Communities across Ontario need more funds for housing and homelessness supports Right now, local and regional municipalities across Ontario are planning their budgets for 2014. One of the issues they’re debating is how to respond…
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Niagara Region gets creative to spend housing and homelessness money (CHPI)
Cornwall’s homelessness prevention funding (CHPI) isn’t enough, since eligibility criteria are too strict
Ontario contemplating closing tax loopholes to raise revenue
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Remember veterans – but support them too
Ontario government’s fall economic statement
Meanwhile, cuts to CSUMB and child care mean funding cuts in Nipissing
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Toronto Star editorial – Ontario cannot forget the poor and hungry as the Minister of Finance releases his fall economic statement
More evidence of the need for public investment in low income adult dental programs
The Ontario Medical Review highlights poverty as a medical problem – and what health care practitioners can do about it
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Advisory Panel to report to government in December The Ontario government appointed a Minimum Wage Advisory Panel in June 2013 to give advice on how to set the minimum wage. Although ISAC mainly works on…
ISAC has made a written submission on Ontario’s next poverty reduction strategy, which is expected to be made public later this year or early next. We focused on issues of income security and social assistance…
On October 16, the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) and Niagara North Community Legal Assistance will go before the Federal Court of Appeal to argue that 102 seasonal agricultural workers were wrongly denied EI parental benefits. These workers are…
The provincial government started consultations on a new Poverty Reduction Strategy for Ontario in August, and a series of consultation meetings across the province will soon be wrapping up. Now’s the time to make your…
Community consultations have been taking place across Ontario on the provincial government’s next five-year Poverty Reduction Strategy. ISAC has prepared a Toolkit for Community Legal Clinics to use to prepare for and participate in –…
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Armine Yalnizyan: Five years of economic recovery have been far from equal
Chatham-Kent board of health says province must maintain its commitment to poverty reduction as a public health measure
Lots of media coverage for Sept 14 Day of Action to increase the minimum wage to $14 / hour – this Workers Action Centre email has news & links
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La version française suit. The 2013 Ontario budget included a number of changes to social assistance, most of which kicked in as of September 1, 2013. ISAC has prepared several fact sheets on these changes…
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Good social policy can make a big difference
More information on household income
A snapshot of Canadians
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