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Intellectually Disabled People Being Abused In Alberta Facilities

CP | Michael Tutton, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.18.2013 | Canada Alberta
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Inadequate training and staff shortages contributed to the abuse of people with intellectual disabilities in Alberta that ranged from physical attacks...

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Manitoba Hockey Hazing Investigation Reopened

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.28.2011 | Canada
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NEEPAWA, Man. - The Manitoba Junior Hockey League reopened an investigation Friday into a hazing scandal that has engulfed the Neepawa Natives and war...

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An Education Takes Kids From Slums to Schools

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 11.20.2011 | Canada
Read More: Marc Kielburger, Education, Free the Children, Craig Kielburger, University, Post Secondary Education, Poverty, Abuse, United Nations, El Salvador, Superate, Millennium Development Goal, At Risk Youth, Gangs, Canada News
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As a teen, Jaime was sucked into a world of gangs, drugs and violence that threatened to lure him away from school, which in El Salvador is only offered in half days. Jaime tells us he'd have wound up selling drugs, or possibly even dead, if an after-school program called Superate hadn't saved him.

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No To Aboriginal Women Plan: Ambrose

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.04.2011 | Canada
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OTTAWA -- Women's status ministers declared solidarity with the hundreds of protesters who took to Parliament Hill on Tuesday to raise awareness about...

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