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Media & Policy News: 30 April 2012

April 30, 2012

Ontario Budget

Hamilton activists tells the Premier what they think

Spec editorial says Premier and Horwath did the right things

Crunching the “tax the rich” numbers

Ontario uses credit outlook downgrade in negotiations with public sector unions

Other Ontario

Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says more must be done on dental services for low income people

Letter to the Editor – On the April 21 protest at Queen’s Park 

Around the Province

OW employment programs in Muskoka

Quality of Life survey in Thunder Bay says poverty must be addressed

“Poor No More” in Dundas

Across the Country

Will Alison Redford, Alberta’s new PC premier, lead her province to poverty reduction?

The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition says BC and Sask are now the only holdouts

Alberta’s poverty reduction plan may be the most ambitious to date

More on BC’s “hyperlocal” poverty reduction strategy

Living wage required in Metro Vancouver skyrockets

Federal Issues

Cutting the National Council of Welfare makes the poor even poorer

Kevin Page on government budget secrecy

A policy plan to hide poverty, inequality: Ottawa is shutting down public debate on issues it doesn’t care about

Austerity cutbacks could hurt economy

 

Feds cut health coverage for refugee claimants

More funding cuts revealed. Didn’t Flaherty say this was “back-end stuff”?

International

The UK’s back into recession – austerity is to blame

And, as Paul Krugman says, there is no “confidence fairy” that will reward austerity

When a job isn’t enough

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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.