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Autism and schools
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Autism and schools
July 06, 2009
There are more autistic children on a waiting list to get government-funded therapy than there are children actually receiving the one-on-one help.
The latest provincial government statistics show 1,306 children are getting intensive behavioural intervention (IBI), while 1,513 are waiting for it. Another 389 kids are waiting to be assessed so they can qualify for therapy – and earn a spot on the waiting list.
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Ethnic enclaves bloom amid city landscape
TheStar.com – Opinion – Ethnic enclaves bloom amid city landscape: Media and politicians too often see segregation and ghettoes instead of the vibrant expressions of community identity that most enclaves are
July 05, 2009. Mohammad Qadeer, Sandeep Agrawal
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Threat to rights tribunal demands a response
TheStar.com – living – Threat to rights tribunal demands a response
July 04, 2009. Helen Henderson
So Tim Hudak wants to dismantle the Ontario Human Rights tribunal.
For the newly minted provincial Progressive Conservative leader, this platform undoubtedly has conservative appeal, but it is by no stretch of the imagination progressive.
Indeed, as the Star’s Jim Coyle so aptly put it, by the time the Mike Harris protégé had claimed his crown last weekend, “anything `progressive’ about the party had pretty much left the building.”
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Canada’s Universal Periodic Review [Response to UN Human Rights Council]
pch.gc.ca – Patrimoine canadien/Canadian Heritage – Canada’s Universal Periodic Review
June 2009
Canada’s review before the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group session took place on February 3, 2009. A total of 45 states intervened during the three-hour interactive dialogue. These states made recommendations to Canada on a wide range of topics.
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‘Ugly head’ rises again [parents forced to give up custody of severely disabled children]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – ‘Ugly head’ rises again
June 29, 2009
Four years ago, when parents were being forced to give up custody of their severely disabled children to get them the care they needed, the provincial government adamantly declared that the practice would end.
“No family in this province, in this day and age, should have to consider giving up their children to get the help they need,” the children’s minister of the day said.
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Racial bias runs surprisingly deep
TheStar.com – Columnist – Racial bias runs surprisingly deep
June 27, 2009. Rosie DiManno
In a Hamilton courtroom recently, a mistrial was declared – in large part – because too many potential jurors declared themselves to be intrinsically biased against the black defendants.
There were no blacks in the jury pool and only two individuals of a visible minority.
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Indians and the just society
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Indians and the just society: Forty years after Jean Chrétien’s ‘white paper,’ we still struggle to reconcile the Canadian square and the aboriginal circle
Jun. 27, 2009. William Johnson
A bombshell. No, a mega-magnitude earthquake. The tectonic plates underlying Canada collided against each other. To this day, the aftershocks continue their eruptions.
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Hand sanitizer outcry masks deeper problems [Determinants of health and First Nations communities]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Hand sanitizer outcry masks deeper problems
June 26, 2009. Carol Goar
The hand sanitizer controversy drove Carolyn Bennett nuts.
As a physician, the Liberal MP was acutely aware of the importance of hand washing in controlling the H1N1 pandemic. But as Canada’s former minister of public health, she knew a bottle of squirt-on germ killer was no substitute for safe drinking water, decent housing and proper garbage disposal.
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Saving human rights commissions: Hate is a cancer but censorship isn’t the cure
NationalPost.com – Opinion – Saving human rights commissions: Hate is a cancer but censorship isn’t the cure
Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009. Kevin Kindred
I have a lot of love for human rights commissions in Canada. As an activist working toward equality on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, I know the human rights system. Without an accessible means of redress for cases of discrimination, we would be decades behind in achieving equality. And without such a system in the future, the cause of equality would be hopelessly rolled back.
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