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John A. Macdonald was the real architect of residential schools
It was Macdonald, not Langevin, who served as the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs and was responsible for overseeing the establishment of residential schooling… In the late 1870s, Macdonald dreamed of creating an organized system of federal schools for Indigenous children that could be used to disrupt Indigenous lifeways and control over the land to accelerate successful settler colonialism.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, youth
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Toronto children need more prosperity, not more charity
… fully 29 per cent of children in this city live in poverty… Typically, the response, public and private, is to focus on programs that deal with the symptoms of poverty rather than its sources… Ottawa has abandoned the poor and the cost of poverty to local governments, which don’t have the means to deal with either… That’s because cities have little control over economic matters… Meanwhile, the Conservative government boasts of its impending surplus. This is pure illusion; the deficit hasn’t gone away, it’s been dumped on Canada’s cities.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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What happened to Canada’s education advantage?
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]
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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