In a corner of his wife’s office in the Centre for Social Innovation, in an old red pile on Spadina, Mark Surman is trying to find a spot quiet enough for a phone interview.
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Gang project targets 300 youths
TheStar.com – news/parentcentral.ca – Gang project targets 300 youths
February 06, 2009. Donovan Vincent, city hall bureau
One of the largest anti-gang initiatives the city has ever undertaken will roll out this summer, aimed at steering at-risk youths into jobs and school.
The 3 1/2-year pilot project – Ottawa will provide just under $5 million in funding – will offer intensive case management for 300 youths ages 13 to 24 from three Toronto communities where gangs are a problem: Jane and Finch, Jamestown-Rexdale and Weston-Mount Dennis.
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Toronto stands to lose 6,000 daycare spots
TheStar.com – Ontario/parentcentral.ca – Toronto stands to lose 6,000 daycare spots
February 05, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten
Ontario child-care operators are fearing the worst.
With federal funding about to run out next year and no new commitments from Queen’s Park, as many as 22,000 child-care spaces could disappear – including up to 6,000 subsidized spots in Toronto.
There’s no crisis yet, municipalities say, but the lack of new money for child care in last week’s federal budget is making them nervous.
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Common sense, balance [citizenship-of-convenience]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion/editorial – Common sense, balance
February 3, 2009
With a law passed last year, and set to take effect in April, the federal government’s attempt to reduce the number of citizens-of-convenience may tilt the balance too far in the other direction.
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The truth about sentencing circles
NationalPost.com – Opinion / Full Comment – Pierre Rousseau: The truth about sentencing circles
Posted: February 02, 2009
After reading Jonathan Kay’s article about Christopher Pauchay’s criminal negligence on Saskatchewan’s Yellow Quill reserve (“The folly of native sentencing circles,” Jan. 20), I realized that there is confusion about sentencing circles and aboriginal justice.
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Why Canada has to wait for its Obama moment [Aboriginal participation]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions / Special Comment – Why Canada has to wait for its Obama moment
February 2, 2009. JEFF ROBERTS
Many Canadians shared in the sweet sense of pride as they watched the first black U.S. President take his oath of office. That moment, still lingering, symbolized an opportunity for Americans to feel free of their racial demons.
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All the news that’s fit to fund
TheStar.com – Ideas – All the news that’s fit to fund
February 01, 2009. John Honderich
Whither serious print journalism?
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Open-source politics breathe fresh air into the Big Smoke
TheGlobeandMail.com – Technology – Open-source politics breathe fresh air into the Big Smoke: ‘Un-conferences’ like ChangeCamp are applying ‘the long tail’ to public policy – and the powers that be are listening
January 30, 2009. IVOR TOSSELL
Ottawa using intervention to extinguish extremism
NationalPost.com – news – Ottawa using intervention to extinguish extremism: Muslim Outreach
Saturday, January 31, 2009. Stewart Bell
The government has been using “counter-radicalization techniques” to steer Canadian Muslims away from extremism, according to a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post.
The document outlines a little-known, government-wide, counter-radicalization strategy that aims to prevent al-Qaedainspired terrorists such as the London transit bombers from emerging within Canada.
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Tax cuts: Why the opposition should have insisted on changes
TheStar.com – Opinion – Tax cuts: Why the opposition should have insisted on changes: Largest windfall goes to the top 8% of tax filers instead of the neediest
January 30, 2009. Lisa Philipps
Our new federal budget unveiled Tuesday has a split personality.
On the spending side it is fiscally liberal, claiming a large role for governments in fixing markets and sheltering the vulnerable. But the tax side was different.
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