Canadian Social Research Newsletter
January 8, 2006
Welcome to the weekly Canadian Social Research Newsletter, a listing of the new links added to the Canadian Social Research Links website in the past week.
The e-mail version of this week's issue of the newsletter is going out to 1544
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Scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to see some notes and
a disclaimer.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1.
CPRN Names Sharon Manson
Singer to Replace Retiring Judith Maxwell (Canadian Policy Research
Networks)
2. Links to
Election 2006 Resources updated (close to 200 links)
3.
What's New from Statistics Canada:
--- Labour Force Survey,
December 2005 - January 6
4. What's
New from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (University of Toronto) - January
6
International Content
5.
Poverty Dispatch Digest : U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs ---
January 5
1.
CPRN Names Sharon Manson Singer to Replace Retiring Judith Maxwell |
New
President at Canadian Policy Research Networks
Sharon Manson Singer to replace
Judith Maxwell on February 1 (PDF file - 86K,
1 page)
News Release
January 5, 2006
Arthur Kroeger, Chair of the Board
of Canadian Policy Research Networks [CPRN], is pleased to announce the appointment
of Dr. Sharon Manson Singer to the position of President, effective February 1,
2006.
- see the PDF file for biographical info
Source:
Canadian Policy Research Networks
- Go to the Social Research Organizations (I) in Canada page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/research.htm
2. Links to Election 2006 Resources |
2006
Federal Election Resources
This Canadian Social
Research Links page is growing in leaps and bounds, now approaching 200 links.
Here, you'll find everything from the mundane (parties, platforms, blah-blah...)
to the utilitarian (links to media, polls), the funny (editorial cartoons) and
the unique (interpretation of the party leaders' hand movements during the televised
debates).
Speaking of hand movements, I wonder what a cheirologist (professional
hand analyst) would say about that Giddy Paul pic that had everyone in stitches
awhile back:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/images/giddy_paul.jpg
Don't miss the second round of debates on January 9 and 10 ===> check CBC for info
- Go to the 2006 Federal Election and General Political Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/politics.htm
3. What's
New from Statistics Canada: |
What's
New from The Daily
[Statistics Canada]:
January
6, 2006
Labour
Force Survey, December 2005
In December, there was little overall
change in employment as an increase of 36,000 full-time jobs was offset by part-time
losses of 38,000. The unemployment rate edged up 0.1 percentage points to 6.5%
as more people entered the labour market in search of work.
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk2.htm
4. What's
New from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit - January 6 |
What's
New - from the Childcare Resource
and Research Unit (CRRU) - University of Toronto
Each week, the Childcare Resource and Research Unit disseminates its "e-mail news notifier", an e-mail message with a dozen or so links to new reports, studies and child care in the news (media articles) by the CRRU or another organization in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC). What you see below is selected content from the most recent issue of the notifier.
6-Jan-06
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I.
WHAT’S NEW
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>>
Minority report: A report card on the 2004-05 minority government
Report
card from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reflects on the achievements
of the minority parliament; awards grade of B (good progress) on ELCC.
>>
Still in shock 2006 - Report from the Coalition For Women's Equality
-
highlights key women’s issues and provides questions for Canadians to ask
politicians in the critical final stretch of the election campaign.
>>
Behind the spin: The party positions on child care
Fact sheet from
the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada compares the Conservative, Liberal
and NDP positions on the key issues of legislation, expansion, and auspice.
>>
Interim report on the maternity and parental benefits under employment insurance:
The exclusion of self-employed workers
Report
of the Standing Committee Report on the Status of Women recommends "a framework
for extending maternity and parental benefits to self-employed workers."
>>
The science of early childhood development: Closing the gap between
what we
know and what we do
Lecture by Jack Shonkoff argues "that healthy
child development is both a moral and a social responsibility, essential for sustainable
productivity and democracy."
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II.
