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Media & Policy News: 22 May 2013

May 22, 2013

Top Stories

Andrea Horwath announced yesterday that the NDP will support the Ontario budget:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/05/21/ndp-horwath-budget-decision.html

Here’s the release from the NDP:
http://ontariondp.com/en/horwath-proud-of-results-new-democrats-have-achieved-for-families

Here’s Wynne responding to Horwath’s announcement:
http://www.680news.com/2013/05/21/video-premier-wynne-reacts-after-andrea-horwath-says-shell-support-budget/

Here are some of the implications of the budget for people receiving social assistance:
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=bd6fe81b87

Government’s announcement about the budget’s changes to social assistance:
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2013/05/transforming-social-assistance.html

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A fantastic op-ed from Pat Steenberg that asks (and answers), “Why, if the total national wealth continues to grow, in absolute terms, do our governments say they can no longer afford to meet our needs?”
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/05/21/canadian_deficits_are_a_distribution_problem_not_a_wealth_problem.html

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Today, “Wipe Out Poverty in Niagara” launches!
http://www.wipeoutpoverty.ca/

Advance coverage:
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/05/17/wipe-out-poverty-in-niagara-launch-next-week

Reports, Presentations and Resources

New info from the OECD on income inequality:
http://www.oecd.org/social/inequality.htm

CCPA’s Armine Yalnizyan’s presentation on inequality to the federal Standing Committee on Finance:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2013/04/Armine_Inequality_Presentation_HOC_Finance_Committee.pdf

Report from the UK, “Fairer Tax for a Better Economy”
http://www.ippr.org/publication/55/10756/fairer-tax-for-a-better-economy

A workshop guide on understanding and responding to the links between trauma and homelessness:
http://rabble.ca/toolkit/workshop/homelessness-and-traumatic-stress#.UZEu-5EFq-U.facebook

Ontario

Drowning in the welfare well – why we need to reform social assistance:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/laid-off-in-2010-im-drowning-in-the-welfare-well/article11858895/

Canadian Council for Refugees releases report cards on treatment of migrant workers; OFL calls on Ontario to take responsibility:
http://ofl.ca/index.php/damning-report-ontario-failing-migrant-workers-ofl-calls-wynne-government-protect-rights-vulnerable-workers/

John Clarke’s analysis of a threat to positive social assistance reform:
http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/821.php

Around the Province

Toronto company produces technologies to improve job prospects for people with disabilities:
http://yongestreetmedia.ca/features/komodo051513.aspx

In Toronto, Council votes in favour of health services for those without coverage due to their immigration status:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ritika-goel/toronto-refugee-health-care_b_3264351.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

In Sudbury, S-CAP works on the fallout after the elimination of CSUMB:
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2013/05/11/coalition-pleads-homeless-womans-case

Protests about the loss of CSUMB continue in Sudbury:
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2013/05/16/anti-poverty-protests-continue

Across the Country

Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative:
http://www.enoughforall.ca/

Child poverty is rampant in Canadian cities – and doesn’t follow unemployment trends:
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/progressive-economics-forum/2013/05/child-poverty-rampant-canadian-cities

Manitoba to provide health benefits to migrant workers:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Manitoba-to-provide-health-benefits-to-seasonal-migrant-workers-207589181.html

Calgarians protest cuts to community support benefits for people with disabilities: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/05/15/calgary-cuts-protest-disability.html

National

EI board appointees making political donations, against the rules:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/appointees-to-ei-boards-broke-guidelines-by-making-political-donations/article12033844/

Feds moving on “strengthening employment services for people with disabilities”:
http://www.parisstaronline.com/2013/05/14/mps-disability-job-motion-gets-support

The downside of Social Impact Bonds:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2013/05/12/social_impact_bonds_have_a_downside.html

Canada can’t afford not to crack down on tax cheats:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dennis-howlett/offshore-tax-havens-canada-evasion_b_3254215.html

Canadians have $170 billion stashed in tax havens:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/national/Canadians+have+170B+stashed+global+havens/8368839/story.html

More on this story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canadians-parking-more-in-top-tax-havens-every-year-group-says/article11850867/?cmpid=rss1

Prosecution of tax cheating “pitifully low” as use of tax havens increases:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/10/offshore-tax-havens-canada-evasion_n_3253504.html?ir=Canada+Business

International

How austerity kills, and how countries should respond to economic crises:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/opinion/how-austerity-kills.html?pagewanted=all

On why making changes to welfare does nothing to fix the labour market:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/blog/2013/05/welfare-reform-jobs-pay-skills?utm_source=feedly

Economists questioning inequality as a strategy to drive economic growth:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-simmering-stew-of-income-inequality/article11966748/

Students rally in Tokyo to draw attention to their poverty:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201305190019

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