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Multicultural Canada in the 21st Century
policyresearch.gc.ca – Cultural Diversity – Multicultural Canada in the 21st Century: Harnessing Opportunities and Managing Pressures
July 2009
Government of Canada / Policy Research Initiative / Cultural Diversity < http://policyresearch.gc.ca/page.asp?pagenm=rp_mult_index >.
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A real-estate guide to incarceration: Mapping where inmates come from…
TheStar.com – Crime – A real-estate guide to incarceration: Mapping where inmates come from is no easy task in Canada. But a Star analysis of jail sentences reveals high-price neighbourhoods in the GTA and provides a street-level look at the costs of crime
July 18, 2009. Jim Rankin, STAFF REPORTER
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First Nations: At what price ‘white man’s money’?
TheGlobeandMail.com – Politics – First Nations: At what price ‘white man’s money’?
Sunday, Jul. 19, 2009. Shawn McCarthy
Ottawa — From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on 05:35PM EDT
Each spring, Art Sterritt and his family gather at his wife’s ancestral home among B.C.’s Gitga’at people to harvest seaweed, clams and cockles on the shores of Hartley Bay near Kitimat.
The event is more than vacation; it connects the 60-year-old grandfather and his growing family to a way of life that has existed for a millennium.
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Long way to go to aid mentally ill
TheStar.com – Canada – Long way to go to aid mentally ill
July 17, 2009. Jim Coyle
Twenty minutes isn’t much. Time for a coffee break maybe. Or, as an Ontario Legislature committee learned on its recent travels, time enough to hear the story of a family.
It was a mid-week morning in the conference room of a Kingston hotel. The select committee on mental health and addictions was taking submissions. Paul and Denise Finn were next up.
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Platform of change for First Nations
TheStar.com – Opinion – Platform of change for First Nations: Candidates campaigning to become national chief face a population divided over AFN’s role
July 16, 2009. Hayden King
The Assembly of First Nations will elect a new national chief next week in Calgary. As Phil Fontaine retires after an eight-year tenure, five candidates are vying for his job, the top position in First Nations politics.
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Opening doors on mental health
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Opening doors on mental health
July 13, 2009
Mental illness and addictions often go hand in hand. Yet addicts are routinely told they must get clean before they can access mental health services, and those suffering from serious mental illness are often turned away from addiction programs.
Unfortunately, this is just one example of our dysfunctional health system, which provincial Health Minister David Caplan says is organized for “the convenience of providers,” not those in need.
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Mental health reform eyed
TheStar.com – healthzone.ca – Mental health reform eyed
July 13, 2009. Theresa Boyle, HEALTH REPORTER
When Liberal MPP David Caplan was appointed provincial health minister a year ago, he naturally turned for advice to his mother, Elinor, who held the same job between 1987 and 1990.
She cautioned him about the job’s hectic pace and counselled him to focus on just a few issues where he wanted to leave his mark. The younger Caplan opted to make mental health and addictions a priority.
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We stand on guard for health care
TheStar.com – Opinion – We stand on guard for health care
July 13, 2009. Dow Marmur
I’ve now lived longer in Canada than in any other country. But whereas in my almost 26 years in England I never sought British citizenship, I got a Canadian passport as soon as I was able to do so. Not having felt that I belonged in Poland where I was born, or Sweden where I grew up, I came to feel at home in Canada.
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Legal aid boycott grows over paltry paycheques
TheStar.com – Ontario – Legal aid boycott grows over paltry paycheques
July 13, 2009. Tracey Tyler, LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER
Last fall, in the middle of a schizophrenic breakdown, a 21-year-old man approached a woman in the parking lot of a north Toronto supermarket and asked for directions. As she began writing out a map, he stabbed her in the neck.
Charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons charges, the man was suddenly facing the maximum penalty under the Criminal Code – life in prison.
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