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Media & Policy News: 18 June 2012

June 18, 2012

Top Stories:

If the feds cut refugee health care, what will happen to Alejandro?
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1212705–fiorito-loss-of-health-care-will-kill-him?bn=1

Ontario News:

A summer election: Will we, or won’t we?

  • Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1212922–ontario-budge-2012-andrea-horwath-offers-olive-branch-to-dalton-mcguinty-to-avert-snap-election?bn=1
  • Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ndp-floats-compromise-in-bid-to-end-ontario-budget-impasse/article4300283/

Study finds “wealthy patients went to hospitals chiefly for surgery and outpatient procedures. Poor patients used them for basic medical care, mental health services, chronic care, emergencies and end-of-life care.”:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1210356–rich-poor-divide-in-toronto-s-hospitals

Around the Province:

PFIB’s “Hey Premier, Listen Up!” tour makes the rounds:

  • May 23 – Ottawa:http://www.emcbarrhaven.ca/20120531/news/ACORN+challenges+province+to+put+food+in+the+budget
  •  May 25-31 – Niagara Peninsula: http://www.niagarathisweek.com/community/article/1362000–from-queen-s-park-to-niagara
  • June 1 – Kingston: CKWS TV http://www.ckwstv.com/index.cfm?page=news&id=7269 / Kingston Whig Standard http://www.thewhig.com/2012/06/01/mpp-says-he-will-take-social-assistance-tour.
  • June 6 – Belleville: http://www.intelligencer.ca/2012/06/06/dummy-premier-visits-city
  • June 6-8 – Perth: http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/article/1368915–perth-food-bank-slated-to-change-name-this-summer /http://www.emcperth.ca/20120614/news/Premier%27s+cardboard+doppelganger+visits+Perth

Across the Country:

Optimism about Alberta Premier Redford’s poverty promise:
http://www.openfile.ca/calgary/story/op-ed-premiers-pledge-eliminate-child-poverty-2017-holds-promise

The income gap in Winnipeg:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/interactive-the-income-gap-157595775.html

BC NDP MLA calls for poverty reduction plan:
http://www.straight.com/article-712286/vancouver/carole-james-bc-needs-poverty-reduction-plan

Being “on welfare” in BC:
http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=30852573-7d4c-4f52-a0d6-f32ccf40d302

National:

MP Scott Brison wants the federal Finance Committee to study inequality:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/104499-inequality-of-income-opportunity-must-be-addressed

Latest Stats Can info:
Income of Canadians: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/120618/dq120618b-eng.htm

  • Star coverage: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1212977–median-income-for-families-was-65-000-in-2010-unchanged-for-third-straight-year?bn=1
  • Globe coverage: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/could-be-worse-family-income-stays-steady/article4300287/

Low Income Lines: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75f0002m/75f0002m2012002-eng.htm

International:

The OECD’s three-part series on income inequality and the economic crash:

  • in which inequality is identified as the defining issue of our times:http://oecdinsights.org/2012/06/11/inequality-the-crash-and-the-crisis-part-1-the-defining-issue-of-our-times/
  • in which a new capitalism rises that fails to share the fruits of growth:http://oecdinsights.org/2012/06/13/inequality-the-crash-and-the-crisis-part-2-a-model-of-capitalism-that-fails-to-share-the-fruits-of-growth/
  • in which inequality is revealed as the limit to economic recovery: http://oecdinsights.org/2012/06/15/inequality-the-crash-and-the-crisis-part-3-the-limit-to-inequality/

Australia finds that “Taking money away from families whose children were not attending school did not make their children attend school better”:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-18/state-scraps-pilot-tying-welfare-payments-to-school-attendance/4076190?section=qld

Hong Kong pursues poverty reduction:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=123520&sid=36753855&con_type=1

Global poll tells G20 that banks should put something back into the economy – a financial transaction tax:
http://www.ituc-csi.org/g20-told-voters-want-banks-to-put.html?lang=en

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