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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Campaign 2000 calls on the premiers to strengthen poverty reduction and on the federal government to adopt its own strategy
The $610 Diet Plan – from Raise the Rates BC
Study says poor moms are often diagnosed with anxiety, but the problem is really poverty – solutions should be income supports and services, not psychiatry
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Special Edition – Social Assistance Cuts In the News
Around the province, cuts to social assistance are angering communities and elected councils, and getting local coverage
The cuts include capping Discretionary Health Benefits and ending both the Community Start-up and Maintenance and Home Repairs benefits
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Rob Rainer and Linda Silas, on the growing gap making Canadians sick
Funding for Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods about to dry up
Sir Michael Marmot tells Steve Paikin how economic and social inequality can affect people’s health and life expectancy
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Activists protest cut to Community Start-Up Benefit in K-W
Cabinet Minister John Gerretsen takes Put Food in the Budget challenge – says “I don’t think that government as a whole, including my own, are necessarily doing enough”
The Trillium Benefit comes online
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Homelessness will increase from loss of Community Start-Up and Home Repairs benefits
Province to discuss overhauling child care – but says nothing on affordability
Is Canada moving to “right-to-work”?
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If the feds cut refugee health care, what will happen to Alejandro?
A summer election: Will we, or won’t we?
Study finds “wealthy patients went to hospitals chiefly for surgery and outpatient procedures. Poor patients used them for basic medical care, mental health services, chronic care, emergencies and end-of-life care.”
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Why hiring people with disabilities makes good business sense
Vancouver Sun reports Harper may require First Nations youth to get job training before they qualify for welfare
Ontario Human Rights Code amended to include gender identity and gender expression – rights of transgendered people affirmed and protected
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The CCPA releases its great new video – “Taxes, the gift we give each other”
Cuts to social assistance benefits will impact First Nations in Ontario
Speak out against the cuts!
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