Top Stories
Open File covers the loss of the Community Start-up and Maintenance Benefit:
http://www.openfile.ca/toronto/story/ontario-disability-housing-credit-be-phased-out-2013
Here’s a great blog about the current welfare reforms in the UK, from someone on disability benefits there:
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.ca/
What it’s like to live on minimum wage in Toronto:
http://www.openfile.ca/toronto/story/whats-it-living-minimum-wage-toronto
Ontario Politics
Sept 6 is by-election day. Polls in Vaughan and Kitchener-Waterloo show a split in support:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1241559–ontario-liberals-supported-in-vaughan-but-lose-ground-in-kitchener-waterloo-new-polls-show
Across the Province
Changes to the Welcome Policy at City of Toronto:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1241438–toronto-budget-free-recreation-for-more-poor-families-but-less-for-others
Federal
“We don’t want a system that locks people up and throws away the key without fair representation”:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Justice+system+staggering+under+weight+federal+reforms/7082722/story.html#ixzz23XT4c2HP
Inequalities are a threat to medicare:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/real-inequalities-a-threat-to-medicares-mission-incoming-cma-chief-says/article4478135/
Here’s an information sheet that explains the changes to federal health coverage for refugees:
http://yourlegalrights.on.ca/resource/85128
International
Why isn’t unprecedented poverty part of the US election discussion?:
http://www.cantonrep.com/newsnow/x521655710/-Poverty-said-the-emperor-with-no-clothes
Poverty-stricken East London wonders whether it will gain from nearby Olympics
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/10/4714765/poverty-stricken-east-london-wonders.html
Volume 5 of Unemployment Stories:
http://gawker.com/5934202/unemployment-stories-vol-five-i-go-to-bed-every-night-hoping-i-wont-wake-up