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Recognize Canada’s missing millions [people with disabilities]
TheStar.com – Living/Disabilities – Recognize Canada’s missing millions
Published On Sat Oct 24 2009. By Helen Henderson Disabilities Reporter
How is it possible for more than 4.5 million Canadian citizens to go missing? Did they just drop off the map? Did anybody organize a search party?
Michael J. Prince went looking for evidence that those in positions of power give any thought at all to people with disabilities when formulating and assessing policies. He found little beyond empty words.
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Protection for nannies
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Protection for nannies
Published On Thu Oct 22 2009
It took seven months and a serious change of heart. But the Ontario government is finally getting serious about protecting live-in caregivers from routine exploitation.
Many of the more than 20,000 nannies in Ontario arrive here deep in debt after paying thousands of dollars in fees to recruiters, who often lure them with phantom job offers.
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Ignatieff commits to women’s issues
TheStar.com – News/Canada – Ignatieff commits to women’s issues: Liberals pledge to improve equal pay, launch search for missing aboriginal women and improve support for seniors
Published On Wed Oct 21 2009. Les Whittington Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA – Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is committing his party, if elected, to improve equal pay for women, launch a full-scale investigation of missing Aboriginal women and establish a national program of day-care and early learning.
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Ottawa slammed for allowing ‘disposable’ temp workforce
TheStar.com – Business – Ottawa slammed for allowing ‘disposable’ temp workforce: Foreign workers program ripe for abuse, labour groups say
October 19, 2009. Nicholas Keung Immigration Reporter
The proposed changes to Canada’s temporary foreign workers program reinforce a “disposable” workforce and further penalize workers already vulnerable to abuse, advocacy groups and labour unions warn.
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Learning to be a citizen
TheStar.com – news/gta -Learning to be a citizen: Newcomers study hard to pass citizenship test with questions on rights, history, government
October 19, 2009. Nicholas Keung Immigration Reporter
On a chilly evening, 15 people crowd into a cluttered classroom at the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office near Don Mills Rd. to learn all they can about Canada: its history, geography, Confederation, aboriginal peoples, national symbols, government structures and most important, the rights and responsibilities of being Canadian.
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CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP: A HISTORY
TheStar.com – news/gta – CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP: A HISTORY
Published On Mon Oct 19 2009
Before 1915 — People in Canada from the U.K. and Commonwealth countries were British subjects. Others had to live here for five years and be of “good character” to be naturalized.
1921 — A separate status of “Canadian national” was created under the Canadian Nationals Act.
1946 — Canada passed the Canadian Citizenship Act and became the first Commonwealth country to establish its own nationality.
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ENDORSE THE DISABILITY DECLARATION
odspaction.ca – listserve – ENDORSE THE DISABILITY DECLARATION
Created 2009-10-06. By nancy
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Fine diagnosis, disappointing remedy [“Literacy Matters”]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Fine diagnosis, disappointing remedy
October 14, 2009. Carol Goar
Over the past decade, the TD Bank Financial Group has earned a remarkable reputation as the best social policy think-tank in the country.
Its research is the gold standard. Its economists bring the same rigour to poverty and homelessness as they apply to credit flows and commodity prices.
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Poor get poorer in an affluent city
TheStar.com – News – Poor get poorer in an affluent city
October 06, 2009. Donovan Vincent
A report examining the social health of this city has found “startling contradictions.” On the one hand, Toronto is becoming more prosperous. But with the recession hitting immigrants harder, children experiencing higher levels of poverty, and the number of middle-class families shrinking, the poor are getting poorer.
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Mr. Premier, don’t drag your heels on early learning report
TheStar.com – Opinion – Mr. Premier, don’t drag your heels on early learning report
October 05, 2009. David Crombie, Margaret Norrie McCain
In the next few days, Premier Dalton McGuinty will be making an announcement that could begin a revolution in education and help define his own legacy as a leader.
If the premier follows the blueprint laid out by his early learning adviser, not only will he set Ontario on a course to become one of the best places in the world to raise a child, he will up the province’s competitiveness quotient in the same breath.
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