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
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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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– 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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