A great article outlining the impacts and implications of the CSUMB cuts in Niagara Region
Excellent editorial on CSUMB in Niagara This Week
A play-by-play of Hamilton’s council meeting to discuss CSUMB cuts
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ISAC and ACTO want you to Take a Call-in Coffee Break Friday Sept 28 to save the CSUMB
Losing Community Start Up will mean more homeless Torontonians
District of Nipissing will lose $700,000 when CSUMB is cut
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On Friday, Sept. 28th take 5 minutes to tell your MPP to reverse the cuts to housing benefits for people on OW and ODSP! Every month, thousands of people in Ontario need the Community Start-up and…
Top Story: Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit Cut
Loss of CSUMB a “horror show”
The cuts will mean people will die on the streets, activists say
Kingston Council struggles with the news of the cut
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Ken Georgetti of the CLC on the union advantage
CUPE’s Labour Day message
The OFL’s Sid Ryan on depressed wages
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More on Inequality in Ontario – “Falling Behind”
Star editorial
Sid Ryan on Global TV about the “Falling Behind” report on inequality in Ontario – and what government should do about it
Worsening inequality can be seen on the streets of Hamilton
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Ontario leads on inequality and poverty, says new report by Ontario Common Front
Here’s the press release
Here’s the report
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More on Cuts to Community Start Up and other OW / ODSP Benefits
At the AMO annual meeting last week, Andrea Horwath called it “backdoor cuts” that municipalities will have to bear
Cuts could mean more homeless in Kenora
And more, on the homelessness funds shell game, from Kenora
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Cuts to the Community Start-up and Maintenance Benefit and the Home Repairs Benefit not sitting well with advocates in Guelph
Why affordable housing is a human right
Some of the legal issues involved in the provision of social housing
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Open File covers the loss of the Community Start-up and Maintenance Benefit
Here’s a great blog about the current welfare reforms in the UK, from someone on disability benefits there
What it’s like to live on minimum wage in Toronto
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Canadian Medical Association releases a report today on health and income – they say, “What is particularly worrisome for Canada’s doctors is that in a nation as prosperous as Canada, the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ appears to be widening.”
Kenora to vote to shut City’s child care centre, as province should bear costs
Also from Kenora, housing and homelessness funds are “a shell game”
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Peterborough advocates urge keeping Community Start Up and other discretionary benefits after province cuts funding
New program in Windsor helps people on OW open their own businesses
Federal panel to review how to increase access to jobs for people with disabilities
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