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Media & Policy News: 11 November 2013

November 11, 2013

Top Stories

Remember veterans – but support them too:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2013/11/11/remember_veterans_but_support_them_too_editorial.html

Ontario government’s fall economic statement: http://news.ontario.ca/mof/en/2013/11/ontario-introduces-new-plan-to-spur-growth-create-jobs-and-strengthen-public-services.html

  • Backgrounder: http://news.ontario.ca/mof/en/2013/11/one-ontario-investing-in-people.html
  • “Reducing Poverty Helps Strengthen the Economy”:http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/fallstatement/2013/chapter1a.html#c1a_6
  • How to participate in pre-2014 budget consultations: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/consultations/prebud/

Meanwhile, cuts to CSUMB and child care mean funding cuts in Nipissing:
http://www.northbaynipissing.com/2013/11/social-services-board-facing-funding-cuts/

Ottawa aggressively pursuing failed refugees by having their social assistance benefits cut off:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/11/10/welfare_cut_to_failed_refugees_awaiting_deportation.html

Ontario’s minimum wage panel goes to Ottawa – “the right minimum wage is a little bit of economics, but it’s also a social and political choice”:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Ontario+minimum+wage+panel+visit+Ottawa/9128732/story.html

For November 14, send a message to your MPP on the $14 minimum wage:
http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8e3951a35d48e64f736884ea9&id=4cc38962b7&e=462e04a60b

Pan-Canadian Week of Action for Housing – Nov 22 to 29:
http://action4housing.wordpress.com/

Globe and Mail interactive feature: How income inequality hurts us all:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/our-time-to-lead-income-inequality/article15316231/

Wellesley’s take on the latest food banks’ report – let’s fight the disease:
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/news/food-banks-are-a-symptom-of-poverty-lets-fight-the-disease/

Anti-poverty quilt highlights Ontario’s vast economic disparity and backwards priorities:
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/anti-poverty-quilt-highlights-ontarios-vast-economic-disparity-and-backwards-priorities#.UnvRQzKBhoo.twitter

Around the Province

Homeless shelter in Hamilton starting to charge clients for a bed:
http://m.thespec.com/news-story/4200040-ontario-homeless-shelter-starting-to-charge-clients/

TTC Riders looks for people to depute against transit fare hikes:
http://app.mailerlite.com/b4k3q5/214778707/k1z0/1331922421

Community Living Peterborough and Costco Peterborough partner to create equal employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities:
http://www.communitylivingpeterborough.ca/index.php/newsnew/our-news/348-community-living-peterborough-and-costco-team-up-to-create-inclusive-employment-for-people-living-with-an-intellectual-diability

92-year old Hamilton woman ends up homeless after a short hospital stay:
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4200007-senior-left-homeless-after-brief-illness/

Good Resources

The State of Homelessness in Canada 2013:
http://www.homelesshub.ca/Library/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-Canada-2013-55941.aspx

Practical tips for community workers creating legal information materials:
http://www.plelearningexchange.ca/betterinfo/

How Housing First can address the lives of girls and women – report from Homes for Women:
http://ywcacanada.ca/data/documents/00000382.pdf

How to calculate a living wage for your community:
http://vibrantcanada.ca/resource-library/income-security/calculating-living-wage-your-community

Across the Country

Mi’kmaq win major legal victory on social assistance against the federal government:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mi-kmaq-leaders-welcome-legal-victory-on-welfare-1.2415352

Quebec government announces 3-year, $320-million anti-poverty plan:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/marois-rolls-out-anti-poverty-plan-on-pqs-day-of-skirmishes-with-opposition/article15176544/#dashboard/follows/

Aboriginal Children’s Village opens in East Vancouver:
http://www.vancourier.com/news/aboriginal-children-s-village-opens-in-east-vancouver-1.678104

City of Vancouver exceeding its housing targets:
http://www.homelesshub.ca/Library/2013-Housing-and-Homelessness-Strategy-Targets-Report-Card-for-Vancouver-55524.aspx

45% of food bank users in Manitoba are children:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/cupboards-still-bare-here-report-finds-230779801.html

Pitfalls in the welfare system in Manitoba:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/welfare-plagued-with-pitfalls-231262781.html

National

Benefits and pensions for all: Why Canada needs a new social contract:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/benefits-and-pensions-for-all-why-canada-needs-a-new-social-contract/article15348751/?cmpid=rss1#dashboard/follows/

P.E.I Coalition for Fair EI wants better benefits, cut in qualifying hours:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/overturn-ei-changes-coalition-urges-1.2416192

International

Seattle suburb passes highest minimum wage in the US:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10971

Fears for London’s voluntary sector in wake of welfare cuts and reforms:
http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2013/nov/06/welfare-cuts-overstretch-voluntary-sector

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