Mayor Dan Carter certainly remembers. It was days before he took office when General Motors announced that it was planning to effectively shut down operations at its Oshawa facility, wiping out 2,500 jobs.
“There's a lot of anger and fear out there in regards to what a lot of people have been going through in the last two-and-a-half years,” he says. “And that anger goes to, I think, fear that they have of the unknown.” “Even before COVID came along 20 per cent of our young people, or 20 per cent of our population would be suffering from some sort of mental health distress,” Durham District School Board Chair Carolyn Morton says. “It's even greater now. So everyone has to recognize that.”
She says the mental well-being of students and staff needs to be better supported through additional funding for resources, such as more trained support staff in schools. But funding services is not the end of the problem, says former Whitby MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes, who currently serves on the Lakeridge Health Foundation board.
She says there is also a need for culturally sensitive or culturally adaptive approaches to mental health services in Durham Region, pointing out that Ajax has the fastest growing Black population in Canada. While the pandemic caused many people to reconsider where they might want to live and how they might want to work, growth is still expected and stakeholders say people want to see it planned for and funded.
The school board did recently receive funding for a new high school in North Oshawa, but other parts of the region are growing too. “So how do we buy property to build schools when the province has frozen the amount that we can charge to developers? So that's a huge problem for a growing board.”
This article also mentions Oshawa. This is another close race that can see the NDP candidate defeat the Ford candidate. Do you really want Ford more years? NotOneSeat
This is a great time to vote for the candidate who has the best chance of defeating the Ford candidate. The article talks about Ajax and questions whether the PCs will hold it. Let's make sure they don't. NotOneSeat
Conservatives won’t do anything to address the mental health crisis. Please vote them out.
If my neighbours are concerned for mental health than ThugFord is no way to go! He is decimating health care, mental health included!! Don’t vote for the drug dealer who helped kill your grandparents & will continue to do so with more for profit LTC! They are hell holes!
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