Ontario’s 2016 Budget makes some significant commitments to social assistance reform as well as changes in other areas that will impact low-income Ontarians, including those on Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program…
Ontario simplifies medical reviews for people on ODSP
News from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva
Child and family homelessness a hidden but growing crisis in Canada that requires comprehensive action, says new report
Ontario Budget Preview: What to expect in Thursday’s provincial budget
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ISAC has made a submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Canada’s implementation of its obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Committee is…
Art Eggleton on three ways to end poverty in Canada – education, basic income, and tax reform
Is Quebec’s promised basic income a Trojan horse for neoliberalism?
Most Syrian refugees coming to Canada will live below the poverty line
Sherad Kerur: Refugees’ needs expose Canada’s housing crisis
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– la version française suit dessous – The Ministry of Community and Social Services has just announced a plan for important improvements to the medical review process for people on ODSP. We want to thank…
MCSS making big changes to the ODSP medical review process
Federal Minister eyeing guaranteed minimum income to tackle poverty
Ontario budget touted for March 3 or March 10
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Ontario is wrapping up its pre-budget consultations this week. ISAC has made a submission to both the Minister of Finance and the Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs. Our submission includes recommendations…
Injured workers being systematically disentitled from WSIB; labour asks Ombudsman to investigate
Proposed Quebec legislation is “a direct attack against human rights” of people receiving social assistance
Human Rights Commission rules Ottawa discriminates against First Nations kids on reserve
New report from Ontario Human Rights Commission strongly links mental health disabilities and poverty
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Oxfam: Wealth of richest 1% now equal to other 99%, and 62 people’s wealth now equal to the poorest half of humanity
Spec Editorial: 2016 is the perfect time to fix social assistance
Labour Ministry inspection finds 78% of Ontario employers violating the Employment Standards Act
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Advocacy groups seeking clarity on federal government’s “social infrastructure” pledge
Will 2016 be the year the world tumbles back into economic crisis
Joe Gunn: Five qualities a federal anti-poverty plan must include
Canada is Back? Not until taxation is truly fair
Cole: Clawing child support back from social assistance is a disgrace
Ending the child support clawback one part of lifting parents out of poverty
How non-Indigenous allies can help make the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations a reality
This will be the last Media & Policy News until the new year! Happy Holidays everyone!
And ISAC is moving today!
Check back later today for a copy of Campaign 2000’s letter, to which ISAC is a proud signatory
Sally Ann clients in say thanks for the Christmas Turkey, but much more is needed to end poverty
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