Community Action articles from May 2003

Community Action archives from May 2003

Dr. Stockmann's dilemma. (Comments).
May 19, 2003... The repertoire of many a classic theatre company includes Henryk Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People, written more than a hundred years ago. In this play, a small town doctor and public health officer, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, discovers that the...

48 hard to place children find adoptive homes through Alberta's website.
May 19, 2003... EDMONTON -- Forty eight Alberta children have been placed or are in the process of being placed in adopting homes. Their description (including pictures) appeared on a provincial government website that profiles hard to place children. In...

U.S. free speech does not protect fund raisers from fraud charges.
May 19, 2003... WASHINGTON -- U.S. Charitable fund raisers who deliberately misrepresent the actual amounts of money that will go to the beneficiaries may be prosecuted for consumer fraud. Charity groups and fund raisers breathed a sigh of relief that the the...

Half of Ontario's RNs are part-timers, a threat to health system, says RNAO.
May 19, 2003... TORONTO -- "The disproportionate amount of part-time and casual work is a threat to the quality of patient care, to the viability of the health care system, and to the nursing profession itself, claims the Registered Nurses Association of...

Ontario to review SARS response.
May 19, 2003... TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Ernie Eves announced the government will commission a review of the province's health care system's response to SARS. The aim is "to ensure that Ontario is properly positioned to deal with any future epidemic, such as...

Calendar Canada.
May 19, 2003... May 23: Workshop: Effective proposal writing with Fred Ashbury; Leading Edge Seminars; Toronto; 416.964.1133 May 26-30: International conference on gambling and risk taking; University of Nevada, Institute for the Study of Gambling and...

Foreign calendar.
May 19, 2003... June 4-7: Family Group decision making conference; Minneapolis; American Humane Association; www.fgdm.org June 7-10: International Youth research conference; Niittylahti Finland; http://www.joensuu.fi/youth June 11-14: National...

Manitoba to assure child support payments. (Child & Family).
May 19, 2003... WINNIPEG -- "It must be made absolutely clear to parents who owe child support that they did not divorce their children." stated Attorney General Gord McIntoch. Court ordered child support payments will be backed up by stronger enforcement...

Alberta law establishes interdependent relationships as legal unions. (Child & Family).
May 19, 2003... EDMONTON -- Alberta recognizes unmarried, committed relationships between two adults, called adult interdependent relationships, as lawful unions. This becomes effective in June. The law covers same sex relationships. The Adult...

NS newborns go home with a bag of books. (Child & Family).
May 19, 2003... HALIFAX -- Each newborn in Nova Scotia now receives a tote bag of books and learning supports before leaving the hospital. The program which aims at getting Nova Scotia children to read was given $1 million in federal funding and $500,000 from...

U.S. to spend $13 million on former child soldiers. (Child & Family).
May 19, 2003... WASHINGTON -- The U.S. will spend $13 million on global initiatives to help educate, rehabilitate and reintegrate former child soldiers, The initiative includes a $7 million for the International Labor Organization's Program on the...

U.S. holding three 13-15 year olds at Guantanamo. (Child & Family).
May 19, 2003... WASHINGTON -- Three boys between 13 and 15 years old are among the 660 detainees the United States is holding in a camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and will be held indefinitely without legal counsel, the U.S. military said. A U.S. military...

Yukon heading for new child care plan. (Child & Family).
May 19, 2003... WHITEHORSE -- Staff at the Yukon's child care centers and family day homes will now receive additional monies as part of the $230,000 increase to the direct operating grant announced previously by Territorial government. In response to child...

Ontario CAS deficit at $100 million. (Child & Family).
May 19, 2003... The deficits of Ontario's Children's Aid Societies for 2002 could be as much as $100 million more than the $937.6 million budgeted for child welfare in the province, according to a statement on the website of the Hastings Children's Aid...

Children's Wish gets unexpected gift. (Child & Family).
May 19, 2003... FLIN FLON, MB -- The Children's Wish Foundation's Manitoba chapter will have an unsolicited donation from a local man who was found guilty of possessing child pornography. He was ordered to pay a total fine of $4,800 to the Foundation. He will...

Human Resources Development Canada. (Funding).
May 19, 2003... 306-975-4559 Regional Employment Development, Saskatoon: For It's Your Move... Go! to help at-risk youth make the transition into the labour market, either through further education or employment. The program includes learning life and...

Manitoba Advanced Education and Training. (Funding).
May 19, 2003... 204-945-3755 Assiniboine Community College, Brandon: To expand an early childhood education diploma program to include a workplace model. $127,500

The National Crime Prevention Strategy, National Crime Prevention Centre. (Funding).
May 19, 2003... 613-954-1721 Sonshine Society of Christian Community Services. For its FaithLink Project: Building Partnerships to End Abuse. This project promotes cooperation and communication between domestic violence agencies and faith leaders to help...

