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The province’s CSUMB elimination means cut to Toronto’s homelessness budget
7000 Ontarians join other Canadians fearing evictions as feds end co-op housing subsidy
Sue Ann Levy finds no room in Toronto shelters on a cold January night
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Oxfam released a report yesterday in advance of the World Economic Forum in Davos starting tomorrow. The report is important not only because it reveals that 85 people hold half the world’s wealth – which is garnering the most media attention – but also because it makes the connection between growing inequality and growing social instability, the subverting of democracy, financial deregulation, tax avoidance and evasion, and cuts to public services.
The report calls for those countries gathered at the WEF to pledge to:
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Petition to stop a $4.3 million cut to Toronto’s Housing Stabilization Fund
Cohn on electoral predictions in the Thornhill and Niagara byelections
Tories are leading in both ridings
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Wellesley’s Sheila Block: “Governments are like a bulk buying club for things that we need that are complex, expensive, and have benefits that we can all enjoy”
Health 101: Poverty is the most important determinant
The Atlantic: It’s expensive to be poor
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Why free money might be the right response to poverty
Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty
Online assistance – higher costs, botched systems and infuriating technical problems fall hardest on the poor, the jobless and the neediest
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CCPA report: Canada’s top CEOs earn 171 times the average industrial wage
Government statement on annual Poverty Reduction Strategy report December 16
To eliminate poverty in Canada, we need a dedicated plan
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Citizens for Public Justice says the federal Finance Committee income inequality report doesn’t go nearly far enough
After the National Council of Welfare was cut by the feds in 2012, and after a crowdfunding campaign to keep the work alive, Caledon Institute releases “Welfare in Canada 2012”
Campaign 2000’s Laurel Rothman on how poverty is killing us: “despite decades of economic growth, benefits have not ‘trickled down’”
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Housing Minister Linda Jeffrey says the government has “no interest” in providing more funding for local homelessness and other social services programs, while local councils like Hamilton “limp along”
Dec 10 was International Human Rights Day: Why 2013 was a bummer year for housing rights
Ontario fills the federal health care gap for refugees
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Dec 10: ARCH Disability Law Clinic hosting a webinar on legal services for people with disabilities
Dec 11: Webinar: Advocating for Refugee and Other Precarious Status Clients on Social Assistance Matters
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Inequality is the defining issue of our time
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Today marks the 5th anniversary of Ontario’s first five-year Poverty Reduction Strategy.
The 25in5 Network for Poverty Reduction says poverty reduction is key to a prosperous economy; bold action needed in the next strategy
Anglican Dioceses share five steps to action on poverty reduction
Community Development Halton calls for strong action
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Fallout from the elimination of CSUMB
27 community organizations have sent a letter urging government to make $42 million in “transitional funding” for housing and homelessness supports permanent
Many have posted the information on their own websites
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Niagara Region gets creative to spend housing and homelessness money (CHPI)
Cornwall’s homelessness prevention funding (CHPI) isn’t enough, since eligibility criteria are too strict
Ontario contemplating closing tax loopholes to raise revenue
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