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Toronto council falling behind on election pledges to reduce poverty, report finds
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
“Rather than fully funding council-approved strategies and plans, the budget reveals the real priorities of Council — low property taxes that especially benefit the affluent, no new revenue tools (i.e. taxes from other sources), and expensive capital projects that don’t deliver on the critical needs of Toronto residents… The current budget is designed to serve the most affluent Torontonians at the expense of everyone else, especially the poorest residents of our city.”
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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‘Yada yada yada’ isn’t the problem. It’s Ford’s autism policy
Sunday, February 24th, 2019
MacLeod can call this a “fair, equitable and sustainable” system all she wants, but that doesn’t make it a good one. Or a system that provides kids with autism, especially those on the high needs end of the spectrum, access and funding to services they desperately need. But in the face of mounting evidence that this policy is deeply misguided and won’t achieve its stated outcomes, the Ford government has reacted the way it usually does — claiming victory anyway.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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Ontario government quietly ordered autism therapy providers to stop admitting kids from wait-list last September
Sunday, February 24th, 2019
The provincial government quietly ordered autism service providers last September to stop admitting new children for therapy and to keep parents in the dark about the move… Internal documents — from the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services and senior administrators of nine regional service providers — state that the 23,000-child wait-list for autism therapy was closed because of “financial pressures.”
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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Questions swirl around therapy at centre of Ontario’s autism changes
Saturday, February 23rd, 2019
About one in 66 children in Canada is diagnosed with autism. More than 100,000 Ontarians, including about 40,000 kids, have the disorder… The lack of consultation with adults living with autism has been a longtime concern for Dr. Kevin Stoddart, director of the Toronto-based Redpath Centre, Ontario’s largest mental health treatment centre for adults and youth on the autism spectrum… the mental health of people with autism requires “more focused investigation.”
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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Ottawa should change tax rules to encourage donations to charity
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
… the Trudeau government… should broaden the tax exemption on capital gains for charitable donations. It can do that by giving the same tax treatment to donations of shares in private companies and real estate as is now given to gifts of publicly traded shares. Experts who have looked at this idea estimate it would result in additional donations to charities of about $200 million a year. That’s a big chunk of change that would go to organizations like the United Way and local hospital foundations.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, philanthropy, tax
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MacLeod needs to build on past successes
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
… the needs of children with autism… and the needs of their families are complex, treatments are evolving and no one has yet gotten it perfect… It may feel good in the moment to suggest that everything past was wrong but that kind of thinking does children a disservice and that is what should matter to us all… If we don’t even try to build on what has been successful in the past, if we don’t even try to listen to each other and the people on the front line, in this case the parents, then we are bound to fail spectacularly.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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Doctors get new contract with province after 4-year battle
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
… the board ordered that the two sides strike an “appropriateness working group” to eliminate or restrict inappropriate or overused physician services — $100 million worth in 2019-20 and another $360 million worth the following year… The arbitration decision provides doctors with redress, eliminating most but not all of the fee cuts imposed by the province in recent years, effective this coming April. As well, it awards physicians with increases of 0.75 per cent for 2017; 1.25 per cent for 2018; 1 per cent for 2019; and 1 per cent for 2020.
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Ontario autism program changes ‘best for all children,’ says social services minister
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
… the government has promised to clear the wait lists for diagnosis and therapy, and will introduce a childhood budget allowing families to choose the services they want. Families will be eligible for up to $20,000 a year for children under 6 — up to a lifetime maximum of $140,000. Children older than that can access up to $5,000 a year up to age 18, to a lifetime maximum of $55,000. However, only families earning less than $55,000 in net income will qualify for the full funding amounts.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Treats are nice. But they don’t replace funding for crisis centres
Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Charitable gifts serve to remind women that they have not been forgotten. What does that even more effectively is making sure a qualified person answers the crisis hotline, and that counselling will be available during a woman’s greatest hour of need. But the wait-list for counselling at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre… is a staggering 18 months. “You should not have to wait a year and a half to get access to the services you need”
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Lab Testing Misuse Costs Billions
Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
“Reducing inappropriate use requires careful considerations of the trade-off between the effectiveness of interventions and their acceptability to physicians,” said Rosalie Wyonch. “Incorporating laboratory services in physician compensation formulas would be an effective tool to discourage unnecessary lab tests.” … The report proposes a number of options for policymakers to reduce inappropriate laboratory testing:
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