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To build public awareness and inform low-income Ontarians about the issues we’re working on, we create information sheets, backgrounders, and updates as required and circulate them electronically, primarily through our ISAC E-List (subscribe here).

Click on the links below for our latest public education material. Documents related to major topic areas are in the sidebar to the right. All our materials are on our Publications Archive page.

More comprehensive income security law materials can be found on the following websites:

  • Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) produces clear, accurate and practical legal information to help people understand and exercise their legal rights.
  • Your Legal Rights is a project of CLEO, and is a website of free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario.
  • Basic Income – new webinar June 15 June 6, 2017 - The Ontario government recently announced details of its Basic Income Pilot Project. ISAC held a webinar on basic income last October, which examined the idea of basic income and some of the opportunities and risks, particularly for people on social assistance. Using the information in that webinar as a starting point, this follow-up webinar will ...
  • Ontario Budget 2017: ISAC response and analysis April 28, 2017 - More than 930,000 Ontarians continue to wait for incomes that give health and dignity: Other announcements bring much-needed change Ontario’s 2017 Budget does very little to address the deep poverty experienced by people relying on support from Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), particularly those without other sources of income. The ...
  • Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Project: What will it mean for people on social assistance? April 27, 2017 - – la version française suit dessous – Earlier this week, the Ontario government announced its Basic Income Pilot Project. The government has not yet provided all the details about how the pilot project will work, but we are working to get more information and will share it when we can. In the meantime, we have ...
  • The 2017 Federal Budget and Income Security March 24, 2017 - The federal Budget announced on March 22 does very little to address the poverty and income inequality that Canadians are experiencing right now. The Budget did announce important investments over time in key areas like housing and childcare as well as modest changes to Employment Insurance and federal labour law. There are also targeted investments ...
  • Increase won to ODSP / OW medical travel mileage rate January 11, 2017 - Self-employment business travel rate also going up this month Major progress has been made on improving supports for people on social assistance to get to medical treatment. The Ministry of Community and Social Services has just announced an increase in the medical travel mileage rate to pay for the costs people on social assistance have ...
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