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Home / Media and Policy News / Media & Policy News: 2 April 2012

Media & Policy News: 2 April 2012

April 2, 2012

Ontario Budget 2012

Have your say on Budget 2012 – click here to take action 

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

Op Ed in The Spec

Disappointment in Sudbury

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

PovNet goes to Revelstoke

Other

Program and benefit changes having dire consequences in Britain

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