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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion – Don’t let poverty fall off agenda
October 28, 2008
In hard times, families make choices; they spend money on their priorities and save on the luxuries. But too many Ontario families have long been forced into much harder choices: Buy food or pay the rent? Buy winter coats or pay the heating bill?
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
25 in 5: Network for Poverty Reduction – Media Advisory – Anti-Poverty Network Sets Out Five Tests for Success of Ontario Government Poverty Reduction Strategy
October 27, 2008
TORONTO – More than 350 anti-poverty activists for the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction outlined today their expectations for the Ontario government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, due to be released in December.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/comment – Practising the Tao of Dalton
October 27, 2008. Jim Coyle
Maybe it’s the long-shot talk of his possible candidacy as a federal Liberal leader that has Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s thoughts drifting lately to a higher spiritual plane.
Or perhaps it is the considerable time he has spent recently in China – where he is again this week – and his exposure to philosophies of the East, maybe Taoism and the doctrine of wu wei – “non-doing” or “non-action.”
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
TheStar.com – Ontario – Justice reform reports ignored, critics say: Many have sought ways to fix problems affecting the justice system. But in most cases, their reports have led to few perceptible changes
October 27, 2008. Tracey Tyler, Legal Affairs Reporter
Just last week, at virtually the same time a 15-year-old was charged with murdering Brampton teenager Rajiv Dharamdial, government printing presses were gearing up to publish a major new report on preventing youth crime.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) – Press Release – Majority want leadership on poverty: Poll
October 27, 2008
TORONTO – The majority of Canadians believe Canada should try to distinguish itself in the world as a country where no one lives in poverty, according to an Environics Research poll conducted for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Vital to reduce poverty this year
October 26, 2008
The rich just seem to get richer, as the latest round of multi-million-dollar exit packages for financial executives has dramatically illustrated. Meanwhile, the gap between the wealthy and the middle to low-income earners has been growing around the world – and faster in Canada than in other industrialized nations, warns a report by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
TheStar.com – ParentCentral.ca – Copy Quebec daycare, PQ leader says
October 24, 2008. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter
If Ontario wants to cut child poverty and improve student achievement, it should copy Quebec’s $7-a-day child care system, says the architect of the popular program that began in 1998.
Since then, Quebec’s child poverty rates have dropped by 50 per cent, school test scores have gone from among the lowest to the highest in Canada and the percentage of mothers in the workforce in the province is now the highest, said Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
NationalPost.com – Full Comment/Editorial – National Post Editorial Board: The OECD finds Canada a country of the comfortable middle
Posted: October 24, 2008, by Kelly McParland
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) handed out report cards on income inequality this week, and Canada received what you might call a C-minus. From 1970 onward, according to the OECD, Canada exhibited increasingly flat income distributions; but since the mid-1990s, when equality peaked, the rich have been growing richer more quickly than the poor.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
TheStar.com – Canada – `Full steam ahead,’ minister says: Government targets December for plan to help poor while Hampton demands action and not `talk’
October 23, 2008. Tanya Talaga, Queen’s Park Bureau
The Liberal government says it plans to move ahead on its anti-poverty agenda, despite the dire economic outlook for the province.
While Ontario slows spending in some areas, the Liberal government will not back down on its commitments to fight poverty, said Deb Matthews, provincial chair of the cabinet committee on poverty reduction and the minister of children and youth services.
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