CHILD CARE IN THE NEWS
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Future of children on line in election [CA]
Toronto Star, 6 Jan
06
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Tories to create 125,000 child care spaces: Harper [CA]
CBC News,
6 Jan 06
>>
Child care workers getting wage hikes [CA-SK]
CBC News, 5 Jan 06
>>
Canadians terrified of Harper's real plans [CA]
Winnipeg Free Press,
4 Jan 06
>>
Every now and then, we win a battle or two [CA]
Rabble.ca, 3 Jan
06
>>
Province's multi-year day care plan hinges on federal election outcome [CA-NS]
Cape
Breton Post, 3 Jan 06
>>
Martin invokes Harris legacy to blast Tories' plan for Canada [CA]
Globe
and Mail, 3 Jan 06
>>
There is a deadly cost to cutting social programs [CA-ON]
Toronto
Star, 2 Jan 06
>>
Parents go gaga over revamped leave program [CA-QC]
Montreal Gazette,
2 Jan 06
>>
Day care a big issue: Local operators choosing sides based on parties’ approach
[CA-AB]
Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune, 28 Dec 05
>>
At the end of the daycare queue [CA]
Toronto Star, 27 Dec 05
>>
Value of day care lost under popcorn [CA]
Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
23 Dec 05
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III.
FEDERAL ELECTION
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>>
Issue File: Early learning and child care in the 2006 federal election
This
Issue File collects materials about ELCC within the 2006 federal election. It
provides: information about how ELCC is positioned in the political parties' platforms;
what key social policy groups are calling for in the election; news clippings;
and other resources about ELCC in the federal campaign. Check
back regularly for updates. Remember to refresh your computer to get the latest
version of the Issue File.
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IV.
TORONTO EVENT
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ALL CANDIDATES DEBATE ON CHILDREN’S ISSUES
**
Where: Council Chambers - second floor Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto
**
When: 12 Jan 06 (7:00 to 9:00 p.m.)
This event is brought
to you by: The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care; The Toronto Coalition
for Better Child Care; the AECEO - Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario,
and Campaign 2000.
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This message
was forwarded through the Childcare Resource
and Research Unit e-mail news
notifier. For information on the
CRRU e-mail notifier, including instructions
for (un)subscribing,
see http://www.childcarecanada.org
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Related Links:
What's
New? - Canadian, U.S. and international resources from Jan 2000 to the
present.
Child
Care in the News - media articles from January 2000 to the present
ISSUE
files - theme pages, each filled with contextual information and links
to further info
Links
to child care sites in Canada and elsewhere
CRRU
Publications - briefing notes, factsheets, occasional papers and other
publications
Also from CRRU:
Towards
a national system of early learning and child care
Regularly updated
NOTE:
this is a large (and growing) collection that includes government and non-governmental
reports, press releases, news articles and other documents dealing with the
new federal-provincial-territorial arrangements for early learning and child care
in Canada.
Current
developments in Early Childhood Education and Care: Provinces and territories
Regularly
updated
- Go to the Non-Governmental Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd2.htm
| 5. Poverty Dispatch Digest
: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs --- January 5 |
POVERTY
DISPATCH Digest
Institute for Research on Poverty - U. of Wisconsin
This
digest offers dozens of new links each week to full-text articles in the U.S.
media (mostly daily newspapers) on poverty, poverty, welfare reform, child welfare,
education, health, hunger, Medicare and Medicaid, and much more...
The Institute
for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a
free e-mail service that consists of an e-mail message sent to subscribers each
Monday and Thursday, containing a dozen or so links to articles dealing with the
areas mentioned above. The weekly Canadian Social Research Links Poverty Dispatch
Digest is a compilation, available online, of the two dispatch e-mails for that
week --- with the kind permission of IRP.
Here's
the complete collection of U.S. media articles in this week's Poverty Dispatch
Digest:
(click the link above to read all of these articles)
January
5, 2006
Today's subjects include: Supportive
Housing for Homeless // Child Poverty - Opinion // Academic Achievement // Low-Income
Heating Assistance - Editorial // Welfare Reform - Michigan // Child Poverty -
Washington // Medicaid - Oklahoma // Student Achievement Gap - New Jersey, Connecticut
// Charter Schools - New Orleans // Minimum Wage - San Francisco // Homelessness
- Los Angeles
January
3, 2006
Today's subjects include: Poverty
Levels // State Initiatives on Minimum Wage // Welfare Extension - Michigan //
Child Poverty - Washington, Oklahoma // Homeless Children - Missoula, MT // Ruling
in School Funding Lawsuit - South Carolina // Health Care for Pregnant Immigrants
- Wisconsin // Medicaid Changes - Ohio // Cuts in Medical Assistance - Missouri
// Effect of Health Care Cuts - California // Medicaid Reform - South Carolina
and Florida // Food Stamps - Massachusetts // Minimum Wage - New York
Each
of the weekly digests offers dozens of links or more to media articles that are
time-sensitive.
The older the link, the more likely it is to either be dead
or have moved to an archive - and some archives [but not all] are pay-as-you-go.
