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March 8, 2010 – April 21, 2010                                   

ACF Project Specific Clippings

CIW

Spring 2010 UofT Magazine p4  Francesco L. Galassi BA 1981 UC, MA 1982, PHD 1987 Ottawa Welfare Indexes are Unconvincing http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/spring-2010/letters-to-the-editor-spring-2010/ response to Kurt Kleiner’s Is Life Getting Better? Winter 2010 http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/cover-story/is-life-getting-better-ways-of-measuring-well-being-problems-with-gdp/

Mar 30 The New York Times David Brooks The Sandra Bullock Trade Would you exchange a professional triumph for a personal blow? Research suggests the gap between success and happiness boils down to personal bonds http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/opinion/30brooks.html (Wellbeing)

April 8 The Mark News Grace-Edward Galabuzi and Uzma Shakir Canadian Wellbeing: The Real Deal http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1245-canadian-wellbeing-the-real-deal

Early Learning/Child Care

 Sat March 13, 2010 Toronto Star A19 Catherine Porter Briding daycare’s vast gender divide http://mobile.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/779349 Male childcare workers … are the answer to much unfinished feminist business (Christine Nuñez quoted paragraph 23)

Mar 16 rabble.ca Cathy Crowe Ontario’s 63.5 million childcare question http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/03/ontario%E2%80%99s-635-million-childcare-question

March 23 Tor Star A1 & A13 Laurie Monsebraaten ‘Collapse’ looms for cash-poor child care Thursday’s provincial budget must replace lost federal subsidy, critics warn McGuinty http://sgetfo.ca/2010/03/23/collapse-looms-for-cash-poor-child-care/

March 23 Tor Star A18 The daycare funding gap Star editorial http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/783548--the-daycare-funding-gap

Mar 24 Tor Star A1 & A8 Robert Benzie Daycare gets budget bailout Despite record deficit, Ontario to cough up 463.5 million to replace lost federal subsidy http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/childcare/daycare/article/784389--daycare-gets-budget-bailout

Mar 24 The Globe and Mail A7 Adam Radwanski Ontario seizing an opportunity to make a ‘federal case’ McGuinty is mounting a public-relations campaign on daycare funding http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-seizing-an-opportunity-to-make-a-federal-case-about-child-care/article1509925/

Mar 26 Tor Star A14 Richard J. Brennan $1B heading to full-day kindergarten

April 1 The Mirror p1 & 3 Joanna Lavoie Transit cuts blasted by local NDP MPPs Few positives in budget, except funding for daycare spaces http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/657965--provincial-budget-cuts-to-transit-blasted-by-ndp-mpps

Apr 2 Tor Star Kristin Rushowy Schools should provide before, after class care for full-day program, advocates say (Annie Kidderhttp://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/articlePrint/789644

Apr 5 Tor Star A1, 12 Kristin Rushowy ‘Bumps in the road’ to all-day schools Boards want daycares to run some programs, but educators opposed

Apr 7, 2010 Tor Star Bruce Campbell Canadians no longer see red over prospect of higher taxes Bruce Campbell of CCPA says restoring GST to 7% could support a national pharmacare program, a home-care program for senior citizens, a national child-care program http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/791259--canadians-no-longer-see-red-over-prospect-of-higher-taxes (CCPA - ACF Grantee)

Apr 12 Tor Star A2 Jesse Mclean and Raveena Aulakh Cash woes curse kindergarten plan Board consider slashing programs to foot the bill for day-long classes http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx#

April 12 Tor Star Louise Brown Full-day learning draws last-minute fears http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/earlylearning/article/794238--full-day-learning-draws-last-minute-fears (Annie Kidder, Kerry McCuaig)

Thurs April 15 Tor Star Louise Brown Full-day learning program unveiled Kindergarten curriculum teaches building blocks of the 3R’s and how to play nicely with others http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/earlylearning/article/795477--ontario-unveils-full-day-kindergarten-curriculum

Poverty Reduction Strategy (Colour of Poverty / Daily Bread / Voices from the Street)

