The ODSP Action Coalition and ISAC wrote an op-ed for the Toronto Star about the province’s problematic social assistance math and urged the government to solve the real problem: legislated poverty for people on ODSP.…
ISAC’s Senior Policy Analyst Devorah Kobluk was interviewed for the Globe and Mail regarding changes to the province’s delivery of employment services. Read the full article by clicking here. Note: article is behind a paywall.
ISAC’s Senior Policy Analyst Devorah Kobluk was interviewed on NOW with Dave Brown, an Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) podcast, about the Ontario government’s promise to increase ODSP rates by 5% and the Open Letter released…
ISAC’s Senior Policy Analyst Devorah Kobluk was interviewed for a TVO.org article on the topic of the Canada Disability Benefit. Read the full story on TVO‘s website here: https://www.tvo.org/article/i-dont-know-how-long-i-can-do-this-disabled-ontarians-still-waiting-on-federal-disability-benefit
Every week during the election, we’ll post select info and articles featuring our work and the work of our clinic colleagues and community allies to help inform you about the issues at stake in the…
ISAC’s Senior Policy Analyst Devorah Kobluk was interviewed for an article in The Monitor, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives online magazine, on the topic of the modernization of social assistance. Read the full story…
ISAC’s Workers’ Rights Organizer Dave Bush was a guest on CBC’s Ontario Today to discuss minimum wage in the context of the 2022 Provincial Election. You can listen to the segment by clicking here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45/clip/15911390
ISAC’s Senior Policy Analyst Devorah Kobluk was interviewed for a CTV News story on the topic of medically assisted dying (MAiD). Read the full story on CTV News’ website here: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-disabilities-nears-medically-assisted-death-after-futile-bid-for-affordable-housing-1.5882202
ISAC’s Workers’ Rights Organizer Dave Bush was interviewed on a CityNews segment about the LIFT tax credit in the 2022 Ontario budget as well as what is included and lacking for low wage workers and…
ISAC’s Senior Policy Analyst Devorah Kobluk was interviewed for an article in The Hill Times about the Canada Disability Benefit and the federal budget. Read the full article at The Hill Times‘ website here: Budget…
ISAC’s Senior Policy Analyst Devorah Kobluk was quoted in an article by Press Progress about changes to the employment services model which are part of the province’s plan to modernize of social assistance. Read the…
ISAC’s Senior Policy Analyst Devorah Kobluk was interviewed for an article in The Hill Times about pandemic benefits interactions with regular benefits, which resulted in a loss of GIS for thousands of seniors who then…