Top Story: Community Start-Up Cuts
A great article outlining the impacts and implications of the CSUMB cuts in Niagara Region:
http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2012/09/07/homelessness-fear-grows
Excellent editorial on CSUMB in Niagara This Week:
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/opinion/editorial/article/1497954–niagara-s-poor-facing-big-hit
A play-by-play of Hamilton’s council meeting to discuss CSUMB cuts:
http://www.thespec.com/opinion/columns/article/798924–dreschel-mayoral-mojo-missing-in-action
Ontario Issues
Libs move ahead with public sector wage freeze:
- http://www.thewhig.com/2012/09/26/liberals-move-ahead-with-public-sector-wage-freeze
- http://torontoist.com/2012/09/liberal-government-announces-details-of-wage-freeze-legislation/
- Here’s a link to the legislation introduced Sept 26: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/savings/protecting.html
Poll finds support for Ontario Liberals slipping:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1262810–ontario-liberals-support-slumps-poll-finds#.UGRAbL6mu7w.facebook
Ontario’s deficit $3.3 billion lower than original forecast:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1255990–ontario-deficit-3-3-billion-lower-than-original-forecast
Around the Province
New report shows pegs cost of poverty in Niagara at $1.38 billion a year:
- http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/1508671–poverty-s-heavy-toll
- http://www.610cktb.com/news/local/Story.aspx?ID=1780732#
- http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2012/09/26/the-human-economic-cost-of-poverty
- http://www.niagarathisweek.com/opinion/editorial/article/1509467–poverty-affects-us-all
- http://niagaraatlarge.com/2012/09/26/poverty-is-costing-niagara-ontarios-economy-more-than-a-billion-dollars-a-year-2/
- The report is here: https://www.brocku.ca/webfm_send/23225
Big Put Food in the Budget event tonight, Friday, Sept 28:
http://putfoodinthebudget.ca/dear-mr-premier/
CUPE hopes to unionize GFL workers who collect west Toronto’s trash:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1262192–cupe-hopes-to-unionize-gfl-workers-who-collect-west-toronto-s-trash
Great coverage of Daily Bread Food Bank’s “Who’s Hungry” report on hunger in Toronto:
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=188861
One mother’s maddening search for daycare in Toronto, where the shortage is critical:
http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition-informer/2012/09/27/take-my-kids-please/1/
Across the Country
Social assistance caseloads in PEI are falling, with thoughts on reasons why:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2012/09/25/pei-social-assistance-cases-drop-584.html
BC’s Raise the Rates challenges politicians to eat on $26 a week:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Rights-Justice/2012/09/25/WelfareFoodChallenge/
And a number of politicians are taking up the challenge:
http://www.straight.com/article-788041/vancouver/welfare-food-challenge-will-see-vancouver-participants-live-26-week
Opinion piece on improving service to people on social assistance in Quebec:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Opinion+Make+welfare+agents+accessible+applicants/7302571/story.html
An update on poverty reduction efforts in Surrey, BC:
http://surrey604.com/surreys-poverty-reduction-strategy/
Economy
An update on the economy from Armine Yalnizyan, four years after the Big Crash – “austerity budgets from the federal and some provincial governments could not be unfolding at a worse time:
http://behindthenumbers.ca/2012/09/14/happy-crashiversary-are-you-better-off-now-than-you-were-four-years-ago/
Another call from Jim Flaherty for the private sector to generate some growth out of those tax cuts we gave you ‘cause you’re screwing up our whole economic rationale, dammit:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/flahertys-message-to-business-use-tax-cuts-to-create-jobs/article4566758/
Federal Issues
Kevin Page prepared to take government to court over 2012 budget information:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1261875–parliamentary-budget-officer-kevin-page-may-take-government-to-court
Feds considering electronic bracelets to track failed refugee claimants:
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Feds+consider+electronic+bracelets+track+failed+refugees/7304178/story.html
Canada’s corporate tax lowest among developed countries:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/canadas-corporate-tax-lowest-among-developed-countries/article4566438/
Carol Goar covers the Fraser Institute’s report on corporate welfare:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1256494–corporate-welfare-flourishes-in-lean-times
Parents to get new EI benefits under new legislation:
http://finance.sympatico.ca/home/parents_to_get_new_ei_benefits_under_bill_introduced_today/b0b17c70#.UFxT7FZbDWo.email
But new EI benefits for parents of sick kids won’t protect jobs:
http://www.moneyville.ca/article/1259353–new-ei-benefits-for-parents-of-sick-kids-won-t-protect-jobs#.UGMJWAfNGdQ.facebook
Federal Politics
Poll shows Conservatives and NDP tied in public support:
http://abacusdata.ca/2012/09/24/federal-politics-conservatives-and-ndp-tied-at-35/