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Make curriculum more Africentric: McGuinty
TheStar.com – Ontario – Make curriculum more Africentric: McGuinty
February 06, 2008
Keith Leslie, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Creating a school focused on black students is the wrong approach, but changing the Ontario school curriculum for all students to make it more inclusive is an idea worth pursuing, Premier Dalton McGuinty said today.
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Upholding human rights is not censorship
TheStar.com – comment – Upholding human rights is not censorship
February 07, 2008
Naseem Mithoowani, Khurrum Awan and Muneeza Sheikh
Human Rights Commissions have a mandate to address the very real problem of speech that subjects identifiable communities to hatred or contempt.
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McGuinty quash black-focused schools if they become a trend
GlobeandMail.com – national
February 1, 2008 at 1:44 PM EST
The Canadian Press
Kitchener, Ont. — Premier Dalton McGuinty says the governing Liberals “won’t hesitate to act†if other school boards follow Toronto’s lead and start up black-focused schools.
Mr. McGuinty says he’ll be watching what happens in Toronto very closely after the public board narrowly voted to establish one of Canada’s first black-focused schools.
He says the idea of a separate, black-focused school runs contrary to the Liberal vision of education.
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Deal with us as First Nations
National Post – Opinion
January 25, 2008
Phil Fontaine,
Last Saturday, the National Post printed an article on its front page entitled “Real warriors hold a job,” which appeared as part of a new five-part series, entitled “Rethinking the Reserve.” The article examined various free-market solutions to the challenges that have plagued the native reserve system. What follows is a response from the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
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Breaking that elusive glass ceiling
TheStar.com – comment – Breaking that elusive glass ceiling
January 31, 2008
Jasmeet Sidhu, Community Editorial Board
It’s a feminist’s dream come true.
On Jan. 1, while most of the world was celebrating the arrival of another year, Norway celebrated (or bemoaned, depending on who you talk to) a new law coming into effect requiring nearly half of all seats on public corporate boards to be held by women.
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One black school is not a cure-all
TheStar.com – comment – One black school is not a cure-all
January 31, 2008
The Toronto public school board’s controversial decision to open the first black-focused school in Canada should not be used as an excuse to ignore the racial problems across the whole school system. After all, only a small percentage of the black students in Toronto will be able to attend the one experimental school that is to be set up.
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The native education gap
National Post – opinion
January 30, 2008
John Richards,
Among Pierre Trudeau’s first initiatives as prime minister was his 1969 “white paper” on Aboriginal policy. Its prescription was straightforward: eliminate reserves, and treat “registered Indians” as individuals with rights and obligations identical to those of other Canadians.
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Bad girls are often in trouble from the day they were born
TheStar.com – living – Bad girls are often in trouble from the day they were born
Motivation for female crime very different from that of males
January 30, 2008
Antonia Zerbisias, Living columnist
Girls may have gone wild, but have they gone bad?
No question that, according to a Statistics Canada report last Thursday, the number of females age 12 and up accused of violent crime climbed between 1986 and 2005.
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Harsh reality of northern reserves
TheStar.com – comment – Harsh reality of northern reserves
January 29, 2008
Judy Finlay
Following last fall’s Ontario provincial election, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the creation of a Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. I felt excited and filled with hope as this signalled a willingness by the province to enhance its understanding of First Nations issues in Ontario.
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Politicians delivering on promises
TheStar.com – living – Politicians delivering on promises
January 26, 2008
Helen Henderson
Like a contractor who sticks to the estimate, a politician who keeps an election promise dwells somewhere in the realm of disbelief for most of us.
So it is with some trepidation that we are watching what could be a small miracle unfolding around the new law designed to help level the playing field for people with disabilities in Ontario.
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