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Media & Policy News: 19 June 2013

June 19, 2013

Top Stories: A Plethora of Reports

Report from ONPHA / CHF-Canada, Ontario region shows Ontario has a serious affordable housing shortage:

  • http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/06/18/ontarios_affordable_housing_crisis_deepens.html
  • http://www.onpha.on.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Where_s_Home&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=14530

Report from Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness shows homelessness costs Canada $7 billion and affects 200,000 people each year:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/30000+people+homeless+given+night+firstever+national+tally/8547307/story.html

  • Comment from the Wellesley Institute: http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/housing/new-homelessness-report-sets-out-staggering-numbers-and-points-to-solutions/

Report from Canadian Human Rights Commission says Aboriginal Peoples continue to experience conditions of persistent disadvantage:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/06/17/bc-aboriginal-people-equality-disadvantage-report.html

Report from CCPA shows 40% of Indigenous children in Canada live in poverty:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/poverty-or-prosperity

Report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada on employment and income for people with serious mental illness (sorry, no explanatory notes):
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/English/node/7606

Report from RBC shows the richest Canadians got disproportionately richer last year:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/18/richest-canadians-richer_n_3462124.html

Report from the US shows changes to reduce progressivity of the income tax system are a major contributor to growing income inequality:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/income-inequality-tax-system_n_3454216.html

And more on yesterday’s coverage of a report from the US that shows welfare-to-work programs demonstrate a higher rate of death for recipients:
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/news/rising-deaths-in-us-welfare-to-work-programs-raise-questions-at-home/

Around the Province

Campaign 2000’s Laurel Rothman gets well-deserved honour from Mothercraft:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/06/17/child_poverty_mothercraft_honours_campaign_2000s_laurel_rothman.html

National

Some coverage of doctors’ National Day of Action over refugee health funding cuts:

  • http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/doctors-say-public-purse-and-public-health-at-risk-because-of-government-cuts-211837991.html
  • http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canadian-doctors-staging-day-of-action-to-protest-refugee-health-care-cuts-1.1328775
  • http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Opinion+Cuts+refugee+health+care+make+losers/8534582/story.html

The steep decline in housing affordability:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/mortgages/housing-affordabilitys-tipping-point/article12617749/#dashboard/follows/

Tory senators are resisting passage of Bill C-377 on union finance disclosure:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tory-senators-balk-at-union-disclosure-bill/article12661697/

International

Poland does away with the 8-hour work day:
http://www.libcom.org/news/poland-does-away-8-hour-day-15062013

In the UK, people without jobs and other low-income people are being forced to pay for internet services in public libraries – just when more services go online:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jobless-forced-pay-library-internet-1959330

In the UK, woman who falls to her death “was just saying she had had enough of government changes”:
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/witnesses-tell-shock-after-woman-4417272

In the US, unpaid internships for college students don’t lead to jobs:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/do-unpaid-internships-lead-to-jobs-not-for-college-students/276959/

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