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OW & ODSP: What is a “Health Spending Account”? / OT & POSPH : Qu’est-ce qu’un « compte gestion-santé »?

February 5, 2019

What a “Health Spending Account” might mean to people on OW & ODSP On November 22, the Minister of Children, Community and Social Services announced a number of proposed changes to the social assistance system in Ontario. Among these proposed changes is the creation of something called a Health Spending Account. While there are currently …

Filed Under: Public Education Tagged With: enews, Social Assistance Reform

Improving access to justice for Indigenous people: New inter-regional Gladue Briefs Project

January 29, 2019

Community legal clinics in the south-west region of Ontario, along with Thunder Bay’s Kinna’aweya legal clinic and the Income Security Advocacy Centre, have joined together in a Gladue Briefs Project with the aim of ensuring that administrative tribunals make decisions that better take into account the circumstances of Indigenous people who appear before them. Background …

Filed Under: Litigation, Public Education Tagged With: enews, Human Rights, Indigenous justice, Indigenous Rights

S.A. v. Metro Vancouver Housing: Supreme Court Decision Preserves Access to Social Programs after Inheritance

January 28, 2019

In an important decision released on January 25, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed that families can make arrangements to ensure that, after their death, their loved ones with disabilities will be financially supported while at the same time maintaining access to much-needed social services and housing. Background on the Case Families often …

Filed Under: Litigation Tagged With: Henson Trust, Social Assistance General

Ontario 2019 Pre-Budget Consultations: Have your say!

January 23, 2019

The provincial government has asked for input into the upcoming 2019 provincial Budget. There are currently two pre-budget consultation processes that you can plug into: The Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs is conducting hearings across the province and accepting written submissions until 5:00pm on January 29. The Minister of Finance is hosting …

Filed Under: Policy Advocacy Tagged With: Employment Standards, enews, Provincial Budgets, Social Assistance Rates, Social Assistance Reform, Special Diet Allowance

Important Survey on How Canada Measures Poverty: Jan 31 deadline

January 21, 2019

An important consultation is happening right now on the way that Canada measures poverty. The federal government has said that it will make the Market Basket Measure (MBM) Canada’s official poverty line, and will use the MBM to measure its progress on meeting its poverty reduction goals. But if the MBM isn’t set up properly …

Filed Under: Policy Advocacy, Public Education Tagged With: enews, Poverty Reduction Strategy

ISAC Annual Report / Rapport annuel 2017-2018

January 18, 2019

– la version française suit dessous – The past year has seen many development in the income security and employment landscape, with many more to come in the near future. Check out our annual report to see the key milestones of our work in 2017-2018, including: The release of Income Security: A Roadmap for Change …

Filed Under: General, Public Education Tagged With: annual report, enews

A year of Bill 148: Not what the big business lobby predicted

January 10, 2019

A full year of big changes to labour law in Ontario has just passed. Newly released jobs numbers let us measure the impact of these changes, and gauge whether the nightmarish predictions of job losses and economic upheaval have come true. Last January, Bill 148 ushered in a sweeping set of labour law reforms in …

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Employment Standards, enews, Equal pay for equal work, Paid sick days, PEL days

Migrant Rights Network Launches on International Migrants Day / Lancement du Réseau Des Droits des Migrant(e)s à l’occasion de la Journée Internationale des Migrant(e)s

December 18, 2018

On December 8th and 9th, the Income Security Advocacy Centre joined nearly 60 representatives of 35 organizations in Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Anishinabe, Mississaugas of the New Credit territory (Toronto). Today, December 18th, 2018, International Migrants Day, we are part of a new cross-Canada organization, the MIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK, which will combat racism and fight for migrant justice. …

Filed Under: Community Organizing, General Tagged With: enews, Migrant Workers

Supreme Court strikes down “cruel and unusual” mandatory victim surcharge

December 14, 2018

In a landmark group of cases, the Supreme Court today struck down the mandatory victim surcharge, finding that it was cruel and unusual in its effects on people living in poverty. The mandatory victim surcharge requires every person who is convicted of a criminal offence in Canada to pay a fine as part of their …

Filed Under: Litigation Tagged With: Access to Justice, enews, victim surcharge

What Changing the ODSP Definition of Disability Would Mean / Que signifierait changer la définition d’invalidité du POSPH?

December 13, 2018

On November 22, 2018, the Minister of Children, Community and Social Services announced proposed changes to the social assistance system in Ontario. One change would make the ODSP definition of disability more like definitions used in federal government benefit programs. This proposed change would result in many low-income people with disabilities in Ontario who would …

Filed Under: Public Education Tagged With: enews, Social Assistance Reform

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