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Joyless return for native students
TheStar.com – Opinion – Joyless return for native students
August 26, 2008. Colleen Schenk
The first week of school is filled with excitement and anticipation for millions of children as they head back to the classroom. But for First Nations children on reserves, it is blighted by the conditions they will find.
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A hospital is not a home
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – A hospital is not a home
August 25, 2008
Keeping a quadriplegic in a hospital bed costs the Ontario health system $1,200 a day. Providing that same person with an attendant at home would cost $200 a day, freeing up hospital beds and money to provide home attendants for others.
But many disabled people who have been ready to leave hospital for up to three years have been stuck on a waiting list for attendants – costing the system more than $1.3 million for each of them, according to a report from the Ontario Community Support Association.
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That frontier mythology now threatens the world
TheStar.com – Books – That frontier mythology now threatens the world: America’s New World Order is not just under global siege, its values are now downright dangerous to our survival, fears Richard Wright
August 24, 2008. Geoff Pevere
What Is America? A Short History of the New World Order
by Ronald Wright, Knopf Canada, 368 pages, $29.95
There may be no other country in the world in which myth and history are as intimately entwined as the United States of America.
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Hide IDs in court rulings, privacy chief says
TheStar.com – Canada – Hide IDs in court rulings, privacy chief says: Web postings would have names encoded
August 20, 2008. Tracey Tyler, Legal Affairs Reporter
QUEBEC CITY–Their names are at the centre of some of history’s famous trials. Louis Riel. Paul Bernardo. Joan of Arc.
But what if Joan were known only as A.O.J. or Bernardo as simply B.P.?
It may sound strange, but finding out the names of people involved in cases before the justice system will become more difficult – and involve decoding initials – if Canada’s privacy commissioner has her way.
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Native agency hailed for saving kids
TheStar.com – Ontario – Native agency hailed for saving kids
Kerry Gillespie. August 21, 2008
KASABONIKA, ONT.–The homes are full of mould, sewage backs up in the bathtubs, power is iffy and food costs twice what it does everywhere else.
But this town, 570 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, and other similarly remote communities are the only place thousands of Indian children have ever called home.
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If election called, McGuinty vows to crusade for Ontario
TheStar.com – Ontario – If election called, McGuinty vows to crusade for Ontario
August 20, 200. Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief
KITCHENER–Premier Dalton McGuinty says he plans to aggressively inject himself into the federal election campaign expected this fall.
McGuinty served notice to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion, and NDP Leader Jack Layton that he would be crusading for Ontario’s interests.
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Urban storm warning
TheStar.com – Opinion – Urban storm warning: To avoid this kind of unrest, Toronto must find ways to empower youth in poor areas
August 15, 2008. Simon Black
Two years ago, I wrote an article for Canada’s premier hip-hop culture magazine, POUND, arguing that it was not a matter of if but of when urban riots led by poor youth would erupt in Canadian cities.
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While poverty surges, legal aid comes up short
TheStar.com – Opinion – While poverty surges, legal aid comes up short: Without a lawyer, it’s difficult for people to protect or pursue their legal rights
August 14, 2008. Judith McCormack
Equality before the law is one of the defining tests of a true democracy. Rich or poor, boss or bellhop, the law of the land should apply to everyone alike.
This idea may be a little frayed around the edges these days, but cynicism aside, it’s still central to our understanding of how a contemporary society should operate.
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Do we have two-tier citizenship in Canada?
TheGlobeandMail.com – opinions/special comment – Do we have two-tier citizenship in Canada?
August 7, 2008. SHEEMA KHAN
Canada fully understands and appreciates and shares the United States’ concerns with regard to security. However, the Canadian government has every right to go to bat when it believes one of its citizens has been treated unfairly by another government.
– Stephen Harper, Jan. 26, 2007
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