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Monday, November 17th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – Tough times can bring out best in a democracy: Governments can use crisis to repair and rebuild infrastructure while fighting poverty
November 17, 2008. Armine Yalnizyan
A lot of people are worrying about poverty these days, and for good reason. We’re heading ill-prepared into stormy economic seas.
In 1984, at the peak of the worst labour market upheaval since the 1930s, Canadian households held 70 cents of debt for every dollar of income. Then, as now, housing took up the lion’s share, with mortgages accounting for 62 per cent of all household debt.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – Summoning hope from despair
November 17, 2008. Jim Coyle
In its goals of a fairer, safer, better world, the report on the roots of youth violence delivered last week by Roy McMurtry and Alvin Curling was as utopian and idealistic as anything in the Gospels.
Yet in its images of the urban hell to come if prompt action is not taken, it was as chilling and contemporary as The Wire.
“The sense of nothing to lose and no way out that roils within such youth creates an ever-present danger,” it said.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
NationalPost.com – Opinion/editorial – Blaming racism (as usual)
Published: Monday, November 17, 2008
Canadians like to think of themselves as more progressive and enlightened than our American neighbours when it comes to the issue of race. But are we? U. S. voters just elected their first black president, who himself has spoken eloquently about the need for black men to take responsibility for many of the problems besetting their communities. Here in Canada, on the other hand, we often seem to be stuck in a politically correct 1980s time warp.
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Caring for aging boomers
November 15, 2008
Alzheimer’s disease. A bad stroke. These are the things we expect will send seniors into nursing homes. But what about not being able to mow the lawn or shop for groceries? A lack of home care and community supports means difficulty with these simple tasks can force seniors from their homes into an institutional life long before it’s necessary, argues this year’s Atkinson Fellowship writer Judy Steed.
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion/editorial –
November 14, 2008 at 10:30 PM EST
It would be a shame if the useful and groundbreaking elements in a massive new report on youth violence commissioned by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty were dismissed too quickly because that report bears an unfortunate tinge of political correctness.
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – Good blueprint for at-risk youth
November 15, 2008
No dramatic, breakthrough solution to youth violence is being proposed in a new report by two former provincial cabinet ministers who spent more than a year studying the problem. But their blueprint for action is all the stronger for that. Roy McMurtry and Alvin Curling have produced a realistic plan that represents Ontario’s best chance to address the violence that is increasingly snuffing out young lives.
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
TheStar.com – Atkinson 2008 – 10 innovative fixes for what ails us
November 15, 2008. Judy Steed. Special to the Star
THE SERIES
Toronto journalist Judy Steed has been writing about social issues for 30 years. Last fall, she embarked on a one-year project to document the most pressing policy implications of our aging society as part of the 2008 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. She has visited dozens of nursing homes and interviewed hundreds of health-care workers, policy-makers and seniors to present this weeklong portrait.
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
TheStar.com – Atkinson – Abuse follows in poverty’s wake
November 14, 2008. Carol Goar
They’ve been loyal team players. They’ve attended every meeting and supported every proposal put forward by the 25 in 5 Network, the province-wide coalition of groups fighting for a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy.
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