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		<title>LTC Pet Therapy: Benefits vs Contamination Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Elliot Lake Standard recently published an article highlighting an important but often time under-promoted form of client companionship, the benefits of Pet Therapy. Magical Paws, (here&#8217;s their Facebook page) is a group that coordinates pet therapy visits across a wide-specturm of activities. In the aforementioned article, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSW Media Round-Up 03/04 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the next set of personal support worker mentions, articles and stories found within the mainstream media across the country. The four top stories (outside of the Ontario Budget) for Mid-March to Early-April 2012. Senior home CEO gets an earful After an employee in a nursing home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSW Media Round-up: Early March 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Outside of the Drummond Report, the news media has been pretty quiet about the personal support worker industry of late. Here are the most interesting news pieces of the past few weeks. Onto the articles: PSWs push for more time (Peterborough this Week) An article highlighting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Drummond Report and the PSW Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week highly witnessed the unleashing of the highly published Drummond Report. The report proposed fixes, slight &#038; drastic alike, relating to Ontario&#8217;s budget. In a nutshell, Drummond recommends cutting spending and increasing inflows were possible (parking fees at Go Train&#8217;s, lessening tax credits in certain sectors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSW Compassionate Care Crossing the Line?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PSW Compassionate Care Crossing the Line? A recent Windsor Star Article highlights compassionate care and raises a few questions. Last week the Windsor Star published a positive article regarding personal support workers going above and beyond the call of duty. Article location: http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Aspen+Lake+caregivers+beyond+clock/5929949/story.htm The Star profiled workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall 2011 Site Updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Website Fall Cleanup and Updates A quick blog post on the recent additions to the personal support worker canada website. Long time, no blog. I don&#8217;t have too much to say this time around, so I&#8217;ll just touch on some of the updates to the site. Facebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips on the Trade: Relaxing After Midnight Shifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog &#124; Tips on the Trade: Relaxing After Midnight Shifts 07/19/11: A PSW shares how they &#8216;come down&#8217; after awake midnight shifts This blog entry is from one of our staff personal support workers. They work exclusive midnight shifts. Here are a few of their tips for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSW Charged for Criminal Negligence Causing Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog &#124; PSW Charged for Criminal Negligence Causing Death 06/20/11: After an accidental fall, a Ontario personal support worker has been charged with the death of a 91 year old resident Via Durham Regional Police A Personal Support Worker (PSW) has been charged after an elderly resident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry gets a rare mention media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PSW Articles This is the thirteenth in our series of Personal Support Worker Articles; PSW Article #13: Personal Support Worker&#8217;s get a rare mention in the media For the rest of our Articles: PSW.ca Article Archive &#160; &#160; Personal Support Worker&#8217;s get a rare mention in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Involvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PSW Articles This is the twenty-fifth in our series of Personal Support Worker Articles; Article #25: Large Scale Union Involvement For the rest of our Articles: PSW.ca Article Archive &#160; &#160; Union Involvement in PSW Industry We received an e-mail the other week from a disgruntled relative [...]]]></description>
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