Top Stories
One in two Indigenous children in danger of going to school hungry:
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/06/21/one-in-two-indigenous-children-in-danger-of-going-to-school-hungry.html
- Indigenous languages are in danger of becoming extinct — here’s how you can help save them:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/06/21/indigenous-languages_a_23465069/
Child poverty linked to discrimination and systemic inequality, Campaign 2000 study suggests:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/06/18/child-poverty-linked-to-discrimination-and-systemic-inequality-study-suggests.html
- In Bill Morneau’s riding, 40 per cent of children live in poverty: Report: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-in-bill-morneaus-riding-40-per-cent-of-children-live-in-poverty/
- Liberals pressed on anti-poverty plan as report details high child poverty rates: https://www.thespec.com/news-story/8679850-liberals-pressed-on-anti-poverty-plan-as-report-details-high-child-poverty-rates/
- CTV News: New child poverty report:
https://www.facebook.com/CTVNewsChannel/videos/1822664511128205/ - A look at child poverty rates in MPs ridings: https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/8677279-a-look-at-child-poverty-rates-in-mps-ridings/
- La pauvreté infantile est endémique dans les groupes minoritaires du Canada: http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2018/06/18/la-pauvrete-infantile-est-endemique-dans-les-groupes-minoritaires-du-canada/
- Almost a third of Windsor West kids living in poverty – report: http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/every-10th-person-in-windsor-area-a-child-living-in-poverty-report
- Ranking Northern Ontario’s federal ridings by child poverty rate: https://www.sudbury.com/around-the-north/ranking-northern-ontarios-federal-ridings-by-child-poverty-rate-957977
- Ottawa-Vanier, Ottawa South among federal ridings with highest child poverty rates: https://globalnews.ca/news/4280430/ottawa-vanier-ottawa-south-child-poverty-rates/
- Child poverty rate in Thunder Bay surpasses 20 per cent: https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/child-poverty-rate-in-thunder-bay-surpasses-20-per-cent-957817
- Nipissing-Timiskaming child poverty rate 17.5%: http://www.nugget.ca/2018/06/19/nipissing-timiskaming-child-poverty-rate-175
Here’s the report: “Riding by Riding Analysis Shows Child Poverty in Canada Knows No Boundaries”:
https://campaign2000.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Campaign-2000-Riding-by-Riding-Child-Poverty-Report.pdf
- Here’s the link to info about the report: https://campaign2000.ca/child-poverty-by-federal-ridings/
- Here’s the list of child poverty rates by each federal riding: https://campaign2000.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/federalridings2018.pdf
- Here’s a sharable infographic: https://campaign2000.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/C2000-Infographic-for-web-June18.18.pdf
- Watch the Prime Minister respond to the report during Question Period (clip at 6:39): http://www.cpac.ca/en/programs/question-period/episodes/62610636
- Read Minister Duclos’ response to the report:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1578241-liberals-pressed-on-anti-poverty-plan-as-report-details-child-poverty-rates
Inquest into homeless man’s death in Toronto recommends increased social services:
http://www.timescolonist.com/inquest-into-homeless-man-s-death-in-toronto-recommends-increased-social-services-1.23342673
- Jury recommends sweeping changes after inquest into homeless man’s death in shack fire:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/grant-faulkner-verdict-1.4714402
Dollars away from homelessness: The realities of renting on social assistance in Saskatoon:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/social-assistance-saskatoon-discrimination-1.4708435
The fascinating fallout from a minimum wage raise (shhh everyone will want one):
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/briefing/article-the-fascinating-fallout-from-a-minimum-wage-raise-shh-everyone-will/
- Fight for $15 and Fairness rally sends message to Doug Ford: We are the people: https://nowtoronto.com/news/doug-ford-minimum-wage/
Protecting Canadians from the high-interest debt trap:
http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2018/protecting-canadians-from-the-high-interest-debt-trap/
Supreme Court decision undermines access to justice:
http://www.archdisabilitylaw.ca/Media_Advisory_and_Notice_to_the_Community_Supreme_Court_Decision_Undermines_Access_to_Justice
Federal government tables Canada’s first national accessibility law:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-government-tables-canadas-first-national-accessibility-law/
Ontario
The incoming Ford administration orders freeze on hiring and discretionary spending:
https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/06/18/the-incoming-ford-administration-orders-freeze-on-hiring-and-discretionary-spending.html
- Ford says nurses, teachers exempt from public sector hiring freeze: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/06/19/doug-ford-nurses-teachers-public-sector-hiring-freeze/
Incoming Premier Doug Ford quietly axes Green Ontario Fund:
https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/06/19/doug-ford-warns-gasoline-companies-to-pass-along-his-10-cent-a-litre-tax-cut.html
- Ending an energy conservation program is a bad start for Doug Ford’s government: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2018/06/21/ending-an-energy-conservation-program-is-a-bad-start-for-doug-fords-government.html
