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Media & Policy News: 18 January 2013

January 18, 2013

Top Story: “Welfare to Work”

Hudak releases PC’s white paper on social assistance

  • White Paper: http://www.ontariopc.com/paths-to-prosperity/welfare-to-work/
  • Press Release: http://www.ontariopc.com/news/paths-to-prosperity-welfare-to-work/

Coverage

Star picks up on proposed benefit reductions:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1316316–hudak-calls-for-shrinking-cheques-individual-employment-plans-for-welfare-recipients

  • Same story in the Spec: http://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/article/871632–tim-hudak-calls-for-smaller-welfare-cheques-for-some-recipients

Globe focuses on proposed downloading:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-tories-want-to-download-disability-support-to-cities/article7454458/

  • In another Globe story, Hudak’s position is used as a wedge: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/social-justice-fiscal-prudence-are-wynnes-watchwords-in-liberal-race/article7504817/
  • And another Globe story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-tories-would-reward-welfare-recipients-who-work-cut-benefits-for-those-who-dont/article7464301/

CTV: http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/tories-seek-to-overhaul-ontario-s-welfare-system-1.1118558

Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/17/tim-hudak-ontario-tories-welfare_n_2496714.html

CHCH (note: video): http://chch.com/home/item/11213-hudak-puts-out-plan-to-get-welfare-recipients-working

Sun News: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/01/20130117-172339.html

  • Toronto Sun: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/17/create-welfare-smart-card-that-can-only-be-used-for-food-hudak
  • Also covered in the Kingston Whig Standard: http://www.thewhig.com/2013/01/17/create-welfare-smart-card-that-can-only-be-used-for-food-hudak
  • Same “create welfare smart card for food” in all QMI local papers: Brantford Expositor, Brockville Recorder, Napanee Guide, Strathroy Age Dispatch, Chronicle Online, Shoreline Beacon, Thorold Edition, Barrys Bay This Week, Wallaceburg Courier Press, Norwich Gazette, Midland Free Press, Kingston This Week, Kenora Daily Miner and News, Seaforth Huron Expositor, Simcoe Reformer, Ingersoll Times, Orillia Packet, The Londoner, Sarnia This Week, Community Press, Goderich Signal Star, Bancroft This Week, Bradford Times, Lindsay Post, Midnorth Monitor, Delhi News Record, Kincardine News, Petrolia Topic, Sault This Week, Kapuskasing Times, Cochrane Times Post, Innisfil Examiner, Wiarton Echo, Frontenac This Week, Mitchell Advocate…

Toronto Sun – Wednesday’s story about merging OW and ODSP: http://www.strathroyagedispatch.com/2013/01/17/create-welfare-smart-card-that-can-only-be-used-for-food-hudak

  • Also in the Owen Sound Sun Times: http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2013/01/16/pcs-would-merge-welfare-disability-programs-hudak as well as St. Catherine’s Standard, Sudbury Star, Welland Tribune, Sault Star, Brockville Recorder, Brantford Expositor, Intelligencer, The Lindsay Post, Stratford Beacon Herald, Timmins Press…

Windsor Star: http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/01/17/hudak-urges-welfare-clawback/

London Free Press: http://www.lfpress.com/2013/01/16/pcs-would-merge-welfare-disability-programs-hudak

London FM 96: http://www.fm96.com/channels/newsinfo/localnews/story.aspx?ID=1865777

Times-Colonist: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/national/tories-propose-to-reward-welfare-recipients-who-work-clawback-those-who-don-t-1.49842

Global Toronto:http://www.globaltoronto.com/tories+propose+to+reward+welfare+recipients+who+work+clawback+those+who+dont/6442790668/story.html

Metro Toronto: http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/513585/hudak-calls-for-individual-employment-plan-for-welfare-recipients/

Examiner.com (note, this is a video): http://www.examiner.com/article/ontario-pcs-suggest-imposing-debit-style-food-cards-welfare-system

Canoe news: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2013/01/17/20504106.html

Canadian Charger: http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?id=5&a=931

‘Trapped in a Whirlpool’ blog: http://trappedinawhirlpool.blogspot.ca/2013/01/hudaks-lethal-war-on-our-most-vulnerable.html

Other (But Not Unrelated) News

In Australia, “welfare cuts to lone parents will not help them find work”:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/welfare-cuts-to-lone-parents-will-not-help-them-find-work-20130116-2ctp0.html

Tennessee Republican Senator wants welfare recipients prohibited from buying alcohol:
http://www.marshalltribune.com/story/1931703.html

UK MPP raises “welfare cash card” idea to prevent purchases of “luxury items” like cigarettes and alcohol:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/21/welfare-cash-cards-spying-website

Landlords’ group in Niagara County, NY, want welfare shelter payments paid directly to them:
http://tonawanda-news.com/local/x1746079695/Stricter-controls-on-welfare-benefits-urged

Michigan institutes new 3-week “work readiness assessment” waiting period:

  • http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121219/POLITICS02/212190405/1361/Michigan-details-new-program-for-welfare-applicants
  • http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/12/cash_assistance_welfare_michig.html

UK saves money by capping welfare benefits – perhaps for 6 years:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251844/Tories-pledge-cap-rises-welfare-SIX-years-win-election.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

The State of Georgia’s war on the poor:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/12/georgia_s_war_against_the_poor_the_southern_state_is_emptying_its_welfare.html

David Cameron’s New Year’s address includes no backing down on benefit reforms:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9770922/David-Cameron-well-help-the-strivers-not-welfare-claimants.html

From Ian Duncan Smith – UK welfare transfers “increase dependency” and “push public finances to the breaking point”:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9772131/Iain-Duncan-Smith-weve-brought-back-fairness-to-welfare.html

And meanwhile, more homeless people died on Toronto’s streets last year than in the past five years:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1316515–34-homeless-die-in-toronto-in-2012-the-most-in-five-years

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