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Media & Policy News: 28 October 2016

October 28, 2016

Top Stories

Finance Minister Morneau says young Canadians should get used to precarious employment:
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6925075-young-canadians-should-get-used-to-precarious-employment-finance-minister/

  • Trudeau gets rough ride from crowd at young workers’ summit: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/trudeau-protesters-young-workers-event-1.3820153
  • Morneau may be suffering from millennial blindness: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/household-finances/morneau-blind-to-jobs-realitymillennial-blindness/article27266712/
  • Young people are right to be angry about Morneau’s acceptance of “job churn”: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/genymoney/why-morneau-needs-to-be-less-accepting-of-temporary-work/article32543380/

Hugh Segal’s basic income report expected next week, likely to target middle-aged women, disabled adults for most help:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-report-touting-basic-income-likely-to-target-middle-aged-women-disabled-adults-for-most-help

WSIB’s devastating compensation policy all about the board’s bottom line, lawyers charge:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/ottawa/wsib-injured-worker-benefits-1.3803300

Child care costs in Canada among the highest in the world, OECD says:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/oecd-child-care-costs-1.3815954

Attawapiskat without permanent mental health workers, due to lack of housing, months after suicide crisis:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/sudbury/delays-hiring-permanent-mental-health-workers-attawapiskat-1.3823017

Hydro One is offering a new service model to Ontario First Nation communities:
http://london.ctvnews.ca/new-hydro-service-model-offered-to-first-nations-communities-1.3126922

  • Press release: http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/hydro-one-builds-relationships-and-understanding-with-new-first-nations-customer-service-offering-597921041.html

Ottawa could end homelessness in ten years: Report:
https://ipolitics.ca/2016/10/20/ottawa-could-end-homelessness-in-ten-years-report/

  • National housing strategy must reflect women’s experiences: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/24/national-housing-strategy-must-reflect-womens-experiences.html
  • Report: Including Healthy Housing within the National Housing Strategy: http://www.cela.ca/publications/including-healthy-housing-within-national-housing-strategy

Minister Morneau warns of economic challenges as slow economy said to add billions to deficit:
www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/canada/canadian-politics/blog.html

Why is Canada still privatizing public services when most of the world is going in the other direction?:
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2016/10/why-canada-still-privatizing-public-services-when-most-world-

Health benefits for retirees are steadily disappearing:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/household-finances/health-benefits-for-retirees-are-steadily-disappearing/article32485355/

And, for Hallowe’en Monday, here’s why using mental illness to scare people must stop:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/10/25/this-halloween-mental-health-advocates-are-taking-a-powerful-stand-against-attractions-depicting-asylums/

 

Ontario

Only 14% of Ontarians approve of the job Premier Wynne is doing:
http://www.cp24.com/news/only-14-per-cent-of-ontarians-approve-of-job-that-wynne-is-doing-poll-1.3125193

Ontario signs deal for electricity from Quebec in bid to defuse anger over hydro bills:
https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2016/10/21/ontario-signs-deal-for-electricity-from-quebec-in-bid-to-defuse-anger-over-hydro-bills.html

The persistence of poverty in Ontario:
https://nowtoronto.com/news/the-persistence-of-poverty-in-ontario/

New grant to provide legal aid to suspended and expelled black students:
http://www.citynews.ca/2016/10/27/new-grant-provides-legal-aid-suspended-expelled-black-students/

Letter to the editor: Ontario Electricity Support Program doesn’t help renters with hydro in their rent:
http://www.manitoulin.ca/2016/10/26/low-income-people-financial-needs-left-rebates/

Too many Ontario children growing up in poverty:
http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/6927953-too-many-ontario-children-growing-up-in-poverty/

If you thought you’d pay much less with Ontario’s new hydro deal, think again:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hydro-wynne-couillard-ontario-quebec-1.3816929

 

Reports, Events, Campaigns and Other Good Things

United Way of Montreal study: Working while poor: 40% of people in poverty in Montreal work:
http://www.centraide-mtl.org/en/contact-us/media/news/working-while-poor/

Could you live in poverty for one month? United Way puts you to the test:
http://globalnews.ca/news/3024690/could-you-live-in-poverty-for-1-month-united-way-puts-you-to-the-test/

Send a letter to your MP – ending homelessness should be a priority of the National Housing Strategy:
http://www.20khomes.ca/campaign/write-your-mp/

Homeless Hub: The State of Homelessness in Canada 2016:
http://www.homelesshub.ca/SOHC2016

Stapleton: Solitary Confinement: Battling the headwinds:
http://www.metcalffoundation.com/stories/metcalf-stories/solitary-confinement-series/

Stats Can Daily: Job vacancy rates and wages:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/161026/dq161026a-eng.htm

 

Around the Province

Poverty activists say delays to low-income Toronto transit pass due to lack of political will:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/10/26/poverty-activists-say-delays-to-transit-initiative-due-to-lack-of-political-will.html

  • Protesters say they want fares to be lower, more accessible: http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/protesters-at-city-hall-say-they-want-ttc-fares-to-be-lower-more-accessible-1.3132876

Fight for free education continues at Ryerson:
https://theeyeopener.com/2016/10/fight-for-free-education-still-alive-at-rye/

Toronto agency gets $400,000 grant from Local Poverty Reduction Fund:
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/6931791-woodgreen-program-gets-400-000-provincial-grant/

Average rent for a one-bedroom condo in Toronto shoots up to $1,777:
http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2016/10/28/toronto-average-one-bedroom-condo-rent-price-is-now-1777.html?cq_ck=1477610241078

Community laundry cooperative helps vulnerable communities in Ottawa:
http://www.thenews.coop/109680/news/co-operatives/community-laundry-co-operative-helps-vulnerable-communities-ottawa/

