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Virtual Healthcare Revolution Here To Stay
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
… virtual care… has been critical throughout the pandemic. During June 2020 virtual care represented over 70 percent of ambulatory care across the country. That is a massive increase from just five months before”… For patients, face-to-face appointments with healthcare providers have traditionally come with certain costs, such as lost income from time off work, childcare and transportation costs… The authors propose that care redesign starts with asking three simple questions…
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
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In 2020, the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre is a call to action
Sunday, December 6th, 2020
Now it’s time to move forward on a Canada-wide action plan that makes gender-based violence a national priority. Reflecting on lives lost to preventable violence is important. But the greatest way to honour stolen lives is through concrete action.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, women
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Deliver on national child-care this time, please
Sunday, December 6th, 2020
For now, all the Trudeau government has put up for a national child-care system is a down payment and a promise… The down payment includes $420 million to help provinces train and retain qualified early-childhood educators and $20 million over five years to fund a secretariat to craft its national “child care vision.”
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Canada’s rapidly approaching fiscal crisis isn’t driven by the pandemic
Sunday, December 6th, 2020
… thanks to the remorseless arithmetic of population aging, with its crushing combination of higher costs (mostly for health care) and lower revenues (with fewer people of working age to earn income or pay taxes on it)… the provinces’ collective debt-to-GDP ratio is likely to hit 120 per cent by mid-century.
Tags: economy, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Ontario Making Adoption Process Easier for Families
Friday, December 4th, 2020
The funding will help bring more prospective adoptive parents, children and youth together permanently through the development of a centralized intake service and expansion of online matching. It will also provide additional supports and training for families post-adoption. “It is clear that children and youth who are placed in homes through adoption do significantly better than if they stay in group homes,” said Jill Dunlop, Associate Minister of Children and Women’s Issues.
Tags: budget, child care, jurisdiction, youth
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Ontario Modernizing Application Process for Social Assistance
Friday, December 4th, 2020
The Ontario government is launching a new, easy to use, online application and streamlined process to apply for social assistance, providing critical financial supports to those affected by COVID-19… The centralized intake process will process applications more quickly and reduce time-consuming paperwork for caseworkers, giving them more time to support their clients and help them get back to work.
Tags: featured, jurisdiction, participation, poverty
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Liberals introduce bill to implement UN Indigenous rights declaration
Friday, December 4th, 2020
… the bill would require the federal government to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent with the declaration’s 46 articles… By introducing the UNDRIP bill, the Liberals are fulfilling a promise dating back to 2016 — when Bennett announced Canada would officially renounce its objections to the declaration at the United Nations. The party pledged during the 2019 federal election to implement UNDRIP within the first year of a new mandate, but postponed tabling the bill earlier this year due to the rail blockade crisis.
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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‘It’s been 50 years … 50 years!’ A national child care program in Canada?
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
It’s been 50 years since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women recommended child-care services for women who choose to work outside the home… Since then, governments of all stripes have promised a program. None have actually made it happen… This is the value society seems to place on rearing children and granting the women who bear them an equal opportunity to thrive in the workplace: none.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, women
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Ontario’s family law takes a step forward in protecting the vulnerable
Saturday, November 28th, 2020
The new definition in the Children’s Law Reform Act (CLRA) uses the language of coercive and controlling behaviour and includes sexual, psychological and financial abuse as well as threats of or actual harm to animals among the behaviours considered to be family violence. It also makes explicit that conduct need not constitute a criminal offence for it to be considered in a family law proceeding.
Tags: crime prevention, jurisdiction, mental Health, women, youth
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A national child-care program would be a boon to Canada’s post-COVID recovery — none more so than Ontario’s
Saturday, November 28th, 2020
Ontario’s failure to build a 21st-century child-care system is holding back provincial economic recovery. Its patchwork arrangement of overstretched group care, tax-subsidized nannies and sky-high fees squanders tens of billions of dollars of GDP, income and tax revenue. Ontario, and other lagging provinces, have a golden opportunity to fix this problem — and in so doing accelerate Canada’s reconstruction after COVID-19.
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