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Province must act immediately to support people with developmental disabilities
Ontario doesn’t house people with developmental disabilities in dedicated institutions anymore — and in 2013 the province rightly apologized for doing so in the past. But as a disturbing new report from Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé points out, in some ways things haven’t changed much. People with developmental disabilities still too often end up in institutions ill-equipped to meet their needs, not by design but as the result of a broken system… people with developmental disabilities must no longer be housed in hospitals, nursing homes or other inappropriate places — or returned to abusive situations.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Ombudsman Calls For Systemic Overhaul To Help Adults With Developmental Disabilities In Crisis
In Nowhere to Turn, the Ombudsman reports on his office’s investigation of more than 1,400 complaints from families of adults with developmental disabilities who are in crisis situations, including being abandoned, abused, unnecessarily hospitalized and jailed… These “extreme and egregious cases” highlight a dire need for greater supports, services and more rigorous monitoring – and amount to “a modern-day version of institutionalization,” Mr. Dubé says in the report.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Why black Canadians are facing U.S.-style problems
To be black in Canada, with small but important exceptions, is to be from a fairly recent immigrant background – either to be, or to be descended from, a postwar immigrant from the Caribbean or Africa… Black Canadians are demonstrably facing different outcomes in employment, in housing and especially in the policing and justice systems that can only be traced to discrimination… black and white citizens were treated dramatically differently in policing, charges, court procedures, sentencing and imprisonment.
Tags: corrections, featured, housing, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s haphazard support for home care is leaving seniors in the cold
… informal caregivers provide 10 times more hours of home care than paid professionals. They don’t just prop up the system, they are one of its pillars so preventing burnout isn’t just compassionate, it makes good fiscal sense. The CMA also advocates for national legislation that will set standards to address “access, volume, frequency and types of services” in home care. Unfortunately, only lip-service has been paid to the need for a national seniors strategy.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, standard of living
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Inquests have become as lost as these seven aboriginal youths who left home and perished
… the inquest system, once the purview of the medical doctors who serve as coroners, has morphed into a highly politicized process and a fine source of work and income for lawyers; that lawyers quite directly run the show; and that jurors are not expected to think for themselves… The bulk of the recommendations, via the lawyers to the jury, deal with sweeping changes to aboriginal education in this country. They would require truckloads of additional public money.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Canada ranks No. 2 on Social Progress Index measuring quality of life
Canada got top marks for access to advanced education, ranking as the No. 1 overall in that category, which weighs factors such as the proportion of people going into advanced education, the quality of the education, and gender equity… Canada also scored well for tolerance and inclusion, ranking fifth overall. The achievement is compounded by the country’s diversity and sets an example… Where Canada did not fare as well was with environmental factors
Tags: Health, housing, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Ottawa must act to end First Nations water crisis identified in Human Rights Watch report
“[T]he Canadian government has violated a range of international human rights obligations toward First Nations persons and communities by failing to remedy the severe water crisis,” the report concludes. Ottawa should be ashamed… past investments were erratic and arbitrarily allocated, often failing to take into account the particular sociological and economic realities of the reserves in question… The Human Rights Watch report is a blot on our international reputation.
Tags: budget, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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