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Niagara Region gets creative to spend housing and homelessness money (CHPI):
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/4218845–welcome-home-kits-to-help-homeless-establish-new-home/
Cornwall’s homelessness prevention funding (CHPI) isn’t enough, since eligibility criteria are too strict:
http://www.standard-freeholder.com/2013/11/13/homelessness-funding-still-needed-despite-surplus
Ontario contemplating closing tax loopholes to raise revenue:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontarios-recipe-for-revenue-includes-crackdown-on-tax-cheats-black-market/article15406608/#dashboard/follows/
Partners release the first-ever Thunder Bay Poverty Reduction Strategy:
http://www.lspc.ca/?pgid=43
Alberta working on ending child poverty in 5 years, reducing overall poverty in 10:
http://www.sprucegroveexaminer.com/2013/11/15/provincial-poverty-addressed
From the Globe’s series on inequality – a poll asking “What’s the best way to reduce income inequality in Canada?”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/our-time-to-lead-income-inequality/article15316231/?section=6&click=ottl
Jason Kenney says employers must increase wages and invest in skill training to resolve Canada’s skilled worker shortage:
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/11/15/jason-kenney-tells-business-dont-expect-migrants-to-solve-your-needs/
Other Ontario
Heinz’s Leamington plant closure to affect hundreds of full-time and migrant workers:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/heinz-to-close-leamington-ont-plant-hundreds-of-jobs-lost-1.1543663
Time to start thinking about low-income tax clinics – Fort Erie is looking for volunteers:
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2013/11/07/volunteers-needed-for-tax-clinics
ONPHA’s latest report shows waiting lists for affordable housing still climbing:
http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/11/12/ontario_affordable_housing_waiting_lists_still_climbing.html
From the CCPA-Ontario: Making every job a good job:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/making-every-job-good-job
Op-ed in “The Loop” supporting a guaranteed annual income:
http://www.theloop.ca/living/money/the-next-step/education-and-careers/article/-/a/2899564/OpEd-Why-every-Canadian-should-get-a-paycheque
Across the Province
Nickel Belt MPP France Gelinas agrees to oppose merging OW and ODSP:
http://sudburycap.com/2013/11/13/nickel-belt-mpp-france-gelinas-agrees-oppose-merging-odsp-ow/
My mistake – the shelter set to charge for staying is in Kenora (not Hamilton) – where the local MPP is calling on government to solve the housing crisis:
http://www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com/2013/11/12/campbell-and-making-kenora-home-call-for-action-on-fellowship-centres-funding-woes
Bridges Community Health Centre calls for increased dental funding for low income Ontarians:
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/community-story/4218688-bridges-chc-calls-for-increased-dental-funding/
Family in London fought removal from Canada – but found dead in murder-suicide after options ran out:
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/08/family-in-murder-suicide-fought-removal-from-canada
Food bank use in Fort Erie is climbing; new self-advocacy program launched:
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/11/10/fort-erie-food-bank-use-climbing
In Toronto, kids from low income families need the right to play – Russ’ Blog:
http://lampchc.org/blog/shouldnt-our-children-have-right-play
National
The federal fiscal update: Incredible shrinking government:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/flahertys-fiscal-update-is-testament-to-the-incredible-shrinking-government/article15442973/?cmpid=rss1&click=dlvr.it
The premiers talk pension reform and Jobs Grant response last Friday:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/11/15/pensions-and-canada-job-grant-top-of-agenda-for-premiers-meeting-in-toronto/
Inequality and health care – part of the Globe’s inequality series:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/our-time-to-lead-income-inequality/article15316231/?section=3&click=ottl
Another part of the series – how globalization has left the 1% even further ahead:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/how-globalization-has-left-the-1-per-cent-even-further-ahead/article15433419/#dashboard/follows/?click=ottl
It’s a good time to rethink corporate tax cuts:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2013/11/14/good-time-to-rethink-corporate-tax-cuts/
International
David Cameron announces permanent austerity for the UK:
- http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/11/david-cameron-policy-shift-leaner-efficient-state
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-insists-that-squeeze-on-publicsector-spending-is-permanent-8933539.html
The lowest paid UK workers to be classed “not working enough” as benefits put at risk:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/06/uk-lowest-paid-classed-not-working-enough
Local council in the UK votes to eliminate its emergency assistance fund – a case study for emergency housing assistance in CHPI?:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2013/nov/07/nottinghamshire-county-council-proposes-local-welfare-scheme-cut?CMP=twt_gu
Swiss to vote in a referendum on guaranteed annual income on Nov 24:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004
How Switzerland’s basic income proposal could be applied in the US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?smid=fb-share
Socialist candidate in Seattle condemns income inequality; is on the verge of winning:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/seattle-on-the-verge-of-electing-socialist-candidate-for-the-first-time-in-modern-history/2013/11/13/cf8ac8a6-4c82-11e3-bf60-c1ca136ae14a_story.html