Top Stories
Keeping more earnings would help mom on OW; Wynne’s social justice commitment must ensure poverty reduction trumps deficit reduction:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/02/03/welfare_reform_keeping_more_earnings_would_help_single_mom.html
Wynne says she won’t be like McGuinty; names social programs as priorities:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontarios-next-premier-promises-she-wont-be-like-mcguinty/article8031179/
The UK’s employability test for people with disabilities: Not a good model for Ontario:
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/01/sue-marsh-esa-sos/
Three things to look for in social assistance reform:
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/news/social-assistance-reform-is-happening-heres-three-things-to-look-out-for/
Hamilton reminds us that a “rational methodology” for social assistance benefit rates has already been created:
http://whenthemayorsmiles.blogspot.ca/2013/01/reforming-social-assistance-in-ontario.html
Local Cottage Country resident, Francis Lankin, sees her social assistance review report gaining some traction:
http://www.cottagecountrynow.ca/news/article/1574127–social-assistance-report-finding-wide-support
Employment equity: Ensuring everyone gets an equal shot at decent work:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2013/02/01/employment_equity_laws_ensure_workplace_fairness.html
Canada falling behind on poverty, inequality, says Conference Board report:
- CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/02/01/business-canada-society-report-card.html?cmp=rss
- CTV: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-social-score-dragged-down-by-poverty-inequality-report-1.1141759
- Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-a-good-not-great-place-to-live-report/article8158288/?cmpid=rss1
- The report: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/details/society.aspx
Musings on Ontario Politics
Is Wynne’s win the dawn of a new politics in Ontario?
http://sarahjordison.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/is-kathleen-wynnes-victory-the-dawn-of-a-new-kind-of-politics-for-ontario/
After the “massive coup staged by women” premiers, will we have different politics and policy?
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/women-on-top-now-what-188971601.html
Canada Without Poverty comments on Wynne’s positions on social programs:
http://www.cwp-csp.ca/2013/02/ontario-premier-wants-action-on-welfare-housing/
Steve Paikin speculates:
http://theagenda.tvo.org/blog/agenda-blogs/hows-intriguing-scenario
Reports and Other Goodies
Andrew Jackson on taxation, fairness, and revenue generation:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/how-more-tax-on-the-super-rich-will-help-ease-income-inequality/article8009668/
A good reminder from Trish Hennessy that Ontario is not Greece and austerity doesn’t produce prosperity:
http://behindthenumbers.ca/2013/01/31/repeat-after-me-ontario-is-not-greece/
Why the rich don’t want to talk about inequality, and why the 99% do:
http://milescorak.com/2013/02/01/why-the-rich-dont-want-to-talk-about-inequality-and-why-the-99-do/
New report on the problems that people who are homeless and employed experience with employment:
http://www.homelesshub.ca/Library/Employment-Difficulties-Experienced-by-Employed-Homeless-People—Homeless-Hub-Research-Summary-Series-55456.aspx
Some numbers on the dominance of the 1% – another Trish Hennessy goodie!:
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/02/number-never-just-number-dominance-canadas-1
Around the Province
JusticeNet brings legal advice to those in the middle:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/columnists/2013/02/01/justicenet_is_bringing_affordable_justice_to_all_goar.html
Food insecurity a big problem in Belleville:
http://www.intelligencer.ca/2013/01/30/food-insecurity-a-big-problem
Bedbugs torment Hamiltonians residing in social housing:
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/878545–bedbugs-have-social-housing-tenants-under-siege
Across the Country
Food bank in Victoria, BC says food banks are a band aid solution to poverty:
http://www.vicnews.com/news/188934101.html
National
Illness and disability are forcing Canadians to deplete their retirement savings:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/retirement-rrsps/illness-and-disability-costs-forcing-canadians-to-dip-into-their-rrsps/article7331064/
International
Recovery College helps people who are homeless in London, UK:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21236680
The Guardian has a new series to engage people being affected by UK welfare reform to tell their stories:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/blog/2013/jan/30/disability-living-allowance-personal-independence-payments-your-stories
