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Media & Policy News: 25 April 2012

April 25, 2012

More on the Ontario budget

OCAP disrupt the budget speech yesterday:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1167093–ontario-budget-ndp-moves-save-liberal-budget-and-prevent-an-election#.T5bWka5s9Pw.twitter

I’m not THAT happy about it, honestly. Certainly not “cheering”.:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1167426–ontario-budget-child-care-and-anti-poverty-advocates-cheer-liberal-ndp-deal

Radwanski on potential costs of the tax hike:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/mcguinty-buys-short-term-stability-but-at-what-cost/article2411812/

Carol Goar – the tide is starting to turn:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1167476–greed-loses-its-glamour-even-on-wall-street

The official “the budget is stronger” piece:
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2012/04/making-ontarios-2012-budget-stronger.html

Other Ontario news

Murray MacAdam on the importance of the social assistance review:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/1167375–bold-anti-poverty-action-plan-needed

The ODSP Action Coalition’s new MPP Lobby Kit:
http://sareview.ca/isac-resources/odsp-action-coalition-mpp-lobby-kit/

Ontario Campaign 2000’s new MPP Lobby Kit:
http://www.campaign2000.ca/Ontario/resources.html

Around the Province

Charity just one piece of the poverty puzzle:
http://www.therecord.com/opinion/columns/article/708532–charity-is-only-a-piece-of-the-poverty-puzzle

Video on poverty and homelessness in Toronto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT9QxE_QlFY&feature=share

Sharing the Burden – a video project in Toronto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfj9ssxDXds&feature=share

Poverty reduction part of the plans in Lindsay:
http://www.mykawartha.com/community/article/1341272–strategic-planning-session-yields-wish-list-for-city-prosperity

Across the Country

Why people on assistance need immediate relief, from BC:
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/welfare+recipients+need+immediate+relief/6477605/story.html

Newfoundland’s budget provides $150 for poverty reduction:
http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2012/aes/0424n07.htm

Action on ending poverty in Alberta:
http://www.actiontoendpovertyinalberta.org/index.php/news/66-news/983-city-of-edmonton-poverty-reduction-report

In defense of affordable daycare:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/lysiane-gagnon/affordable-daycare-pays-off-in-many-ways/article2409594/

Walkom says Red Tories are alive and well:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1167292–walkom-alberta-election-proves-red-tories-alive-and-well

Manitoba issues its “Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion Strategy”
http://www.gov.mb.ca/fs/allaboard/pubs/strategy_paper.pdf

Seven communities to pilot poverty reduction strategies in BC:
http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/04/seven-communities-to-pilot-poverty-reduction-strategies.html

Federal

Why we can’t afford poverty:
http://reviewcanada.ca/essays/2012/04/01/why-we-can-t-afford-poverty/#.T4sD-8Pobnc.twitter

Canada Without Poverty wonders why there’s no Ministry for Poverty Elimination:
http://www.cwp-csp.ca/2012/04/why-is-there-no-ministry-for-poverty-elimination/

Alex Himelfarb, on the dismantling of the progressive state:
http://afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/going-going-gone-dismantling-the-progressive-state/

International

The fight over taxation in the US:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/this-years-fight-over-taxing-the-middle-class-and-the-rich/255996/

More on the US jobless recovery:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/us/13iht-letter13.html?_r=2&src=tp

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