Media & Policy News: 3 April 2012

Ontario Budget 2012

Coalition of groups in Kitchener tell John Milloy the budget will be hardest on people who are poor

Here’s their press release

Hamilton Roundtable responds to the budget 

Hamilton Community Legal Clinic says reverse the social assistance cuts

Letter from Registered Nurse in Waterloo says no to the OW / ODSP rate freeze

Ontario Disability Employment Network says no to giving ODSP employment services to Employment Ontario

Federal Budget 2012

Council of Canadians with Disabilities looks at the federal budget with a disability lens

Low income seniors will pay the price for changes to Old Age Security

In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the Alternative Federal Budget – “a budget for the rest of us”

Sault St. Marie MP says cuts to National Council of Welfare ignores the facts and will hurt low income Canadians

Around the Province and Across the Country

Nipissing and North Bay: Low-income Ontarians upset about Trillium Benefit changes to tax credit delivery

London: Citizens’ Advisory Panel advocates positive changes to social assistance – “None of us alone are stronger than all of us together” 

Toronto: The Stop’s Nick Saul leaves to head up Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC)

Winnipeg: a young mom quits as lead of a lawsuit challenging deductions for child support in that province’s social assistance system 

Other Cool Stuff

A great new organization: Canadians for Tax Fairness

Using public credit for public works and the common good, rather than to generate private profit and feed corporate greed

Canada’s corporate welfare experiment has proven itself a dismal failure

The Spirit Level’s Richard Wilkinson, interviewed three years on

David Olive on Corporate Tax Freedom Day