Ontario Budget 2012
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Carol Goar column: Requiem for a Caring Province
Freeze to social assistance rates and OW health benefit cuts will hurt people with HIV/AIDS
Fred Hahn letter in the Ottawa Citizen
Parents decry lack of child care funding
Eugene Lang says this was a progressive budget
The Spec says some things just don’t make sense
NOW reports on critical responses
Federal Budget 2012
The Star: Ottawa axes National Council of Welfare
Northumberland View: Cut to NCW will hurt low-income Canadians
Globe: Tory war on information
Rabble blog: Small minded budget
Poverty and the Economy
The hidden homeless: newcomers to Canada
Column in the Huffington Post Canada says “helping the weakest and most vulnerable rise up out of poverty and homelessness is both morally right and makes fiscal sense”.
Social Assistance Review
Hamilton activists say it’s nowhere near bold enough
Action on Poverty Around the Country
Vibrant Canada blog: Ottawa and Poverty Reduction: What’s Happening
Action to End Poverty in Alberta – column
Letter on Poverty Reduction in Alberta
Poverty Reduction in Grande Prairie, Alberta
More from Grande Prairie
Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative
Revelstoke, BC, planning for poverty reduction
Other
Program and benefit changes having dire consequences in Britain
