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How affordable is a university education in your province?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
September 11, 2012
A new report… tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordability for median- and low-income families using a Cost of Learning Index.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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McGuinty government’s planned education overhaul will be catastrophic
Saturday, September 8th, 2012
September 07, 2012
McGuinty seeks education on the cheap, credentialism (more students get a degree of decreasing value) and, frankly, the shrinking size and pay of the post-secondary workforce… It’s easy to set up an online university… The problem is, it isn’t a university, it’s another way to destroy the essence of a university… Someone has to call for high standards. For if a shortened BA is going to mean less, Ontario universities will fall into a class system.
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Turning around Ontario lives hurt by fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Saturday, September 1st, 2012
August 31, 2012
this province lags far behind the rest of the country in addressing this complex yet preventable disability, and is unnecessarily relegating far too many people to the margins of society… research suggests that youth with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder are 19 times more likely to be incarcerated, and the incidence of FASD may be as high as three in 10 among federal inmates… It fills prisons with individuals whose permanent neurobiological impairments won’t be fixed through punishment, and eats up resources that could be invested in avoiding victimization and criminality.
Tags: disabilities, economy, Health, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s new immigration rules put premium on young people
Monday, August 27th, 2012
21 August 2012
New immigration rules will target workers aged 18 to 35… Canada will rely on young immigrants to soften the fiscal pain of a demographic crunch… Driving the change is the concern that the ratio of working-age Canadians to retirees is shifting dramatically… “If you were going to design an immigration system that was going to help employers keep wages low, this is pretty close to what you’d want”…
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, pensions, standard of living, youth
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There’s no online substitute for a real university classroom
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
18 August 2012
The classroom experience – live – remains the heart of real education… By “education” I don’t mean training or even mere instruction… Online education of this sort may sound good – false economies often do… Something is always better than nothing, and I applaud colleagues who undertake such outreach. Still, don’t mistake what’s better than nothing for what’s best.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, youth
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Changing postsecondary education must be a collective process
Friday, August 24th, 2012
9 August 2012
It is clear that the current system of publicly funded postsecondary education is in trouble. (In fact, the term now in use for universities and colleges is “publicly assisted,” since the share of operating revenues provided by provincial grants has shrunk to less than half of total revenues.) In Ontario, as enrolment numbers have dramatically expanded over the past decade, the hiring of faculty has not kept pace… Apart from internal consultations, we all need to listen carefully to the most important constituency here: students… There are plenty of interesting ideas for reform.
Tags: budget, economy, standard of living, youth
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International graduates of career colleges should have opportunity to work in Canada
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
5 August 2012
The government of Canada recently announced its intention to introduce stricter rules for international students seeking to study in Canada… The proposed changes are intended to ensure that foreign students who obtain study permits enter Canada for the purpose of study. Currently, there is no monitoring of international students once they arrive in Canada… Governments will create lists of educational institutions that meet established standards and are eligible to host international students.
Tags: globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, privatization, rights, youth
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City’s summer of violence calls for community-based solutions
Saturday, August 18th, 2012
3 August 2012
When violence strikes a community, we all suffer… The most successful way to avert crime is a concerted effort to get at the root causes of violence… diverse racialized youth, who experience isolation and see no hope for the future are at greatest risk of violence… We need… all sectors to unite in an ongoing commitment to work together to build an inclusive and caring society by investing in our youth, in our communities, and in our social infrastructure.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Bill Blair: A police chief looking beyond the easy answers
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
1 August 2012
Chief Blair offered a strikingly nuanced take on how to make troubled neighbourhoods safer… he dismissed the idea – propagated by federal and municipal politicians seeking to score law-and-order points – that the criminal justice system alone will make streets safer. As he put it: “You can’t arrest your way out of this.”… Through measures such as recruiting new officers from at-risk communities, and setting up a summer employment program for kids who live in them, Toronto’s force is already making considerable efforts.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, poverty, youth
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New program helps teens adjust from jail to school
Saturday, August 11th, 2012
31 July 2012
… they have been immersed in a culture of custody and they can’t leave it behind without support… While these teens have aptitude, they can be “functionally illiterate and they need wraparound services from people who speak their language… Redemption Reintegration Services… provides them with advice on housing, jobs, clothing and even has a barbershop in the office for students who can’t afford a haircut when they get out of jail… “once these kids feel they don’t belong, that’s when it starts.”
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, youth
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