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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Yesterday, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights released a report urging Canada to address growing income inequality and discriminatory policies that leave at least 4.6 million Canadians living in poverty and…
How low-income people suffer without dental care
More from Geneva
Disability advocates protest BC’s bus pass clawback
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Special Edition: Ontario Budget 2016
Government’s news release: Ontario’s investments creating jobs for today and tomorrow
ISAC Analysis: Bold steps on social assistance reform, but incomes still grossly inadequate
Star coverage: Ontario to end clawback of child support for parents on welfare
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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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