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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – Fix EI system to help those who didn’t cause the crisis: Federal government, coalition or minority, should bolster benefits for the unemployed
December 13, 2008. Wayne Fraser
As all Canadians familiar with front-page drama know, a month and a half from now could produce a new coalition federal government in our country, or we could see a federal budget that does the right thing.
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
TheStar.com – living – ‘Worthy’ poor should include everyone
December 13, 2008. Helen Henderson
Two days before Ontario announced its strategy for reducing poverty this month, a non-profit think-tank released a comprehensive study linking overall health to income in Canada.
Called Poverty Is Making Us Sick, the survey by the Toronto-based Wellesley Institute noted lack of money can and does have a “devastating” effect on physical as well as mental well-being. As reported in the Star, it also documented the positive health gains that come from every $1,000 rise in annual income.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – A little help would go a long way
December 12, 2008. Carol Goar
As the first winds of the recession bite, Canadians are still giving, mindful that this will be a bleak Christmas for many.
But corporate donations have fallen off sharply. And grant-making foundations, weakened by the financial meltdown, have retrenched. Some have suspended their charitable activities to protect their endowments.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – UN daycare wake-up call
December 12, 2008
Parents who rush to get on daycare waiting lists long before their children are even born won’t be surprised to hear that Canada ranks last among developed nations in providing this vital service.
We’ve long heard of mothers who want to work but can’t afford to get a job because the daycare bill would be higher than their paycheque. But the United Nations Children’s Fund report released yesterday is still a wake-up call about just how bad things really are here.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – Teachers deserve extra training for learning disabled
December 12, 2008
My son, who was diagnosed with a learning disability (LD) in Grade 2, is now in Grade 11. We have had some great school years and some horrible ones. It has been a long, frustrating process toward getting him to think that maybe he is smart and will be okay in life.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – Canada is facing a crisis in the private pension sector: Economic upheaval is putting pension payouts at risk, which will affect retirement incomes
December 11, 2008. Murray Gold
Pension plans are a pillar of our financial economy, and they are in trouble. That means our retirement incomes are in jeopardy.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Fairness for temps
December 11, 2008
Ontario has long had two classes of workers: Those with the benefits and legal protections that come with permanent jobs and those with the misfortune to be called temporary workers.
Queen’s Park is finally bringing relief to many of the 700,000 “temps” who are being denied access to public holidays and severance pay and are being charged fees just to get a job. Legislation introduced Tuesday would end these practices and give people hired through temp agencies many of the same rights as other workers.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
NationalPost.com – opinion/editorial – Less jail, more crime
Published: Thursday, December 11, 2008
Before anyone gets too excited by a Statistics Canada report released on Tuesday showing the number of young offenders in Canadian jails has fallen 36% since 2002, consider this other StatsCan revelation: Violent crime committed by young people between the ages of 12 and 17 has “increased steadily over the past two decades. The 2007 rate was more than double the rate reported in the mid-1980s.”
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
TheGlobeandMail.com – national – Ottawa broke law in financing EI
December 11, 2008. The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says the federal government broke the law in financing the employment insurance system by transforming premiums paid by workers and employers into an unconstitutional tax.
In a 7-0 judgment, the court ruled Thursday the former Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin collected EI contributions illegally in 2002, 2003 and 2005.
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