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Media & Policy News: 15 August 2012

August 15, 2012

Top Stories

Open File covers the loss of the Community Start-up and Maintenance Benefit:
http://www.openfile.ca/toronto/story/ontario-disability-housing-credit-be-phased-out-2013

Here’s a great blog about the current welfare reforms in the UK, from someone on disability benefits there:
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.ca/

What it’s like to live on minimum wage in Toronto:
http://www.openfile.ca/toronto/story/whats-it-living-minimum-wage-toronto

Ontario Politics

Sept 6 is by-election day. Polls in Vaughan and Kitchener-Waterloo show a split in support:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1241559–ontario-liberals-supported-in-vaughan-but-lose-ground-in-kitchener-waterloo-new-polls-show

Across the Province

Changes to the Welcome Policy at City of Toronto:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1241438–toronto-budget-free-recreation-for-more-poor-families-but-less-for-others

Federal

“We don’t want a system that locks people up and throws away the key without fair representation”:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Justice+system+staggering+under+weight+federal+reforms/7082722/story.html#ixzz23XT4c2HP

Inequalities are a threat to medicare:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/real-inequalities-a-threat-to-medicares-mission-incoming-cma-chief-says/article4478135/

Here’s an information sheet that explains the changes to federal health coverage for refugees:
http://yourlegalrights.on.ca/resource/85128

International

Why isn’t unprecedented poverty part of the US election discussion?:
http://www.cantonrep.com/newsnow/x521655710/-Poverty-said-the-emperor-with-no-clothes

Poverty-stricken East London wonders whether it will gain from nearby Olympics
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/10/4714765/poverty-stricken-east-london-wonders.html

Volume 5 of Unemployment Stories:
http://gawker.com/5934202/unemployment-stories-vol-five-i-go-to-bed-every-night-hoping-i-wont-wake-up

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This site contains general legal information for people in Ontario, Canada. It is not intended to be used as legal advice for a specific legal problem. ISAC is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization. ISAC is funded by Legal Aid Ontario (LAO). The funding for this website is also provided by LAO. The views expressed in any of ISAC’s publications (including written, oral, or visual) are the views of the clinic and do not necessarily reflect those of LAO.