Top Stories
“It’s nuts” that social assistance programs across Canada don’t provide enough for healthy food:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/adequate-food-not-an-option-on-social-assistance-1.2677943?cmp=fbtl
Thousands denied federal disability benefits waiting more than a year for new federal tribunal appeal hearings:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/thousands-awaiting-appeals-before-social-security-tribunal/article19150798/
- Saskatchewan advocate says federal tribunal appeals process a “David and Goliath battle”:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/appeal-process-for-cpp-disability-benefits-is-a-david-and-goliath-battle-sask-advocate-says-1.2679174
- Massive appeals backlog “a disgrace”:http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/Disability+appeals+system+irks+advocate/9953309/story.html
Changes to temporary foreign worker program announced today:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/temporary-foreign-worker-program-to-be-made-more-transparent-1.2681436
Manitoba announces two new social programs for people on social assistance and low income workers:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Province-announces-two-new-social-programs–263850191.html
Ontario
Big Trout Lake residents invite other Canadians to experience life on reserve:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/06/10/first_nations_community_invites_canadians_to_experience_life_on_a_reserve.html
The Spec: Why we need an Ontario pension plan:
http://www.ourwindsor.ca/opinion-story/4581473-the-spectator-s-view-why-we-need-an-ontario-pension-plan/
Ontario Human Rights Commission issues new policy on rights of people with mental illness and addictions:
http://globalnews.ca/news/1401272/ontario-issues-human-rights-policy-for-people-with-mental-illness-addictions/
- Here’s the policy: http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-preventing-discrimination-based-mental-health-disabilities-and-addictions
- And here’s the fact sheet: http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/human-rights-and-mental-health-fact-sheet
New report to show Ontario being shortchanged $1.2 billion in equalization payments:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/new-pbo-report-to-show-ontario-being-shortchanged-12-billion-in-equalization/article19232141/?cmpid=rss1&click=sf_globe
Profile of Dr. Danielle Martin, who says doctors “should be at the front of the parade to try to reduce poverty in Canada”
http://news.utoronto.ca/meet-danielle-martin-health-care-leader-heard-across-north-america
Steve Paikin’s roundup of “what else happened” in the Ontario election:
http://theagenda.tvo.org/blog/agenda-blogs/steve-paikin-yes-wynne-won-did-you-know-what-else-happened
Around the Province
Bruce County pilot project to train youth on social assistance through the county’s trails program:
http://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/midwestern-ontario-news/2014/06/17/bruce-social-assiste/
St. Catherines Woman on ODSP pays half her benefit cheque in rent:
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/06/11/poverty-rent-eats-away-at-grocery-money
- Readers’ comments: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/06/17/poverty-talk-readers-respond-to-korys-story
- Reporter on the above story asks, why do we vilify the poor?: http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2014/06/16/clock-why-do-we-vilify-the-poor
- Video: Reporter reads readers’ comments on the story: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/06/18/poverty-one-story-two-sides
In Toronto, community activists speak out against TAVIS policing initiative:
http://torontoist.com/2014/06/community-activists-speak-out-about-tavis/
Inclusionary zoning one critical response to crisis of affordable housing in Toronto:
http://www.thegridto.com/city/politics/if-you-build-inclusively-they-will-still-come/
Partnerships bring skills development to people on social assistance in St. Ste. Marie:
http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/details.asp?c=74779
Across the Country
BC’s poverty reduction pilot projects “an embarrassing stance on poverty”:
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Opinion+embarrassing+stance+poverty/9941797/story.html
Alberta scraps P3 model for building schools:
http://globalnews.ca/news/1401800/alberta-government-scraps-p3-funding-model-for-new-schools/
National
Income inequality even more pronounced when income held in private holding companies included:
- Globe: http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canadian-controlled-private-corporations-helping-widen-inequality-gulf-study/article19174594/?service=mobile#dashboard/follows/
- Press Progress: http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/canadas-rich-are-richer-you-think-39-richer
New PSAC video, “Employment Insurance in Canada: Hitting Rock Bottom”:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1997522
Doctors have a duty to find out if poverty plays a role in a patient’s medical issues:
http://www.therecord.com/community-story/4581511-poverty-plays-a-role-in-health/
Canadians’ views on the foreign worker program:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canadians-support-fines-for-foreign-worker-program-abuses-poll-suggests-1.1873343#ixzz350t7x8OP
International
Poverty hits twice as many British households as 30 years ago:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/19/poverty-hits-twice-as-many-british-households
Welfare cuts and the bedroom tax forcing families in poverty into homelessness:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/welfare-cuts-bedroom-tax-forcing-3708222
Welfare cuts one year on: Britain’s poorest on par with former Eastern bloc:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/welfare-cuts-one-year-on-3713263
Nick Pearce of IPPR says challenging concentrations of power must be the new terrain of social democracy:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/18/labor-spend-equality-society-growth-redistribution-wealth
Head of Goldman Sachs says income inequality is “very destabilizing” and “has to be dealt with”:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/13/3448679/goldman-sachs-income-inequality/
Robert Reich: The three biggest lies about poverty:
http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/THE-THREE-BIGGEST-LIES-ABOUT-POVERTY-1763220