The Options Paper from the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario has been released. You can find the paper, entitled “Approaches for Reform”, here: http://www.socialassistancereview.ca/commission-publications.

A message from the Commissioners is here: http://www.socialassistancereview.ca/a-message-from-the-commissioners. You will also be interested to review “What We Heard”, which is the summary of discussions that took place [...]

Social Assistance Review – Preparing for the Options Paper
The Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario is expected to release an Options Paper in early February with options for reforming Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), followed by a very short period for public response and feedback. The options [...]

On Monday, Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative MPs voted for the cruel Crime Bill. That night, the NDP, Liberal, Bloc and Green MPs stood together against the bill, and many of them were wearing “Safer, not meaner” buttons in solidarity with our campaign.
Now, the struggle for Canadian justice moves to the [...]

Porter: Linda Chamberlain rose from rough beginnings to become a champion of the mentally ill
Published On Fri Nov 25 2011

Video: Linda Chamberlain
Linda Chamberlain has lead a very interesting life. She’s been orphaned, homeless, a burlesque dancer, a fugitive, accused and aquitted for murder…. She is now dying of cancer and [...]

The rich get richer and the homeless get fined
by Stephen Gaetz
November 10, 2011

Homelessness continues to be a visible problem in most Canadian cities.  I would say most Canadians, when they think about how we respond to homelessness, would consider emergency shelters, drop-ins and soup kitchens – charitable programs set up to shelter [...]

Collective Impact on Poverty: Lessons from Vibrant Communities [By: Mark Cabaj]
In the winter of 2011, John Kania and Mark Kramer wrote a now very popular article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, that described how diverse organizations and leaders are crossing artificial lines to work [...]

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Consider tuning in this Sunday at 4:00pm Eastern to the Goldhawk Live national CPAC program, which will focus on the Occupy movement with examination of the intersect between income/wealth inequality and poverty.  On behalf of Canada Without Poverty I will be one-on-one with Dale Goldhawk beginning about 4:30pm [...]

The long view: Frances Lankin co-chairs a massive review of Ontario’s social support structure
Paul Carlucci | Wednesday, June 01, 2011

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“Public policy,” says Frances Lankin, “is not an exercise in sheer logic.”
So call it [...]

Disability Studies Quarterly
Summer 2004, Volume 24, No. 3
<www.dsq-sds.org>
Copyright 2004 by the Society
for Disability Studies

Income Assistance (the ODSP) and Women with Disabilities in Ontario, Canada:
Limited Program Information, Restrictive Incomes
and the Impacts upon Socio-Spatial Life

Valorie A. Crooks
School of Geography and Geology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Email: crooksva@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca

Abstract: Women who live with an illness or impairment are an extremely [...]

THE COST OF CARING: Report on the Consultation on Discrimination on the Basis of Family Status

VI. HOUSING
1. Introduction
Canada, as a signatory to a number of international human rights instruments, has recognized that adequate housing is a fundamental human right. With the ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, [...]