Income Security Advocacy Centre

ISAC works to address issues of income security and poverty in Ontario

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ISAC’s Federal Budget 2025 Response: ‘Generational Investments’ Rhetoric Conflicts with Budget 2025’s Status-Quo Social Safety Net

The new federal government’s first and much-anticipated budget introduces what it describes as “generational investments” to empower Canadians. However, when it comes to the social safety net that protects low-income families, persons with disabilities, workers,…

Canada Disability Benefit (CDB), Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Disability Justice, Federal Budgets, Indigenous Justice, Policy Advocacy, Workers' Rights
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Press Release: Community Groups are Putting Queen’s Park ON NOTICE – Food is a Right! Freeze the Rents! Raise the Rates! Raise Wages!

TORONTO, ON – On Thursday, October 23, at 11 a.m., a coalition of organizations focused on disability justice, food security, workers’ rights, renters’ rights, income security, poverty reduction, and improved social services will arrive at…

Community Organizing, Disability Justice, Housing, Minimum Wage, Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), Ontario Works (OW), Poverty Reduction, Press Release, Social Assistance, Social Assistance Rates, Workers' Rights

On the 33rd International Day to Eradicate Poverty, let’s stop wasting time and make permanent changes to improve the lives of Ontarians.

The International Day to Eradicate Poverty occurs every year on October 17. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1992, reflecting on the aspirations of the declaration today brings mixed feelings. Poverty in Canada dipped…

Canada Disability Benefit (CDB), Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Community Organizing, Disability Justice, Poverty Reduction, Social Assistance