Budget increases to OW and ODSP rates come into effect
Increases won’t be enough to lift Oxford residents out of poverty
ISAC’s new rate sheet
BC Welfare Food Challenge runs November 3 to November 9
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Are you registered to vote? Use this online tool to be sure:
Election 2015: ISAC’s list of key issues and where the parties stand:
Campaign 2000 report: Mapping Child Poverty: A Reality in Every Federal Riding
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A real nation would not let this happen to Aboriginal people:
Report shows the minimum wage is rising in Ontario but workers are still suffering:
Story and video: Big city mayors put pressure on for a solution to Canada’s affordable housing crisis
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Major growth in food bank use in Toronto suburbs reveals a geographical shift in poverty; suburban services are not keeping up; and note that fully 65% of food bank users have social assistance as their primary source of income
London Public Health calls for an increase to social assistance rates due to rising cost of food
Ottawa ACORN calls for end to clawback of child support from social assistance benefits
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Star editorial: Stop clawing back child support payments from social assistance recipients
Consultations on revamping Ontario’s labour laws end: Workers speak out
With news that the federal budget is now balanced, some responses
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Ontario government defers decision that would have eliminated the ODSP Work-Related Benefit
Ontario being taken to court over child support clawbacks in OW and ODSP
Ottawa activists protest for higher ODSP shelter rates
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National Vote to End Poverty campaign launched September 1
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives releases four-part platform to end inequality in Canada
On the one-year anniversary of Ontario’s second Poverty Reduction Strategy, CCPA-Ontario looks at Ontario’s commitment, current Ontario poverty numbers, and the need for a strong federal partner
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Nunavut considering ending the clawback of the National Child Benefit Supplement from social assistance benefits
Who actually are the “middle class” that politicians are always talking about?
New poll finds Canadians are worried about economic recession and their own financial security
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Why aren’t the federal political party leaders talking about poverty in this election campaign?
Study finds food insecurity takes a heavy financial toll on Ontario’s health care system
Vancouver Sun Op-Ed: Tackling housing affordability now means we won’t have to pay for it later
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Globe Editorial: Fix Canada’s broken Employment Insurance system
Star Editorial: Ontario must do more to collect unpaid wages
Ontario’s community legal clinics given $3.9 million, some for giving more help to vulnerable workers
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Campaign 2000 calls for putting the spotlight on child poverty during the federal election campaign
UCCB increase and retroactive lump sum payment arrived July 20
Put Food in the Budget investigates social assistance poverty in Whitefish River, Manitoulin Island
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91 percent of Canadians support a national pharmacare program
Ontario court dismisses class action lawsuit against WSIB for “pre-existing condition” decision-making
Poverty in the North, especially on social assistance, the subject of Food in the Budget research trip
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