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Ontario Budget 2016: A Wintery Outlook For The Poor
Our coalition is thankful for budget measures that provide some relief to low-income families and seniors, including: * Access to free higher education for students from families with incomes under $50,000… * A $175 million commitment over the next three years to alleviate an affordable housing crisis; * Steps to reduce prescription drug costs that will benefit 170,000 low-income seniors… Yet on other fronts, the budget is disappointing.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario’s early bird budget didn’t get the worm
… the lion’s share of this government’s deficit reduction activities has come at the expense of expanding program spending to improve public services… This budget allocates a 1.5 per cent increase to social assistance benefit rates, including a further increase for single OW recipients… Ontarians who have been living in poverty have been waiting 12 years… for a return to more adequate social assistance incomes. This year’s increases are too little, too late.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Canada comes up short at UN review of human-rights issues
First, the government continues to insist that economic, social and cultural rights aren’t fully protected by the Charter, and do not need to be. That flies in the face of international law and is an affront to those individuals and communities whose rights are disregarded… Second, there was no sign of federal leadership to draw the different levels of government in Canada together in a shared model for more effective, accountable and transparent implementation of human rights obligations.
Tags: Health, homelessness, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, rights
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First Nations students need more than policy advice
… the time for social reconstruction from the ground up may have arrived. Supporting traditional industries, creating sustainable employment, refurbishing housing, and embracing First Nations community-based schooling is a much better approach… More funding would be a real help, but it will take a generation to rebuild broken trust, foster cross-cultural reconciliation, and engage First Nations themselves in this vitally important work.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, housing, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Advocates taking Canada’s housing policy to UN
… affordable housing activists are taking their landmark “right to housing” Charter challenge to the international stage… the case… was never heard because lawyers for Ontario and Ottawa introduced a successful motion to strike in 2013. The activists appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which in June 2015 refused to hear the case, essentially upholding the lower court’s view that legislatures, not the courts, are the place to fight homelessness.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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