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Take control of CAS system, Ontario urged
… an unprecedented analysis of data on the performance of children’s aid societies… found stark differences in how Ontario’s privately run, non-profit agencies treat children taken from parents due to abuse or neglect… The “stunning” differences are the result of the government’s “hands-off approach” to child protection… “No child who is in the care of our government should receive different services based on where they live. That’s a huge problem”
Tags: child care, featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, standard of living
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Lack of trained nurses in First Nations communities underlines Ottawa’s neglect
The auditor general’s findings speak to a pattern of neglect that leaves communities “severely marginalized”… Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has failed to ensure that First Nations people living in remote areas get the medical treatment they need. The nursing shortage is symptomatic of a wider pattern of federal neglect that reaches across native life… From treaty rights to schooling and health care, the Crown is betraying a people’s trust.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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A tragic tale of two Gladues
These two Gladue cases illustrate the degree to which Indigenous women are both over-victimized and over-criminalized… Indigenous offenders — and most dramatically Indigenous women — continue to be disproportionately affected by this government’s increased use of mandatory minimums and the erosion of conditional sentences for community-based sentencing where there is no risk to the public.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, women
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First Nations kids deserve the same protection as others
No parent or guardian in Canada should have the right to deny life-saving medical treatment to a child in their care. And First Nations parents are no exception. Aboriginal children deserve the same protection as any others. And the state has an interest in seeing that they get it.
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights, youth
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46 CAS agencies, 46 standards of care for vulnerable children
The provincial government, which spends $1.5 billion annually funding children’s aid societies, has collected the information for decades but doesn’t use it to compare performance… “Why are senior executives not brought together in the same room to discuss what these numbers mean? Right now, we don’t have a firm grasp on what works, or even have agreement on desired outcomes. We can not even begin to have such discussions unless and until we start comparing data.”
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Canadians need ‘conversation’ about residential schools: Murray Sinclair
For the longest time, aboriginal people have been mistreated by this country. In terms of their rights, but also in terms of their ability to function as human beings… Not just because of a lack of resources, but also a social experience which has taught them that they are incapable of managing their own affairs… Because the Canadian government was messaging as justification for the schools that it was about civilizing an inferior people through the use of Christianization.”
Tags: Health, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Supreme Court deals new blows to mandatory-sentencing rules
The government has passed dozens of mandatory minimum sentences for crimes related to guns, drugs and sex offences, limiting judges’ discretion to decide what fitting sentences are in individual cases. There has never been a presumption in Canadian law that minimum sentences are unconstitutional, but they were relatively unusual before 2006, when the Conservatives came to office… federal prison populations have reached record highs during a time of falling crime.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights, youth
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What are the police for?
Defenders of the OPP’s conduct, and this includes former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, say that the police did a great job keeping the peace in Caledonia, but here’s the thing — that’s not their job. Police officers enforce the law. The military keeps the peace — and if the situation was truly as bad as Mr. Lewis says… the military should have been the ones on the ground… The OPP was given an impossible task there. The scandal isn’t that it made mistakes or failed to keep everyone happy. It’s that it was put in that position in the first place.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, Indigenous, rights, standard of living
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Alternative federal budget pushes for needed spending
[It] would increase federal government health-care spending to 30 per cent from less than 20 per cent of all spending on health care… introduce a national pharmacare program, making prescription drugs affordable for the increasing numbers of people without workplace health benefits… double the goods and services (GST) tax credit and national child benefit supplement, both targeting low-income earners. .. establish a new “poverty reduction transfer” to the provinces, requiring them to enhance their dismally low social assistance and disability benefit rates.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Index ranks Canada as sixth most socially advanced country
Canada sits in 6th place of 133 countries – the highest of any G7 nation – in an annual “social progress index”… The index… is meant to complement the traditional measure of gross domestic product in assessing progress. It tracks 52 indicators – from crime levels to literacy rates and gender equality – that reflect whether a country is providing essential needs to its citizens and opportunities for people to improve their lot in society.
Tags: child care, corrections, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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