March 2010 The CCPA Monitor Seth Klein and Armine Yalnizyan, Reducing poverty, inequality will spur economic recovery Provinces setting anti-poverty pace, Ottawa must do more (Campaign 20000, anti-poverty activists)

March 9 Tor Star Prudent Strategy for tough times http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/776911--prudent-strategy-for-tough-times

Sat March 13 Tor Star A8 Laurie Monsebraaten Food subsidy on chopping block? People on diet allowance for medical problems fear province planning to cut program (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre and 25in5 quoted in paragraph 16) http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/779481--welfare-special-diet-allowance-at-risk

Sat March 13 Toronto Star A10 Nicholas Keung Canada’s minorities fall behind, study finds UN expert’s report cites growing economic and political disparities (Avvy Go, Colour of Poverty Campaign quoted in last paragraph)

Sat March 13 Toronto Star Insight Section Ad by The June Callwood Campaign Against Child Poverty

Mon March 15 Tor Star A17 Carol Goar Have the poor fallen off the agenda? http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/779267--goar-have-the-poor-fallen-off-the-agenda (25in5 Network, Ontario Coalition for Better Childcare, ACF - PRS)

Mon March 15 Toronto Star Al Jackson, Lakefield Cut abuse not welfare program re: Welfare, special diet at risk http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/779741--cut-abuse-not-welfare-program (ACF - PRS)

Mon March 15 Globe and Mail, Bill Curry Welfare caseloads are up; Ontario looking for federal help  Province calling for national standard for accessing EI payments as laid-off workers exhaust their federal benefits http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-seeks-ottawas-help-as-welfare-cases-spike/article1500571/ (ACF – PRS)

Tues Mar 16 Tor Star A18 Don’t cut costs on backs of sick …speculation that the province plans to radically alter or eliminate the Special Diet Allowance in the upcoming budget http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/780277--editorial-don-t-cut-costs-on-backs-of-sick (ACF - PRS)

Wed March 17 Tor Star A1 & A13 Rob Benzie Ontario faces 7 years in red Province eyes changes to special diet program

Sat Mar 20 Tor Star IN6  Mike Creek 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction, Adrianna Tetley, Association of Ontario Health Centres, Kyle Vose, ODSP Action Coalition A test of Ontario’s appetite to fight for poverty reduction http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/781985--a-test-of-ontario-s-appetite-to-fight-for-poverty-reduction

Tues March 23 The Globe and Mail A6 Karen Howlett Ontario to unveil 7-year plan for balancing budget Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has ruled out raising taxes or making deep cuts to program spending this year additional funding for priority areas such as all-day kindergarten http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-to-unveil-seven-year-plan-for-balancing-budget/article1508656/

Wed Mar 24 Toronto Star A22  Move carefully on provincial deficit Star editorial

Wed Mar 24 Tor Star A23 Hugh Mackenzie This is no time for Duncan to panic With the economy still in recovery mode, a move to cut spending and sell assets would be a disaster http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/784260--this-is-no-time-for-duncan-to-panic

Thurs March 25 Tor Star A7 Robert Benzie Deficit magically shrinks Higher revenues mean Duncan will announce new cash for colleges, universities, daycare

March 25 Liz Monteiro, KW Record Newcomers endure the colour of poverty (Uzma Shakir) http://news.therecord.com/article/688319

Mar 25 The Mirror p9 Helping newcomers overcome poverty is topic of forum “Refusing to settle for Less: Newcomer policy recommendations to overcome poverty on Saturday, March 27 (Avvy Co, Colour of Poverty campaign)

Mar 26 Tor Star A11 Laurie Monsebraaten Anti-poverty advocates decry loss of food help http://www.thestar.com/news/ontariobudget/article/785344--poverty-advocates-decry-loss-of-diet-allowance

Mar 26 Tor Star A26 A prudent budget, with two missteps Budget’s missteps on poverty and transit, subject to correction in future http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/785491--a-prudent-budget-with-two-missteps

Sat March 27 Tor Star IN6 Poverty missing in budget plans http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/785482--poverty-missing-in-budget-plans

