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Media & Policy News: 11 December 2012

December 11, 2012

More on Community Start-Up & Maintenance Benefit

It’s not a frill: The province’s sickening decision on CSUMB:
http://www.thespec.com/opinion/columns/article/851306–the-province-s-sickening-decision

12 cities coming together in Hamilton on CSUMB this Friday (I’ll be there. Will you?):
http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/12/10/hamilton-homelessness-meeting.html 

Social services groups appeal to Waterloo regional council to save the CSUMB:
http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news/local/article/1551185–social-groups-plead-to-maintain-benefit-levels

Community protest at Minister Milloy’s KW office on Friday:
http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/850126–housing-allowance-cut-prompts-another-protest-outside-milloy-s-office

  • Press release on the protest: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/community-groups-bring-protest-to-milloys-front-door-1735218.htm
  • Video here: http://www.mediacoop.ca/video/kitchener-rallies-against-austerity-cuts/14988

As Toronto Council debates cuts to housing and homelessness progams, five residents die:
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/news/five-confirmed-homeless-deaths-as-toronto-budget-committee-debates-cuts-to-housing-and-homelessness-funding/

Ontario Liberal Leadership Race

Candidates are beginning to release their platforms:

Glen Murray on tax cuts:
http://www.renewliberal.ca/tax_cuts

Sandra Pupatello:
http://signup4sandra.ca/the-plan-forward-northern-ontario/

Charles Sousa on GTA and northern Ontario issues:
http://www.votesousa.ca/

Harinder Takhar on deficit elimination:
http://votetakhar.com/images/Deficit_Reduction_Plan_Backgrounded_FINAL.pdf

Kathleen Wynne on a wide variety of issues:
http://www.kathleenwynne.ca/thewa

Poverty Reduction in Ontario

Government must act immediately to meet their poverty reduction target:
http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/849153–government-must-act-immediately-to-meet-child-poverty-target-anti-poverty-group

MCC-O blog on 25 in 5 report:
http://povertyfreeontario.blogspot.ca/2012/12/can-ontario-meet-its-poverty-reduction.html

Ontario’s Social Assistance Review

Why mandatory employment for people receiving ODSP won’t work:
http://ppgreview.ca/2012/12/07/odsp-reform-why-mandatory-employment-wont-work/

Other Ontario News

Horwath’s got personality, but where’s the policy?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/12/06/horwath-policy-personality426.html?cmp=rss

Law Commission of Ontario releases new framework for law affecting persons with disabilities – “The Framework enables policy-makers, legislators, courts, advocates, community organizations and others to understand and evaluate the effects of laws, policies and practices on persons with disabilities, and provides a foundation for law reform efforts in this area.”:
http://lco-cdo.org/en/disabilities-final-report

CAMH celebrates innovative supportive housing partnership:
http://www.camh.ca/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=60

“Why can’t we exhibit the same passion for our poverty-stricken neighbours as we do for wealthy athletes or those terrible teachers and government workers?”
http://www.themeafordindependent.ca/editorial/46-editorial/2738-poverty-is-real-and-its-right-next-door

Ontario Common Front gathers in Toronto to strategize on battling austerity:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1299682–labour-groups-battle-provincial-cuts-to-social-services

Sun coverage of OCF meeting:http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2012/12/20121208-093343.html

Across the Country

BC advocates launch “BCs Hardest Working” project to highlight in-work poverty and growing inequality:
http://www.theprovince.com/business/Libs+Plan+enough+tackle+poverty/7659241/story.html#axzz2EOxqTiIF

People deserve justice rather than charity: 
http://www.straight.com/article-849731/vancouver/raise-welfare-rates-so-people-dont-have-depend-charity

Child poverty in Manitoba an appalling 20%:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/manitobas-child-poverty-an-appalling-20-per-cent-181497141.html

Federal Issues

UN says child poverty worsening in Canada: “Canada can afford to do better”:
http://dawn.com/2012/12/08/child-poverty-worsening-in-canada-un/

International

It’s official: The UK government confirms austerity policies are self-defeating:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/12/austerity-economics-doesnt-work.html#ixzz2EP58oIJ7

A sign of the recent sea change in the U.S. public discourse about income inequality:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/us/30iht-letter30.html?_r=0

In the UK, benefit cuts are likely to lead to more homelessness:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/04/benefit-cuts-rise-homelessness

People with disabilities in Spain take to the streets to protest benefit cuts:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/spain-s-disabled-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-cutbacks-1.1062661

24% of the EU’s population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion:
http://www.euractiv.com/socialeurope/24-eu-population-risk-poverty-so-news-516413

In the UK, three years of 1% benefit increases will create a decade of destitution:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/dec/05/cap-benefits-shirkers-workers-poverty

UK’s “welfare to work” scheme isn’t working:
http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2012/11/28/welfare-to-work-scheme-just-not-working-as-only-3-of-unemployed-find-permanent-job/

Economic growth depends on tackling poverty and inequality:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/nov/30/work-and-careers-apprenticeships

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