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Plastic covers new chairs in the pristine waiting area of the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital’s newly constructed, ‘state-of-the-art’ emergency room (ER), which officially opens for residents in this rural eastern Ontario community in January. The next challenge will be keeping the doors open. And that hinges on the availability …
Read More »Intimate partner violence put this woman in foster care as a child. Advocates today want more youth supports
Warning: This story details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who’ve experienced or been impacted by it. Lydia was just five years old, yet vividly remembers the knock on the door of her family’s southwestern Ontario home that would change the trajectory of her life. Two police officers and a …
Read More »Supports for those experiencing homelessness in Lethbridge expanding – Lethbridge
By Jordan Prentice Global News Posted July 25, 2024 8:37 am Updated July 25, 2024 8:38 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Lethbridge Shelter and Resource Centre is set to expand from 120 to 230 spaces. While the project and its funding were …
Read More »More than 70,000 kids in Ontario seeking publicly funded autism supports
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario’s fiscal watchdog says there are more than 70,000 children seeking support through the Ontario Autism Program, but fewer than 15,000 are getting funding for core therapy. Not all children registered in the program are waiting for core therapy, which funds applied behaviour analysis, …
Read More »‘Mommy will help me’: Navigating the web of supports for kids with autism in Ontario
Alexis Wilson suddenly awoke one night three years ago to her four-year-old son Emmett in her room, screaming, scratching his face and hitting his head against the wall. He did not speak much aside from one sentence, the last words he would say before plunging into a deep — and …
Read More »‘No supports’ for First Nations adults with disabilities on reserve, advocates say – Winnipeg
Kaylie Bercier has dreams and goals, but her family says there are many hurdles in the way of achieving them because the services needed to support her through her disabilities just aren’t there. “If you live off-reserve, the services are there, but if you live on-reserve, they’re not,” Kaylie’s mom, …
Read More »Rally at Manitoba legislature supports youth transgender rights – Winnipeg
James Webster was the first person to come out in his high school. If it wasn’t for his guidance counsellor, he would have had no one to confide in. “I marched into his office and said, ‘I’m gay, what do I do?” he told a crowd of more than a …
Read More »Ontarians on social supports ‘worse off’ than before pandemic, study suggests
Some Ontario researchers say residents in the province who were already among the poorest and most vulnerable prior to COVID-19 are now worse off than they were before. A new report McMaster University’s political science and labour studies department is highlighting how things are “Not Back to Normal” after the …
Read More »Premier Doug Ford supports housing minister after scathing Greenbelt report
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 31, 2023 10:23 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has doubled down on his Greenbelt plan and is standing by his embattled housing minister. Ford says Housing Minister Steve Clark has a tough job …
Read More »Calgary teen takes over western wear business that supports kids with Down syndrome
It’s the start of an exciting new chapter for an effort to help young Calgarians living with a disability. Eighteen-year-old Wyatt Smuszko is handing over the reins of his secondhand western wear company Wild Wild Wyatt. Sam Webber, 15, is taking over the business, renaming it Stampede Sam – Country …
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