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Home / Media and Policy News / Media & Policy News: 6 January 2014

Media & Policy News: 6 January 2014

January 6, 2014

Top Stories

CCPA report: Canada’s top CEOs earn 171 times the average industrial wage:
http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/01/01/top_100_ceos_earned_79_million_on_average_report_says.html

  • Toronto Star editorial: No restraint at the top:http://www.thestar.com/opinion/2014/01/02/good_times_at_the_top_of_the_ceo_heap_editorial.html

Government statement on annual Poverty Reduction Strategy report December 16:
http://news.ontario.ca/mcys/en/2013/12/statement-from-minister-of-children-and-youth-services-2013-annual-report-on-ontarios-poverty-reduct.html

  • Report and overview of five-year accomplishments are here:http://www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/breakingthecycle/report/2013/index.aspx

To eliminate poverty in Canada, we need a dedicated plan:
http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/4298085-the-elimination-of-poverty-requires-a-dedicated-plan/

Dennis Raphael: Child poverty is a problem of family poverty, and what to do about it:
http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/4299112-the-issue-is-not-poor-children-but-family-poverty/

The need for income security solutions was 2013’s theme:
http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/4300677-a-poverty-resolution-for-the-new-year/

Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs hosting 2014 Pre-Budget Consultations across Ontario in coming two weeks:
http://www.ontla.on.ca/committee-proceedings/committee-hearings-notices/files_html/Pre-budget%20EN.htm

Speculation that Andrea Horwath could win the next provincial election, expected this spring:
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4292351-horwath-could-be-ontario-s-first-elected-female-premier

Hennessy’s Index for January 2014 – some words that should be banished:
http://policyalternatives.ca/publications/facts-infographics/hennessys-index-january-2014

Around the Province

Durham man sees benefit of community reaching out to help:
http://www.thepost.on.ca/2013/12/28/people-rally-to-john-mrkics-aid

Latest $14 minimum wage actions – December 14:
http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8e3951a35d48e64f736884ea9&id=0eafe88e10&e=462e04a60b

John Stapleton on Henry Ford’s 1914 114% increase to the minimum wage:
http://openpolicyontario.com/raise-the-minimum-wage-to-21-90-an-hour-just-like-100-years-ago/

On OCAP’s two campaigns:
http://socialistaction.ca/2014/01/01/ocap-says-no-to-welfare-mergercuts/

Across the Country

Does creating a “social mix” in poor neighbourhoods actually benefit the people who are poor?
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Mixed+neighbourhoods+always+good+idea/9344177/story.html

Speaking out against EI changes in Newfoundland and Labrador:
http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2013-12-30/article-3560327/Some-fishing-EI-recipients-had-payments-reassessed-before-Christmas/1

From Medicine Hat, calls for reforming the Canada Pension Plan:
http://medicinehatnews.com/commentary/opinions/2013/12/canada-pension-plan-in-desperate-need-of-reform/

National

Despite commitments to track down tax evaders and that “not one audit position will be eliminated”, feds are cutting auditors:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/collection+agency+auditors/9345818/story.html

Canadian lawyers say new refugee system is deeply flawed:
http://www.carl-acaadr.ca/articles/59

Canadian Bar Association rolls out access to justice strategy:
http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/1841/cba-rolls-out-strategy-to-improve-access-to-justice.html

Study on perceptions of people with disabilities and the workplace:
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/22/workplace-study-exposes-difficulties-faced-by-disabled-workers

CCPA’s Bruce Campbell reflects on the “tarnished” 25th anniversary of NAFTA:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/12/30/free_trades_tarnished_silver_anniversary.html

Poverty costs Canada billions – no matter who’s paying to feed whose children:
https://www.hilltimes.com/opinion-piece/2013/12/17/poverty-costs-canada-billions-of-dollars-every-year/36995

  • Jian Ghomeshi on federal Minister James Moore’s comments:http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2013/12/17/child-poverty-canada/
  • James Moore’s apology: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/industry-minister-regrets-insensitive-comment-on-hungry-children/article15990980/

New foreign worker rules drop the promised ban on allowing employers with criminal convictions to hire:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawas-new-foreign-worker-rules-drop-ban-on-employers-with-criminal-convictions/article16182157/

  • Additional criticism of the new rules: http://www.brandonsun.com/breaking-news/tory-rules-on-hiring-foreign-workers-hit-238687441.html?thx=y

Expanding CPP is an idea whose time has come:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Expanding+idea+whose+time+come/9349205/story.html

Index shows defined benefit pension funds nearly back to fully funded status:
http://www.benefitscanada.com/pensions/db/funded-status-of-plans-reaches-12-year-high-47997

New computer system for EI scheduled for 2016:
http://o.canada.com/news/national/feds-left-with-little-room-for-error-with-new-ei-computer-system-set-for-2016-launch/

International

New York’s new Mayor Bill de Blasio commits to specific progressive action in his inauguration speech to see “an end to economic and social inequalities”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/nyregion/complete-text-of-bill-de-blasios-inauguration-speech.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

2014 was the year of the Great Redistribution (but not the one you might think):
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/21352-the-year-of-the-great-redistribution

US Federal judge rules Florida drug testing of welfare recipients unconstitutional; state to appeal:
http://members.jacksonville.com/news/florida/2013-12-31/story/federal-judge-rules-drug-testing-welfare-recipients-unconstitutional

50 years later, the US War on Poverty is a mixed bag:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/business/50-years-later-war-on-poverty-is-a-mixed-bag.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140105&_r=1&

But some believe it’s important to talk about its success:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/06/marco-rubio-is-wrong-the-war-on-poverty-worked.html

Addressing poverty through promoting marriage hasn’t seemed to work:
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-marriage-stem-poverty-moms.html

But without government programs, the poverty rate would be twice as high:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/05/3120481/poverty-rate-high-government-programs/

Meanwhile, US Democrats intend to make poverty and inequality an election issue:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/02/senate-democrats-bill-reinstate-unemployment-benefits

Webinar on the surveillance of people living in poverty in the USA:
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2013/in_poverty_under_surveillance

Mum forced to pay “Bedroom Tax” on sensory room for disabled daughter:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bedroom-tax-dawn-lennon-must-2979313

In the UK, local Hardship Fund is axed while government urges loans instead:
http://rt.com/news/uk-welfare-local-families-161/

Poverty in Italy reaches record levels:
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/economics/2013/12/30/Italy-Poverty-hits-record-high-amid-recession_9837697.html

Hidden poverty: The well people of Beijing:
http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/hidden-poverty-the-well-people-of-beijing/beijing-cavemen-slums-urbanizaton/c3s14524/

Combating poverty in Guatemala – with red wigglers:
http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/News-Briefs/Fighting-poverty-with-90-million-California-red-worms_Sunday-January-05-2014

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