Top Stories
Report finds significant gaps in Ontario health care, depending on income:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/13/report-finds-significant-gaps-in-ontario-healthcare.html
- Here’s the report: http://www.hqontario.ca/System-Performance/Yearly-Reports/Measuring-Up-2016
Social assistance cuts making it harder to regain custody:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/10/09/social-assistance-cuts-making-it-harder-to-regain-custody.html
- Sarnia residents to Stand Up Against Poverty today: http://www.theobserver.ca/2016/10/12/city-residents-urged-to-stand-up-against-poverty
Toronto fund to prevent homelessness stacked against kids and disabled, advocates say:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/08/fund-to-prevent-homelessness-stacked-against-kids-disabled-advocates-say.html
- OCAP and SALCO’s report: https://ocaptoronto.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/left-in-the-lurch.pdf
- Homelessness funding increase not enough to address growing need in Niagara:
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2016/10/13/closeup-homelessness-funding-falls-short-of-need
Cities’ housing and homelessness plans doomed to fail without federal investment, says report:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/10/cities-homelessness-plans-doomed-to-fail-without-federal-cash-report.html
- Here’s the report: http://www.stmichaelshospital.com/pdf/news/20161010.pdf
Homeless group asks federal Liberals to focus housing plan on poor and Indigenous people:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/homeless-liberals-housing-plan-1.3799638?cmp=abfb
- Stop building junk on reserves, says Mike Holmes: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/stop-building-junk-on-reserves-says-mike-holmes-1.1083657
Unifor’s pension concession signals new reality:
http://thetyee.ca/News/2016/09/26/GM-Union-Pension-Concession/
- Death of private pensions puts more pressure on CPP: https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2016/09/27/death-of-private-pensions-puts-more-pressure-on-cpp-cohn.html
- Editorial: Changes ahead for pensions plans: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/changes-ahead-for-pension-plans-394907991.html
- Small and medium-size businesses say CPP increases are “not modest”:
http://www.metronews.ca/life/money/2016/10/11/smes-say-cpp-increases-not-modest.html
Quebec is still holding out on pension reform:
http://montrealgazette.com/business/quebec-is-still-holding-out-on-pension-reform?__lsa=b548-21cfAdvocates demand better protection for Ontario workers:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/07/advocates-demand-better-protection-for-ontario-workers.html
- October 7 was World Day for Decent Work: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b32b33961fd1e65272919d8a6&id=7a9f5f205f&e=51059eb750
- The October 1 Make It Fair! Rally in full on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-834249604/make-it-fair-rally-in-full
Ten things to know about Canada’s guaranteed annual income debate:
http://behindthenumbers.ca/2016/10/07/ten-things-know-canadas-guaranteed-annual-income-debate/
- The soul of poverty: http://institute.plan.ca/blog/the-soul-of-poverty/
Trudeau says Liberals not looking at raising federal minimum wage:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-minimum-wage-trudeau-1.3796315
- Liberals launch consultations on changes to EI parental leave: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-launch-consultations-on-changes-to-parental-leave/article32274517/
People who are poor in Canada urged to file their taxes to get access to benefits:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/filing-taxes-poverty-benefit-1.3792408
Idle No More protest Monday calls on Trudeau to keep promises on Indigeous, environmental issues:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/idle-no-more-trudeau-thanksgiving-1.3799110?cmp=rss
Sanger: How to offset the hardship from carbon pricing:
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/sanger-how-to-offset-the-hardship-from-carbon-pricing
Citizenship applications plummet as fees soar:
https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2016/10/12/citizenship-applications-plummet-as-fees-soar.html
Ontario
Escalating energy bills a concern for protesters:
http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2016/10/11/escalating-energy-bills-a-concern-for-protesters
- Home energy costs a greater burden on low-income residents, says fiscal watchdog: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/home-energy-spending-financial-accountability-office-1.3780485
Some northern Ontario farms are bringing in migrant Mexican workers:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/migrant-farm-workers-northern-ontario-1.3795537
Government release: Ontario added 16,200 jobs in September:
https://news.ontario.ca/medg/en/2016/10/ontario-adds-16200-jobs-in-september.html
Ontario’s plan to de-list opioids could lead to more overdoses, death, say drug addiction experts:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-opioid-plan-ottawa-reaction-1.3802718
