Top Stories
“The Premier’s Office: The New Team”:
http://www.premier.gov.on.ca/team/
- Press Release: http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2013/02/jobs-economy-a-fair-society-priorities-for-new-ontario-government.html
On Ted McMeekin, the new Minister of Community and Social Services:
http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/02/11/hamilton-mcmeekin-cabinet.html
Wynne calls for a “fair society”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-premier-wynne-calls-for-fair-society-gives-rivals-spots-in-cabinet-shakeup/article8454571/
Four challenges ahead:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/02/11/premier_kathleen_wynnes_new_cabinet_faces_four_major_challenges_cohn.html
On the new Finance Minister:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontarios-new-finance-minister-a-nice-guy-finishes-first/article8479202/
Other Ontario
Andrea Horwath makes the list of NDP priorities public:
http://ontariondp.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13-02-06-Letter-to-Wynne.pdf
Editorial says the “social assistance mess” should be Wynne’s top priority:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/Column+Social+assistance+mess+should+priority/7921549/story.html
- Letter to editor in response, from me: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Improving+incomes/7935601/story.html
Ontario looking to revoke payday loan company licenses:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/02/05/toronto-cash-payday.html?cmp=rss
More on the Conference Board of Canada’s report – author says the problem of inequality “can be fixed through public and political will”:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Canadas+social+score+dragged+down+poverty+inequality+report/7914767/story.html
And another take, from Michael Laxer, on poverty as Canada’s greatest child abuse problem:
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/michael-laxer/2013/02/canadas-greatest-child-abuse-problem-poverty
Report should be a call to action:
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/tackle+poverty+Canada+needs+make+changes/7942961/story.html
Around the Province
It’s Kenora’s Week of Action Against Poverty:
http://www.kenoraonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4401&Itemid=160
Northumberland seems not to know that they are required to consult with the public on their housing and homelessness plans:
http://www.northumberlandnews.com/opinion/letters/article/1574848–shame-on-northumberland-county
Peel activists call for Wynne to take action on “silent epidemic” of poverty:
http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/1574591–labour-group-calls-for-end-hidden-poverty-in-peel
- (remember: Ontario is not Greece: http://behindthenumbers.ca/2013/01/31/repeat-after-me-ontario-is-not-greece/)
Youth and working poverty is rising in Niagara:
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/02/05/youth-working-poverty-rising-in-niagara
Good blog from Sudbury on what’s happened with CSUMB:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/16176
Poverty Reduction Strategy open house meeting in Thunder Bay:
http://www.netnewsledger.com/2013/02/05/poverty-reduction-strategy-open-house/
Across the Country
Pennies for kids in poverty strikes a chord with Nova Scotia MLA:
http://www.novanewsnow.com/Opinion/Columns/2013-02-08/article-3170764/Pennies-working-against-poverty/1
Nova Scotia set to deliver new housing strategy next month:
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/645455-ns-set-to-tackle-affordable-housing-challenge
Meanwhile, BC’s housing minister calls a social housing challenge “unrealistic”:
http://www.news1130.com/2013/02/05/social-housing-challenge-is-unrealistic-coleman/
News from BC’s poverty reduction coalition:
http://bcpovertyreduction.ca/2013/01/you-made-a-difference-highlights-of-2012/
Looking at reducing poverty in small town Alberta:
http://www.airdrieecho.com/2013/01/30/city-looking-at-local-poverty-issues
New poverty report on the Bow Valley:
http://www.canmoreleader.com/2013/02/05/poverty-report-encouraging-action
National
CMA says it’s time to end the national disgrace of Aboriginal poverty:
http://www.cma.ca/being-poorer-dying-faster-national-disgrace
Anti-poverty and human rights groups stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Idle No More:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/02/05/anti_poverty_and_human_rights_groups_shouldertoshoulder_with_idle_no_more.html
Did you know the Finance Committee was instructed by Parliament to do a study of income inequality in Canada? Apparently, neither did they:
http://www.cpj.ca/en/content/does-parliament-care-about-equal-opportunity
Heather Mallick says Canada is becoming the Slytherin house of international Hogwarts:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/02/04/canada_becomes_retroamerican_on_guns_immigration_and_intellect_mallick.html
International
Welfare fraud “a drop in the bucket” compared to tax avoidance:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/welfare-fraud-tax-avoidance
Measuring poverty in the UK: more than 2 million kids not counted:
http://rt.com/news/poverty-children-uk-data-777/
Nearly 2/3 of Americans are delaying retirement because they can’t afford it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323926104578276241741448064.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet&sf9158094=1
The White House outlines what government spending cuts would mean on the ground:
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/21669185/article-White-House–Cuts-threaten-social-welfare-programs?instance=secondary_story_left_column
Pleading for more cash assistance in Minnesota:
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2013/02/07/welfare-rights-group-pleads-minnesota-cash-assistance-increases
Youth poverty rising in Germany’s former primary industrial region:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/30/ruhr-j30.html
