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Media & Policy News: 25 January 2013

January 25, 2013

Top Stories

The Canada Revenue Agency is no longer mailing personalized tax packages, and the simplified form has been discontinued:
http://www.moneyville.ca/article/1318627–tax-return-changes-raise-concerns-roseman

Anti-poverty rally at Liberal leadership convention tomorrow:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/as-cold-snap-sets-anti-poverty-fight-heats-up-as-hundreds-get-set-march-on-liberals-1749016.htm

More on PC’s “Welfare to Work” white paper:

  • System needs reform, but don’t paint everyone with the same brush:http://www.niagarathisweek.com/opinion/columns/article/1570265–welfare-system-needs-reform-jobs-a-good-place-to-start
  • “Carrots and sticks” in Hudak’s welfare plan:http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/1570260–carrots-and-sticks-in-pc-welfare-plan

Ontario Issues

Sudbury Labour Council’s letter on SCAP’s work on CSUMB:
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2013/01/24/coverage-ensured-public-informed-about-program

No money to keep the heat on in Owen Sound – CSUMB elimination a factor:
http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2013/01/23/families-struggling-to-keep-heat-on

Big impacts coming in Renfrew County:
http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/2013/01/18/provincial-funding-cuts-will-affect-people-locally

Martin Regg Cohn on the other Liberal leadership candidates:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1319861–how-the-four-men-lost-the-ontario-liberal-leadership-cohn

New PCs white paper pledges to delay full-day kindergarten and slash education jobs:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1319403–ontario-tories-would-delay-full-day-kindergarten-slash-thousands-of-education-jobs

The National Post comments on poverty reduction in Ontario:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/24/tasha-kheiriddin-ontarios-failed-approach-to-poverty/

Around the Province

Peterborough Poverty Reduction Network looking to buy property for “community asset that could include a diverse mix of housing, new meeting spaces and a cultural/arts centre”:
http://www.mykawartha.com/news/article/1568915–poverty-network-aims-to-buy-former-mount-st-joseph-property

Reports and Other Goodies

From the CCPA: Canada’s $145 billion infrastructure gap: Where it came from and why it will cost so much to fix it:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/canadas-infrastructure-gap

From Windsor’s Pathway to Potential: Excellent “Understanding Poverty” workbook:
http://pathwaytopotential.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/P2P_UNDERSTANDING-POVERTY-WORKBOOK_LOW-RES.pdf

A new campaign to draw attention to our unravelling social safety net:
https://sites.google.com/site/stitchingoursafteynet/

As previously posted, Oxfam has started a campaign “to end extreme wealth by 2025, and reverse the rapid increase in inequality seen in the majority of countries in the last twenty years, taking inequality back to 1990 levels”

  • Here’s their great media brief on the cost of extreme wealth and inequality:http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/cost-of-inequality-oxfam-mb180113.pdf

Alex Himelfarb’s great speech to CCPA-Ontario’s recent “Post-Austerity” symposium:
http://afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/the-age-of-austerity/

John Stapleton: A Ball Player, a Cop, a Janitor, and a Welfare Recipient:
http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/en/blog/john-stapleton-ball-player-cop-janitor-and-welfare-recipient

How does policy change happen? Here are six theories:
http://tamarackcci.ca/resource-library/policy-systems-change/pathways-change-six-theories-about-how-policy-change-happens

Across the Country

The real problem for the Alberta government’s budget is tax and royalty giveaways:
http://www.betterwayalberta.ca/the-status-quo/the-real-problem-tax-and-royalty-giveaways

City of Winnipeg budget cuts impede the fight against poverty:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/city-cuts-impede-fight-against-poverty-187844621.html

  • Here’s the CCPA Manitoba report:http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/fast-facts-city-no-longer-player-poverty-reduction

National Issues

How running government “like a business” has been a dismal failure:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/running-government-like-a-business-has-been-a-dismal-failure/article6968196/

Carol Goar: Corporate balance sheets are healthy as the economy languishes:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1318638–goar-corporate-balance-sheets-healthy-as-economy-languishes

Inequality and Idle No More
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind-numbers/2013/01/seeing-inequality-through-rose-coloured-classes

Tom Walkom wonders whether Liberals matter any more:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1318573—do-canada-s-or-ontario-s-liberals-matter-any-more-thomas-walkom

Federal News

The Parliamentary Budget Officer’s latest report says cuts are deeper on the front end, but spending is up in the back:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-making-deep-federal-spending-cuts-but-evasive-on-details-pbo-report/article7759904

Bank of Canada to keep interest rates low as economic “deterioration” keeps inflation at bay:
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2013/01/24/coverage-ensured-public-informed-about-program

Harper’s “crony capitalism”:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mark-milke/harper-government-small-businesses_b_2535919.html

International

In New Zealand, a new report says people from refugee backgrounds with disabilities have ‘slipped through the cracks’:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00104/lack-of-support-for-refugees-with-disability-needs.htm

A flexible, educated, and not unionised workforce key to getting The Hobbit to film in NZ:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10861092

Don’t just change policy to end hunger, challenge power:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jan/24/hunger-change-policy-challenge-power

Charities’ silence on government policy is tantamount to collusion:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/charities-silence-government-policy?CMP=twt_gu

Britain is headed for a “triple-dip” recession (Ed note: perhaps that austerity thing isn’t working out the way they planned):

  • Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/25/uk-triple-dip-recession-gdp
  • Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/european-business/britains-economy-flirts-with-triple-dip-recession/article7844538/

Oh gee, it’s not just me – the IMF tells Britain they might want to reconsider that austerity thing:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/24/imf-advises-uk-ease-austerity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/24/imf-george-osborne-austerity-failing

Maybe going after companies like Starbucks that evade taxes might work, says Cameron:
http://m.guardiannews.com/politics/2013/jan/24/david-cameron-starbucks-focus-tax

Are declining corporate tax rates a “ruinous race to the bottom”?:
http://video.ft.com/v/2115754803001/Corporate-tax-a-race-to-the-bottom

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