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Laurie Monsebraaten @lmonseb

Retired social Justice Reporter for the Toronto Star.

Joined March 2009
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MarthaFriendly@_MFriendly
22 Jan 2025
New blog by #cdnchildcare economist Gordon Cleveland aims at "clearing the fog" by analyzing and understanding child care data. (Too much misinformation is floating around...) bit.ly/4h6XoM0

A Fact-Based Response to Cardus’ Odd Assertions

Since its beginning, Canada’s plan to build a system of child early learning and child care – the “$10 a day plan” –  has been panned by a handful of players. These include spokespeople for so…

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Susan Prentice PhD🇨🇦@susanprentice
10 Jun 2024
Like in the US, Canada's childcare crisis is structural - a kind of 'market failure' that would best be solved by public provision of services, creating a true public service option. Smart analysis by @SuzMKahn. rooseveltinstitute.org/2024/…

A Tale of Two Market Failures: Why Childcare and Green Technology Require Different Public Approa...

Progressive, post-neoliberal governance will require the public sector to step in where neoliberals insisted markets would take care of it. To do that well, policymakers must understand which tools...

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Emma McIntosh@EmmaMci
9 Feb 2023
Editors, hire these people! @CharliePinkerto: born political reporter, wildly good at this @jackhauen: FOI king!! @AidanChamandy: incredibly diligent, no stone ever left unturned @snehduggal: asks the best qs I’ve ever heard @jessiecatherine: a true champion of good journalism
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Emma McIntosh@EmmaMci
9 Feb 2023
The team at QP Briefing consistently kicked ass, delivered scoops and kept an eye on provincial politics like none other. We’re worse off without these journalists, but I hope QPB’s loss is some other smart editor’s gain 🤍
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Colin D'Mello | Global News
@ColinDMello
9 Feb 2023
“Normally, you don’t turn down the chance to go to the premier’s house,” one source said. “[But] it felt dirty.” Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/9457569/o… #onpoli

Integrity commissioner clears Doug Ford after developers attend daughter’s stag and doe | Globaln...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford told the integrity commissioner that guests identified as developers at his daughter's stag and doe party in the summer were 'personal friends.'

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Thousands have opposed the Greenbelt development. But it’s the infrastructure issues that could...

“Numerous submissions … requested a full withdrawal of the proposal,” the province said in a summary of the 29,200 submissions it received in the environmental registry posting online.

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Toronto parents less likely to see reduced daycare fees than almost anywhere else in Ontario

For-profit daycares opted out of $10/day child care program at much higher rate than non-profits, a Star analysis found.

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John Lorinc@JohnLorinc
3 Aug 2022
#topoli #onpoli The whole argument is here, on @Spacing: spacing.ca/toronto/2022/08/0…

LORINC: The future of Ontario Place must become an election issue - Spacing Toronto

The only thing worse than the design proposed for Ontario Place’s indoor spa mega-project is the fact that a firm with such a storied history in Toronto urbanism would be willing to put its name to...

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thestar.com/news/canada/2022… Time for action ⁦@SeanFraserMP⁩

Canada said her case was urgent. Four months later, this Afghan women’s activist waits with no visa

Farzana Adell Ghadiya’s file has been marked “urgent” by immigration officials since April, but she’s stuck in a third country in a precarious situation.

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Toronto Star
@TorontoStar
5 Jul 2022
As families in Ontario wait for child care fee relief, some for-profit child care owners seem more interested in continuing the status quo of sky-high parent fees and rock bottom wages for early childhood educators. #Opinion by @CarolynFerns torstar.co/rXVj50JP0MA

Ontario’s for-profit child-care owners demonstrate why they can’t be trusted to build Canada’s...

The federal child care plan is a game changer for families but this means it must also bring change to the way the child care sector operates.

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Karissa Donkin@kdonk
8 Jun 2022
Today, we learned that a teenage boy in New Brunswick with a traumatic brain injury was held in lockup at a youth facility, a place he never should have been. After being released from a 30-day psychiatric hold, he took his own life.
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MarthaFriendly@_MFriendly
7 Feb 2022
"Ottawa would be foolish to sign a deal allowing ON to use federal dollars to increase for-profit childcare" - @torontostar. Will hamstring fedgov's meeting its own goals #cdnchildcare @childcareON @Child_Care_Now @CCCF_FCSGE
Laurie Monsebraaten@lmonseb
7 Feb 2022
Child care deal should put priority on not-for-profit services - thestar.com ⁦⁦⁦@Sflecce⁩ ⁦@karinagould⁩ thestar.com/opinion/editoria…
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Child care deal should put priority on not-for-profit services - thestar.com ⁦⁦⁦@Sflecce⁩ ⁦@karinagould⁩ thestar.com/opinion/editoria…
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Child care deal should put priority on not-for-profit services - thestar.com thestar.com/opinion/editoria…
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Toronto Star
@TorontoStar
17 Nov 2021
#Opinion: As Alberta signs onto the federal child care plan, everyone is asking: Where is Ontario’s?torstar.co/khLZ50GQl5f

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RT @JenniferRobson8: The Premier of Ontario seems to be misinformed about eligibility for Ontario Works (what he called “the dole”) and imm…
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Toronto Star
@TorontoStar
8 Oct 2021
#Opinion: If Ford is being honest about his change of heart, it’s time to show it on child care, writes Carolyn Ferns. torstar.co/M3Ku50GoEuB

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Toronto Star
@TorontoStar
17 Sep 2021
#Opinion: Mr. O’Toole, on child care, you are 50 years late to the policy conversation. Canadian women are at a breaking point, and you may want to take notes, writes @MornaBallantyne torstar.co/jRUQ50Gc41e

Dear Erin O’Toole: your tax scheme is not child care

Mr. O’Toole, on child care, you are 50 years late to the policy conversation. Canadian women are at a breaking point, and you may want to take notes.

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Andrew Bevan
@adwbto
8 Sep 2021
The release of the conservative fiscal plan confirms total cut of $10/day child care: it's anti-women, anti-family and anti-kids and would undermine a strong and fair social and economic recovery. Not a surprise but an awful choice. Elections have consequences #cdnpoli #childcare
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Bruce Cheadle@BCheadle
24 Aug 2021
Good to see a reporter unpack the private health care story. There’s a lot more to it than “Twitter! Manipulated!!” ca.news.yahoo.com/truth-test…

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