Mar 28 Tor Star A16 Gary Block MD, St. Michael’s Hospital Health Centre A way to reduce poverty and health costs re: Anti-poverty advocates decry loss of food help, Mar 26 http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/786115--a-way-to-reduce-poverty-and-health-costs

Mar 29 Tor Star A13 Laurie Monsebraaten Welfare rules tweaked after diet allowance axed http://www.healthzone.ca/health/news/ontario/article/786837--welfare-rules-tweaked-after-diet-allowance-axed

Mar 31 Tor Star A2 Ontario minimum wage rises to $10.25 an hour Latest increase makes hourly rate almost 50% higher than in 2004 http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/787557--minimum-wage-rises-to-10-25-wednesday

April 1 Tor Star L1, L5 Cory Mintz Do the Math A poor excuse for a food allowance Food allowance fails those in need http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/788435--a-poor-excuse-for-a-food-allowance The Stop, ACF Grantee

April 2 Tor Star A8 Laurie Monsebraaten New rules for disabled urged Tory MPP introduces private member’s bill that would hike limits on assets and earnings

April 6 Tor Star GT2 Hiking transit fares blocks road to success Access to transportation a necessity to escape poverty, blogger says (Pat Capponi)

Apr 7 Tor Sun p16 Food for thought on welfare reform http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2522970

Fri Apr 9 Tor Star A23 Robin Taylor-Barrie Learning the price of dignity and also the need to dream big The People’s Review of Social Assistance is a process led by 20 social assistance recipients to identy what’s wrong with the current system and to propose improvements http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/792589--learning-the-price-of-dignity-and-also-the-need-to-dream-big

People for Education (public education)

Friday, March 12 The Globe and Mail A8 Caroline Alphonso Ontario schools dump the ABCs on report cards Educators hope a new format, out this fall, removes a fixation on letter grades and refocuses kids and parents on the learning process http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-schools-dump-the-abcs-on-report-cards/article1498230/ (Annie Kidder quoted paragraph 10)

Sat March 27 Tor Star A1 & A9 Louise Brown Board sees future in ‘boutique’ schools TDSB considers private-school options – including single-sex academies – to combat declining enrolment (Annie Kidder, People for Education)

General Interest

Wed Mar 24 Tor Star GT4 Leslie Ferenc Legacy of excellence lives on in winners  PHD student Saron Ghebresselllassi, 23 is the recipient of the Scotiabank Group Leadership Award http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/784246--14-to-receive-prestigious-harry-jerome-award

Thurs Apr 1 Tor Star A21 Marie Wadden Ottawa delivers a blow to native sobriety campaign The Aboriginal Healing Foundation is a model of how effective a small bureaucracy can be http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/788535--ottawa-delivers-a-blow-to-native-sobriety-campaign

Thurs Apr 8 The Globe and Mail  Rasha Mourtada Enriching the talent pool ‘Canadian experience required’ has chilled the hearts of many a job seeker (Ratna Omidvar, president, Maytree) http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20100408.SRNEWCANADIANHIRINGART1843/TPStory/?query=Companies

Apr 10 B1, B4 James Daw Ontario’s tax-cut ads require asterisks – skepticism Most 2010 savings come from sales tax transition benefit. Yet advertisements ignore extra cost of Harmonized Sales Tax after July 1 (St. Christopher House – former ACF grantee) http://www.thestar.com/business/article/793159--ontario-s-tax-cut-ads-require-asterisks-skepticism

Apr 11 Tor Star Kenneth Kidd The rethinking of ‘Alex Park’ public housing complex A new proposal would almost completely replace the 1960s design that helped make the downtown complex a model of public housing, but some see space for a more nuanced approach http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/793454--the-rethinking-of-alex-park-public-housing-complex?bn=1 (Atkinson Co-op)

Apr 14 Tor Star Pat Capponi Suicide barriers aren’t the best way to spend money

Sat Apr 17, 2010 Tor Star B8 ACF ad for Executive Director Champion of Social and Economic Justice

Apr 19 Tor Star Terry O’Connor Propaganda from corporate welfare bums Re: Corporate tax cuts necessary for economy (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)