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Ins and Outs of RetirementReuel S. Amdur
December 6, 2016
The retirement income system "is complex, with lots of moving parts that intersect with each other and with the tax system."
The Challenge of Men's Mental HealthReuel S. Amdur
December 6, 2016
Boys don't cry. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. These are among many of the aphorisms that are indicative of an ethos of masculinity that bodes ill for male mental health.
Welfare in OntarioReuel S. Amdur
December 6, 2016
Ontario has a two-tiered social assistance system. When I came to Canada and Ontario in 1969 they were called Family Benefits and General Assistance. Mike Harris changed them to Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works (OW).
Dealing with HoardingReuel S. Amdur
December 6, 2016
Hoarding is a problem faced by many helpers, formal and informal.
Ins and Outs of RetirementReuel S. Amdur
February 21, 2017
The retirement income system "is complex, with lots of moving parts that intersect with each other and with the tax system." These words, of Bob Baldwin, former Director, Social Economic Policy for the Canadian Labour Congress and member and chairman of the Canada Pension Plan Advisory Board, were echoed in presentations at an Ottawa Council on Aging luncheon session on November 23. He and Richard Shillington, an author, statistician, and researcher who has produced reports for the C.D. Howe and Broadbent institutes, attempted to unpack some of the complexities.
Ombudsman in need of an OmbudsmanReuel S. Amdur
February 21, 2017
Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé issued a hard-hitting report on his organization's investigation of short-comings of the Ministry of Community and Social Services in its handling of the situations of the mentally deficient. He found "a baffling lack of flexibility from officials at the top." Well, the ancient Romans had a word for it. "De te fabula narrantur." That's your story. Let me explain.
Getting inside the BrainReuel S. Amdur
February 21, 2017
It is at least in part a question of philosophy and physiology, as well as psychology and medicine. Where is the location of thought, and then of disturbed thought and mood? For Zul Merali, President and CEO of the Royal Institute of Mental Health Research, the answer is the brain.
Mental Health Care from Past to PresentReuel S. Amdur
February 21, 2017
At a session for the general public held on November 1, the Royal Ottawa Hospital's Psychiatrist in Chief Raj Bhatla gave a brief history of psychiatry, ending with a list of new treatments and trends.
A Smattering of CriminologyReuel S. Amdur
March 31, 2017
Lisa Monchalin's book The Colonial Problem (University of Toronto Press, 2016) attempts too much and too little. Her subtitle: "An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada." It is intended as a criminology textbook. Let's begin with the "too much."
Ontario’s NDP Government: A Sad HistoryReuel S. Amdur
March 31, 2017
The current official abandonment by political parties of concern for the poor, in their focus on "the middle class," calls to mind the Ontario NDP's disregard for the poor going back to the days when they were in power, from 1990 to 1995. At the time, I was working first at Seaton House, a men's shelter and residence operated by Toronto's welfare department, and then as a supervisor in Ottawa's welfare department.

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