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Newsstand: July 20, 2009

By Karen Aagaard (Guest Contributor)

Teen shot dead at party (Toronto Star): “After gunshots rang out in front of Gary Silliphant’s house early yesterday, he was shocked to find a young man fighting for his life on his neighbour’s driveway.”
Fallen Soldier Arrives Home (CityNews): “The 125th Canadian soldier to die as part of the Afghan mission is back in Canada. The remains of Pte. Sébastien Courcy arrived back in Canada on the same day officials disclosed that the 26-year-old soldier stepped on an explosive before tumbling off a clifftop to his death.”
Suspicious remains found near Mount Forest (CP24): “Suspicious remains have been found in a rural area near Mount Forest, Ont. west of Orangeville on Sunday afternoon.” [More coverage in the Sun.]
Couples meet up after adoption agency declares bankruptcy (CBC): “Groups of prospective parents trying to adopt overseas children through an Ontario adoption agency that declared bankruptcy last week met Sunday to figure out what to do.”
Smitherman vows to keep on sweeping (Toronto Sun): “George’s curious cleanup continues. Ontario Deputy Premier George Smitherman turned up at St. Clair Ave. E. and O’Connor Dr. yesterday morning with a broom in hand.”
Couple vows to see strike through, even at expense of dream wedding (Globe and Mail): “Sandra Sproviero was supposed to be planning her wedding right now. Instead, she’s trolling grocery store aisles for discounts, maxing out credit cards and using her painstakingly saved-up wedding funds to pay the mortgage.”
Tough ride for food carts (Toronto Star): “On weekdays, Bridgette Pinder gets up at 6 a.m. She makes salads, ensures she has enough water and gas for the day, and cleans her nearly 1,000-pound food cart.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Toronto a la Cart's First Thirty Days, Smart Carts.]

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  • http://www.twitter.com/vicdezen Vic De Zen

    Regarding the adoption agency, a family friend lost their life savings trying to adopt through them. At this point things are quite uncertain but they are still anxious to adopt. I hope things are sorted out…I just don’t understand how they ended up this way.

  • http://undefined torontothegreat

    re: couple’s wedding thwarted.
    It seems the media is trying it’s best to get one story of how this strike is effecting people. If someone’s wedding plans being put on hold qualify as the above, they should probably run with another story.
    OH NO, they won’t be able to have their DREAM WEDDING :P

  • http://undefined Vincent Clement

    I’m an adoptive parent, but I have little sympathy for people who go through private agencies to adopt internationally. It costs nothing to adopt through your local CAS.
    We encourage people to buy locally, yet we don’t encourage them to adopt locally.

  • http://www.bitpicture.com Marc Lostracco

    As both a CAS adoptive parent and CAS adoptee, I also don’t really understand why the vast majority of adoptions these days are done internationally, especially considering that it’s the most expensive method with the most red tape and the least amount of access to a child’s biological history. I know many people who have done it, but man, it’s a whole process.
    There are tens of thousands of Canadian kids in the foster system right now waiting for homes, yet the CAS method is usually the least popular for reasons that may seem obvious to those outside of the system, but not entirely logical by most of us who have taken the CAS route.
    But adoption is still an amazing thing, no matter how you do it…but it’s an incredible emotional rollercoaster.
    (Related article from Pride week: “Family, Valued“)

  • http://undefined dowlingm

    Big Italian wedding… hmmm… how much of those wedding $s would have been spent in 416 by those two City of Toronto workers? More likely the wedding factories of Highway 7…

  • http://undefined dowlingm

    Vincent – I’m sure you mean well and aren’t speaking for CAS, but the story in today’s Star (and not for the first time) of CAS demanding permanent loss of custody from parents who the Ontario govt won’t help with their children’s disability has me too furious to endorse anyone seeking adoptions from them until this practice is stopped for good.
    http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/668750

  • http://undefined Vincent Clement

    Perhaps you should direct your anger at the Province and not the CAS. In fact, it appears that the CAS forced the government to get involved in 2005 but then the government fell back to its old ways.
    I don’t blame CAS for demanding that parents surrender their parental rights. When it comes medical treatment, it can be very messy if two parties (CAS and parents) are involved in the decision making. Trust me when I say that the CAS wants to avoid the surrender of parental rights whenever possible. They really don’t need any more children in their care.

  • http://www.bitpicture.com Marc Lostracco

    It should also be noted that for the CAS, apprehension and adoption are the absolute last resort, and there are multiple steps in between that are intended to maintain the family of origin, from eduction to support to rehabilitation to kin. The CAS is concerned with only one thing and one thing only: the welfare of the child, and sometimes, that unfortunately has to mean removing the child—temporarily or permanently—from an unsafe guardianship.
    I have an article about this coming up soon, but in the vast, vast majority of cases where the CAS gets involved, the child remains with the family.