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Once Again Canada Misses the Mark [Child Poverty]

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

CASW-ACTS / CCRC-CCDE – News Release – Once Again Canada Misses the Mark
For Immediate Release December 10, 2008

The gap is growing between Canada’s international commitments to uphold human rights and our country’s failure to live up to those promises.

Within Canada, the impact of this gap is glaringly obvious. Almost one child out of every nine still lives in poverty, 704,414 individuals turn to food banks in an average month, and life expectancy among First Nations populations is still five to seven years below the national average.

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Long years of poor bashing finally brought to an end

Monday, December 8th, 2008

TheStar.com – Opinion – Long years of poor bashing finally brought to an end: Deb Matthews sought out information from those with direct experience of poverty
December 08, 2008. Pat Capponi

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Canada: Rights, budgets and building alternatives [in a global economic crisis]

Monday, December 8th, 2008

CCPA – Social Watch 2008: Rights is the Answer: Canada: Rights, budgets and building alternatives
Press Release: Budgets profoundly affect human rights says international report December 8, 2008

(Ottawa)—On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights a new international report concludes that budgets profoundly impact the attainment of human rights, and the attainment of human rights impacts the quality of our lives.

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Harper fails to recant cuts to pay equity

Friday, December 5th, 2008

TheStar.com – living – Harper fails to recant cuts to pay equity
December 05, 2008. Antonia Zerbisias

Not that women needed another sign of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s flipping off women….

After all, during his first minority government, casualties included a national childcare plan, 12 out of 16 Status of Women Canada (SWC) offices, the court challenges program, which helped women and minorities fight for their rights, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), a research and advocacy group, and the very word “equality” from the SWC mandate.

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Poverty Plan Lays Foundation For Action

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Poverty Watch Ontario – News Release – Poverty Plan Lays Foundation For Action
Posted: 04 Dec 2008. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TORONTO – Ontario is on track to becoming a leader in poverty reduction in a plan that is not only crucial to the province’s economic recovery but is also the right thing to do, says the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction.

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Poverty affects way brain works, study suggests

Friday, December 5th, 2008

TheGlobeandMail.com – Science – Poverty affects way brain works, study suggests
December 4, 2008. The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — A B.C. pediatrician has co-authored a new study that researchers believe shows that the brains of children from low-income backgrounds function differently from the brains of kids from high-income environments.

Tom Boyce, who serves as the B.C. Leadership Chair of Child Development at the University of British Columbia, said the study found certain deficits in the functioning of the prefrontal cortex in kids from low-income environments.

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Supreme court refuses autistic parents’ appeal

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

TheStar.com – Ontario – Supreme court refuses autistic parents’ appeal
December 04, 2008. Tracey Tyler, LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER

Parents of autistic children say they’ll be planning the next step in their legal battle for better treatment programs now that the Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear their latest appeal.

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Fight poverty to improve economic and social health

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

TheStar.com – Opinion – Fight poverty to improve economic and social health: Canada’s inequality and poverty rates are among the highest in the developed world
December 02, 2008. Roy Romanow

The loud bang of the global economic crisis has drowned out the quieter sounds of many other pressing and related concerns.

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Closing the gender health gap [Women’s Health]

Monday, December 1st, 2008

TheStar.com – Opinion – Closing the gender health gap
December 01, 2008. Carol Goar

It typically takes eight years for a medical discovery to work its way into patient care. That time lag can be costly, even fatal.

For years, women suffering heart attacks were sent home from emergency wards because they didn’t report chest pains. Medical researchers knew – but many practitioners and women didn’t – that the most common symptoms of cardiac arrest in women are nausea, vomiting, intense fatigue and shortness of breath.

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Ontario to place prosecutors in police station

Friday, November 28th, 2008

TheGlobeandMail.com – Ntional – Ontario to place prosecutors in police stations: Idea one of several to streamline lengthy trials recommended in new report
November 28, 2008. KIRK MAKIN

Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney-General will combat a plague of sprawling mega-trials by installing on-site prosecutors in police stations and creating superjudges to deal with pretrial motions early and swiftly.

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