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Meet the grandma who lost 3 grandkids over a home that needed repairs
When a child protection worker walked into Marlene’s home in Toronto, two things were immediately obvious: the love between Marlene and her grandchildren was profound, and her broken-down home was unsafe… The repairs cost her $3,000, a debt she is slowly trying to repay while falling further behind in her property tax payments. A contractor would have charged more, but nowhere near what it cost Ontario taxpayers to keep Marlene’s three grandchildren in foster care for a year — about $50,000.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, youth
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Judge rules in favour of ’60s Scoop victims
“Canada had a common law duty of care to take reasonable steps to prevent on-reserve Indian children in Ontario, who had been placed in the care of non-aboriginal foster or adoptive parents, from losing their aboriginal identity. Canada breached this common law duty of care” … The next phase will now be to determine how much in damages the government owes the survivors, who were taken from their homes as children in the 1960s and 1970s and placed in non-indigenous care.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, Indigenous, youth
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Sexual violence: The silent health epidemic
Being a girl or woman is a risk factor for abuse and assault… But being marginalized greatly increases that risk… Gender-based violence tends to flourish out of a culture that devalues women, where so-called “locker-room talk” that demeans women is casually accepted, where media messages objectify women, where women are held to a different sexual standard (slut-shaming) and where sexual harassment is dismissed as no big deal.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, women, youth
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We must do better for sexual assault survivors. The answer isn’t rocket science
Really addressing sexual violence means education on the meaning of consent. And that’s where it starts to become complicated: Sure it’s serious training for all the actors in the criminal justice system: police officers, prosecutors, and judges. But it also means transformational sex education. It means changing society’s understanding of the meaning of consent, sex and sexuality.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, women, youth
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Trudeau government must end foot-dragging on promises to indigenous people
The department [of Indigenous and Northern Affairs] has the long-standing and unfortunate reputation of being incapable of creating improvements, either within its own ranks or for the indigenous people it is supposed to serve… “Until a problem-solving mindset is brought to these issues to develop solutions built around people instead of defaulting to litigation, arguments about money, and process roadblocks, this country will continue to squander the potential and lives of much of its Indigenous population,”
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Why are police calling so many sexual-assault complaints ‘unfounded’?
… police classify an average of 5,500 sexual-assault complaints as unfounded every year. That means these cases are not included in statistics about sexual assault… Experts blame inconsistent police training for the discrepancies… Unfairly dismissing their complaints as unfounded only adds to the sense that the system is weighted against sexual-assault victims from the start.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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We are failing the community of sexual assault victims
… the independence, detachment and consistency that are core virtues of the justice system are at the same time the root causes of one of the justice system’s most profound failures: its dramatic inability to deliver justice to survivors of sexual violence. We in the justice system value precedent, which means we tend to stick to the same old ways for far too long… we decline to listen deeply to constituent groups like sexual assault survivors because we convince ourselves they are ill-informed laypersons with suspicious agendas.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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Ontario should save kids from interminable bus commutes
… school boards across Ontario are struggling to deal with a declining student population. Many boards are targeting small rural schools for closure, even though their enrolment is often higher than schools in larger centres… It’s not just the long hours that are detrimental… but the total disconnect from local life… hours spent on a dreary bus ride are hours they can’t be in extra-circular sports, clubs or just playing shinny. Ontario must do better, for the sake its children.
Tags: budget, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, youth
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Preserving the quality of university education in Ontario
Ontario’s universities currently receive the lowest level of public per-student funding in Canada, are not hiring full-time faculty at the rate necessary to keep pace with student enrolment, and have the highest student-faculty ratios in the country. OCUFA’s recommendations to the Standing Committee include: Increasing per-student funding for Ontario’s universities to match the average for the rest of Canada… that brings Ontario’s student-faculty ratio in line with the rest of Canada
Tags: budget, featured, standard of living, youth
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Canada doesn’t have a Harvard, and that’s a good thing
… getting into a “top” Canadian university is nowhere near as difficult as entering an elite U.S. college: the entire undergraduate population of the Ivy League is roughly equivalent to that of the University of Toronto. Moreover, the consequences of not getting into a top Canadian school are relatively minor: those who graduate from a Canadian undergraduate program are on a much more equal footing than they are in the U.S.
Tags: ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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