Trillium Foundation Ontario. (Funding).
May 19, 2003... 800-263-2887 Temple Har Zion: to improve and expand a program for homeless people in York Region, "Out of the Cold," by renovating and equipping space used for the program. $75,000 York Region Victim Crisis Assistance and Referral...

Wild Rose Foundation. (Funding).
May 19, 2003... 780-619-0369 Alberta Council on Aging, Edmonton. Toward the Senior Centres Network Project to assist seniors' centres throughout Alberta to enhance their capacity for self-reliance through volunteer skill development, organizational...

U.K. creates fund to enable charities to participate in front line services. (Voluntary Sector).
May 19, 2003... LONDON, UK -- The British government is consulting with the the voluntary and community sector in order to decide how to distribute a 125 [pounds sterling] (C$300) million fund to enhance the capability of that sector to deliver front line...

Housing ministers agree to support other methods housing funds for territories. (Shelter).
May 19, 2003... WINNIPEG -- Territorial housing ministers gained support from their provincial counterparts for their efforts to change the way federal funding for housing is calculated. They agreed that calculating funding on a per-person basis, as is...

Only Quebec keeps its housing promises. (Shelter).
May 19, 2003... TORONTO -- Most provinces have not kept their promises made under the Affordable Housing Framework Agreement of November 2001, as indicated by the report card of the National Housing and Homelessness Network. "Only Quebec is taking seriously...

Fund aid women to enter BC co-ops. (Shelter).
May 19, 2003... VICTORIA -- The Co-operative Housing Federation of B.C., will administer a loan fund for the British Columbia government. This loan fund of $25,000 will help abused women leaving transition houses to buy shares in cooperative housing. The...

Gambling growing as a source of employment and government revenues. (Voluntary Sector).
May 19, 2003... OTTAWA -- On average, Canadians aged 18 and over each spent $447 on gambling in 2001. Lotteries and casinos provide rising amounts of government revenues and has created employment, according to data gathered by Statistics Canada. About...

Quarter of volunteers backed by employers as volunteering declines. (Voluntary Sector).
May 19, 2003... OTTAWA -- About one-quarter of all the time devoted to volunteer work in Canada in 2000 was done with the support of employers, according to an article "Volunteering on company time".(April 2003 edition of Statistics Canada's Perspectives on...

Space for NPOs as Frisco dot.coms fall. (Voluntary Sector).
May 19, 2003... SAN FRANCISCO -- After years of being squeezed out of a real-estate market flush with cash, high-tech stock options and outrageous prices, nonprofit organizations are obtaining first class office and other space at prices they can easily...

Net GST calculation method for charities. (Voluntary Sector).
May 19, 2003... OTTAWA -- To calculate their net GST/HST remittance or refund, charities that are GST/HST registrants are required to use a simplified net tax calculation when completing their GST/HST returns, according to a Canada Customs and Revenue Agency...

Social Economy: Health and Welfare in Four Provinces.
May 19, 2003... Yves Vaillancourt and Louise Tremblay, editors Fernwood Publishing, Halifax NS 2002 The authors and editors introduce social economy as an alternative concept to a welfare state and the market economy; as well as a contrast to social...

Publications.
May 19, 2003... The publications listed below are for information purposes only. To obtain copies contact the publisher. The entries in this section are listed free of charge and are limited to material published in Canada and by Canadian authors. Publishers...

Periodicals received.
May 19, 2003... In Focus, Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal, Toronto, April 2003 Communicate, Children's Aid Society of Toronto, Spring 2003 Let's Talk, Correctional Service Canada, Ottawa, Vol. 28, No. 1 making waves, CCE...

Overweight children reaching level of epidemic. (Health).
May 19, 2003... OTTAWA -- A Canadian child's risk of becoming overweight or obese is affected by location, income and education level, and family size according to a study by Douglas Willms, Mark Tremblay and Peter Katzmarzyk, reported in the American...

Mental illness will hit 56 million North Americans. (Health).
May 19, 2003... SAN ANTONIO, TX -- "Fifty-six million Americans and Canadians will surfer from a mental illness in 2003 but only 10 per cent or less will be diagnosed and treated properly," says Bill Wilkerson, founder of the Toronto-based Global Business and...

Excellence centre for child and youth mental health set for Ottawa hospital. (Health).
May 19, 2003... OTTAWA -- The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario will establish a Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health, with support of $8.3 million in start-up and ongoing funding. The funding was announced by Premier Eves as part of...

