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She yelled at Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard for referring to Gilbert Park in 2007 as a "Gary ghetto" with "decrepit housing which is poorly looked after" and a "crime incubator." His comments made [Golondrina] see red.
Respect where you live," Golondrina tells her kids and others. "People think you're horrible if you're trashing your own home.
"Once people are cut from the community at large, you can't replace that with social programs and recreation facilities," said University of Manitoba social work professor Sid Frankel. "That won't normalize the situation, fundamentally," he said. Huge low-income housing projects were cheaper to build but have ended up costing more in the social problems they create, he said.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO A citizens' group angry over the way city council handled the suspension of former police Chief Ken Elliott wants to kick the mayor and city council out of office. Plenty of laughter echoed across the downtown Brandon green space, as citizens of both aboriginal and non-aboriginal descent mingled, examined displays and prepared to watch the powwow, which was scheduled to take place from 2-4 p.m. Boissevain and Shilo are among the recipients of provincial government grants allocated to improve recreational, social and cultural facilities.
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..., hospitals and long-term care facilities should be prioritized. Price adders for community..., hospitals, longterm care facilities and social housing providers must own the land on which the p...
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Whether you choose a $1,350 (per month) studio suite or $3,295 two-bedroom suite, all residents have access to the same services," she says. "Cathedrale Manor is an all-inclusive seniors rental community that includes three meals, weekly housekeeping, snacks and beverages, complimentary laundry facilities, scheduled local transportation and social, recreational and wellness activities in the monthly rental fee.
"One-bedroom units average about 500 sq. ft., with the studios being somewhat smaller yet functional," [Chantal Wiebe] explains. "The two-bedroom suites go from 700 sq. ft. to 900 sq. ft., so depending on your needs and budget, we have something that will work for you -- in fact, many couples do well with a one-bedroom suite. Our designers blended the old with the new so nicely...
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... to sleeping quarters and sanitary facilities. (repos). “sanitary facility” means a room tha... protection, medical care, welfare and social security protection.” These are provisions perta...
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Students' retention and their academic performance are influenced by the service quality provided by higher education institutions (Sander, Stevenson, King and Coates, 2000). As such, it is vital to identify the determinants of the overall students' perceived service quality. The aim of this research is to evaluate and validate the determinants of the overall students' perceived service quality in a private higher education institution in Malaysia, based on the combination of both the 'inside-out' and 'outside-in' approaches as well as the resource input model of education quality. A total of 458 undergraduate business students from a private university in Malaysia participated in this research. The findings revealed that contact personnel, access to facilities, cost of courses offered,...
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... centre - Whether treatment centre and its social workers owe duty of care to family members of chil... transferred to several psychiatric facilities, she was sent to a treatment centre where B was he...
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...Projects involving the siting of facilities, services or activities are hence subject to criti... has a bearing on the work conducted by social science researchers interested in understanding th...
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Poverty is a universal phenomenon that cut across both developed and underdeveloped countries. In Nigeria poverty is deep, widespread and multidimensional, and Nigerians are all victims of this condition in one way or the other even though the degree differs. However, available statistics reveals that poverty is more pronounced among the rural dwellers that form 70% of the country's population. Efforts by successive government to eradicate poverty especially in the rural areas since independence have not yielded any desirable result in spite of huge amount of resources committed to it. This article focuses on the causes of rural poverty as well as strategies adopted to eradicate it by successive regimes in Nigeria. It also analysis some of the main weaknesses of the past attempt aimed a...
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Although social interest in elder maltreatment is increasing in Korea, the actual prevalence of elder abuse is hard to determine, and it is not even clear how "elder abuse" is generally defined. In particular, little is known about how aging adults are treated at home or in facilities or to what extent and under what circumstances their treatment might be considered abusive. In this study, a convenience sample of 102 Korean undergraduate students completed an open-ended qualitative survey asking them to provide examples, in their own words, of extreme, moderate, and mild abuse in family relationships. When giving examples of extreme elder abuse, these students emphasized neglect and physical maltreatment, followed by imprisonment and verbal abuse. When giving examples of moderate and mi...