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Time to rethink guest worker program
TheStar.com – Opinion – Time to rethink guest worker program
August 05, 2009. Carol Goar
When Canada decided to allow employers facing acute labour shortages to hire temporary foreign workers, seven years ago, no one foresaw where it would lead.
Few imagined that a small experimental program could shake the underpinnings of the immigration system, distort the job market and raise human rights concerns.
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Judge blasts ‘tragic’ neglect of legal aid
TheStar.com – Ontario – Judge blasts ‘tragic’ neglect of legal aid: Low pay scale driving criminal lawyers away, with dire consequences for entire justice system
August 04, 2009. Tracey Tyler, LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER
A former Superior Court judge known for his law-and-order proclivities has blasted the Ontario government for its continuing “neglect” of the province’s legal aid plan, warning that continuing down the same path will do irreversible damage to the justice system.
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Atleo sets an example for Indian education reform
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Atleo sets an example for Indian education reform: The challenge is how to lift on-reserve learning and outcomes
Jul. 28, 2009. Jeffrey Simpson
Shawn Atleo, the new head of the Assembly of First Nations, made improvement in Indian education one of his campaign priorities.
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No cause for celebration [Canada’s daycare record is abysmal]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – No cause for celebration
July 27, 2009
Canada’s daycare record is abysmal, and no matter what the federal government tries to claim, parents know it.
Canada was tied for last among developed countries for providing affordable and quality daycare in a UN report. Ontario recently had to come up with $18 million to save daycare spaces that were about to close because federal funding had expired. Toronto alone has 15,000 families on a waiting list for a daycare space they can afford.
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Harper has framed the tax debate just as he wants it
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Harper has framed the tax debate just as he wants it: In Ottawa, conventional wisdom says no politician can even hint at raising taxes
Jul. 24, 2009. Jeffrey Simpson
Canadians have this funny, ambivalent attitude toward taxes. Reduce them, and we shrug; threaten to raise them, and we howl.
If lower taxes were a certain path to political success, the Conservatives should have won a majority government. After all, the Conservatives stripped Ottawa’s fiscal cupboard bare, before the recession, largely by cutting taxes.
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New leadership for First Nations
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – New leadership for First Nations
July 24, 2009
In an era of scripted conventions, the Assembly of First Nations leadership race was anything but. Shawn Atleo needed eight gruelling ballots over two days before emerging as the AFN’s new national chief.
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A new chief, a new mood
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – A new chief, a new mood: The AFN’s Phil Fontaine preferred negotiation. But assertiveness is increasingly seen as the best way to restore nationhood
Jul. 24, 2009. Calgary – William Johnson
You can bet on this: The Assembly of First Nations, under newly elected national chief Shawn Atleo, will be far more demanding, provocative, denunciatory, muscular and pre-emptive than it was under Phil Fontaine.
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Reinventing the AFN
NationalPost.com – Opinions/Editorial – Reinventing the AFN
Published: July 23, 2009
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