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Media & Policy News: 5 October 2012

October 5, 2012

Top Story

How to mark October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

  • Dignity for All: http://dignityforall.ca/en/marking-international-day-eradication-poverty-october-17th
  • OCAP’s Community-Start Up Action: http://ocap.ca/node/1013
  • Poverty Action for Change Coalition “Anti-Poverty Day” event in York Region:http://www.yorkregion.com/what’s%20on/article/1512856–performers-speakers-set-for-ant-poverty-day

Community Start-Up Cuts Across the Province

Peterborough Poverty Reduction Network releases plan showing how city could cover CSUMB / HRB and Discretionary Benefits cuts for the foreseeable future:
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2012/10/04/peterborough-poverty-reduction-network-releases-plan-showing-how-city-could-maintain-discretionary-benefits-for-social-assistance-recipients

Cheri diNovo, the NDP poverty critic, asks question in the Legislature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OaxTBiKXUlE

Upcoming forum in Sudbury on CSUMB cuts October 10:
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2012/10/03/anti-poverty-forum-seeks-public-input

CSUMB cuts figure in Hamilton’s faith leaders’ vigil against poverty:
http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/10/03/hamilton-flap-protest.html

District of Nipissing figuring out how to cope with big cuts:
http://www.nugget.ca/2012/10/01/dssab-budget-process-begins

Guest column in the Kitchener Post says cuts will result in greater economic and social costs:
http://www.kitchenerpost.ca/opinion/it-costs-more-when-people-fall-through-the-cracks/

CSUMB cuts figure at Sudbury’s Take Back the Night march:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/taking-back-sudburys-night/13154

Kingston activists organize to raise CSUMB awareness:

  • http://www.ckwstv.com/news/kingston/Story.aspx?ID=1781734
  • http://www.thewhig.com/2012/09/27/program-cut-attack-on-the-poor

Service clubs in Manitoulin worried about impact of the cuts:
http://www.manitoulin.ca/2012/07/25/lower-social-benefits-likely-to-impact-service-clubs/

Ontario

Star editorial says McGuinty’s wage freeze legislation aims to save jobs:
http://www.thestar.com/article/1263850–premier-mcguinty-s-wage-freeze-aims-to-save-jobs

Tom Walkom has another perspective:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1263939–walkom-ontario-restraint-bill-much-more-than-two-year-wage-freeze

Around the Province

Volunteer health clinics in Toronto overwhelmed by refugees with no health care:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1264531–volunteer-clinics-overwhelmed-by-refugees-with-no-health-care

One in 15 people in London rely on social assistance:
http://www.lfpress.com/2012/09/28/one-in-15-londoners-rely-on-welfare

The latest Vital Signs London report shows poverty has doubled in two years:
http://www.londoncommunitynews.com/2012/10/child-poverty-in-london-doubled-in-two-years-vital-signs-report/

London’s prayer vigil to highlight hunger and poverty:
http://metronews.ca/news/london/393981/hunger-poverty-highlighted-by-multi-faith-social-action-coalition-of-london-ceremony/

A woman in Timmins stays homeless, despite a $100K trust:
http://www.timminspress.com/2012/09/30/homeless-woman-cant-touch-100000-account

Poverty in Muskoka may be overlooked:
http://www.cottagecountrynow.ca/news/article/1513885–politicians-not-seeing-poverty-in-muskoka

More seniors than ever are using Brantford’s food bank:
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2012/10/01/more-seniors-than-ever-using-food-bank

Sobering statistics from Vital Signs Burlington:
http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/1512238–vital-signs-reports-poverty-youth-issues

More on the cost of poverty in Niagara:
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2012/09/27/numbers-are-staggering-mark-carl

Activists in Hamilton say that city’s radial separation bylaw is punitive, discriminatory, and should be rescinded:
http://www.thespec.com/opinion/columns/article/804967–hamilton-s-radial-separation-bylaw-is-punitive-and-discriminatory

Activists in Sudbury protest anti-panhandling posters:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2012/10/04/sby-panhandling-poster-party.html

Sorry, I just had to include this one. Toronto’s Doug Ford says transit expansion should be paid for with a lottery or casinos:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/doug-ford-calls-for-lottery-or-casino-to-pay-for-mayors-subway-plan/article550608/

Reports and Other Cool Stuff

New study says housing people who are homeless is cheaper than funding the emergency services they will inevitably require:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/housing-homeless-cheaper-more-effective-than-status-quo-study/article4563718/