SAMS software snafu slowing Ottawa welfare audit follow-up:
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/sams-software-snafu-slowing-ottawa-welfare-audit-followup

Niagara’s refugees need more federal support:
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2016/10/23/lafleche-niagaras-refugees-need-more-federal-support

17% of Chatham residents live below poverty line:
http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2016/10/21/17-of-local-residents-live-below-poverty-line

Seniors poverty is increasing in Belleville:
http://www.intelligencer.ca/2016/10/21/senior-poverty-increasing

What’s in a name? asks the DSSMSSAB:
https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/whats-in-a-name-asks-dssmssab-444428

 

Across the Country

Vancouver-area renters being pushed away from transit corridors:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/vancouver-area-renters-being-pushed-away-from-transit-corridors/article32476166/

Anti-poverty protesters disrupt Vancouver housing conference:
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/anti-poverty-protesters-disrupt-vancouver-housing-conference-video

New campaign takes aim at poverty in Calgary:
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/new-campaign-takes-aim-at-poverty-in-calgary-1.3131986

  • Calgary organizations launch poverty reduction campaign: http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary/2016/10/25/enough-for-all-calgary-poverty-reduction-campaign.html

BC’s Welfare Challenge leaves participants intellectually drained and emotionally exhausted:
http://www.straight.com/news/814126/living-18-week-leaves-welfare-challenge-participants-intellectually-drained-and

  • Welfare Food Challenge highlights hardships of those in need: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/welfare-food-challenge-highlights-hardships-of-those-in-need-1.3818257
  • Tired and hungry, Welfare Food Challenge participants struggle to finish line: http://www.inews880.com/syn/112/234673/tired-and-hungry-welfare-food-challenge-participants-struggle-to-finish-line

Media release: BC human rights groups call for increased welfare rates, protection of the right to food:
http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=19990

 

National

Ottawa asks for provinces’ help to reform First Nations child welfare:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/10/27/ottawa-asks-provinces-to-help-reform-first-nations-child-welfare.html

  • Removing poverty as a reason for apprehension would be a good step, says Indigenous child advocate:
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/poverty-could-be-removed-as-reason-for-cfs-to-seize-kids-398892781.html

Four in ten university students lack food security as education costs skyrocket:
http://www.macleans.ca/education/four-in-ten-university-students-lack-food-security-as-education-costs-skyrocket/

The Wente vs Eng debate: Are we coddling Canadian seniors?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/are-we-coddling-canadian-seniors/article32517148/

Internal document says beefing up CPP will hurt economy longer than disclosed:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-pension-plan-gdp-morneau-cfib-finance-canada-liberals-1.3822865

Figuring out actual benefits of federal spending could take years: Poloz:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/figuring-out-actual-benefits-of-federal-spending-could-take-years-poloz-1.3129740

Vanier Institute says federal government needs to update policies around awarding family benefits:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/child-tax-benefit-family-vanier-institute-1.3819082

Canada’s cowardly CEOs are sitting on billions, rather than investing in the economy:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/timid-ceos-endless-war-in-syria-steve-earle-fall-in-vermont-1.3801572/canada-s-cowardly-ceos-are-sitting-on-billions-rather-than-investing-in-the-economy-michael-s-essay-1.3801574

Canadian cities pushing back on federal infrastructure bank plans:
http://www.bnn.ca/canadian-cities-push-back-on-liberals-plans-for-infrastructure-bank-1.591663

Coyne: Keep tax dollars and public pension plans away from infrastructure spending:
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/andrew-coyne-keep-scarce-tax-dollars-and-public-pension-plans-away-from-infrastructure-spending

 

International

Podcast: Life and death under austerity:
https://soundcloud.com/mosaicscience/life-and-death-under-austerity

UK Councils “tell homeless to sleep on streets so they can get help”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/councils-homeless-sleep-streets-st-mungos-a7368336.html

UK benefit sanctions force half of welfare claimants to turn to food banks:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cruel-benefit-sanctions-force-half-9134530

It takes a special arrogance to say the poverty in Ken Loach’s film “I, Daniel Blake” is unrealistic:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/28/arrogance-poverty-social-housing-benefits-ken-loach-i-daniel-blake-unrealistic?CMP=share_btn_fb

Call for new fuel poverty definition in the UK:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37751118

Middle aged white Americans are dying of despair:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/11/boomers-deaths-pnas/413971/?utm_source=atlfb

Small factories emerge as a weapon in the fight against poverty in the US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/small-factories-emerge-as-a-weapon-in-the-fight-against-poverty.html?_r=0

US think tank proposes converting Child Tax Credit into program like Canada’s Canada Child Benefit:
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/universal-child-benefit/

With 3 million Australians below the poverty line, government says the answer is to get people off welfare, not increase payments:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/16/welfare-mentality-must-end-coalition-responds-to-report-on-rising-poverty

Expectations on welfare recipients “miserably low” as government seeks to impose tighter regulation:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-24/expectations-on-welfare-recipients-‘miserably-low’/7961252

Netherlands basic income experiment design meets criticism:
http://basicincome.org/news/2016/10/netherlands-design-of-bi-experiments-proposed-meets-criticism-from-stakeholders/

Poverty drops to 21.6% in the Philippines:
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/10/28/1638032/poverty-incidence-drops-21.6

Pakistan’s largest social safety net program puts money in the hands of women:
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-10-26/pakistans-biggest-social-safety-net-program-focused-raising-status-women

One in ten young Italians now live below the poverty line:
http://qz.com/818776/italys-economy-one-in-ten-young-italians-now-live-under-the-poverty-line/

Energy poverty is a real problem. Coal is a bogus solution:
http://www.vox.com/2016/10/25/13309076/energy-poverty-coal

 

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