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Media & Policy News: 27 May 2016

May 27, 2016

Top Stories

Record 171,360 Ontario households on 2015 affordable housing waitlist; four-year average wait:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/05/25/ontarios-affordable-housing-wait-list-grows.html

  • Looming co-op housing crisis could push 50,000 Canadians out of their homes: http://rabble.ca/news/2016/05/looming-co-op-housing-crisis-could-push-50000-canadians-out-their-homes#.V0dE4f4NH9g.facebook
  • Star editorial: More affordable housing is urgently needed: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/05/25/more-affordable-housing-is-urgently-needed-editorial.html

Study: Increase housing affordability – by raising social assistance rates and reducing housing costs – and the need for emergency shelter space will fall:
http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/kneebone-the-secrets-to-reducing-homelessness

  • Here’s that University of Calgary School of Public Policy study: http://www.policyschool.ucalgary.ca/?q=content/shrinking-need-homeless-shelter-spaces

Broadbent Blog: Indigenous children and racial discrimination as fiscal policy:
http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/annastanley/indigenous_children_racial_discrimination_fiscal_policy

CRA is denying the Disability Tax Credit to eligible Canadians with disabilities:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/marvin-ross/disability-tax-credit_b_10108032.html

Man with MS crowdfunds for three showers a week at his long-term care facility: http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news-quebec-beyond/2016/05/26/man-with-ms-crowdfunds-for-three-showers-a-week-at-his-longterm-care-facility

Star editorial: Time to rein in Canada’s tax code:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/05/24/time-to-rein-in-canadas-tax-code-editorial.html

  • Canadians for Tax Fairness blog: Time for the accounting industry to reset their moral compass: http://www.taxfairness.ca/en/blog/time-accounting-industry-reset-their-moral-compass
  • Eggleton: Now is a good time to reform taxation in Canada: http://blogs.theprovince.com/2016/05/22/art-eggleton-now-is-a-good-time-to-reform-taxation-in-canada/

One man’s plight highlights the health care gap between Ontario’s rich and poor:
http://www.680news.com/2016/04/20/one-mans-plight-highlights-health-care-gap-between-ontarios-rich-and-poor/

Cooper / Hennessy Op-Ed: The promise of the living wage movement:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/05/27/the-promise-of-the-living-wage-movement.html

One-third of Canadians are working past retirement age just to make ends meet:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-25-2016-1.3598848/canadian-seniors-still-working-to-make-ends-meet-1.3598884

  • Opposing CPP expansion is bad advice for Canadian workers: http://windsorstar.com/opinion/letters/opposing-cpp-expansion-bad-advice-for-canadian-workers

37% of homeowners caught short of funds at least once in past year: survey:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/manulife-debt-survey-1.3597485

Opinion: Governments need to act on housing affordability:
http://vancouversun.com/opinion/opinion-governments-need-to-act-on-housing-affordability

 

Ontario

Ontario to invest in $900 million over four years from cap-and-trade revenues into retrofitting social housing apartments:
http://globalnews.ca/news/2720877/ontario-liberals-to-invest-900m-on-social-housing-retrofits/?sf26906989=1

  • Government news release: https://news.ontario.ca/mah/en/2016/05/ontario-investing-up-to-900m-in-energy-retrofits-for-social-housing-private-residential-apartment-bu.html

First Nations leaders cautiously optimistic about new provincial indigenous health care plan:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/first-nations-ontario-health-care-plan-1.3600417?cmp=abfb

  • Government news release: https://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2016/05/ontario-launches-222-million-first-nations-health-action-plan.html

Want to address gun crime? Reduce the root causes, including poverty:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/05/25/want-to-address-gun-crime-tackle-root-causes.html

Ontario municipalities seek more SAMS money:
http://www.orangeville.com/news-story/6692115-ontario-municipalities-seek-more-sams-money/

Reducing the interest on payday loans is not enough:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/douglas-hoyes/lowering-interest-rates-o_b_10128280.html

 

Events, Campaigns, Reports, and Other Good Things

Canadian unions launch new CPP campaign “A Better Plan for All”:
http://canadianlabour.ca/news/news-archive/canadian-unions-launch-new-cpp-campaign-%E2%80%9C-better-plan-all%E2%80%9D

May 25: Second annual Justice for Injured Workers Ride in Chatham-Kent:
http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2016/05/17/second-annual-bike-ride-coming-through-chatham-kent-may-25-26

June 16: Workplace Democracy for the 21st Century:
http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/workplace_democracy_for_the_21st_century

A love letter to activists: You are not disposable:
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2016/05/love-letter-to-activists-you-are-not-disposable

Social Planning Toronto campaign: Tell your City Councillor to vote for services to reduce poverty:
http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/10198-2/

Study: Poverty causes physical pain:
http://bigthink.com/natalie-shoemaker/study-poverty-causes-physical-pain

Stats Canada: Payroll employment, earnings and hours, March 2016: Average Canadian paycheque rises 0.5% in March to $960:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/160526/dq160526a-eng.htm?HPA

 

Around the Province

Ottawa to pitch low-income bus pass to province:
http://www.ottawacommunitynews.com/news-story/6690163-city-to-pitch-low-income-bus-pass-to-province/

Sault Ste. Marie community group leaders want public input on how to reduce poverty:
https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/what-would-you-do-to-reduce-poverty-301218

STEP Niagara working to end poverty:
http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2016/05/22/a-step-forward-to-ending-poverty

Landlord licensing passes first major hurdle at Toronto city hall:
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2016/05/19/landlord-licensing-passes-first-major-hurdle-at-city-hall.html