  • Here’s the study:http://www.homelesshub.ca/ResourceFiles/costofhomelessness_paper21092012.pdf
  • CBC Radio interview: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/09/28/housing-first-model-combating-homelessness/

The National Council of Welfare’s website – and all their great material – is now archived in the Government of Canada Web Archive:

  • English: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ncw-cnb/2012-08-07/www.cnb.gc.ca/h.4m.2_40-eng.jsp.htm
  • French: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ncw-cnb/2012-08-07/www.cnb.gc.ca/h.4m.2_40-fra.jsp.htm

From Stats Can: Income Inequality and Redistribution in Canada, 1976-2004:
http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2007/statcan/11F0019M/11F0019MIE2007298.pdf

Worth Repeating: Deregulation in Canada a disaster in the making – CCPA:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/deregulating-canada-disaster-making

A study on Wal-Mart’s impact on prices and wages shows their prices aren’t that low, they drive wages down, and they could increase wages and still make big profits:
http://www.epi.org/publication/ib223/

Across the Country

A two-tiered minimum wage in Newfoundland would disproportionately impact women:
http://theindependent.ca/2012/10/02/hard-hard-times-by-design/

Vital Signs Halifax says seniors’ poverty is rising:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/02/ns-senior-poverty.html

From Winnipeg – Canada needs a mental health strategy:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/canada-needs-a-housing-strategy-for-mentally-ill-172235561.html

Manitoba steps up to fill the federal gap in refugee health care:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/09/13/mb-refugee-benefit-payments-manitoba.html

Supporting municipal poverty reduction in Alberta:
http://www.vibrantcalgary.com/vibrant-resources/blog/supporting-municipal-strategies-in-poverty-reduction/

BC government launches “Welfare Air”, a new program designed to move people off social assistance and into high-paying jobs—largely in the province’s north:

  • http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/01/on-a-wing-and-a-jobs-plan/
  • http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Welfare+program+launches/7277222/story.html
  • http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bc-job-market/welfare-air-program-takes
  • Response from CFS-BC: http://www.cfs.bc.ca/content/80

A nice little video on the value of child care, from BC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lln-emegPtY&feature=youtu.be

National Issues

Canada’s corporate tax rates are lowest among developed countries:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/canadas-corporate-tax-lowest-among-developed-countries/article4566438/?service=mobile

Halifax columnist says Cons are trying to hide EI cuts:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/142504-tories-trying-to-hide-cut-to-ei-program

The feds’ immigration policy focus on skilled workers is “sure to aggravate the already-troubling unemployment problem for Canada’s existing youth”:
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/10/01/for-jobless-youth-canadas-search-for-skilled-immigrants-may-sting/?__lsa=d740de59

Feds spend $3M to fight First Nations child welfare claims:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1264886–ottawa-spends-3-million-to-battle-first-nations-child-welfare-case

Ken Georgetti (CLC) calls for improvements to seniors pension incomes:
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/national/news/let-s-show-real-respect-our-seniors-georgetti-says-we-must-ensure-no-senior-faced-reti

Cons release an “aggressive” plan to cut red tape for small business in Canada:
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/10/01/conservatives-unveil-reforms-to-cut-red-tape-for-small-businesses/?__lsa=91e5f90c

Federal Politics

Looks like Harper’s control over his backbench may be coming to an end:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/10/02/john-ivison-conservative-backbench-has-lost-its-fear-of-stephen-harper/

International

France’s new Socialist president moves to balance budget by spending cuts AND higher income taxes on higher income earners:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2012/09/french-budget

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-france-budget-idUSBRE88R0AK20120928

Thousands across Germany push for taxes on wealth and financial transactions:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/wealth-tax-germany-protestors-cities-germany_n_1928515.html?ir=Canada+Business&ref=topbar

From the US, unemployment stories, volume ten:
http://gawker.com/5947864/unemployment-stories-vol-ten-it-wouldnt-matter-if-i-just-disappeared-from-the-face-of-the-earth

“I’m working really hard, but I’m not getting ahead”:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/im-working-really-hard-but-im-not-getting-ahead-the-new-middle-class-trap/262912/

A message from a job creator – “raise my taxes”:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/i-am-a-job-creator-here-is-my-story-and-my-demands/263162/

Child poverty remains epidemically high in the US:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/families-struggle-child-p_b_1924179.html

WalMart workers go on strike:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/walmart-strike-la-workers-walk-off-first-ever_n_1940710.html

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