April 15: List of huge number of $15 and Fairness actions across Ontario today
Canada Child Benefit must not be clawed back from social assistance – my Letter to the Editor with Campaign 2000
It’s time for evidence-based social assistance reform in Ontario
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Nunavut stops clawing back the National Child Benefit Supplement from social assistance payments
New Canada Child Benefit must be indexed to inflation now, not by 2020
Duclos says new Canada Child Benefit is a form of basic income guarantee, open to do more – but provinces would have to take the lead
Two Innu First Nations to deliver income assistance program to their members in Labrador
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Pikangikum house fire direct result of chronic poverty
Just paint over it: Kashechewan’s endless battle with mould
More on the federal budget
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Federal Budget 2016: Growing the Middle Class
ISAC commentary and analysis: The 2016 Federal Budget and Income Security
Desperate parents were praying for federal action amid daycare anarchy
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Delay, denial and debt mark WSIB struggle for man who lost his memory in a workplace accident:
New Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy a “transformation” of Ontario’s housing and homelessness system
Trudeau says Tuesday’s federal budget will return OAS eligibility to 65 and make investments in “unsexy” infrastructure projects
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IWD: What 20 years of the gender wage gap looks like in Canada
UN tells Canada to clean up its record on economic, social and cultural inequality
UN report raises concern over Canada’s persistent housing crisis
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How low-income people suffer without dental care
More from Geneva
Disability advocates protest BC’s bus pass clawback
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Special Edition: Ontario Budget 2016
Government’s news release: Ontario’s investments creating jobs for today and tomorrow
ISAC Analysis: Bold steps on social assistance reform, but incomes still grossly inadequate
Star coverage: Ontario to end clawback of child support for parents on welfare
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Ontario simplifies medical reviews for people on ODSP
News from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva
Child and family homelessness a hidden but growing crisis in Canada that requires comprehensive action, says new report
Ontario Budget Preview: What to expect in Thursday’s provincial budget
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Art Eggleton on three ways to end poverty in Canada – education, basic income, and tax reform
Is Quebec’s promised basic income a Trojan horse for neoliberalism?
Most Syrian refugees coming to Canada will live below the poverty line
Sherad Kerur: Refugees’ needs expose Canada’s housing crisis
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MCSS making big changes to the ODSP medical review process
Federal Minister eyeing guaranteed minimum income to tackle poverty
Ontario budget touted for March 3 or March 10
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Injured workers being systematically disentitled from WSIB; labour asks Ombudsman to investigate
Proposed Quebec legislation is “a direct attack against human rights” of people receiving social assistance
Human Rights Commission rules Ottawa discriminates against First Nations kids on reserve
New report from Ontario Human Rights Commission strongly links mental health disabilities and poverty
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