Top Stories
Homelessness will increase from loss of Community Start-Up and Home Repairs benefits:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1215892–loss-of-emergency-housing-benefit-will-increase-homelessness-in-ontario-activists-say
- If you haven’t already, click here to send an email NOW to protest these cuts
Province to discuss overhauling child care – but says nothing on affordability:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1218118–ontario-seeks-input-on-daycare-overhaul
Is Canada moving to “right-to-work”?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/wisconsins-disease-crosses-the-border/article4381590/
Around the Province:
Toronto challenges Human Rights Tribunal’s authority over city bylaws – Dream Team legal challenge:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1218956–toronto-challenges-ontario-human-rights-tribunal-s-authority-over-city-bylaws
Meanwhile, Kitchener changes its zoning bylaw to allow more group homes:
http://www.therecord.com/opinion/editorial/article/749555–getting-it-right-on-group-homes
Thunder Bay activist reminds public of the end of Home Repairs Benefit:
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/editorial/letters/2012-06-24/home-repair-benefit-ends-6-days
Tamarack president visits Haliburton for Poverty Forum:
http://www.haliburtonecho.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3589492
More on the two-day Poverty to Possibilities Forum in Haliburton:
http://www.haliburtonecho.ca/2012/06/26/poverty-forum-an-exercise-in-big-thinking
OCAP activists shout down Toronto Councillors over closure of Schoolhouse Shelter:
Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton study of poverty shows housing, food, employment, and transportation costs biggest contributors to poverty:
http://www.haliburtonecho.ca/2012/06/26/survey-shows-four-major-contributors-to-poverty
Click on “Spring 2012” for an austerity analysis of welfare cuts in the latest “Street News Niagara”:
http://www2.startmeupniagara.ca/news.html
National
All-Party Poverty Caucus launches:
http://www.cpj.ca/en/blog/simon/all-party-anti-poverty-caucus-launches
The Caledon Institute will pick up the now-defunct National Council of Welfare’s two premier regular research reports, Welfare Incomes and Poverty Profile.
International
UK Prime Minister David Cameron recently gave a big speech on reforming that country’s social assistance system. Here’s some coverage:
- Cameron blames social welfare for divisions in society – “must end culture of entitlement”
- A survey of some media coverage
- UK moving to vouchers rather than cash benefits
- UK could cut benefits for the “long-term unemployed”
- Cameron’s rhetoric perpetuates the UK “housing benefit myth”
- UK’s social assistance critic says welfare reform package isn’t working
- IPPR says Cameron is politicking with welfare reform
- Commentator says welfare reforms will “free the individual from the state”
- Fairness Index in the UK
- Meanwhile, UK government revenues dip as recession returns
- And IPPR report says what good economic growth could look like
Australian government MP condemns cuts to single mom welfare benefits:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/single-mum-welfare-cut-is-cynical-moylan/story-fn3dxiwe-1226411094957
And, from the US, George Lakoff on “Why the Conservative worldview exalts selfishness”:
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2012/06/19/lakoff-why-the-conservative-worldview-exalts-selfishness/