009.  ANDRE PICARD

On Tuesday night, on the grounds of the Ontario legislature, a group of community-living activists and former residents of institutions gathered for a candlelight vigil.

They were celebrating a historic moment in the evolution of health and social-welfare systems that occurred when, on March 31, Ontario closed the last three large institutions for people with developmental disabilities.

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