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Houses for homeless, no strings attached

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

TheStar.com – Healthzone.ca – Houses for homeless, no strings attached
May 02, 2009.   Donovan Vincent, STAFF REPORTER

Toronto is about to join four other Canadian cities in a $110-million study aimed at determining how best to house homeless people who are mentally ill.

The Health Canada-funded project, being run by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, a non-profit group, intends to house 300 people in Toronto through a “housing first” approach, meaning regardless of whether the client is off drugs, alcohol or both, housing will be provided for them.

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Wanted: national strategy for aging

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Wanted: national strategy for aging
May 02, 2009

Who is going to care for Canada’s rapidly aging population?

It is far from clear. In a stark report released last month, a special senate committee warns that the average age of a registered nurse in Canada is close to 50. And, while we have less than a third of the required doctors who specialize in clinical care of the elderly, there are only a handful of new geriatricians in training.

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No room for libertarians in Harper conservatism

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – No room for libertarians in Harper conservatism
Posted: April 30, 2009, Terence Corcoran

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Who’s watching the money?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion – Who’s watching the money?  Canada needs watchdog to stop waste and fraud as governments spend to kick-start economy
April 28, 2009.   Steven Del Duca, Director of Public Affairs for the Carpenters’ Union

Canada, like countries around the world, is currently trying to grapple with an economic tsunami that has blindsided the global economy and knocked it badly off balance. So far, virtually every governmental response to this crisis has included a massive infusion of stimulus spending on an unprecedented scale.

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Protect workers’ rights

Monday, April 27th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Protect workers’ rights
April 27, 2009

Ontario’s human rights laws are quite clear, and hard times don’t justify breaking them.

So it’s alarming that an increasing number of pregnant women are losing their jobs, with the recession being used as an excuse. The Ontario Human Rights Legal Support Centre, funded by the province to help people experiencing discrimination, says it’s now getting an average of 10 to 15 calls a week on this issue.

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The life and death of a fiscal theory [Monetarism]

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

TheStar.com – Insight – The life and death of a fiscal theory
April 25, 2009.   Thomas Walkom

Monetarism is finally dead. It’s been ailing for a while, but this week Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney drove a stake through the heart of the economic theory that has dominated Canadian government thinking since 1980.

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Why did Matthew miss 39 days of school? [Learning Disabilities]

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

TheStar.com – Living/ParentCentral.ca – Why did Matthew miss 39 days of school?
April 25, 2009.   Andrea Gordon, Family issues reporter

Grade 7 has been a banner year for 12-year-old Matthew Leaton. His project on earthquakes was a winner of the science fair at his Brampton middle school. In February, he was chosen to make a presentation at the assembly honouring Black History Month.

And eight months into the school year, he has been suspended only once.

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Free dental clinic’s policy makes sense for patients

Friday, April 24th, 2009

TheStarcom – Healthzone.ca – Free dental clinic’s policy makes sense for patients
April 24, 2009.   Iain Marlow, Staff Reporter

Below the bustling Evangel Hall mission on Adelaide St. W., teeth are being cleaned and filled, patients are being advised, and people are smiling.

“No significant findings, just a few lesions in the frontal area,” says Allyson Hunt to Roopi Gill, both student volunteers two weeks from graduation.

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So much patience and hope, so little momentum [Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy]

Friday, April 24th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion – So much patience and hope, so little momentum
April 24, 2009.   Carol Goar

Last December, Deb Matthews, chief architect of Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy, announced that the government would launch a review of its rigid and restrictive social assistance rules.

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The new revolt of the masses

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Special Comment – The new revolt of the masses
April 23, 2009.   DOMINIQUE MOISI

PARIS — Is the current economic crisis uniting the democratic world in anger as much as in fear?

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