Reports, Events, Campaigns and Other Good Things
Be part of Canada Without Poverty’s Thunderclap for UN Eradication of Poverty Day on October 17:
http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=389075e355b60ea9c8d3e4044&id=0698fc0e53&e=be99085c7f
Two anti-poverty rallies planned for today and October 17 in Sarnia-Lambton:
http://blackburnnews.com/sarnia/sarnia-news/2016/10/13/anti-poverty-rallies-planned/
Report: OAS / GIS are key drivers against hunger; why aren’t they available to everyone?:
https://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2016-10-12/should-security-provided-old-age-security-be-age-centric
- OAS must be boosted to keep up with wage inflation: http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/old-age-security-is-melting-away-so-more-of-you-will-rely-on-low-income-support-cheques-when-you-retire
Toronto event October 23: Push for Change to end youth homelessness:
http://homelesshub.ca/events/push-change-arrives-toronto
New book: Pandemic Preparedness and Homelessness: Lessons from H1N1 in Canada:
http://homelesshub.ca/lessonsfromH1N1
Racialized community coalition launches Legislative Framework for the Ontario Anti-racism Directorate:
http://mtcsalc.org/en/what-s-new1/racialized-community-coalition-launches-legislative-framework-ontario-anti-racism-directorate/#ARAlegislation
Two new publications on Basic Income from the CCPA:
http://basicincome.org/news/2016/10/canada-research-organization-releases-two-new-reports-basic-income/
RESPs: Free money from government that half of Canadians don’t ask for:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/resps-peter-armstrong-kerry-taylor-1.3794444
Around the Province
OCAP demands fixes to housing fund at Toronto City Hall:
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/6907411-ontario-coalition-against-poverty-demands-fixes-to-housing-fund-at-city-hall/-v1/
Toronto rooming house conversions to Airbnb worry housing advocates:
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2016/10/11/rooming-house-conversions-worry-housing-advocates.html
Toronto’s new Presto transit fare system may be a good idea, but only if you can afford it:
http://basicsnews.ca/presto/
Daily Bread, others may cut ties with troubled Flemingdon Community Food Bank:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/10/daily-bread-others-may-cut-ties-with-troubled-flemingdon-community-food-bank.html
North Hastings Children’s Services coordinating efforts to stop domestic violence:
http://www.bancroftthisweek.com/?p=7155
North Simcoe report says addressing poverty key to reducing hospital visits:
http://www.simcoe.com/news-story/6899040-north-simcoe-report-says-addressing-poverty-key-to-reducing-hospital-visits/
Young mothers and public health nurses will forge close relationships in a new London / Middlesex County program:
http://www.lfpress.com/2016/10/10/teen-mom-remembers-nurses-help-kindness
Basic income already proven to work:
http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/2016/10/11/basic-income-already-proven-to-work
Sudbury conference explores basic income:
https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/never-heard-of-a-basic-income-guarantee-you-might-want-to-read-this-435746
Campaign collecting new socks to help those in Peel living in poverty:
http://www.mississauga.com/community-story/6901242-campaign-collecting-new-socks-to-help-those-in-peel-living-in-poverty/
Across the Country
Hunger Free Manitoba campaign asks for social assistance increase from current $3.96 per day:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/premier-asked-to-hike-social-assistance-396386831.html
- Manitoba NDP government’s poverty reduction plan failed miserably: http://www.winnipegsun.com/2016/10/12/ndp-failed-miserably-at-reducing-poverty
New report shows Vancouver renters squeezed to the streets:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ugm-uvic-homelessness-report-1.3801413
- The link between Vancouver’s homelessness and soaring housing prices: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-link-between-vancouvers-homelessness-and-soaring-housing-prices/article32304886/
- Critics say Greater Victoria BC landlords are taking advantage of tight housing market to raise rents: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/landlords-seizing-on-tight-market-to-raise-rents-poverty-groups-say-1.2363103
- Single women in poverty being forced into predatory sex-for-rent arrangements in Vancouver: http://bc.ctvnews.ca/ctv-investigation-i-posed-as-a-woman-willing-to-exchange-sex-for-rent-1.3091162
BC’s welfare laws rob women of choice in relationships:
http://theprovince.com/opinion/kendra-milne-b-c-welfare-laws-rob-women-of-choice-in-relationships
BC advocate touts basic income for people with disabilities:
http://institute.plan.ca/blog/a-basic-income-for-people-with-disabilities/
BC government’s Disability Jobs Plan critiqued as uninspiring:
http://rankandfile.ca/2016/10/12/the-bc-liberals-and-a-disability-jobs-plan-that-does-not-deliver
