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On residential school claims, Ottawa must pay what is owed
This is an obvious breach of the spirit of an agreement that was the only proper response to the cruel legacy of Canada’s residential school system, in which for more than 100 years native children were taken from their families, raised in Christian schools and stripped of their native identities. It was a stain on Canada’s history, one that the compensation program, along with the government’s apology and the subsequent report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was meant to help lighten.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, rights, standard of living, youth
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Canada discriminates against children on reserves, tribunal rules
The federal government discriminates against First Nation children on reserves… the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled. the federal government’s funding model and management of its First Nations child and family services “resulted in denials of services and created various adverse impacts for many First Nations children and families living on reserves.” The decision says the government must “cease the discriminatory practice and take measures to redress and prevent it.”
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Program to help stop sex trafficking is welcome
The program… is aimed at: Educating girls on the signs that a “boyfriend” is trying to lure them into sex trafficking; Teaching hoteliers, condo concierges and taxi drivers how they can intervene if they come into contact with a crime in action; Funding a 24-hour hotline that will send out trained workers to provide trauma counselling and court support; Providing transitional housing for up to seven victims of human trafficking at a time to give them round-the-clock aid.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, women, youth
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Proven ‘quick fix’ for CAS can’t keep up with demand
Provincial funding for “family group conferencing,” a program that has been shown to keep indigenous and racialized children with their extended families and out of children’s aid, is not keeping up with demand, according to local officials. At a time when Ontario’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner and others are calling for provincial action on the overrepresentation of First Nations and black children in foster care and group homes, Queen’s Park is ignoring a proven “quick fix,”
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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Prof’s take on teacher pay off base
David Johnson… says that we could get away with paying teachers less while maintaining similar student scores on corporate-friendly standardized tests… We can do better by addressing problem stated in Johnson’s book, Signposts of Success. Almost half the variation in schools’ results is related to the student’s socio-economic conditions… teacher incomes… have only matched inflation in the past 45 years.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s less-educated youth need job opportunities, too
… there will always be some who are not interested in formal schooling after high school… Where Canada performs less well is in offering active labour market programs, such as training and job search assistance, to young people who are no longer in school and need help in making the transition to work, often because of a lack of skills… there is plenty of evidence… that, if they are well designed and implemented, they can benefit young workers who need help.
Tags: economy, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Swift Current stands with young abuse victims. So should your community
… all [municipal] staff working in close proximity with children will become youth-certified… It is my hope that community organizations that offer programming to youth will adopt this new benchmark for their staff or volunteers. Many already demand criminal background checks to help weed out convicted pedophiles, but we believe the education component is also critical to “empower the bystanders” and formally start the process of prevention.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, rights, youth
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Don’t ‘blow up’ Ontario’s child welfare system
The child welfare system in Ontario is in a state of transformation and continuous improvement… Ontario has the lowest rate of removal of children from their home, the second-lowest rate of children in foster care, and that most children return to their families of origin within 12 months… What Ontarians require, and should expect, is a responsible and coherent approach to the review and improvement of its child welfare system.
Tags: budget, child care, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Child support clawback is a disgrace
The child-support clawback… is so common and so cruel that it is being challenged in provincial legislatures and courtrooms across the country… The philosophy behind clawbacks seems to suggest welfare recipients deserve to live in poverty, that allowing them to keep child support payments would amount to cheating the system… The class action lawsuit says the welfare clawback discriminates against parents who are simply trying to support their children.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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