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Sign on to push for a renewed federal role in housing provision and affordable housing for all:
http://housing4all.ca/
Podcast: Trish Hennessy and Adam Vasey on the intersection of minimum wage and living wage:
http://vibrantcanada.ca/content/intersection-between-living-wage-and-minimum-wage-0
John Stapleton recognizes today’s 50th anniversary of the Constitutional amendment that brought in the Canada Pension Plan:
http://vibrantcanada.ca/blogs/john-stapleton/another-species-faces-extinction
Woman who is deaf and blind challenging additional costs of education arising from her disability:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/07/29/deafblind_woman_tests_canadas_equality_guarantee_goar.html
Two pieces from Carol Goar on PFIB’s tour of Northern Ontario:
- Hardship north of Superior opens Torontonian’s eyes:http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/07/24/hardship_north_of_superior_opens_torontonians_eyes_goar.html
- Northern Ontario: Beautiful landscape but crushing poverty:http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/07/27/northern_ontario_has_beautiful_landscape_but_crushing_poverty_goar.html
CBC coverage:
- Activist finds poverty in Northern Ontario different from the south: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/activist-finds-poverty-in-northern-ontario-different-from-the-south-1.2722572
And in PFIB’s own words:
- Dispatches on poverty from Northern Ontario: http://nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=199015
Ontario
The options Ontario has left to fix its revenue problem – corporate taxes, income taxes, carbon taxes?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/kathleen-wynne-left-with-few-options-to-fix-ontarios-revenue-problem/article19813010/
Column: Why Ontario’s Retirement Pension Plan is a good idea:
http://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/retirement/2014/07/28/why_ontarios_retirement_pension_plan_is_a_good_idea_mayers.html
Around the Province
Orillia Council candidate’s statements about people on social assistance insensitive and false:
http://www.orilliapacket.com/2014/07/24/letters-insensitive-comment-is-false
- The original comments are here: http://www.orilliapacket.com/2014/07/23/basaraba-eyes-working-class
Affordable housing on Toronto’s waterfront: A laudable goal, but questionable implementation:
http://brianeng.ca/2014/07/12/east-bayfront-affordable-housing-laudable-public-policy-goal-questionable-public-policy-implementation/
Low income transit in Toronto and the struggle to make transit free:
http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1016.php#continue
Across the Country
Vancouver Sun editorial calls for affordable childcare:
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Editorial+Affordable+child+care+bring+economic+social+benefits/10060317/story.html
- Advocates echo the call and push for $10 / day:http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Wednesday+July+Time+child+care/10072678/story.html
Burnaby ACORN protests lack of affordable rental housing:
http://www.burnabynow.com/news/anti-poverty-group-protests-lack-of-burnaby-rentals-1.1266769
Pictou County Women’s Centre leads development of county-wide Poverty Reduction Strategy:
http://www.ngnews.ca/Community/2014-07-29/article-3816628/Poverty-Reduction-Coalition-in-beginning-stages/1
Demand for electricity bill assistance is growing in Waterloo Region:
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4727057-demand-for-electricity-bill-assistance-growing/
National
Ottawa is sitting on nearly $1 billion in uncashed cheques, including $23 million in CCTB:
http://www.cp24.com/news/feds-sitting-on-730m-in-uncashed-tax-returns-other-benefits-1.1931894#ixzz393pn0kmO
Minimum Wage Wars: The Current talks about the minimum wage in Canadian provinces:
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/project-money/2014/07/22/minimum-wage-wars/
How to stop Canadian multinationals from dodging their taxes:
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/07/29/Canadian-Multinationals-Dodging-Taxes/
McQuaig: Harper is punishing charities while letting tax cheats off the hook:
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/07/23/is-harper-using-the-tax-system-to-purge-his-enemies-list/
Cameco – a Canadian uranium mining company – Cares, just not enough to pay its Canadian taxes:
http://www.taxfairness.ca/en/news/if-i-had-850-million-dollars-bare-naked-ladies-and-cameco
Canada’s bail system “disproportionately penalizes – and frequently criminalizes – poverty, addiction and mental illness”:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2014/07/28/canadas_broken_bail_system_penalizes_the_most_vulnerable_editorial.html’
Three reasons that Employment Insurance is broken: Mendelsohn, Yalnizyan, and Sweetman (video):
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2014/7/25/Three-reasons-EI-is-broken-BNN-panel-.aspx
International
Irish media reports on CRA telling Oxfam Canada that preventing poverty is not charitable:
http://www.thejournal.ie/oxfam-canada-told-not-to-stop-poverty-1589332-Jul2014/
Detailed look in the Western Producer at global economic recovery and impact on Canada:
http://www.producer.com/2014/07/global-economy-recovering/
1,200 US fast food workers met in Chicago recently on their fight for a $15/hour minimum wage:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/business/a-big-union-intensifies-fast-food-wage-fight.html?_r=5&referrer
- An interview with 15 Now activists in the US: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/brother-can-you-spare-fifteen-dollars/
One sixth of Americans don’t have enough to eat – amazing photo galleries:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/hunger/
How low income people in the US understand words that describe their lived experience:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25264-why-cant-make-ends-meet-trumps-poverty#.U9kNkku0N48.facebook
The last stand for the middle class is taking place in a parking lot in Massachusetts:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/market-basket-fight?src=soc_fcbks
Welfare to work program in Kansas works for some, not so well for others:
http://cjonline.com/news/2014-07-25/welfare-work-program-rolls-out-mixed-results
Benefit sanctions in NYC a cost to all concerned:
http://www.thenewyorkworld.com/2014/07/30/faulty-sanctions-system-failures-plague-city-welfare-administration/
Cruelty of UK benefit sanctions means man dies after missing meeting; sister launches inquiry petition:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sister-launches-petition-inquiry-after-3932691
Homelessness in the UK: A public health crisis:
http://www.theguardian.com/society-professionals/2014/jul/22/homelessness-public-health-crisis
Adults in the UK may be headed for retirement poverty:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-2694605/Concern-adults-heading-poorhouse-retirement.html
Child poverty in Japan hits record high:
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/japan-s-child-poverty-hits-record-high-survey-560677
Welfare rolls in New Zealand lowest since 2008:
http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/welfare-numbers-lowest-2008/5/196609