Among the key recommendations: (i) provinces should invest in public home and community care while also considering mechanisms to expand the private provision of these services; (ii) Ontario and ...
https://spon.ca/seniors-care-surge-will-require-smart-policies/2024/04/09/
Canada is the only G7 nation without a national school food program, and ranks 37th out of 41 of the world’s wealthiest countries when it comes to providing healthy food for children... one of ...
... with MMPs , Parliament removes judicial discretion for any sentencing option other than imprisonment and imposes a minimum term of incarceration, regardless of the facts of the case... The ev...
Canada’s highest court has unanimously ruled that First Nations, Métis, and Inuit rights to self-government include jurisdiction over child and family services, throwing out the attorney gener...
The almost entirely female – and, in Toronto, mostly racialized – home care personal support workers expect more of the same: low wages, irregular work, few benefits, and almost no pensions. ...
https://spon.ca/home-care-reforms-dont-address-poor-working-conditions/2023/12/16/
Library social workers aim to remove systemic barriers... by offering preventative support... and by helping people access services that offer longer-term solutions to their problems... they are ...
Ontario’s current implementation plan for child-care and early-learning agreements runs the risk of leaving disadvantaged families further behind, rather than closing gaps in opportunities and ...
... compassionate, evidence-based policies… make us safer at a fraction of the cost of ineffective “tough on crime” approaches. We don’t have to let fear win. We don’t have to tolerate ...
Overall, Canada ranks 8th out of 11 countries included in the survey... While Canada generally performs well in the care process category, it performs poorly in terms of access to care and equit...
... when offenders are released, they often return to the same circumstances — homelessness, unemployment, drug use, lack of mental health care — that led to their offending in the first plac...
https://spon.ca/mental-health-and-prison-a-tragic-cycle-that-repeats-itself/2023/09/16/