Archive for the ‘Education History’ Category
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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