Ontario housing minister vows to boost rent control after CBC Toronto tenancy series
NDP proposes bill to expand rent controls to all buildings
PEI’s social assistance rates are well below the cost of healthy food
Food insecurity: Community gardens, subsidized housing not answers – what matters is income
Ontario Labour Minister speaks to business group, places hopes on Changing Workplaces Review
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International Women’s Day – March 8 – StatsCan on gender pay gap: Women earn 87 cents to men’s dollar
Ontario Works and ODSP aren’t enough to live on, Toronto residents say
No firm estimates on costs to raise a family proving a problem for government: Report
Alternative Federal Budget 2017: High Stakes, Clear Choices
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No Fixed Address: Rental market for Torontonians on disability “absolutely horrible”
Hydro rates to drop 17%, but Ontarians will pay for it later
Vulnerable Ontarians to see significant reductions in their electricity bills
Big changes considered for Ontario workplaces
Filing taxes brings major benefits to people on low incomes
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Wages are falling in Canada’s low-end jobs
Prescription from ER doctor: Expand public dental programs
OCBCC: Three ideas to build a better future for child care in Ontario
Ontario legislature resumes with a focus on Hydro
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Ontario is proving that taxing the one per cent works
Critics tired of foot dragging on WSIB discrimination against injured workers making mental stress claims
Ontario Liberals eyeing hydro rate cut in the range of 8 percent – including changes to global adjustment and using tax base to cover low-income electricity subsidies
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Ontario utilities continue to threaten disconnection during winter
New benefits called “game changers” for ending child poverty
Ottawa should suspend refugee pact with US, Harvard report says
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Greater enforcement of hate speech laws needed in Canada
Asian job seekers face disadvantage even when they have higher degrees, study finds
Report: Exclusions from minimum employment standards cost workers millions in lost wages
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New book aims to teach children about painful history of residential schools
Two Canadian billionaires are as rich as nearly 1/3 of Canada: Oxfam
Federal Disability Tax Credit not extended to those with mental illness
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Doctors frustrated workers’ compensation boards seem to ignore medical opinions, report says
Tax loopholes that bankroll CEO salaries with taxpayer’s money should be closed
Federal government ponders creating new housing benefit for low-income renters
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Happy New Year!
CCPA report: Canada’s CEOs earn in half a day what the average worker makes all year
Column: Ontario should have a guaranteed income for those with disabilities
Muskoka commissioner says simplifying social assistance with basic income could reduce social inclusion and community engagement
United Way of Bruce Grey head has “incredible concerns” about cap-and-trade impacts on low income people, including those on OW and ODSP
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CCPA Ontario: The year as we saw it: 10 charts that defined Ontario in 2016
Anti-poverty groups call on Liberals to make immediate changes to Canada Child Benefit
Average Canadian family to spend $420 more on food in 2017: Report
Cost of poverty in Toronto pegged at $5.5 billion a year
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Today in Toronto: National Housing Day of Action
Food bank use on the rise in Canada, with drastic surges in Nova Scotia, territories
Ombudsman asked to probe WSIB treatment of those with mental health disabilities
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