44 students suspended for incomplete immunization records
The Canadian Press, April 9, 2024
As many as 44 elementary students have been suspended from school due to ongoing incomplete immunization records with the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU), as mandated by the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) R.S.O.1990.
As of March 26, 2024, while most elementary school students have fulfilled all required vaccinations, the suspensions of 44 students highlight the importance of adhering to immunization requirements.
Beyond compliance, maintaining up-to-date immunization records aids the WECHU in planning services and identifying potential risks in the event of disease outbreaks within the community. This becomes particularly crucial in light of recent vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles, in Ontario.
The WECHU remains dedicated to promoting children's health and academic continuity, emphasizing collaboration with families to prevent future school suspensions. Starting this week, vaccination clinics for school-aged children and youth will continue to be available by appointment, underscoring the WECHU's commitment to facilitating access to essential healthcare services.
Expressing gratitude for the concerted efforts of families, schools, community partners, and healthcare providers, the WECHU acknowledges their collective contribution to ensuring children's immunizations are current, thereby safeguarding the health and well-being of the community.
Matt Weingarden, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Tilbury Times Reporter, Tilbury Times Reporter
The Visayan Daily Star, Bacolod City, Philippines, BY CARLA GOMEZ, February 28, 2009
Bacolod Regional Trial Court Judge Ray Alan Drilon has annulled the marriage of a Negrense couple after a DNA test showed that the child borne by the wife was not the biological offspring of the husband who works abroad.
The family court judge ruled that the marriage of the couple, whose names are being withheld by the DAILY STAR on the request of the court, was null and void.
Due to fraud committed by the wife in getting her overseas worker husband to marry her, properties acquired during their marriage are awarded in favor of the husband, the judge said in his decision, a copy of which was furnished the DAILY STAR yesterday.
The judge also declared that since the overseas worker is not the biological, much less the legitimate father of the child of the woman, the Civil Registrar is ordered to change the surname of the child to the mother's maiden name and remove the name of the plaintiff as father of the child.
The complainant said he was working as an electronics engineer in the United Arab Emirates and on his return to the Philippines in 2001, his girlfriend of 10 years with whom he had sex, showed him a pregnancy test result showing that she was pregnant.
On receiving the news he was overjoyed and offered to marry her. Shortly after he went to Saudi Arabia to work, and his wife gave birth to a baby girl in the same year.
The birth of the child only five months after their marriage puzzled him but his wife told him that the baby was born prematurely, so he believed her, the husband said.
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An adulterous Spanish woman who conceived three children with her
lover has been ordered to pay £177,000 in 'moral damages' to her
husband.
The cuckolded man had believed that the three children were his until
a DNA test eventually proved they were fathered by another man.
The husband, who along with the other man cannot be named for legal
reasons to protect the children's identities, suspected his second wife
may have been unfaithful in 2001.
Females 'stray to gather the best possible genes for their offspring'
Infidelity may be natural according to studies that show nine out of 10 mammals and birds that mate for life are
unfaithful.
Experts found animals that fool around are only following the urges of biology.
New studies using genetic testing techniques show that even the most
apparently devoted of partners often go in search of the sexual company of strangers.
Females stray to gather the best possible genes for their offspring, while males are driven to father as many and as
often as possible.
"True monogamy actually is rare," said Stephen T Emlen, an expert on evolutionary behaviour at Cornell University.
A Quote Worth Remembering
About The truth
"All truth passes through three
stages. First it is ridiculed, Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as self-evident."
The issue of child self-determinism has always been a central one in the
struggle for children's rights. For virtually every other civil rights movement,
it has been the discriminated themselves who have provided the drive towards
liberation, and the ability to self-determine was assumed to be present. The
Children's rights movement is fundamentally different, however, in that children,
almost by definition, require somebody else to see to their needs until they
are ready to assume control of their own lives.
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KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) -- An Ontario woman who was sentenced to 16 years
in prison in one of Canada's stiffest penalties for child abuse will be
released on full parole after serving less than half her term.
Lorelei Turner, 38, and her husband Steven were convicted of manslaughter
in July 1995 for beating and starving their three-year-old son John to death
in a case that horrified Canadians who followed the trial.
But on Wednesday, a panel of the National Parole Board in this eastern
Ontario city ruled Turner will be released but placed on probation until
July 2011.
Until then, she must remain within 25 kilometres of her residence, is
not allowed unsupervised contact with anyone under 16, and must continue
to receive counselling.
"The board would have looked at the risk and obviously found a low risk
to reoffend," Carol Sparling of the National Parole Board said Wednesday.
Boys have been painted as the bad guys in the push to encourage girls to
succeed, leaving many young men feeling confused and alienated, wondering what
they did wrong
The Associated Press
January 5, 1999
According to psychologist and author William Pollack, 'sports are the
one arena in which many of society's traditional strictures about masculinity
are often loosened, allowing boys to experience parts of themselves they rarely
experience elsewhere.'
When Harvard Medical School psychologist William Pollack administered a test
to a group of 150 teenaged boys a few years ago, the results were shocking.
Laws on Corporal Punishment of Children from around the
World
Like Britain, countries such as Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Austria
had a defence to assaults on children similar to our s. 43. These defences
were removed between 1957 and 1977. The criminal law of these countries
therefore gives children the same protection from assault as it gives adults.
Beginning with Sweden in 1979, these countries also amended their civil
child welfare laws to expressly prohibit corporal punishment so that the
public fully understood it was illegal.
World's most famous pediatrician is against circumcision
Dr. Benjamin Spock author of "Baby and Child
Care", which has sold over 40 million copies is against circumcision
When a baby boy is circumcised, the sleeve of skin that normally covers
the head of the penis (the foreskin) is pulled forward and cut off.
Circumcision is usually performed without anesthesia a few days after
birth - on the now debunked myth that babies will not remember the pain
later, although they certainly cry out with pain at the time.
Violence and Abuse within the Family: The Neglected
Issues
A public hearing sponsored by The Honourable Senator Anne C. Cools on
June 9-10, 1995 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Transcript of Dr. Hazel McBride's presentation on the relationship between
family conflict and suicide rates among men.
Pediatricians turn away from circumcision
The United States is the only country that routinely circumcises baby boys for non-religious reasons
CNN, U.S.A.
March 1, 1999
ATLANTA (CNN) -- American pediatricians are turning away from the practice of routine circumcision,
concluding that doctors have no good medical reason to perform the procedure.
The United States is the only country in the world that routinely removes the foreskins of infant boys.
Critics of circumcision got additional ammunition Monday from the American Academy of Pediatrics, a leading
medical organization.
The academy concluded the benefits "are not compelling enough" for circumcision to be routinely
administered.
A newborn winces in pain after a circumcision
Monday's statement, published in the March edition of the journal Pediatrics, was the academy's first in 10
years on the practice. But in recent years, medical societies in Canada, Britain and Australia have come out
in opposition to routine circumcision.
Critics have long contended that removing the foreskin from the penis is traumatic, medically unnecessary
and may reduce sexual pleasure later in life. As one critic, Dr. George Denniston, put it: "Who are we to
question mother nature?"
Canadian researchers, whose study was published in this week's Journal of the American Medical
Association, studied the heart rates and crying patterns of babies during different stages of circumcision.
In fact, in the study they found the babies suffered so much trauma that they stopped the study part way through.
The results were so compelling that they took the unusual step of stopping the study before
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One baby stopped breathing for 25 seconds from the trauma of having part of his foreskin severed.
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