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One in seven living with disability
TheStar.com – News/Healthzone.ca – One in seven living with disability
December 29, 2009. Heather Scoffield, THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA–An aging population and growing awareness mean the number of people living with disabilities is on the rise in Canada, according to a newly released report.
More people with disabilities have access to jobs and the aids they need, but the wage gap between those with disabilities and those without is growing.
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Courts falling short on effort to keep natives out of jail
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – Courts falling short on effort to keep natives out of jail: Ten years after landmark ruling, prison numbers tell a dismal story
Published on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. Last updated on Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. Kirk Makin
All things being equal, Dennis Thibault didn’t have a prayer of getting bail.
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Redefining Canada’s Liberal party: Priorities of equality and community…
TheStar.com – Opinion/Comment – Redefining Canada’s Liberal party: Priorities of equality and community should guide its future progressive agenda
Published On Sun Dec 27 2009. By Thomas Axworthy
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How to make newcomers into Canadians?
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Comments – How to make newcomers into Canadians? Let’s be blunt: Reforming citizenship is a hugely political issue
Published on Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. Last updated on Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. J.L. Granatstein
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Why it is essential to stand up to bigots
TheStar.com – Opinion/Comment – Why it is essential to stand up to bigots
Published On Thu Dec 10 2009. By Haroon Siddiqui Editorial Page
Last winter, the Israelis attacked minarets in Gaza. Last month, the Swiss voted to ban non-existent minarets.
The reasons proffered in both cases were patently false.
Bombed Gaza mosques probed by Justice Richard Goldstone were found not to have been hiding Hamas arms or militants.
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Timely justice
TheGlobeandMail.com – Politics – Timely justice
December 7, 2009. Andrew Steele
The whining pundit longing for debates on matters of substance is a trope long past its due date, but I’m compelled to tread my deep worn tracks once again.
The level of political discourse at Queen’s Park last week was well below that found in a three-year-old’s birthday party.
Suffice it to say, matters of importance, from Children’s Aid Societies to the strike in driving test centres, have been forced to the margins.
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State care is no home [Native children]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion/Editorial – State care is no home
Published on Friday, Dec. 04, 2009.
It is time to expand adoptions of native children so that non-native parents can give them the love and nurturing that any child needs. It is scandalous that a vast population of native children are in state care with no hope of being adopted into a family. That scandal has come into public view in an arson case in Sudbury featuring two native boys, 12 and 13, who burned down a popular community centre, the Steelworkers Hall.
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The playing field is still uneven [gender and employment]
TheGlobeandMail – Opinions/Web-exclusive commentary – The playing field is still uneven: Modern forms of discrimination continue to keep, push and pull women out of better jobs
Published on Wednesday, Dec. 02, 2009. Jennifer Berdahl
It is popular to assume that the workplace has become an even playing field. Stubborn trends of inequality – like a continued and widening gender pay gap and lower returns on education for women than for men – are explained away with “choices.” We are to believe that women “opt out” of equal work, pay and quality jobs.
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Physicians’ groups accused of delaying foreign doctors
TheStar.com – Health/healthzone.ca – Physicians’ groups accused of delaying foreign doctors
December 1, 2009. Susan Delacourt, OTTAWA BUREAU
OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is accusing physicians’ organizations in the provinces of dragging their feet in the effort to speed up recognition of foreign-trained doctors.
Kenney told reporters today that the foot-dragging has a cost to Canada.
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Abusing Canada’s flag in the name of political correctness [Native protest, Caledonia]
NationalPost.com – Full Comment – Abusing Canada’s flag in the name of political correctness
Posted: November 27, 2009. Editorial board
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