  • Editorial: Toronto should license landlords to protect tenants: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/05/18/license-landlords-to-protect-tenants-editorial.html
  • com tracks Toronto’s worst landlords and buildings: http://globalnews.ca/news/2709560/website-tracks-torontos-worst-landlords-and-buildings/

Cole: Toronto mayor John Tory continuing Rob Ford’s legacy of austerity:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/05/26/john-tory-extends-rob-fords-legacy-of-austerity-cole.html

 

Across the Country

Newfoundland is rising against austerity:
http://rankandfile.ca/2016/05/17/newfoundland-is-rising-against-austerity/

Black and Indigenous prisoners over-represented in Nova Scotia jails:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/black-indigenous-prisoners-nova-scotia-jails-1.3591535

Cape Breton group expresses child poverty concerns to Trudeau:
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/great-coup-for-cape-breton-group-expresses-child-poverty-concerns-to-trudeau-1.2912610

Poverty groups continue to pressure BC government over loss of bus pass for people on disability support:
http://castlegarsource.com/news/poverty-groups-continues-pressure-government-over-bc-bus-pass-changes-41601#.V0S0suQsB-9

  • More than 160 organizations write to BC Premier opposing changes to bus passes for people with disabilities: http://www.straight.com/news/703596/more-160-organizations-write-premier-christy-clark-opposing-changes-bus-passes-people

BC Premier says no to taxing foreign real estate investors:
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/05/christy-clark-says-no-taxing-foreign-real-estate-investors/

  • How to get serious about BC’s affordable housing crisis? CCPA plan says, go big and bold: http://thetyee.ca/News/2016/05/18/CCPA-Affordable-Housing/

Poverty reduction and the living wage in BC:
http://www.nelsonstar.com/opinion/380575641.html

Alberta contributes $6.2 million to Edmonton low income transit pass:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/province-contributes-6-2m-to-edmonton-low-income-transit-pass-1.3602188?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-edmonton

Edmonton Council gives go-ahead for plan to end poverty:
http://globalnews.ca/news/2719279/edmonton-council-gives-go-ahead-for-plan-to-end-poverty/

  • Edmonton’s plan to eliminate poverty in a generation raises questions: http://globalnews.ca/news/2724655/edmonton-plan-to-eliminate-poverty-in-a-generation-raises-questions/

Regina left out of extended EI benefits, despite 39% increase in recipients in March:
http://leaderpost.com/business/money/regina-left-out-of-extended-ei-benefits-despite-39-increase-in-ei-recipients-in-march

  • Regional distribution of benefits highlights inequity in EI system: http://rabble.ca/news/2016/05/regional-distribution-benefits-highlights-inequity-ei-system

Montreal North looks for solutions to poverty:
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-north-looks-for-solutions-to-poverty-1.2911610

 

National

MPs should hear directly from temporary foreign workers:
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/liew-and-rao-mps-should-hear-directly-from-temporary-foreign-workers

  • Change should come for migrant farm workers: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2016/05/24/change-coming-for-migrant-farm-workers

Economic advisor to Morneau says Canada needs to act aggressively, and soon, on economic growth:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/20/economic-growth-expert-says-canada-needs-to-act-aggressively-and-soon.html

  • Poll: Despite government focus on middle-class relief, Canadians’ economic anxiety persists: http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f7dda22184bee7fac707500ef&id=74dfe9c98a&e=9e305f90ee

 

International

Why the Universal Basic Income is not the best intervention to reduce poverty or income inequality:
https://www.socialeurope.eu/2016/05/why-the-universal-basic-income-is-not-the-best-public-intervention-to-reduce-poverty-or-income-inequality/

Hundreds of thousands protest across France against labour reforms:
http://www.dw.com/en/hundreds-of-thousands-protest-across-france-against-labor-reforms/a-19153238

  • France set to grind to a halt as strikes spark fuel shortages and air and rail blockages: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/24/france-set-to-grind-to-a-halt-as-strikes-spark-fuel-shortages-an/

Google Paris offices raided by French tax authorities for “aggravated financial fraud”:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/24/google-offices-paris-raided-french-tax-authorities

NYT editorial: McDonald’s profits fat for shareholders, but wages for workers are lean:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/opinion/at-mcdonalds-fat-profits-but-lean-wages.html?_r=2

US companies “are stashing so much god damn cash overseas” – an enormous loss of tax revenue:
http://gawker.com/companies-are-stashing-so-much-god-damn-cash-overseas-1777847561

Elderly Florida man kills ailing wife because medication wasn’t affordable:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/19/florida-man-kills-wife-medication-not-affordable

To fight poverty in the US, start with housing:
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/281293-to-fight-poverty-start-with-housing

UK man with a disability forced to quit his job because of benefit cuts:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/disabled-multiple-sclerosis-sufferer-who-7978372?#dwVz7xjVSuA2ySAc.97

In the UK, inequality is destroying all the markers of adulthood, from home ownership to marriage:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/25/housing-crisis-jobs-babies-inequality-growing-up-world-changed-young-people-capitalism-failures-adulthood

Australian welfare groups put pressure on government over homelessness:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/mission-australia-anglicare-unitingcare-the-salvation-army-wesley-mission-and-st-vincent-de-paul-pressure-government-on-homelessness-20160523-gp1am9.html

Adding a legal dimension to multidimensional poverty:
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/05/19-legal-view-multidimensional-poverty-prettitore

Ending poverty means closing the gaps between women and men:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/ending-poverty-means-closing-gaps-between-women-and-men

ILO report says quality jobs with social protection vital to ending poverty:
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1947315/poverty-increasing-developed-countries-according-report

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