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How do we get people to care?

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion/Letter – How do we get people to care?
October 11, 2009

Re:What do you cut when there’s nothing to spare, Column, Oct. 9

Thank you once again to Carol Goar for another informative, sensitively written article. I wonder and worry, though. Who reads an article like this? Is it the person who thinks little about those living in poverty or, worse, who feels most of these people are just “working the system”? I doubt it, in the same way I doubt regular listeners in the U.S. to Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are inspired by Barack Obama.

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No Relief in Sight This Thanksgiving [Social Assistance Rates inadequate]

Friday, October 9th, 2009

povertywatchontario.ca – press release – No Relief in Sight This Thanksgiving: 1700 Ontarians “Do the Math” and Find Social Assistance Rates Don’t Add Up
October 8, 2009

TORONTO – Thanksgiving is a time to remember that everyone should have enough food to eat — if not to celebrate with an abundant meal, at the very least to meet the minimum requirements for health and dignity. But data released from a new website shows what too many people lining up at food banks this Thanksgiving already know: social assistance in Ontario does not add up.

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Decision Time on EI

Friday, October 9th, 2009

acorncanada.org – listserve – Decision Time on EI
October 8, 2009

With politicians declaring to Canadians that the Recession is over, the Bank of Canada is reporting that “…the economy has continued to shed jobs (albeit at a slowing rate), average hours worked have fallen, and the unemployment rate has risen to its highest level in 11 years.”

Even worse, of the nearly 1.6 million out of work Canadians only about 45% qualify for Employment Insurance.  

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Drive a car, find a job

Friday, October 9th, 2009

TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion – Drive a car, find a job: To get off welfare, people need to be behind the wheel
Published Oct. 08, 2009. Last updated on Oct. 10, 2009.    Peter Shawn Taylor

Despite their recent reputation as environmental scourges, cars are still tremendously useful things. This is particularly so when it comes to getting off welfare and into work. Policies that reduce access to cars among low-income or unemployed people make it tougher to find work.

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Are we becoming a city of haves and have-nots?

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion – Are we becoming a city of haves and have-nots?
October 08, 2009.   Bob Hepburn

In his riveting new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, filmmaker Michael Moore chronicles the collapse of manufacturing in America and the despair of low-income couples being evicted from their homes.

Moore takes his cameras through formerly solid working-class neighbourhoods in Detroit, showing street after street of abandoned homes and vacant fields where mighty factories once stood.

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Gravy train doesn’t stop here anymore [disappearing middle class]

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion – Gravy train doesn’t stop here anymore
October 07, 2009.   Thomas Walkom

The frontier between middle-class life and poverty is ill-defined. One day things are going swimmingly; the next day a family can find itself literally in the poor house.

That’s the theme of a new documentary film on real life in the Toronto area by Laura Sky and Cathy Crowe. Sky is a veteran filmmaker with a taste for justice. Crowe is a street nurse who works with the homeless.

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Poverty debate: Raise the quality of life for all

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

NationalPost.com – fpcomment – Poverty debate: Raise the quality of life for all: The Conference Board and the Fraser Institute square off about how to best define ‘poor’ in Canada
Posted: October 05, 2009.    Anne Golden

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Poor get poorer in an affluent city

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

TheStar.com – News – Poor get poorer in an affluent city
October 06, 2009.   Donovan Vincent

A report examining the social health of this city has found “startling contradictions.” On the one hand, Toronto is becoming more prosperous. But with the recession hitting immigrants harder, children experiencing higher levels of poverty, and the number of middle-class families shrinking, the poor are getting poorer.

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Stand Up Take Action: To Make Poverty History! October 16 – 18, 2009

Monday, October 5th, 2009

cwp-csp.ca – www.dignityforall.ca – Stand Up Take Action: To Make Poverty History!   October 16 – 18, 2009
October 5, 2009

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Mr. Premier, don’t drag your heels on early learning report

Monday, October 5th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion – Mr. Premier, don’t drag your heels on early learning report
October 05, 2009.   David Crombie, Margaret Norrie McCain

In the next few days, Premier Dalton McGuinty will be making an announcement that could begin a revolution in education and help define his own legacy as a leader.

If the premier follows the blueprint laid out by his early learning adviser, not only will he set Ontario on a course to become one of the best places in the world to raise a child, he will up the province’s competitiveness quotient in the same breath.

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