Children's Aid Society - Ottawa

This is a joint release with CUPE Ontario. TORONTO – Thousands of young people in Ontario have been warehoused in hotels, motels, office buildings and worse because of an acute crisis of care the provincial government has manufactured. Four years into a “redesign” of the province’s children’s aid system, with no progress to show for...

Ottawa, ON – After more than three weeks on strike, Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa (CASO) workers ratified a new agreement with the agency yesterday – but workers say that the fight is far from over. “The decision to go out was not one we made easily, but workers were faced with an impossible choice,”...

On July 22, the Executive Director of the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa (CASO), Kelly Raymond – along with its Board’s Chair, Deborah Tunis – published a letter with choice reflections not just about the state of child welfare, but implicit comments on the ongoing strike at the agency. We don’t bargain in the media –...