Funding set for north Ontario's dual campus medical school. (Health).
May 19, 2003... THUNDER BAY -- Ernie Eves, Ontario's Premier, today announced that the government is investing $95.3 million in capital and operating funding to establish northern Ontario's first medical school, at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and...

Manitoba's second access centre to provide integrated services. (Health).
May 19, 2003... WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government plans to open the second of three access centres for integrated health and delivery of services in the Transcona section of Winnipeg. A call for development proposals has been issued. Access Transcona...

Free tuition for nursing students. (Health).
May 19, 2003... STURGEON FALLS -- Ontario Premier Ernie Eves announced that the government will provide free tuition for nursing students who agree to begin their careers in underserviced communities. The government also promised to expand the role of nurse...

Ontario court forces government to continue paying for autism treatment. (Disability).
May 19, 2003... ONTARIO -- Ontario Superior Court Justice Arthur Gans stopped the provincial government from cutting off the financial support for autism treatment to Andrew Lowrey who has reached the age of six, the government's cut-off point. The ministry of...

BC government extends autism funding, not what court ordered, advocate says. (Disability).
May 19, 2003... VICTORIA -- In response to the Appeal Court's decision in the Auton case, the BC government created the Extended Autism Intervention Funding program to provide services for children beyond the age of six. However, Michael Lewis, president of...

CACL set up knowledge network. (Disability).
May 19, 2003... TORONTO -- Canadian Association for Community Living setting up Canadian Knowledge Networks For Inclusion. The project will link governments, the disability community and service sector, the academic community, employers and society in...

Motorcycles to midwives. (World's Health).
May 19, 2003... Motorcycles To Midwives: The U.N. Population Fund delivered 80 new motorcycles to the East Timorese Health Ministry for use by midwives across East Timor. The donation is a bid to cut into East Timor's maternal mortality rate, which at an...

The United Nations Health Agency. (World's Health).
May 19, 2003... The United Nations Health Agency co-launched a new partnership programme today aimed at improving the public health of European, Palestinian and Israeli cities through information exchange, study tours, training initiatives and workshops,...

Kenya. (World's Health).
May 19, 2003... Kenya announced a bid to increase the number of Kenyans receiving antiretroviral HIV/AIDS drugs from 7,000 to 40,000 by 2005.

Glaxo Smith Kline. (World's Health).
May 19, 2003... Drug company Glaxo Smith Kline announced it is cutting by nearly 50 percent the price of its Combivir HIV/AIDS treatment in 63 of the world's least developed countries, including in sub-Saharan Africa, the world's hardest-hit region.

The World Health Organization and UNICEF released the Africa Malaria Report 2003. (World's Health).
May 19, 2003... The World Health Organization and UNICEF released the Africa Malaria Report 2003, saying the malaria death toll "remains outrageously high" on the continent, where more than 3,000 children die daily of the disease.

Burkina Faso. (World's Health).
May 19, 2003... Burkina Faso will purchase low-cost HIV/AIDS drugs from the Indian drug maker Cipla under a deal signed yesterday. The company is one of a handful of firms that produce generic HIV/AIDS drugs that have met World Health Organization standards.

The U.N. Population Fund. (World's Health).
May 19, 2003... The U.N. Population Fund will focus its work in war-torn Ivory Coast over the next IV2 years on preventing rape, discouraging risky sexual behavior among young people and bolstering access to information and services related to HIV/ADS and...

Aid for health staff laid off by SARS. (General).
May 19, 2003... OTTAWA -- Two million dollars will be available from Human Resources and Development Canada to help workers who deliver or help deliver health-related services, who are not eligible for Employment Insurance, but who suffered a loss of...

Anglophone program will be able to continue for the time being. (General).
May 19, 2003... MONTREAL -- The Pivot Program, which delivers services to English-speaking residents living in the largely francophone areas of the city from Rosemount to Point aux Trembles will not be closed by the Montreal Regional Health Board. However the...

Canada's unemployment rate rose in Ontario because of SARS. (General).
May 19, 2003... OTTAWA -- The SARS infection in Ontario had an impact on employment which edged down by 19,000 in April, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.2 percentage points to 7.5%, according to the Statistics Canada monthly employment survey. Job gains...

Covert study finds mental illness among kids in Australia's asylum camps. (General).
May 19, 2003... SYDNEY -- A covert study by Australian and New Zealand researchers indicates that children of asylum seekers held in Australian detention centers for more than two years have high rates of mental illness. The study was "covert" because the...

Appointments.
May 19, 2003... Rob Appleton, Executive Director, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver. Sharon Galway, Toronto (East) Regional Elder Abuse Consultant, Ministry of Citizenship, Toronto. Rita S. Karakas, Chief Executive Officer, Save the...