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Laurie Monsebraaten Social Justice Reporter Ontario’s welfare rules condemn disabled people to lives of poverty by squeezing their assets, scooping their child support payments and discouraging them from working, says a Conservative MPP who introduced a private member’s bill Wednesday to address the problem. Under the bill proposed by MPP Toby Barrett (Haldimand–Norfolk), about 230,000 [...]

Crow the crow calls from the fir; caw,caw,caw,caw the goats scramble for food The sheep run past The horses look and then away and back. The trees nod in the breeze they mimic the cars you can hear them comming in the wind but nothing. The flowers are ancients in the garden years after years [...]

March 11th 2010 Dear Community Partners, Following the March 2nd budget, the Ministry of Housing and Social Development announced it will be making a number of cuts to the health and medical services available to people receiving provincial disability benefits and income assistance. The BC Coalition of People with Disabilities (BCCPD) is very concerned about [...]

More than a year into a recession that hit Ontario harder than most provinces, hundreds of thousands of working Ontarians have lost their jobs — either slipping into the ranks of the poor or hanging on by their fingernails. Here in Windsor-Essex, the unemployment rate is 12.4 per cent, which is the highest in Canada. [...]

  Rich Coleman: “You’ve got to balance your services to what you can pay for.” Photograph by: Wayne Leidenfrost, PNG, file, The Province VICTORIA — Many of British Columbia’s most vulnerable citizens will see significant changes to their social safety net beginning Thursday as the provincial government moves to cut millions from what it hands [...]

ONTARIO COUNCIL OF HOSPITAL UNIONS (CUPE) RSS   Share   Printer friendly   Subscribe to Portfolio e-mail Ontario budget’s cruel elimination of special dietary supplement will result in significantly higher health care costs TORONTO, March 28 /CNW/ – Ontario’s budget will eliminate the $250 dietary allowance available to ill recipients of social assistance and this [...]

Budget will hit low-wage women hard: OPSEU TORONTO, March 25 /CNW/ – Plans by the McGuinty government to freeze public-sector wages in Ontario will hit women workers the most, including many who already work in low-paid jobs, the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says. “The large majority of workers in the public [...]

Ontario Budget: Austerity for Workers, Tax Cuts for Bay Street TORONTO, March 25 /CNW/ – Today’s provincial budget does little to address the jobs crisis in Ontario, say the United Steelworkers (USW). Indeed, the budget itself projects an even higher unemployment rate this year than last year. “The only positive surprise is the lower electricity [...]