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Youth violence tied to racism, report says
TheGlobeandMail.com – national – Youth violence tied to racism, report says
November 14, 2008. CAROLINE ALPHONSO
The sharp rise of youth violence in ontario is linked to entrenched racism in the province, according to a long-awaited report that calls on the provincial government to collect race-based statistics and provide anti-racism training to police officers.
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Kill equalization
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – Kill equalization
Published: Saturday, November 08, 2008
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It’s no time to tinker with Charter of Rights
TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – It’s no time to tinker with Charter of Rights
November 08, 2008
Re:An American litmus test for Canada, Nov. 4
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Don’t mess with medicare
TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – Don’t mess with medicare
November 08, 2008
While attempting to raze our medicare system, one that serves us all pretty equally, “special interests” with more money than decency plot to circumvent our interests for their shareholders. And as usual, working-class families get no say on any of it.
But if our cherished medicare system lapses as a result of these “special interests,” I and many others of my ilk suggest for their sakes they all live in concrete fortified bunkers.
Richard Kadziewicz, Toronto
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Ontario’s new have-not status could bring toxic consequences
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion/Commentary – Ontario’s new have-not status could bring toxic consequences
November 7, 2008. JEFFREY SIMPSON
VANCOUVER — In 2001-2002, British Columbia received an equalization payment from Ottawa. The money was small, but the political shock was huge.
Fairly or otherwise, the payment symbolized the province’s economic mismanagement under the New Democratic Party. The equalization announcement came months before the May, 2001, election that swept the NDP into opposition, where the party remains.
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A different perspective on health
TheStar.com – Atkinson – A different perspective on health
November 07, 2008. Carol Goar
Because he is only Ontario’s “acting” medical officer – and he’s a self-effacing guy – David Williams doesn’t have much of a public profile.
But the genial epidemiologist, who stepped into the breach two years ago when Sheela Basrur resigned to battle the cancer that would eventually claim her life, is worth getting to know. He is not a by-the-books doctor. Nor is he a cautious provincial bureaucrat.
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We’re now ‘have-not,’ but for how long?
TheStar.com – Ontario – We’re now ‘have-not,’ but for how long? Ottawa to send Ontario $347 million in aid, but Flaherty, Duncan differ on prognosis
November 04, 2008. Les Whittington, Robert Benzie, Staff Reporters
Ontario is joining the ranks of Canada’s poorest provinces by receiving an equalization cash handout from Ottawa for the first time.
Starting next year, the province will receive $347 million from the $14.2 billion wealth-sharing program, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced yesterday.
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No stigma in have-not status
TheGlobeandMail.com – opinions/editorial – No stigma in have-not status
November 3, 2008.
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Beyond band councils [Aboriginal education]
TheGlobeandMail.com – opinion/editorial – Beyond band councils
November 3, 2008.
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Ontario to collect $347-million payout [Equalization]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Report on Business/news – Ontario to collect $347-million payout
November 3, 2008. KAREN HOWLETT AND KEVIN CARMICHAEL
MISSISSAUGA — Ontario will for the first time collect from a federal program designed to shift wealth to Canada’s poorest regions next year, an unpleasant reminder of the grim economic prospects facing the country’s most populous province.
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