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Media & Policy News: 4 September 2012

September 4, 2012

Happy (Belated) Labour Day!

Ken Georgetti of the CLC on the union advantage:
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2012/08/31/georgetti-union-advantage-gives-canadian-workers-more-income

CUPE’s Labour Day message:
http://cupe.ca/unions/labour-day-message

The OFL’s Sid Ryan on depressed wages:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/1250141–sid-ryan-depressed-wages-are-a-drag-on-canada-s-economy

And a great YouTube video – What have the unions ever done for us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184NTV2CE_c&feature=youtu.be

Other Top Stories

Niagara staff report shows Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit cut will increase homelessness and cost the region $4.26-million:
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/1495978–poorest-could-get-hit

  • Remember – here’s the link to send an email to the government protesting the CSUMB / HRB cuts: http://sareview.ca/isac-news/act-now-to-save-housing-supports-for-people-on-ow-and-odsp/

Falling Behind in London (in the London Free Press!):
http://www.lfpress.com/2012/08/31/ontarios-embarrassing-social-decline

Ontario News

Dalton McGuinty’s Globe & Mail op-ed on putting students first:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/dalton-mcguinty-we-are-putting-ontario-students-first/article4513249/

Ontario considering sweeping changes to colleges and universities:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/education/article/1250342–ontario-considers-sweeping-change-to-colleges-and-universities

Across the Country

Activists in Winnipeg call for increase to housing benefits for people on social assistance – no increase since 1992:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/raise-the-welfare-rent-inner-city-advocates-say-168110666.html

35 cent minimum wage increase in Alberta “not nearly enough”:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Poverty+groups+dismiss+value+cent+increase+minimum+wage+taking+effect+Saturday/7170391/story.html

Winnipeg Free Press editorial on one step forward on poverty reduction:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/one-step-forward-one-step–168111066.html

International

Barclays Bank makes massive profits speculating on the global food crisis:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/barclays-makes-500m-betting-on-food-crisis-8100011.html

US Liberal blog points to Canada as evidence that tax cuts don’t create jobs:
http://www.politicususa.com/canada-proves-conservatives-wrong-cutting-corporate-taxes-30-jobs.html

People on welfare on Australia (“unemployment benefit”) are suffering “severe financial hardship”:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/severe-financial-hardship-hits-thousands-on-welfare-20120901-257jl.html

Single mothers in poverty the result of failed economic policies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riane-eisler/single-mothers-in-poverty_b_1823069.html

New Zealand can’t ignore report on child poverty:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10830925

And here are some ideas for how to tackle it:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10831446

Poverty reduction in Scotland not helping the poorest:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5guj26BtjFm46R9WMmOmUM4_lLOAw?docId=N0336801346593821474A

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