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Federal government failing to comply with ruling on First Nations child welfare: tribunal
The federal government has done virtually nothing to comply with a Human Rights Tribunal decision issued in January that ruled First Nations kids are discriminated against because of inadequate funding for child and welfare services… The quasi-judicial tribunal has now issued a second compliance order to force the government to take immediate action and rectify funding shortfalls
Tags: budget, child care, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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A closer look at the StatCan tuition data reveals some worrying trends
Ontario’s domestic undergraduate fees are 74 per cent higher than the average in the rest of Canada… Graduate tuition is even worse: 96 per cent higher than the rest of Canada, having increased by 13 per cent since 2010, compared to six per cent in the RoC. International fees tell a similar tale: undergraduate tuition fees are 54 per cent higher than the rest of Canada, and graduate fees are 66 per cent higher.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, youth
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Don’t even think of housing foster kids in jails
… children whose families ran out of money for housing were twice as likely to be placed with foster parents or group homes, according to an analysis of Ontario children taken into care in 2013… more than 90 per cent of the families [Native Child and Family Services of Toronto] works with are poor. “The state intervenes on behaviour associated with poverty, but never gets to the poverty itself.” … aboriginal children… are also 168 per cent more likely to be taken from their homes and placed into care.
Tags: budget, child care, housing, rights, standard of living, youth
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Ottawa must act quickly on opioid crisis
Two people die from an opioid overdose every day in Ontario… One of every eight deaths in Ontario among young adults is related to an opioid overdose… Currently, our approach in Canada is for individual jurisdictions to tackle the problem themselves… in the absence of national data on opioid prescribing and overdoses, we have no way to capture the scope of this national crisis, and to identify policy changes most likely to effect real change.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living, youth
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Innovation and talent acquisition can solve our growth dilemma
Canada needs a robust national access-to-talent strategy. We should increase immigration. By 2025, 30 per cent of our population will be 60 and older – to mitigate this imbalance, Canada would need to increase immigration for each of the next five years to one million people. If we focus this intake on skilled newcomers between the ages of 20 and 39, it would shift our overall proportion of that band from 25 per cent to 32 per cent of the population.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, participation, standard of living, youth
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Children’s aid societies should not discriminate against poor children
It’s a product of the former Ontario Conservative government’s actions in the 1990s, when it slashed welfare payments and social services while at the same time introducing the notion into children’s aid societies of maltreatment by “omission,” which included not having enough food in the home… the number of children taken into care spiked. The solution is for the province to create social safety net policies that address the fact that some 550,000 children in this province live in poverty.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Report shines light on poverty’s role on kids in CAS system
A new report that for the first time calculates the effect of poverty in Ontario child protection has found it plays a significant role in kids being taken from their families and placed into care. Children whose families ran out of money for housing were twice as likely to be placed with foster parents or group homes, according to an analysis of Ontario children taken into care in 2013. Similar rates were found for families who ran out of money for food or for utilities.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Are we living in a social economy, or a precarious one?
Canada abounds with people who are helping to chart the future of work, but there are many more who struggle to find their places, to launch their ideas, to secure sufficient income. For those left behind, the economic and social effects can be profound and troubling. Pro-active and innovative university preparation is a critical piece of the puzzle, but more is needed: support from the business community, consumers and policy-makers to ensure that a generation isn’t lost.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Ontario won’t close schools for deaf and blind children
Ontario will keep open four schools for 160 children who are deaf, blind or have severe learning disabilities while it develops pilot projects to help kids with similar challenges in traditional schools. The move follows protests by worried parents last winter and spring — and an outcry from opposition parties at Queen’s Park — after the government stopped admissions at the schools in Milton, London, Belleville and Ottawa for the fall.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Fix ‘unacceptable’ social inequity to reduce Inuit suicide rates, report urges
six priorities for reducing suicide: • Create social equity • Create cultural continuity • Nurture health of Inuit children • Ensure access to mental health care • Heal unresolved trauma and grief • Mobilize Inuit knowledge for resilience and suicide prevention… “Inuit are speaking for ourselves,” said Obed. “The solutions that we say are necessary should be the foundations that all Canadians and all decision makers and persons who want to help should build on.”
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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