I rarely do book reviews. Nor do I often suggest books to read. But every once in a while I come across one that is simply too good to just read, return to the library, and carry on without comment. Such a one is The Doctor Who Fooled the World
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mark a rayner: An apology to the Autistic Community (and a thanks)
Ten years ago I wrote a novel called The Fridgularity. As I often do, I prefaced it with some quotations I thought applicable to the… Continue ReadingAn apology to the Autistic Community (and a thanks) The post An apology to the Autistic Community (and a thanks) appeared first on mark
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jemima Kelly highlights the massive amounts of revenue lost to tax evasion and tax avoidance in the EU – while pointing out the importance of recognizing the larger scale of the former. And PIPSC makes the case for e-commerce titans to pay their
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Marshall Shepherd writes that the U.S. is facing a true national emergency in the form of climate breakdown. And Michelle Goldberg theorizes that the unlikely election and presidency of Donald Trump may open the door to a transformative response, including the possibility
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Cuts Are Coming To Social Services in Ontario
Newly Elected Premier Doug Ford said during the election campaign that caregivers and parents with children with disabilities would never have to march on Queen’s Park again if he was elected Premier. A new opt ed written by Stuart Trew from the Canadian Center of Policy Alternatives warns that one
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Refusal To Regulate Regional Autism Centres Has Opened The Door To Lawsuits
The Minister of Children and Youth Services Michael Coteau has actively refused to bring in regulation of the provinces regional autism centers despite major issues being reported to the government regarding the behaviors of these regional service providers. I’ve heard significant issues over the past few months with respect
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Austerity Looms As Parties Refuse To Come Clean on Autism Services in Ontario
(Current Platforms in Ontario’s 2018 Election Puts Province At Risk of a Credit Downgrade) Late Tuesday afternoon Moody’s downgraded the economic outlook for Ontario from stable to negative. In its press release Moody’s cited the recently tabled Liberal budget, and growing spending pressure from all parties that need to be
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Has The Ontario PC Party Opened Up a Pandora’s Box With Brown?
Since the Patrick Brown scandal broke on CTV, there are a lot of unanswered questions about the allegations surrounding Brown’s accusers of sexual misconduct, to the role both the party and the reporting by CTV News. In a two part interview with Global TV which played out over two days,
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Ombudsman to Ontario Parents and Students – We Don’t Believe You!
(Ontario Ombudsman Taking A Hands Off Approach To Systemic Issues With Ontario’s School Boards) Just as the Ministry of Education’s probe of more mishandling of public funds at the York Region District School Board becomes clearer, the Ontario Ombudsman has sent a strong message to tax payers that it will
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Education Crisis Grows As Ontario’s Ombudsman Nowhere To Be Found
(Ontario’s Ombudsman Paul Dube is Falling Short on The Provincial Education Crisis and May Not Be Following His Mandate) With media reports of students across this province being under supported almost on a weekly basis now, frustration with parents who are often approach the Ombudsman’s office on lack of compliance
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: CUPE Blasts Help For Autistic Kids And Puts Its Members First
(CUPE Says Money Should Go To Its Members Rather Than Autistic Kids) CUPE who is the union representing educational assistants (EA) in the province of Ontario released a press release this week in which it has lambasted the provincial government for piloting a project which will allow autistic kids to
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Human Rights Appears To Be An Issue In New Ontario Autism Program
Minister of Children and Youth Services Micheal Coteau has been a champion of human rights especially in the black community and around racism, but when it comes to autistic kids it may be a different story. Coteau made an announcement yesterday that was very short on detail regarding the
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: New Autism Announcement: Self Congratulatory And Very Short on Details
(Micheal Coteau Announces “Milestones” For New Autism Program With No Details and No Questions From Media) Today the Minister of Children and Youth Services Micheal Coteau made an “announcement” on what the new Ontario Autism Program (OAP) will look like. The announcement was made at one of the regional service
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Minister Coteau Finally Sighted By Parents On The Autism File
Micheal Coteau the Ontario Minister of Children and Youth Services as been somewhat like a Sasquatch to many in the autism community. There have been reported sightings, but often those reports come with fuzzy details, and then he seems to vanish into the wilderness of Queen’s Park. Almost a year
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Autism Parents Say They’ve Been Duped In Open Letter To Coteau
(Autism Parents Say MCYS is still cutting therapy from kids 5 and up) In an open letter to the Ontario Minister of Children and Youth Services, several parents of autistic kids say they’ve been duped by the province into thinking that funding was restored for intensive therapy for kids over
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Ministry Responds To My Open Letter To Minister Coteau
As many of you may remember I wrote an open letter to the Ontario Minister of Children and Youth Services Micheal Coteau regarding some concerns I had with the transition process, and with my son’s situation. I was hoping for a direct response from Minister Coteau instead I received
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Brace Yourselves, The New Ontario Autism Program is Coming
The Toronto Star recently sat down with the Ontario Minister of Children and Youth Services Michael Coteau to discuss changes being made to autism services in Ontario. A common theme is starting to emerge over the past few months since the announcement of the new Ontario Autism Program. The
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Open Letter to Minister Michael Coteau MYCS – Ontario
Minister Coteau, I received a letter from the central region of your ministry while I had expected an answer regarding my complaint against Kinark directly from your office. Part of this complaint was to raise policy concerns to your office directly regarding the lack accountability of AIPs while your office further and directly investigated my […]
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Why Is Premier Kathleen Wynne Misinforming Parents on The New Autism Program?
This question was asked by Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown in question period twice today, only to be asked by the speaker of the legislature to withdrawal the questions. Question I would like to pose; why is the speaker of the Ontario legislature shutting down completely legitimate questions to the government? This latest bought […]
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Are Ontario’s Service Providers Siphoning Money From Autistic Kids?
I’ve had several parents come up too me with their stories since last week’s post on my son’s situation. There seems to be a large number of fights and battles with regional service providers like Kinark across the province that manage services for kids with autism too get kids the services they need. It’s important […]
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