For some BC children with mental illness, poverty is the diagnosis:
http://www.metronews.ca/features/vancouver/vancouvering/2016/10/07/bc-children-with-mental-illness-poverty-is-the-diagnosis.html
Op-Ed: Let’s demand action on poverty in BC:
http://theprovince.com/opinion/trish-garner-its-time-to-demand-action-on-poverty-in-b-c
Minimum wage fears in Alberta are imagined, while the benefits to the working poor are real:
http://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-minimum-wage-fears-imagined-but-benefits-to-poor-real
National
Bank of Canada governor says economy should soon get a boost from Canada Child Benefit and new infrastructure spending:
http://www.timescolonist.com/sluggish-exports-continue-to-confound-says-bank-of-canada-governor-1.2361490
Minister Morneau says global anxiety about change best tackled by first helping families:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1405304-global-anxiety-about-change-best-tackled-by-first-helping-families-says-morneau
Morneau says housing market rule changes will take time to play out:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bill-morneau-economists-1.3802924
The best and worst cities in Canada to be a woman:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/what-is-the-best-and-worst-city-in-canada-to-be-a-woman-1.3113113
How Canada’s immigration laws make migrant sex workers’ jobs more dangerous:
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/how-canadas-immigration-laws-are-making-migrant-sex-workers-jobs-more-dangerous
Tony Clement pulls out of Conservative leadership race:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tony-clement-dropping-out-1.3801305
International
Striking new research on inequality: “Whatever you thought, it’s worse”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/06/striking-new-research-on-inequality-whatever-you-thought-its-worse/
Privatizing the public sector is actually costing taxpayers money:
http://www.salon.com/2016/10/06/privatizing-the-public-sector-is-actually-costing-tax-payers-money_partner/
Thomas Piketty recommends increasing property taxes to curb rising inequality:
http://www.smh.com.au/business/increase-property-taxes-to-curb-rising-inequality-thomas-pikettys-first-australian-interview-20161008-gry23l.html
Welfare offers short-term help and long-term poverty:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2016/10/13/welfare-offers-short-term-help-and-long-term-poverty/#966105964baf
How can housing end poverty in the UK?:
https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/sep/26/housing-end-poverty-numbers-joseph-rowntree-foundation
UK Conservatives deliberately driving immigrants into poverty, says opposition:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-deliberately-driving-immigrants-into-poverty-snp-warns-a7360306.html
Welfare and pension increases to be increased in Irish budget:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/welfare-and-pension-increases-to-be-announced-in-budget-1.2824546
Ireland to unveil new universal childcare payment:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/universal-childcare-payment-to-be-unveiled-in-budget-1.2824542
Australia’s “Healthy Welfare” card won’t solve youth unemployment:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/healthy-welfare-card-wont-solve-youth-unemployment/news-story/16d9c847ea1959ef5b2e10ac7bd0c0ae
Wealthy San Francisco tech investors bankroll bid to ban homeless camps:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/12/san-francisco-homeless-proposition-q-tech-investors
No vouchers for families on welfare to buy diapers after California governor vetoes plan:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-no-voucher-for-welfare-families-to-buy-1474836219-htmlstory.html
Germany approves new law to curb social benefits for EU immigrants:
https://www.enca.com/world/germany-approves-new-law-to-curb-social-benefits-for-eu-immigrants
New Zealand child poverty a source of deep concern, says United Nations:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/07/new-zealand-child-poverty-a-source-of-deep-concern-says-un
New Zealand Police Minister says child poverty is caused by bad parenting:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/85282990/judith-collins-criticised-for-comments-about-parental-responsibility-and-poverty
Trump tax plan gives 47% of cuts to richest 1%, new analysis finds:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2016/10/11/trump-tax-plan-gives-47-of-cuts-to-richest-1-new-analysis-finds/#73ea2e9c59fc
Warren Buffet calls Trump’s bluff and releases data showing paying tax in every year since 1944:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/business/buffett-calls-trumps-bluff-and-releases-his-tax-return.html?_r=0
There’s no way out of poverty in the US without reducing wealth inequality:
http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/300123-no-end-to-poverty-without-reducing-wealth-inequality
World Bank says tens of millions face poverty unless cities plan for climate change:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-cities-poverty-idUSKCN12C2A5
