Ontario’s soaring poverty gap is starkest for single adults as welfare rates stagnate
People on social assistance are actually worse in worse shape now than under Harris
Successful strike by Tibetan food terminal workers sets a precedent and highlights precarious work
Stats Can survey of job vacancies shows virtually all in-demand jobs in Canada are low-paid positions
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The provincial government’s Climate Change Action Plan and new cap-and-trade program aim to reduce greenhouses gases, address the impacts of climate change, and move Ontario to a lower-carbon economy. But it could also have unwanted…
May Day Op-Ed: Ontario’s labour laws are failing vulnerable workers
New data shows Canada is a class-divided nation
Manitoba Liberals call on federal government to ensure all children – even those without a social insurance number – get access to the new Canada Child Benefit
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Report: Widespread workplace abuse persists for restaurant workers of Chinese descent
Ontario workers killed and injured on the job commemorated on National Day of Mourning
Ontario’s basic income program poses threat to existing social programs
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Health Quality Ontario report links income inequality to inequities in health risks, care, and outcomes
Federal government moves to introduce new Canada Child Benefit
Problems with Disability Tax Credit yet to be fixed; Delay hurting people with disabilities
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April 15: List of huge number of $15 and Fairness actions across Ontario today
Canada Child Benefit must not be clawed back from social assistance – my Letter to the Editor with Campaign 2000
It’s time for evidence-based social assistance reform in Ontario
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Nunavut stops clawing back the National Child Benefit Supplement from social assistance payments
New Canada Child Benefit must be indexed to inflation now, not by 2020
Duclos says new Canada Child Benefit is a form of basic income guarantee, open to do more – but provinces would have to take the lead
Two Innu First Nations to deliver income assistance program to their members in Labrador
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Pikangikum house fire direct result of chronic poverty
Just paint over it: Kashechewan’s endless battle with mould
More on the federal budget
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Federal Budget 2016: Growing the Middle Class
ISAC commentary and analysis: The 2016 Federal Budget and Income Security
Desperate parents were praying for federal action amid daycare anarchy
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The government of Canada has made a number of significant investments in improvements to federal income security programs in Budget 2016. After ten years of erosion of government’s commitment in these areas, Budget 2016 reverses…
Delay, denial and debt mark WSIB struggle for man who lost his memory in a workplace accident:
New Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy a “transformation” of Ontario’s housing and homelessness system
Trudeau says Tuesday’s federal budget will return OAS eligibility to 65 and make investments in “unsexy” infrastructure projects
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IWD: What 20 years of the gender wage gap looks like in Canada
UN tells Canada to clean up its record on economic, social and cultural inequality
UN report raises concern over Canada’s persistent housing crisis
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