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The CCPA’s 2014 Alternative Federal Budget – “Striking a Better Balance”
New study shows Canadians think inequality is increasing and that it’s a problem
The Broadbent Institute has launched a campaign against income splitting
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Hennessy’s Index – Income Splitting: Perks for the Rich
Income splitting: A gift for the affluent
Canadian Taxpayers Federation wants $13 billion cut in this year’s Ontario budget
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1) The minimum wage in Ontario. There’s far too much coverage to list it all here, but here are a few highlights
2) Income Splitting: Who Benefits?
3) It’s Corporate Tax Freedom Day!
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Provincial advisory panel to release report on minimum wage today – reported to recommend annual inflationary increases
“These are people who are working like crazy to support their families, full time, and they just cannot get by”
Dr. Gary Bloch in today’s Globe: “I know why the minimum wage needs to rise”
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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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