[For
the current week's digest, click on the POVERTY DISPATCH Digest link above]
The Poverty Dispatch weekly digest is a good tool for monitoring what's happening in the U.S.; it's a guide to best practices and lessons learned in America.
Subscribe
to the Poverty Dispatch!
Send an e-mail message to John Wolf [ jwolf@ssc.wisc.edu
] to receive a plain text message twice a week with one to two dozen links to
media articles with a focus on poverty, welfare reform, child welfare, health,
Medicaid from across the U.S.
And it's free...
Source:
Institute for Research
on Poverty (IRP)
[ University of Wisconsin-Madison
]
For the current week's digest, click on the
POVERTY DISPATCH Digest link at the top of this section.
Recently-archived
POVERTY DISPATCH weekly digests:
POVERTY
DISPATCH description/archive - weekly issues back to January 2005, 50+
links per issue
NOTE: this archive is part of the Canadian Social Research
Links American Non-Governmental
Social Research page.
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9. A
Tsunami Orphan's Plea for Help
Sadly, the story of Sophia Michl, a 10-year-old
girl orphaned in Phuket, Thailand by the December 26, 2004 tsunami, turned out
not to be a hoax. After her photo was posted on the Phuket Hospital Web site it
found its way to inboxes all over the world, eventually catching the attention
of an acquaintance. Though she was quickly reunited with surviving family members
in Europe, Sophia's picture continues to circulate via email to this day.
8. Penny Brown Is
Missing ... Still!
"Missing" since 2001, 9-year-old Penny Brown may well
be the most famous little girl who never existed. Four years later, the fictional
plea on her behalf still exhorts readers to send news of her whereabouts to an
equally fictional email address, zicozicozico@hotmail.com. Will this chain
letter ever die? Regrettablly, it seems there'a about as much chance of that as
there is of Penny Brown being found.
7. New
Orleans Croc(k)
Authorities predicted alligator sightings in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina, but photographs of an (allegedly) 21-foot-long monster crocodile
(allegedly) captured in the flooded streets of New Orleans exceeded everyone's
wildest expectations. Oddly enough, it also looked exactly like the monster crocodile
captured and photographed in the Republic of the Congo one year before. Coincidence?
6. Pulled
Over by a Fake Cop? Dial *677 for the Real Thing!
Nothing beats a horror
story for staying power, and this one, despite the odd revision or two, is still
frightening people into clicking their Forward buttons three years after it was
first written up as an email. Not that the tale of "Lauren," a college student
who cleverly used her mobile phone to escape the clutches of a rapist impersonating
a police officer, is necessarily false — it could well be true, or at least
partially true. But you can't expect a special emergency number set aside for
citizens of Ontario, Canada to work if you live in, say, Virginia, can you?
5. Ciara's
Sex-Change Operation
Among the most popular search queries here all year
long was the question "Is Ciara a man?" — which may seem nonsensical if
you've ever seen the voluptuous "crunk" singer perform onstage, but it's a quandary
that nevertheless gripped a great many fans in 2005, apparently. The answer —
from the diva's own mouth — is no, by the way. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis
was unavailable for comment.
4. Telemarketers
Want Your Cell Phone Number
Let there be no doubt, the only thing Americans
hate more than unsolicited calls from telemarketers is the prospect of receiving
them via cell phone. Sparked by announced plans to compile a universal 411 directory
of private numbers, this email alert urging recipients to add their mobile phone
information to the National Do Not Call Registry hasn't lost an ounce of steam
since it went into circulation in late 2004.
3. Photos
of Hurricane Katrina's Approach
This set of ominously beautiful images
of massive storm formations was circulated under the pretense of documenting Hurricane
Katrina's deadly landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi in September, but when
we tracked down the photographer he told us the photos had actually been taken
the previous year in locales far removed from Katrina's path.
2. Bill
Gates Will Pay You for Forwarding This!!!
Eight years old and annoying
as ever, the Microsoft "email tracking" hoax, in all its many variants, must be
the most forwarded prank message of all time. The secret of its success? None
of the folks forwarding it know it's a prank. It is gullibility to this degree
that gives proof to the old Internet saying, "There's a sucker born every nanosecond."
1. The
Deadly Wave
At this point it should come as no surprise that one of the
most widely shared photographs of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of December
26, 2004 also turned out to be the phoniest. Which is too bad, because despite
the collage-like quality of the image and its implausibility, it was also breathtaking
in a larger-than-life, "The Day After Tomorrow" kind of way.
