More on Cuts to Community Start Up and other OW / ODSP Benefits
At the AMO annual meeting last week, Andrea Horwath called it “backdoor cuts” that municipalities will have to bear:
http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&type=user&func=display&sid=16808
Cuts could mean more homeless in Kenora:
http://www.kenoraonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2665&Itemid=4
And more, on the homelessness funds shell game, from Kenora:
http://www.kenoraonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2773&Itemid=4
Lambton councillors not amused by the cuts:
http://www.theobserver.ca/2012/07/04/lambton-staves-off-budget-cut-impacting-poor
Activists in Sarnia Lambton say government is taking away the tools to fight poverty:
http://www.sarniathisweek.com/2012/07/18/province-taking-away-tools-to-fight-poverty-activists-say
And this editorial appeared in many Sun-chain community papers in mid-July:
http://www.chathamthisweek.com/2012/07/16/kick-em-when-theyre-down
- it was also in Windsor This Week, the Leamington Post Tri-town News, Sarnia This Week, and the Wallaceburg Courier Press
Other Top Stories
Carol Goar on what government should do to protect vulnerable workers:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1246966–ontario-neglecting-its-most-vulnerable-workers
Star editorial – The wait for social housing in Ontario? Ten years:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1247027–the-wait-in-ontario-for-social-housing-can-run-to-10-years
Here’s the correct link for last week’s Op Ed on the housing Charter challenge:
http://www.yongestreetmedia.ca/features/op-edkennhalehousingisaright08222012.aspx
Around the Province
How Toronto’s budget could be so much better – the op-ed from Wellesley:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1246960–better-budget-for-a-better-city-toronto-doesn-t-have-to-fall-short
And here’s the Wellesley report:
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/publication/a-better-budget-for-a-better-city-ideas-for-a-healthy-budget-process-in-toronto/
Across the Country
Protesting the high cost of food in Nunavut:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/08/26/north-food-protest-nunavut-cost.html?cmp=rss
Quebec’s election brings out the “welfare bum” rhetoric and finger pointing:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/24/tout-le-quebec-en-parle-on-welfare-bums-pauline-marois-and-garbage-radio/
More regulation needed on payday loans providers, in New Brunswick:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/08/24/nb-payday-loans-social-assistance-729.html
“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.”
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Obligation+help+homeless/7148707/story.html#ixzz24lona6bm
Guaranteed annual income gets debated in Winnipeg:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/an-end-to-the-perpetual-welfare-trap-167004295.html
International
How welfare is figuring in the race to the White House:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/08/crossroads-chief-welfare-message-could-change-core-133219.html
Blog post with startling poverty statistics in the US:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=32512
A call for welfare entitlement defined by economic need, not race, in Australia:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-26/call-for-end-to-perverted-race-based-welfare/4223694
New report shows Australia’s low unemployment benefits prevent people from getting a job:
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/aussie-dole-leaving-people-in-poverty-5046924
Report is here:
http://www.unitingcare.org.au/images/stories/media_releases/120827_mr_inadequate_dole_makes_it_hard_to_get_a_job_natsem_report.pdf
Child poverty in New Zealand, and what to do about it:
http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/tim-watkin-s-time-talk-child-poverty-again-5046363