Ontario Election 2014
Poverty is missing in the provincial election campaign:
http://www.flamboroughreview.com/news/poverty-missing-in-ontario-election-campaign-say-hamilton-advocates/
Greg DeGroot-Maggetti says the campaign cannot overlook poverty reduction:
http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/4546410-election-mustn-t-overlook-poverty-reduction/
ISAC’s Ontario Election 2014 materials – Election Kit, Candidate Questions, etc:
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=a54253c5dc&e=f67f28a7b9
Some questions to ask at the doorstep, about health care writ large:
http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/4539545-ask-the-tough-questions-about-protecting-health-care/
All three parties urged to expand dental health care for low-income adults and seniors:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/05/29/public_dental_care_sought_for_needy_adults_and_seniors.html
Answers to tough questions in Peterborough:
http://www.mykawartha.com/opinion-story/4542674-women-hungers-for-answers-from-candidates/
Questions asked in London, but we don’t know the responses:
http://www.londoncommunitynews.com/news-story/4545219-london-west-residents-get-face-time-with-candidates-at-debate/
Why isn’t poverty an election issue in Hamilton?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/why-isn-t-poverty-an-election-issue-in-hamilton-1.2645342
Signs in Niagara call to Vote for a Poverty Free Ontario:
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/4548524-signs-call-for-poverty-free-ontario/
Green Party leader is talking poverty in Hamilton:
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4545161-green-leader-in-hamilton-talking-about-poverty/
Greens say to scrap hydro credit and redirect it to the Ontario Child Benefit:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/forget-hydro-credit-put-money-into-child-poverty-greens-1.2657664
Popular vote tightens, but Con voters may be more motivated to vote:
http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=6516#.U4ewHB47xG4.facebook
Top Stories
This week, the Right to Housing Case was back in the court:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/05/26/homeless_plead_for_day_in_court_in_landmark_charter_case.html
More from Canada Without Poverty:
http://www.cwp-csp.ca/2014/05/the-poor-fight-to-have-their-voices-heard-in-the-courts/
Deducting child support from social assistance in BC is “a disgraceful program that hurts children the most”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/there-is-no-greater-blight-on-bcs-record-than-its-failure-to-address-child-poverty/article18877761/#dashboard/follows/
Report shows bosses intimidate temporary foreign workers:
http://www.straight.com/news/652526/west-coast-domestic-workers-association-report-says-bosses-intimidate-temporary-foreign-workers
Complaint-based system failing temporary foreign workers:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/complaint-based-systems-failing-abused-foreign-workers-expert-1.2651413
Motion calls for complaint system and mandatory audits of TFW program:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-motion-on-tfw-program-calls-for-complaint-system-mandatory-audits-1.2656900
“What kind of society are we living in where we bring workers here to work year after year and they pay their taxes, and then they suffer a major injury or illness and we refuse to help them in their time of need?”
http://www.cmaj.ca/site/earlyreleases/27may14_migrant-workers-health-rights-unmet.xhtml
Campaigns
Minimum Wage goes up June 1, but it’s still a poverty wage:
http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8e3951a35d48e64f736884ea9&id=c9e8552a64&e=83949e6325
25in5 Network: Send in a question to the Leaders’ Debate:
http://25in5.ca/ontario-election-2014-send-a-question-to-the-leaders-debate/
Put Food in the Budget: Ask the leaders:
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51055/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14114
25in5, Campaign 2000, and MCC-O infographics:
http://mcco.ca/system/files/income%20security.png
All Candidates Meeting on Social Issues: June 5, Woodstock:
http://spcoxford.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/All-Candidates-Meeting-Poster.pdf
Around the Province
“Tax Is Not a Four Letter Word” book tour comes to Hamilton:
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4545174-tax-cuts-eroding-services-say-authors/#.U4dSIsDqlow.facebook
University of Ottawa hikes tuition amid increasing student food bank use:
http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/05/26/students-plead-poverty-as-u-of-o-hikes-tuition
Across the Country
Vancouver City Council looks to fine people who are homeless $10,000:
http://themainlander.com/2013/01/15/vancouvers-poor-laws-city-council-to-approve-10000-fine-for-homelessness/
PEI Premier calls for EI changes to be reversed:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1210186-ghiz-calls-for-reversal-of-changes-to-ei
Government MLA calls for debate on child poverty at party convention in BC:
http://www.mrtimes.com/news/poverty-debate-initiated-by-maple-ridge-pitt-meadows-mla-1.1076032
National
$30 billion in tax cuts since 2005; most has gone to the rich:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/tax-cuts-saving-canadians-30b-budget-watchdog-1.1840004
A new voice for labour at the Canadian Labour Congress:
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2014/05/hassan-yussuff-new-voice-labour-clc#.U4h-oxyViDs.facebook