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Grassroots group plans legal challenge against separate school funding
The group wants to bring the issue to the forefront at a time when school closures are causing havoc in many regions, arguing that taxpayer-funded Catholic schools are no longer fair or affordable in a society of many religions and cultures… “We believe there should be one non-denominational two-language public school system.”
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, rights, youth
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Ottawa continues to fail Indigenous children
Between 1870 and 1996, more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were shipped off to residential schools as the centrepiece of a policy of “aggressive assimilation” of Indigenous peoples. A more accurate description is state-sanctioned cultural genocide. Somewhere between 4,000 and 6,000 children sent to residential schools died, and many more were victims of physical, mental and sexual abuse.
Tags: budget, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Province must bridge gap between affluent and needy schools
One of the biggest barriers to equity, the group found, is fundraising. As the study points out, schools from richer neighbourhoods have a huge advantage with some able to raise up to $200,000 a year while others in poorer neighbourhoods couldn’t raise anything… Forty-eight per cent of elementary schools reported fundraising for learning resources such as computers, art supplies or other products or upgrades that clearly tilt the educational playing field.
Tags: ideology, participation, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Demand for youth mental health services is exploding. How universities and business are scrambling to react
… it should not be the responsibility of post-secondary institutions to provide mental health services. It is their job is to provide education… The province this month announced $6 million in additional annual funding to support mental health services at Ontario’s colleges and universities… But with 44 post-secondary institutions… experts say it’s not enough. One-time funding for interventions isn’t a long-term fix
Tags: disabilities, featured, Health, mental Health, youth
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Why has Ontario’s health system abandoned our kids?
The Ontario government must invest in: Early detection and prevention programs; More psychiatrists and health-care professionals; Specialized residential treatment programs; Post-residential treatment programs; Support for families; Navigation tools to help match people with available treatments; Public awareness in schools, the work place and the community… This is our cry for help and call to action to the government of Ontario.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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How to end Canada’s biggest public health emergency
In 2015, more Canadians were killed by opioid-related overdoses than lost their lives at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic… no effort to confront or assuage the opioid epidemic can succeed without knowing who is prescribing what, to whom, and in what quantities… Given the scope and depth of the human catastrophe at hand, the lack of surveillance data is frankly shocking… this big of an emergency demands big, course-changing action.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, youth
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Call inquest into group home deaths
There’s concern about minimum standards – including the frequency of fire inspections and whether homes have proper fire safety plans. Beyond that, staff in these homes have no minimum training requirements and tend to be poorly paid. It’s a formula for failure. Ontario has more than 15,000 young people in foster and group homes. There’s plenty of evidence that they don’t get the kind of care they deserve…
Tags: crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Now, more than ever, we need a national vaccination plan
our system for vaccinating kids is shamefully clunky and disorganized. we don’t even have an accurate count of who is vaccinated and who isn’t. That’s because every province tracks vaccination differently, if at all… who does vaccinations – nurses, family doctors, pediatricians – varies between jurisdictions and… few provinces have any standardized methods of encouraging parents to get kids vaccinated, follow-up procedures for those who miss their shots or stringent rules about who can opt out.
Tags: jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living, youth
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Track kids who have aged out of the children’s aid system
… people who grew up in foster care or group homes experience low academic achievement, high rates of homelessness, early parenthood, unemployment, conflict with the law, mental health problems and loneliness. In Ontario, for instance, only 44 per cent of Crown wards complete high school compared to 81 per cent of students in the general population.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, youth
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Patchwork drug plans flout the foundations of medicare
Ontario has seven (soon to be eight) distinct public drug plans… Despite the number of state-funded programs, almost half of Canadians rely on private insurance for coverage, most of which is employer-based… In Ontario alone, one in four people between the ages of 25 and 64 do not have drug insurance, according to Health Quality Ontario.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, poverty, privatization, standard of living, youth
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