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The right balance: How your level of control affects your child’s level of anxiety
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Aug 18, 2011
A mantra of modern mothering has it that kids should be independent and self-sufficient, and that’s all to the good. But unless that goal takes into account the personality and self-control level of the child, an unforeseen result could be increased anxiety and depression… Children with low levels of so-called effortful control of their feelings and actions who did not get the direction they needed from mothers exhibited twice as much depression and anxiety… Kids who are over-controlled when they are already good at independently managing their emotions and behaviour also showed symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Tags: child care, disabilities, mental Health, women, youth
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New attitudes change health [First Nations]
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
August 18, 2011
In 2010, the Health Council of Canada began a multi-year project to learn about programs and strategies that have the potential to reduce these unacceptable health disparities between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians… On Aug. 9, we released a report about what we heard for Canadians and governments, titled Understanding and Improving Aboriginal Maternal and Child Health in Canada… We heard about the importance of offering health care services that integrate mainstream Western medicine with traditional and culturally relevant aboriginal practices…
Tags: Health, Indigenous, participation, standard of living, women
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A healthy choice: funding in-vitro fertilization
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Aug 14 2011
This is why the Quebec government’s decision to fund in-vitro fertilization for women having trouble conceiving was wise. It not only acknowledged a deep human need, it took a stand for infant health… Families without free medical care frantically try for multiple embryos, hoping to improve their odds. But twins and triplets “are 17 times more likely to be premature and often require neonatal treatment and special care throughout their lives, taxing the health care system,”
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization, rights, women
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Rogers death was a turning point
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
August 10, 2011
The drug overdose death of Kimberly Rogers, 40, who was eight months pregnant, resulted in province-wide debate, a coroner’s inquest and a new direction for the health unit… Medical officer of health Dr. Penny Sutcliffe testified at the 2002 inquest… addressing the inadequacies of social assistance rates to fund a healthy diet and other issues relating to welfare. About that time, the health unit began to focus on the link between the social and economic health of a community and the physical health of its citizens
Tags: corrections, ideology, mental Health, poverty, women
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No justice for the intellectually disabled
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Jun 10 2011
… it is only the already disadvantaged category of witnesses … who must answer questions about their understanding of the duty to tell the truth,” added LEAF legal director Joanna Birenbaum. “No other category of witness is required to do so… “There is consensus that access to justice for persons with mental disabilities is a critical issue … While there are a number of reasons why women with mental disabilities are so highly targeted for sexual assault, the staggering rates of assault are in part because of these women’s lack of access to justice.”
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, rights, women
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Child care isn’t a frill
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Jul 13 2011
The “key opportunities” identified in the latest report by KPMG include eliminating 2,000 daycare spaces subsidized for low-income families… Though they identified the option, even KPMG’s accountants see the dangers in cutting access to affordable child care. “Reducing the number of subsidized child care spaces,” they write, “will make work and/or school less accessible to some parents, and may increase Ontario Works and Employment and Social Services case loads (and costs).”
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, women
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Canada ready to spar with UN over ‘visible minorities’
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Jul 5, 2011
Canada faces a new grilling before a United Nations anti-racism watchdog — but will defy the Geneva-based body over the question the government’s use of the term “visible minorities.” A delegation to be led by Citizenship and Immigration Canada will tell the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that Canada considers the term to be appropriate. The committee signalled when it grilled Canada four years ago that the government was being racist by using the term.
Tags: disabilities, Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights, women
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Gender inequality isn’t a ‘women’s issue’
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
July 5, 2011
… Women’s World participants are seeking to address: problems such as poverty, food insecurity and homelessness, pornography, sex trafficking and war rape, to name just a few. Because at root, these are all challenges – or crimes – of equality. They are symptoms of the bigger issue: the ongoing disenfranchisement of a shocking percentage of the world’s women. And every government that’s not investing significant resources in righting that wrong is negligent, short-sighted and failing to nurture its nation’s true capacity.
Tags: participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Out in the open [Aboriginal sexual health education]
Monday, July 4th, 2011
June 30, 2011
First Nations women and youth are at disproportionately higher risks than the mainstream Canadian population to have other adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes. These communities are more likely to suffer high-risk pregnancies, pre-term deliveries, sexually transmitted infections and instances of sexual violence… The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC)… online initiative, AboriginalSexualHealth.ca (link to: http://aboriginalsexualhealth.ca/), [is] a website meant to educate and empower First Nation, Inuit and Métis women and their health-care providers.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, standard of living, women, youth
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Almost 20,000 Toronto tots waiting for child-care subsidies
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
June 28, 2011
A record 19,817 Toronto children are waiting for daycare subsidies while the city scrambles to keep its chronically underfunded system afloat with unused money from all-day kindergarten… The city’s recovering economy, high cost of living and a new generation of young educated women entering the workforce are putting new pressure on the city’s daycare waiting list… “We don’t have a child-care system. We don’t have a plan. We are literally flying by the seat of our pants,”
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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