- GreenON program extended to end of October “to fulfill those commitments”: https://www.dwmmag.com/greenon-program-extended-to-end-of-october/
Ontario’s Doug Ford may be in big trouble (and not know it):
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/briefing/article-ontarios-doug-ford-may-be-in-big-trouble-and-not-know-it/
- Ontario’s credit outlook downgraded to “negative” as Doug Ford takes the reins:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/06/15/ontario-credit-rating-fitch_a_23460172/
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath says she’ll hold Doug Ford to account:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/briefing/article-ontarios-doug-ford-may-be-in-big-trouble-and-not-know-it/
Jack Mintz: How a Doug Ford government can make Ontario rich again:
http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/jack-mintz-how-a-doug-ford-government-can-make-ontario-rich-again
Ontario Tories’ point man on health care wants more innovation:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/06/15/ontario-tories-point-man-on-health-care-wants-more-innovation.html
Choosing cabinet, picking office space, hiring assistants: PC transition to power underway:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4267018/doug-ford-transition-team-ontario-tories/
What a PC government in Ontario means for students:
http://charlatan.ca/2018/06/what-a-pc-government-in-ontario-means-for-students/
What’s the cost of Doug Ford’s promises?:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4212454/ontario-election-cost-doug-ford-promises/
Andrew Jackson: Doug Ford and the contradictions of right-wing politics:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-doug-ford-and-the-contradictions-of-right-wing-politics/
The good, the bad, and the ugly: A look back at 15 years of Liberal government:
https://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-a-look-back-at-15-years-of-liberal-government
Reports, Events, Campaigns and Other Good Things
OFIFC Submission on the Homelessness Partnering Strategy:
https://mailchi.mp/edu/in-recognition-of-national-indigenous-peoples-day?e=6da7d6f883
Stats Can: Employment Insurance, April 2018:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/180621/dq180621b-eng.htm?CMP=mstatcan
Irregular not “illegal,” “asylum seekers” not “queue jumpers”: Demystifying the Canada-US border crossings and exploring the City of Ottawa’s role – June 28 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm:
http://olip-plio.ca/wow-event/irregular-not-illegal-asylum-seekers-not-queue-jumpers-demystifying-the-canada-us-border-crossings-and-exploring-the-city-of-ottawas-role/
Stats Can: Consumer Price Index May 2018:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/180622/dq180622a-eng.htm?CMP=mstatcan
Around the Province
Culinary arts, carpentry at top of Ontario Works job training list in Sudbury:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/food-services-ontario-works-1.4712254
Increasing poverty in Gravenhurst prompts community to form GAP:
https://www.muskokaregion.com/community-story/8676809-increasing-poverty-in-gravenhurst-prompts-community-to-form-gap/
Toronto tenants opposing rent increase accuse building staff of harassment, obstruction:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/crossways-tenants-rent-increase-1.4701521
Pay-what-you-can grocery store in Toronto aims to combat poverty, food waste:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/pay-what-you-can-grocery-store-aims-to-combat-poverty-food-waste-1.3975739
New Thunder Bay program helps people save money on electricity:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-energy-saving-program-1.4708863
Oshawa poverty outreach centre Gate 3:16 desperate for new space:
https://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/8678737-oshawa-poverty-outreach-centre-gate-3-16-desperate-for-new-space/
Confronting perceptions of poverty in Haliburton County:
http://www.haliburtonecho.ca/confronting-perceptions-of-poverty-in-haliburton-county?id=876
Across the Country
B.C. begins paying back millions taken from welfare recipients on methadone:
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/06/15/bc-begins-paying-back-millions-taken-from-welfare-recipients-on-methadone.html
AJ Brown: Allow people with disabilities to earn income above poverty line:
http://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/a-j-brown-allow-people-with-disabilities-to-earn-income-above-poverty-line
Lindsey Richardson: Can staggering BC income-assistance cheques reduce overdose risk?:
http://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/lindsey-richardson-can-staggering-income-assistance-cheques-reduce-overdose-risk
Saskatchewan’s minimum wage, currently Canada’s lowest, to rise 10 cents per hour:
http://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/saskatchewans-minimum-wage-currently-canadas-lowest-to-rise-10-cents-per-hour
Social enterprise improves food security in Garden Hill First Nation, Manitoba:
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/policyfix/2018/06/social-enterprise-improves-food-security-garden-hill-first-nation
DFO orders ‘hard pill to swallow’ for N.B. lobster fishermen, union says:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-fisheries-minister-dominic-leblanc-maritime-fishermen-1.4709648
Vicious circle keeping P.E.I. cook out of the workforce:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-low-income-bonnie-lafferty-1.4711003
Efforts to bring basic income pilot to P.E.I. ‘a failure,’ group says:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-basic-income-failure-cooper-1.4711007
Local coverage of Campaign 2000’s report on child poverty by federal riding:
