All posts tagged child safety

Our letter to the Ontario Ombudsman, about accountability in Ontario schools

Below you will find the text of our letter to André Marin, the Ontario Ombudsman, expressing our concerns about the way the Ontario College of Teachers has handled its mandate to police the profession, and how it treated Jim Black, a whistleblower who spoke out against the reinstatement of sexual offenders. ================================================= 27 May 2011 [...]

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Media Update for April 16, 2011

When government turns its back, kids can die: A story out of Toronto: there’s an inquest into a fire that killed a young mother and her two children. Apparently, Toronto’s Employment and Social Services Department had deemed the home to be in a location too unsafe for them to visit, so nobody noticed the risks [...]

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Media Update for February 1, 2010

News Summary and Comment Today’s lead story in my update deals with Omar Khadr, the young man who is still being held in Guantanamo Bay. Last Friday the Supreme Court ruled against ordering his repatriation, indicating that such an order was outside its authority. Still, it made clear that Khadr’s Constitutional rights had been violated [...]

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