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Program to help stop sex trafficking is welcome

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

The program… is aimed at: Educating girls on the signs that a “boyfriend” is trying to lure them into sex trafficking; Teaching hoteliers, condo concierges and taxi drivers how they can intervene if they come into contact with a crime in action; Funding a 24-hour hotline that will send out trained workers to provide trauma counselling and court support; Providing transitional housing for up to seven victims of human trafficking at a time to give them round-the-clock aid.

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Educate employers on responsibilities to workers

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

… inspections of temporary work agencies in 2015 and 2013 that found three-quarters of those audited had broken regulations in the employment act… not paying employees overtime, public holiday or vacation pay – or even their basic wages… Either three-quarters of companies that provide precarious employment are knowingly breaking the law, or they are unaware of all the regulations… the most vulnerable workers… 52 per cent of workers in the GTA and Hamilton region — are paying a price.

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If only Canadian politicians had the courage of patients

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

The choice to live or die should be made between a patient and his or her doctor, like any other medical decision. What the recent assisted death(s) in Quebec show, more than anything else, is that patients with grievous and irremediable health conditions are ready to exercise their right to die thoughtfully and judiciously. We should expect the same dignified response from the judges and legislators. What we have instead is yet more dithering and disrespect for patient rights.

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Ontario should clean up donations to political parties

Thursday, January 14th, 2016

… Ontario is long overdue for a major reform of how our political parties and election campaigns are financed. There should be much stricter controls on spending by third-party interest groups. And there should be an outright ban on political contributions from corporations and unions… It should bring Ontario in line with other governments… When it comes to running fair elections untainted by outside influence, Ontario should be a leader, not a laggard.

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Proven ‘quick fix’ for CAS can’t keep up with demand

Tuesday, January 12th, 2016

Provincial funding for “family group conferencing,” a program that has been shown to keep indigenous and racialized children with their extended families and out of children’s aid, is not keeping up with demand, according to local officials. At a time when Ontario’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner and others are calling for provincial action on the overrepresentation of First Nations and black children in foster care and group homes, Queen’s Park is ignoring a proven “quick fix,”

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Swift Current stands with young abuse victims. So should your community

Monday, January 4th, 2016

… all [municipal] staff working in close proximity with children will become youth-certified… It is my hope that community organizations that offer programming to youth will adopt this new benchmark for their staff or volunteers. Many already demand criminal background checks to help weed out convicted pedophiles, but we believe the education component is also critical to “empower the bystanders” and formally start the process of prevention.

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A mixed year for reproductive rights

Sunday, January 3rd, 2016

For many women, especially those with marginalized identities, the body is the battleground feminism fights both for and upon… Many Canadian women who live in poverty, or outside of major urban centres, still do not always have safe, legal and reliable access to abortions, and that is an enormous problem for a country that makes any kind of claim to progress or inclusivity.

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Premier ponders blowing up our CAS mess

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

… it’s hard to fathom a system that is more discredited and dysfunctional. Conceived in the industrial age, today’s CAS system seems oblivious to the digital era. Without a secure foundation, the entire architecture of children’s aid is crumbling. Its computer system is dated and dilapidated. Too often, CAS workers fail to communicate with one another, confer with a child’s teacher, or check records of parental abuse… It’s a $1.5-billion system that not only fails to deliver value for money, but fails to value a child’s life.

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Ontario should set up task force to stop human trafficking

Friday, December 18th, 2015

… Premier Kathleen Wynne must act immediately to follow up on the recommendation from the authors of an all-party legislative report on sexual violence and harassment that calls for the establishment of a police task force to fight human trafficking… Though trafficking for forced sex was outlawed in the Criminal Code of Canada in 2005, it was only last year that the first pimp in Toronto was convicted under that law… because of a lack of resources and… the political will to fight human trafficking for sex.

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Integration: A New Strategy

Tuesday, December 15th, 2015

Refugees are especially in need of de facto (and eventually legal) citizenship recognition… The most successful and non-controversial refugee groups are those that are transformed, as quickly as possible, into regular “economic” immigrants: If they’re included quickly in the employment, education and housing systems of the established immigrant community, they will be more likely to stabilize their lives, give up their temporary mindset and become valuable members of their communities.

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