- Portrait of child poverty shows Montreal ridings among the worst in Canada: http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/portrait-of-child-poverty-shows-montreal-ridings-among-the-worst-in-canada
- Plus d’enfants pauvres dans la grande région de Montréal:
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1107846/enfants-pauvres-pauvrete-infantile-region-montreal-circonscription-campagne-2000 - Recent report sheds light on child poverty in Regina: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/recent-report-sheds-light-on-child-poverty-1.3980736
- Saskatchewan home to federal riding with second highest child poverty rate: https://globalnews.ca/news/4284514/saskatchewan-home-to-federal-riding-with-second-highest-child-poverty-rate/
- Churchill area worst in Canada for child poverty: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/churchill-area-worst-in-canada-for-child-poverty-485865382.html
- Churchill, Winnipeg Centre in top three in child poverty report: http://winnipegsun.com/news/local-news/churchill-winnipeg-centre-in-top-three-in-child-poverty-report
- Manitoba riding has highest child poverty rate in Canada: report: https://globalnews.ca/news/4279779/manitoba-riding-has-highest-child-poverty-rate-in-canada-report/
- Future of kids at stake as poverty rates in Manitoba ridings among highest in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-child-poverty-ridings-1.4711690
- Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River has second-highest child poverty rate in Canada: http://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/desnethe-missinippi-churchill-river-has-second-highest-child-poverty-rate-in-canada
- Peace River – Westlock child poverty rate among country’s highest: https://www.mygrandeprairienow.com/40762/peace-river-westlock-child-poverty-rate-among-countrys-highest/
- Child poverty numbers haven’t improved in Nova Scotia: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/poverty-statistics-still-high-in-cape-breton-1.4711489
- S. child poverty rates higher than average, advocacy group says: http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1578544-n.s.-child-poverty-rates-higher-than-average-advocacy-group-says
- Troubling child poverty numbers for Sydney-Victoria, Cape Breton Canso: http://www.capebretonpost.com/news/troubling-child-poverty-numbers-for-sydney-victoria-cape-breton-canso-219921/
- Study shows child poverty rates above national average in most of Nova Scotia: https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2018/06/19/study-shows-child-poverty-rates-above-national-average-in-most-of-nova-scotia.html
- 5 per cent of Charlottetown children living in poverty: report: http://www.journalpioneer.com/news/local/235-per-cent-charlottetown-children-living-in-poverty-report-219944/
- Opinion: Poverty high in the rich neighbourhood: http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1578721-vibert-poverty-high-in-the-rich-neighbourhood
National
Canada needs a bold new approach to migrants, refugees:
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/06/21/Canada-New-Approach-Migrants-Refugees/
Globe editorial: It’s a good moment to reexamine immigration detention in Canada:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-globe-editorial-its-a-good-moment-to-reexamine-immigration-detention/?cmpid=rss
Pensions to be clawed back from overpaid Sears retirees:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sears-pension-overpayment-1.4713460
Canadians are starting to ease up on their household debt binge:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-14/canada-s-household-debt-to-income-ratio-posts-record-decline
What CPP reforms mean for Canadian seniors:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/retirement/article-what-cpp-reforms-mean-for-canadian-seniors/
Reclaiming Protection: Advocating for an end to the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement:
https://cpj.ca/reclaiming-protection
International
Basic income could work—if you do it Canada-style:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611418/basic-income-could-work-if-you-do-it-canada-style/
Citizens Advice Scotland comment: Fuel poverty rates shame Scotland:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/16295824.Comment__Fuel_poverty_rates_shame_Scotland/
Three-in-four UK employees expect to work beyond 65 – Canada Life:
https://www.covermagazine.co.uk/cover/news/3034423/three-in-four-employees-expect-to-work-beyond-65-canada-life
British supermarket squeeze on suppliers fuels poverty and abuse, campaigners say:
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/uk-supermarket-squeeze-on-suppliers-fuels-poverty-and-abuse-campaigners-say
Report: A minimum-wage job can’t pay the rent anywhere in U.S.:
http://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/report-minimum-wage-jobs-cant-pay-the-rent-anywhere-in-us
Washington DC voters approve giving tipped workers the full minimum wage:
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/19/17474932/tipped-minimum-wage-impact-dc-initiative-77
How the Koch brothers are killing public transit projects around the USA:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html
White House to propose merging labor and education departments, rebranding welfare:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trump-to-propose-merging-labor-and-education-departments.html
America’s poor becoming more destitute under Trump, UN report says:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/us/america-poverty-un-report/index.html
Conflict, climate change choke efforts to cure poverty, inequality: U.N.:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-goals-progress/conflict-climate-change-choke-efforts-to-cure-poverty-inequality-un-idUSKBN1JG32C