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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – Poverty problem systemic
December 09, 2008
Re:Long years of poor bashing finally brought to an end, Comment Dec. 8
There is more to poverty reduction than welfare reform. Pat Capponi’s comments are well taken: Ontario Works and ODSP are disgraces, but it is dangerous to limit poverty reduction to reform of social assistance. Most poor people work and their poverty is caused by low wages, difficulty organizing and regulations that reward the hiring of casual labour.
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Shining spotlight on the neediest
December 09, 2008
The vast majority of alcohol, drug and gambling addicts aren’t getting the help they need. Half the people in hospitals with mental illness could be released if only community supports were available. Funding for special education in schools has gone up more than 50 per cent, but only 5 per cent more children are enrolled in the programs.
Auditor General Jim McCarter’s report, released yesterday, paints a grim picture of a province that is failing some of its neediest citizens.
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
TheStar.com – Living/ParentCentral.ca – Parents seek controversial homegrown program
December 08, 2008. Andrea Gordon, Family Issues Reporter
Toronto’s two public school boards will this week hear from parents who want them to offer a unique made-in-Canada program for children with learning disabilities.
The Toronto District School Board will be asked tonight to introduce the Arrowsmith program in a pilot project. At a meeting on Wednesday, the Catholic board, which launched Arrowsmith 10 years ago and is reviewing it, will hear from anxious families urging them to continue.
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
CCPA – Social Watch 2008: Rights is the Answer: Canada: Rights, budgets and building alternatives
Press Release: Budgets profoundly affect human rights says international report December 8, 2008
(Ottawa)—On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights a new international report concludes that budgets profoundly impact the attainment of human rights, and the attainment of human rights impacts the quality of our lives.
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
TheStar.com – Canada – Leadership AWOL as economy shudders: Deepening crisis won’t wait 7 weeks for Ottawa to get its act together
December 07, 2008. David Olive, Business Columnist
Somehow the urgency of the present hour has eluded the Prime Minister, who needlessly provoked a constitutional crisis in the midst of global economic peril unmatched since the Great Depression, and a governor general who last week abetted the PM’s recklessness by overturning precedent in granting him the parliamentary adjournment he sought in order to save his skin.
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral.ca – Too many gaps in poverty plan, advocates say
December 07, 2008. Tanya Talaga, Queen’s Park Bureau
Ontario’s $1.4 billion anti-poverty strategy must take a hard look at the “colour of poverty” and include indicators used to measure who is poor that are broken down by race, gender and disability, some advocates say.
Ontario’s ambitious poverty reduction strategy, released Thursday, aims to cut child poverty by 25 per cent in five years.
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
TheStar.com – Ideas – What happens to the laid-off worker? A U.S. study found people who lose their jobs are much less likely to be involved in their communities. The good news is that laid-off Canadians don’t become so disengaged
December 07, 2008. Sarah Barmak, Special to the Star
Imagine yourself arriving at work on Monday morning and discovering your job is no more. Perhaps you had felt your position was a relatively stable one, or maybe you saw it coming. No matter.
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Rewriting welfare rules
December 07, 2008
Welfare is supposed to be the net that catches people when everything else in their life fails. It’s supposed to help set them back on their feet.
But what it often does is trap people with a sense of shame as deep as their poverty. That gives them yet another hurdle to overcome. “The rules shackle people,” says anti-poverty activist Pat Capponi.
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – Obama’s lesson lost on Ottawa
December 06, 2008. Daniel Tisch
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, we are told, is a clever strategist and a man of formidable intelligence. His supporters say he has changed and grown since taking office.
And yet, despite buying himself time by proroguing Parliament, his hold on power remains tenuous. Canada seems doomed to political instability at a time when we can least afford it.
The opposition parties seeking to topple the government are partially to blame; surely an economic crisis is the worst time to play political games.
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