Release date ; November 20, 2021 A Province Children Deserve National Children’s Day, on November 20, is a day celebrated in Canada and around the world to mark the adoption in 1989 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Former Ontario Child Advocate (2008-2019) and current NDP Candidate Read more…
I know if you are reading this you have your own reasons “why you run”. You have your own reasons why you vote, why you read this email, why you might attend a meeting, why you donate to causes and if you haven’t done those things and more yet, you Read more…
What the Ford government has done with its constant gaslighting and unrelenting assault on democracy and trust is unforgiveable. It is a well-known fact that Tommy Douglas said “courage my friends, it is not too late to build a better world”. What you may not know is that my late Read more…
The other day I was contacted by a young girl in care. She told me her worker had suggested she message me on Facebook. She told me a story of horrors about her former foster home, She said she witnessed what she termed beatings. She said, “we were locked in our rooms from the Read more…
“These are signs that we have a Provincial government in name only. Using a sports analogy our government “has lost the bench”. Here’s the thing. Big government is expensive. It is ineffective and inefficient. Business can do almost anything much better than government. Bureaucracy is bloated self-serving, overpaid, full of gravy from the Read more…
Why is it that the Minister for Children and Youth in this Province change more often than any other. Why do Ministers have no experience in this field, yet get to make decisions that throw parents into chaos, child care providers to close, and no trust at all. Why are the Ministers Read more…
I want to tell you I’m sorry but I know it’s going to ring hollow after everything you have been through. I know you have had to learn as a child that life is so unfair and when you told your story you lost everything as a result. I realize Read more…
“Pack up. You are leaving” I can imagine , says the man from the government to the First Nation youth. Shackled and put on a plane or seated in a van by 5pm they were gone. It sounds familiar because it is. On The Closing Of Youth Custody Facilities In Ontarios Read more…
The current Ontario government is uniquely unqualified to undertake the task of an ethical child welfare system reset. Our hope continues to rest with young people and First Voice advocates In the early 1990’s a group of youth in and from care making use of a ramshackle, grassroots centre supporting Read more…
Co- created with young people most marginalized from their rights We talked. Let’s act! I live in a semi detached on a small cul de sac in West End Toronto, my wife likes to say “downtown”, but we are not living downtown no matter how haughty that sounds. During the first wave of the pandemic everyone on our street seemed Read more…