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SECTION THE HERALD December IBM graduates help parents to make child care choice EDITORS NOTE Parent mot I faro when determining the proper child can for their children The following It n article written by Angela Nal Ridge and Rock Singh All three are mood year of the Early Childhood Education program of Sheridan Col lege Brampton The arti cle li to lnlarma parent of the ECE bring lo the child care and the retonrcei they can provide Todays society Is changing This is because the world is advancing In to technology and therefore people must change to suit those advances Families are decreasing in size and both parents are becoming more careeroriented That leaves us with an important Issue Who Is looking after the children There are many choices that rents have to make If they are enough Grandma and Grand pa may be willing to look after the children every day Some people may have good friend who does not work so the children can stay with a babysitter There are also a large number and variety of daycare cen tres nursery schools and parent co op centres Parents are choosing the more acceptable method of child care services for the daily care their children Daycare centres are becoming more widely accepted by society Therefore the role of the Early Childhood Educator gets more Intensified all the time The responsibility of meeting the licens ins standards required by the Ministry of Community and Social Services for daycare centres is highly demanding The first and forancei require ment to be found in child care tres is welltrained qualified teachers An Early Childhood Educator In Ontario La required to have a two year diploma or equivalent from A community col lege Within this twoyear time frame on Early Childhood Educator learns about child development planning curriculum or preschoolers exceptional children and their needs nutrition and human relation to name Just a few facets As you can see there Is a broad range of subjects studied to create a wellinformed professional An Early Childhood Educator a objective is to establish positive ex peHencea and interpersonal rela tionshlps with the children This can be achieved by implementing the following 1 Developing a healthy body through a sale and supervised en Providing positive reinforce ment and encouraging a sense of Designing curriculum areas thai will encourage social Intellectual physical and cognitive development Encouraging language develop- Providing a social preparation for kindergarten and school Assessing behavioral problems and exceptionalities To parents an Early Childhood Educator provides care and nurtur for their child They can be sup portive In offering advice lo parents and educating them In areas of child development Early Childhood Educators can work with parents to help children reach their fullest potential through sharing tions and discussing the childs pro gression in the program Support Is also given to parents who arc in stressful situations such those who are the 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they are able to do so From obligating employers to re- Instate injured workers in he jobs Ihey performed prior to their Injury lo finding new ways of enhancing their ploy unities the Ontario government Is adding both fairness and efficiency Into the Workers Compensation system Referring to the reforms Minister of Labour Gregory Sorboru said The culmination of dose to decade of exhaustive study and debate it Ihe reforms i creates greater fairness more effective pro tection of the rights of injured workers and broader opportunity for people to return lo work that are capable of doing Greater Bene I to Worker ItesullofThelrlnjury Legislative reforms to the Workers represent major Increase in benefits lo Injured workers The reforms create a dual award system for workers with partial permanent disabilities This new approach will workera for loss of earnings suffered Injury at work it will also recognize for rime the impact of ihe Impairment lo the injured worker on his life away from the workplace Furthermore the reform will raise ihe wage coverage ceiling from the current 131000 to an estimated The result will be that more than per cent of all On workers will have their wages fully covered by workers Legislative reforms will require employers lo maintain pension health and life Insurance benefits for up to one year from the dale of the The benefits of approximately 110000 injured workers who now receive permanent partial dlsablli ty pensions will be fully maintained The pensions of about of these injured workers ate particularly in adequate In terms of their lost wages These workers will receive an additional pension of up lo a month AH of new benefits will to be tax free and will ireasc with the cost of living Employment Obligation Placed on Employers Reforms to Ihe workers system require an employer to an Injured worker In his previous Job or a similar one at the same waRes in cases where the in jured worker is able to WALT ELLIOT those functions Where Ihe worker is unable to perform Ihe same Job the obligation Is to offer Ihe worker the first suitable job that comes open Once reemployed the worker is subject to the same terms of employ Job prelection and benefits as any other worker hi addition the legislation pro vides the workers Compensation Board with the power to penaliie employers who have lived up their reemployment obligations Excluded from these re employment obligations are small businesses with fewer than employees and industries such construction where work pa I terns make the obligations impractical Injured Worsen to Gala More Control Over Their Live With Ihe reforms Introduced by Ihe government the maximum term for a temporary award will be month At that time the Board will have to make an Interim award which will run for two years The Board Will not alter this award dur ing lis term even If the worker is able to return to his previous work full time This new approach lessens the potential Interference and uncer talnty in an injured workers life Furthermore the reforms provide injured workers with the right to participate In the design of their vocational rehabilitation This will give workers more control over their own affairs In order to answer questions con the proposed reforms to Ihe workers compensation system The Ministry of Labour has set up Repression of peoples not far from home Local members garner high honors Six members from Million entered their dairj calves id the Scotiabank Contact Hays Classic show at the Royal Winter Fair and came away with top honors They were named Premier Club and brought home the Bill Trophy as top dub for Ihe third time in four years This years show attracted KM members from counties and seven provinces It is the larsest 4H event of Its kind in Canada Con are evaluated on Dairy Showmanship Calf and It is jointly sponsored by Dairy Contact Magazine and Hays Farms Interna of Oakville The members Jini Mar ln Ella Jennifer Kelly Stewart and James Woods won numerous honors on their way lop club distinction They were along the by I Bertram Stewart In the Showmanship Competition Hal ton was the only club in which six out of six were called back the finals or each of their divisions Jim was lop Senior Showman and over all Grand Champion Showman Marvin Ella placed first in In termed I ate Showmanship and was Honorable Mention In the Grand Champion Class Kelly Stewart was fourlh and Jennifer was sixth in Intermediate Showmanship results in the calf con formation classes was equally Marvin Ella showed the Champion and Jennifer Ihe Reserve Champion in the Jersey class Kelly Stewart hod Ihe Cham pion Summer Yearling Holstein calf and Lunas calf was ninth in the same class The team also placed fourth with Ihclr group of three calve The is a program for young people aged 12 to years and is ad ministered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food It youlh a chance to grow by gaining self working with others taking on responsibility and developing leadership skills Members projects that range from cooking to computers to livestock By CHERYL L1GHTOWLERS Member of HAND Meyer Browratone Chairman of Canada recently to the Globe and Mail expressing con that Canadian arms and military equipment are increasingly involved In ihe repression of peoples He was referring to the impact of target practice low- level military flight training and a planned million NATO fighter weapons training centre The Indigenous peoples hunt and fish the land near a military base But now dally the adults and the children and ihe animals lhai are hunted are frightened by the screaming jets that fly too feet above their heads The culture health and environ ment on the people are at risk for they are being denied control over their land and therefore their livelihood Since i960 the people have been protesting against what they see as Illegal use of theirland The International Federation of Human Rights has concluded that 11 ly recognized natural legal rights of the lpeople arc being violated This in land thai has never been ceded by treaty to the government that Is using It for target practice Recently the people have taken drastic steps to halt the bombing practice Last September six people with their priest occupied a bombing range The Dutch and West Germans suspended their practice PEACE BEAT By October many local residents moved into a protest tent camp on a runway The Catholic Bishop visited and called on the national govern lo recognize the rights of the people Rather than negotiate with the protesters the government Jailed Ihem Five people plus their priest are still in Jail waiting until the government ministers agree to meet them In what country arc Ihese legitimate claims of Indigenous peo ple being Ignored Is It some remote isolated land where the population docs not hear of such In demanding that the Canadian government give them back thdr land and that the militarization of their homeland be halted They are now requesting our help Groups like 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