MERRY CHRISTMAS / BESTIVE FESTIVE! 2009
from the Peacock Poverty Project
Thank-you so much for joining us at our official Launch/Christmas Bash* in support of our local musicians/artists and the Peacock Project Team. Whether in mind, body or spirit (!)- we appreciate your good wishes and support for this project.
It is with the inspiration of many that we continue [...]
Goar: Punished for working too diligently
If you’re one of the people who thinks welfare recipients should get out and work, Linda Chamberlain agrees with you.
You can view this story at: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/739279–goar-punished-for-working-too-diligently
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Take Action on Affordable Housing!
If you haven’t already sent in your submission to Ontario’s consultation process to develop a new Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, you should do so before the deadline – which is December 31.
Over the last year, the Housing Network of Ontario (HNO) has been focusing community efforts on ensuring that the provincial [...]
MPP Lobby: Keeping Poverty Reduction a Priority
On December 4 – the one-year anniversary of the government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy – Social Planning Toronto launched an MPP lobby in Toronto ridings to keep poverty reduction a priority as government prepares its 2010 budget.
Nine meetings have already been held, with more to come in January and February. [...]
Missing: $330 Million in Federal Affordable Housing Funds
The Ontario government can’t account for one-third of a billion in federal housing funding – that’s enough money to build more than 5,500 new homes across the province.
The Ontario Auditor-General, in his annual report released December 7, reports that the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing cannot [...]
Thin gruel on welfare `gravy train’
The usual alarm bells went off last week when provincial Auditor General Jim McCarter reported that the government had misspent $1.2 billion of taxpayers’ money on overpayments to welfare recipients.
You can view this story at: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/737859–thin-gruel-on-welfare-gravy-train
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Millions wasted on welfare: Ontario auditor general
An underfunded workplace insurance plan and lax inspection of bridges are among highlights of Ontario’s auditor general’s annual report.
You can view this story at: http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/735260–millions-wasted-on-welfare-ontario-auditor-general
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The bud stands for all things
even for those things that don’t flower
for everything flowers
from within of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness
to put a hand on the brow of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within
of self-blessing
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Rob Rainer
Executive Director
Canada Without Poverty
Dear friends and colleagues:
We’re writing with some exciting news. A significantly enhanced version of the Secure, Adequate, Accessible and Affordable Housing Act was adopted at the HUMA Committee late yesterday. It is appropriate that this Act was adopted on International Human Rights Day. It is an innovative and important piece of [...]
Auditing the Auditor General
by Reuel Amdur
Consider this an audit of the Ontario Auditor General’s 2009 Annual Report. While most of my comments will be addressed to social assistance, let’s begin with a reference to remarks about Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s Rental and Supportive Housing Program: “. . . more than half of [...]