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Changes to OW and ODSP are rolling out this month – and some are a surprise
New research demonstrates what people on social assistance have been saying for years – living in poverty drains your mental energy and your ability to do much more than just survive
Minister McMeekin is committed to reform
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Poverty reduction consultations started August 6 in Windsor
Coverage of London’s poverty reduction consultation, held last Friday
Having the adult conversations about the $12 to $14 billion lost in tax cuts in Ontario – and what that money could do
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Ontario appoints new Minimum Wage Advisory Panel
Coverage and Critique
Adam Vasey, of Pathway to Potential in Windsor, appointed as a member of the panel
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The Social Assistance Review was a process of policy change that is still playing out and has roots going back to 2007. In 2007, advocates succeeded in convincing the Ontario government to commit to creating…
Here are a few stories from the last week or so – note that ISAC’s Media and Policy News will be on hiatus for the next two weeks.
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The number of PEI residents disqualified from EI has risen 18%
The richest get richer, by $250 million each day
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Top Stories: A Plethora of Reports
Report from ONPHA / CHF-Canada, Ontario region shows Ontario has a serious affordable housing shortage
Report from Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness shows homelessness costs Canada $7 billion and affects 200,000 people each year
Report from Canadian Human Rights Commission says Aboriginal Peoples continue to experience conditions of persistent disadvantage
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New research shows tying social assistance income eligibility to a requirement to find a job increases the risk of death
Canada’s new Jobs Grant program called “deeply flawed” by new Mowat / Caledon joint report
Op-Ed by legal clinic students calls for a better Employment Insurance system
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Pressure is on the province to extend rent controls to cover all tenants
The Ontario NDP has introduced a Private Members’ Bill to do so
The provincial government missed its own deadline to appoint an independent review of the Disabilities Act – op-ed author says it’s a bad signal for ensuring accessibility for people with disabilities
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Quebec cuts benefits to try to move people receiving social assistance into jobs
MCSS Minister McMeekin says he will not move to resolve problems arising from the cap on discretionary benefits for people on social assistance
We’re all paying for changes to retirement security – with poverty
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Ontario
People for Education’s Mind the Gap report shows inequities in education and calls for policies that give true equal access
Letter to the Windsor Star says Premier Wynne must do more to feed the poor
Province announces new microloan fund and office to help social enterprises
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Toronto Star editorial: Ontario needs an increase in the minimum wage
Provincial and federal lawyers are in court today to stifle a challenge that says the governments are violating the Charter by failing to implement policies that would reduce and eventually eliminate homelessness and substandard housing
The Canadian Medical Association is on a cross-country tour to prescribe income to treat the health effects of high poverty rates
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“My name is Chonie Anger, I’m 13 years old and I have lived in poverty basically my whole life”
One-third of Canadian households is living paycheque to paycheque
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