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Ontario at youth violence crossroad: Report

Friday, November 14th, 2008

TheStar.com – Ontario – Ontario at youth violence crossroad: Report
November 14, 2008. Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park Bureau

Ontario is at a “crossroads” over growing youth violence fuelled by poverty, racism, poor housing and troubles in the school system, says a long-awaited new report.

It makes 30 recommendations to Premier Dalton McGuinty, key among them $200 million in improved mental health care for youth to keep them on the right track.

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Youth violence tied to racism, report says

Friday, November 14th, 2008

TheGlobeandMail.com – national – Youth violence tied to racism, report says
November 14, 2008. CAROLINE ALPHONSO

The sharp rise of youth violence in ontario is linked to entrenched racism in the province, according to a long-awaited report that calls on the provincial government to collect race-based statistics and provide anti-racism training to police officers.

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Real life lessons from the street [homelessness]

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

TheStar.com – Opinion – Real life lessons from the street
Nov 12, 2008. Carol Goar

One of the delegates brought along a sleeping bag. He stretched it out and fell asleep whenever the proceedings bored him. Another lost his train of thought at the microphone, apologized, and said he might have to go back to his shelter for his medications. A third, clean after years of cocaine use, urged others to follow her example, but added proudly that her addiction had never impaired her sexual performance.

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Drugged-out seniors a prescription for disaster

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

TheStar.com – Atkinson 2008 – Drugged-out seniors a prescription for disaster
November 11, 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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Obama puts poor back on agenda

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

TheStar.com – Atkinson – Obama puts poor back on agenda
November 08, 2008. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter

As part of his compelling “Yes We Can” campaign to make meaningful change in the lives of average Americans, President-elect Barack Obama promised to cut poverty in half within a decade.

Canada has no plan to fight poverty. And Stephen Harper’s Conservatives didn’t offer one during our recent federal election.

But with Obama’s historic win this week, many anti-poverty activists here believe new pressure is on Ottawa to address social and economic inequality.

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It’s no time to tinker with Charter of Rights

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – It’s no time to tinker with Charter of Rights
November 08, 2008

Re:An American litmus test for Canada, Nov. 4

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Don’t mess with medicare

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – Don’t mess with medicare
November 08, 2008

While attempting to raze our medicare system, one that serves us all pretty equally, “special interests” with more money than decency plot to circumvent our interests for their shareholders. And as usual, working-class families get no say on any of it.

But if our cherished medicare system lapses as a result of these “special interests,” I and many others of my ilk suggest for their sakes they all live in concrete fortified bunkers.

Richard Kadziewicz, Toronto

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Education at root of a just society

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – Education at root of a just society
November 05, 2008

Re:Taking charge of the future, Oct. 31

Kudos to Annie Kidder, executive director of People for Education. Through the media, she has focused the attention of Ontario citizens on the fact that education is the foundation of a civil society – that education is to lead society.

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‘Common good’ rediscovered

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

TheStar.com – Opinion – ‘Common good’ rediscovered
November 04, 2008. Linda McQuaig

The pivotal moment for me in the U.S. presidential campaign came during the Republican convention last August, when Rudolph Giuliani couldn’t get the words “community organizer” out of his mouth without laughing.

After eight years of Republican rule – during which the rich happily trampled on the poor in their rush to the Wall Street trough – the notion that someone would organize the poor to assert their rights struck both Giuliani and his Republican audience as simply funny.

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Beyond band councils [Aboriginal education]

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

TheGlobeandMail.com – opinion/editorial – Beyond band councils
November 3, 2008.

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