A fifth child agency probed

A fifth Manitoba child welfare agency is under review -- this time for questionable hiring practices. It emerged this week that Peguis Child and Family Services is facing scrutiny and that revelation has Tory Leader Hugh McFadyen arguing that the province's child welfare system is in crisis.
Read more [Winnipeg Free Press]

We're getting action, finally

Rhonda Gordon Powers, the communications manager for the beleaguered Northern Child and Family Services Authority, has resigned. A fifth child agency probed In the past week, Gordon Powers has been linked to a proposed ad campaign aimed at burnishing the authority's public image and discrediting journalists who question the state of Manitoba's child welfare system.
Read more [Winnipeg Free Press]

What exactly was in the controversial legislation to establish new regional authorities for aboriginal children and families?

- The authorities would have been governed by a board of directors made up of aboriginal people and would have been required to comply with provincial child welfare legislation.
Read more [Vancouver Sun (News)]

Native leaders reunite for child-welfare law

VICTORIA - Clutching his two-month-old great grandson, Tseycum First Nation Chief Vern Jacks put into words why 100 or so first nations leaders set aside their differences this week to try to resuscitate a fatally wounded plan for aboriginal-child welfare.

Cree CFS agency under federal, provincial microscopes

Another child-welfare agency in Manitoba is under review following allegations of questionable financial practices, the provincial government revealed Thursday.
Read more [CBC - Manitoba]

17-year-old Bountiful girl caught in Texas raid

B.C. is ready to help a 17-year-old girl who's been taken into custody by U.S. child welfare authorities in Texas, B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal said Wednesday.
Read more [CBC - BC]

17-year-old Bountiful girl caught in Texas raid

B.C. is ready to help a 17-year-old girl who's been taken into custody by U.S. child welfare authorities in Texas, B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal said Wednesday.
Read more [CBC - Canada]

May 14, 1943: Curfew bylaw urged for Victoria

Re-establishment of a curfew in Victoria to clear city streets and public places of children under 16 unaccompanied by parents or guardians at specific hours each night is recommended to the City Council in a report of health and social welfare committee following its meeting Thursday afternoon.
Read more [Times Colonist News Feed]

Tenants abandon 16 pets without food and water

Sixteen pets were left in deplorable conditions in an apartment in downtown St. John's for about a week after the tenants moved out without notifying the landlords, police and animal welfare authorities say.
Read more [CBC - Newfoundland]

Spring 2008 - Bafflegab: Community Advocacy & Legal Centre Newsletter

Topics in this issue include housing and consumer information, Special Diet Allowance, Human Rights process restructuring, Legal Aid Ontario's Aboriginal justice strategy, the end of Back-to-School and Winter Clothing Allowances, social assistance rate restructuring and the Ontario Child Benefit, vulnerable workers, and Criminal Injuries Compensation Board review.
Read more [CLEONet News Feed]

The chasm within

Comment is free: David Landau: A stripped-down welfare state plus migration have opened up new divisions in Israel
Read more [The Guardian (International + UK)]

Field: PM will quit before election

Former welfare minister says Gordon Brown's personality is a 'mega problem' for the government
Read more [The Guardian (International + UK)]

Boy seized by child welfare to make sure he gets chemotherapy

Child welfare officials have taken temporary custody of an 11-year-old Ontario boy to ensure he undergoes chemotherapy after his father decided to take him off the treatment for his aggressive form of leukemia.
Read more [CBC - Top Stories]

Child welfare officials to make sure boy they seized gets chemo

Child welfare officials have taken temporary custody of an 11-year-old Ontario boy to ensure he undergoes chemotherapy after his father decided to take him off the treatment for his aggressive form of leukemia.
Read more [CBC - Canada]

SPCA destroys 6 dogs from raid

Six of the dogs seized from an animal shelter in Cape Breton three months ago have been put down, an animal-welfare group says.
Read more [CBC - Nova Scotia]

New approach to aboriginal child welfare - Sault Star

New approach to aboriginal child welfare

We don't want to paint all native Canadians with the same brush, but some statistics can't be ignored.

For example, in 1997 it was reported that natives made up three per cent of Canada's population and yet represented 12 per cent of the prison population.

http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1020168
Read more [Nation Talk - native newswire]

Boy with cancer taken from family

Child welfare authorities yesterday seized an 11-year-old cancer-stricken boy from his parents to compel the child to take chemotherapy. He has an aggressive form of leukemia and has already had some chemotherapy. But his parents say the treatment was ineffective and caused the lad great suffering. They decided to cease further treatments.
Read more [Times Colonist News Feed]

$3 MILLION MEANS UVIC CAN ASSIST MORE DISABLED

VICTORIA – A $3 million provincial grant will allow the University of Victoria’s CanAssist to expand their leading-edge technology program and help more British Columbians with disabilities, announced Claude Richmond, Minister of Employment and Income Assistance, and Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education.
Read more [BC Government News Feed]

Ottawa, Manitoba, First Nations discuss native child-welfare agencies

The federal government is ready to offer relief to financially strapped child-welfare agencies working in Manitoba's First Nations communities.
Read more [CBC - Manitoba]

Campbell's Welfare Cuts End Up Costing Billions of Dollars

By Monte Paulsen - May 1, 2008

Provincial spending on housing and health care has exploded during [British Columbia] Premier Gordon Campbell's second term, and a pair of recent reports suggest that a large part of this ongoing spending may be a direct result of the BC Liberals' 2002 cuts to welfare spending..."We are paying more,"..."But we're paying in different ways. We're paying more through health care...[T]hrough the justice system. We're paying more through all the demands on community services."

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