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Let’s make 2019 the year Canada finally gets pharmacare
Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
If you’re hospitalized and you’re given prescription meds, it’s free. But once you walk out of the hospital with a prescription to fill, you may be on your own. Coverage is a mix of private insurance and out-of-pocket spending, with the provinces and territories filling some of the gaps with a grab bag of local programs, each unique to its jurisdiction, for groups such as seniors and the poor… Government programs are limited and selective, creating a safety net that’s filled with holes.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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As parents of complex special-needs kids, we know inclusive education doesn’t work
Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
… inclusion – a system which seeks to include special-needs students in regular classrooms – does not work for complex special-needs students (those, for example, with low functioning autism, Down syndrome, a physical disability and/or who are medically fragile.) However, it can work for mid and moderate special-needs students. (Those with dyslexia for example, or high-functioning Down syndrome or autism.)… The truth is that both camps have their place in education.
Tags: child care, disabilities, featured, ideology, participation, rights, youth
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Advocates for students with disabilities call on Ontario to stop school exclusions
Monday, January 7th, 2019
Autism advocates in Ontario are calling on the province to remove a principal’s power to exclude students from school for an indefinite period, saying it is being misused as a disciplinary measure that disproportionately targets children with special needs… families with children who have intellectual and developmental disabilities are increasingly being asked to pick up kids early, start the school day later or simply keep them home for days.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, youth
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Inequality fuels economic failure – and frustrations are spreading
Friday, January 4th, 2019
The main lessons from experience in developing and now developed economies are that sustainability in the broad sense and inclusiveness are inextricably linked. Moreover, large-scale failures of inclusion derail reforms and investments that sustain longer-term growth. And economic and social progress should be pursued effectively – not with a simple list of policies and reforms, but with a strategy and an agenda that… devotes more than passing attention to the distributional consequences.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
Posted in Equality Policy Context | No Comments »
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