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No time to give up on health care principles
NationalPost.com – Full Comment Canadian politics – Counterpoint: No time to give up on health care principles
Posted: April 10, 2009
A response to: The biggest hindrance to better health care is our own illusions
Although we agree with Dr. Keith Martin, Member of Parliament from BC, that Canadian health care needs to be improved, there is no evidence to support his assertion that more private competition is the best solution. In fact, Europe has produced much evidence to the contrary.
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Attention, education shoppers
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Attention, education shoppers
April 10, 2009. RICK SALUTIN
Capitalism’s last stand? Ontario’s Education Ministry put up a website for parents this week comparing schools based on standardized test results, socio-economic status etc. It included a shopping cart. The ministry removed the cart in response to some fury but maintained the site.
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If we’re going to talk citizenship, let’s have a principled debate
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Comment – If we’re going to talk citizenship, let’s have a principled debate
April 8, 2009. NATALIE BRENDER
On April 17, a new law comes into effect changing the rules of citizenship. From that date on, when foreign-born Canadians have children born abroad, those children cannot inherit Canadian citizenship. Under the current rules, such children do receive citizenship and can retain it as adults – even if they’ve never stepped foot in this country – by showing knowledge of Canada and ability to speak English or French.
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Don’t hide school rankings
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Edtorial – Don’t hide school rankings
Published: April 08, 2009
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This isn’t democracy [The Assembly of First Nations]
NationalPost.com – This isn’t democracy: The Assembly of First Nations is supposed to represent rank-and-file aboriginals. It doesn’t
Published: Saturday, April 04, 2009. Joseph Quesnel, National Post
Imagine you wanted to be prime minister, but rather than run for the leadership of your party and then face a general election, you only needed the support of every mayor in Canada.
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The quiet unravelling of Canadian democracy
TheStar.com – Insight – The quiet unravelling of Canadian democracy: Muzzled MPs. A powerless cabinet. Politicized senior bureaucrats. Unaccountable parties. Canada’s democracy is in trouble. To fix it we have to connect the dots
April 04, 2009. James Travers, National Affairs Columnist
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Children harmed by sole custody, report says
TheStar.com – News/ParentCentral.ca – Children harmed by sole custody, report says
April 03, 2009. Susan Pigg, Living reporter
Family court judges are misguidedly harming children by granting sole custody to one parent – usually the mother – in bitter divorce battles, says a comprehensive new report.
Too many children are being “robbed of the love of one parent” by a legal system that is out of touch with the needs of children and treats them like property to be won or lost, says Edward Kruk, an expert on child custody issues.
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Gender Aspects of Employment Insurance
Connect2Canada – Canada Watch/Public Policy – Gender Aspects of Employment Insurance
April 3, 2009.
Ken Battle of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy appeared before the Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women. His presentation discusses gender aspects of the Employment Insurance program.
Read: < http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2009/social_net_gov.pdf >.
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