Media & Policy News: 5 May 2017
Top Stories
On International Workers Day, migrant workers are still precarious and unsupported:
http://ccrweb.ca/en/international-workers-day-statement-2017
Federal Liberals suspend tax audits of political charities:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/05/04/ottawa-urged-to-give-charities-more-freedom-to-speak-out.html
Case for Canada’s infrastructure bank not compelling, researchers warn:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/case-for-canada-infrastructure-bank-not-compelling-researchers-warn/article34898110/
Aboriginal approach to child welfare brings results:
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201705016122/focus-on/focus-aboriginal-approach-to-child-welfare-brings-results
Canadian minimum wage workers say they’re surviving rather than living:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadian-minimum-wage-workers-say-they-re-surviving-rather-than-living-1.3391580#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=EI1EGuL
Judge certifies minimum wage lawsuit against Ontario Hockey League:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/judge-certifies-minimum-wage-lawsuit-ontario-hockey-league/
These 3 groups are at high risk of mental health issues in Canada. Here’s why:
http://globalnews.ca/news/3415871/these-3-groups-are-at-high-risk-of-mental-health-issues-in-canada-heres-why/
Ontario gets a C in gender wage equality; Canada ranks low on income inequality, poverty and social cohesion:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/ontario-gets-a-c-in-gender-wage-equality-new-report-finds-1.4055873
Parkdale tenants organize rent strike to protest rent increases at MetCap buildings:
http://globalnews.ca/news/3416279/parkdale-rent-strike-metcap-buildings/
Ontario landlords must pay one month’s rent or offer new unit to tenants they evict for own use:
http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/04/26/ontario-landlords-must-pay-months-rent-find-new-unit.html?cq_ck=1493241245129
Why I love taxes – and so should you:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/01/why-i-love-taxes-and-so-should-you-mallick.html
Top Stories – Ontario Budget
Response and Analysis
Opposition statements
Ontario
Ontario’s Fair Housing Plan fails to identify the real offenders:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ben-myers/ontario-fair-housing-plan_b_16391446.html
OFL statement on the 2017 Day of Mourning:
http://ofl.ca/index.php/ofl-statement-2017-day-mourning/
Ontario Electricity Support Program to benefit more consumers, increase credits by 50%:
http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/oesp-to-benefit-more-consumers-increase-credits-by-50-620482563.html
Racial profiling occurs at Ontario airports, malls, and schools, report says:
https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/05/03/racial-profiling-in-ontario-not-just-a-policing-issue-report-says.html
$110 million lawsuit targets Ontario wait lists for developmentally delayed adults:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/04/23/110m-lawsuit-targets-ontario-wait-lists-for-developmentally-delayed-adults.html
Ontario vows to act on solitary confinement limits in new report:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prison-report-calls-for-hard-limits-on-solitary-confinement/article34894282/
Government news releases:
Reports, Events, Campaigns and Other Good Things
May 11: CLC and OFL host Street Party for a Fair Future:
https://www.facebook.com/events/442605296092889/
June 1: Workers’ Comp is a Right! Injured Workers’ Day Rally and March at Queen’s Park:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1044072909025603/
CLEO’s new “how to” resource: Using social media effectively:
http://yourlegalrights.on.ca/news/cleos-new-how-resource-using-social-media-effectively
Stats Can Study: Young men and women without a high school diploma, 1990 to 2016:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170504/dq170504b-eng.htm
Basic Income: A Critical Reader:
https://hammerhearts.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/basic-income-a-critical-reader/
Around the Province
Not tracking mental health and addictions waitlist in the North has the potential to reach a crisis situation:
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/not-tracking-mental-health-and-addictions-waitlist-has-the-potential-to-reach-a-crisis-situation-604086
Guelph’s Out of Poverty Society hits the streets:
https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/7265038-guelph-s-out-of-poverty-society-hits-the-streets/
Agencies in Orillia keeping an eye on the province’s Basic Income pilot:
http://www.orilliapacket.com/2017/05/03/agencies-keeping-eye-on-basic-income
Leeds Grenville doesn’t get Ontario’s basic income pilot:
http://www.recorder.ca/2017/04/25/area-out-for-basic-income
Ontario running a basic income pilot project:
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2017/05/01/province-running-a-pilot-project
Across the Country
“I’m not a heartless person”: Saskatchewan social services minister says cuts to funerals a tough decision:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatchewan-funeral-budget-poverty-1.4093711
Everyone Counts: St. John’s Point-in-Time Count 2016:
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=61233be4a0bcc87d8977b631e&id=195ba66d4f&e=6da7d6f883
Nova Scotia NDP unveils plan to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/election-ndp-minimum-wage-raise-gary-burrill-1.4099274
Discussion on poverty reduction being held in Truro:
http://www.trurodaily.com/community/2017/5/3/discussion-on-poverty-reduction-being-held-in-truro.html
Canada Without Poverty workshops coming to Yellowknife this week:
http://www.myyellowknifenow.com/23453/poverty-homelessness-workshops-coming-yellowknife/
Manitoba hints at raising minimum wage after freeze:
http://globalnews.ca/news/3413017/province-hints-at-raising-manitobas-minimum-wage-after-freeze/
Quebec’s minimum wage increases to $11.25 an hour:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-minimum-wage-2017-increase-1.4093047
PEI Minister says province cannot adopt universal income pilot without federal dollars:
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local/2017/4/28/trivers-takes-government-to-task-over-inaction-on-basic-income-p.html
B.C. homeless advocates call for ‘death review panel’ as fatality figures spike:
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/report-homeless-deaths-surge-in-b-c
Advocacy groups in BC launch constitutional challenge over legal aid:
http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/3801/advocacy-groups-in-b-c-launch-constitutional-challenge-over-legal-aid.html
BC’s inequality gap widens – and shapes the election campaign:
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bcs-inequality-gap-widens-and-shapes-the-electioncampaign/article34857613/
BC responds to suit over fees to welfare recipients for methadone treatment:
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-responds-to-suit-over-fees-to-welfare-recipients-for-methadone-treatment
BC Greens want to experiment with basic guaranteed income:
http://runnermag.ca/2017/05/b-c-greens-want-to-experiment-with-basic-guaranteed-income/
National
The introduction and evolution of child benefits in Canada:
http://behindthenumbers.ca/2017/04/27/introduction-evolution-child-benefits-canada/
Drowning in debt is the new normal in Canada:
http://www.news1130.com/2017/04/24/drowning-debt-new-normal-canada/
Financial outlook for millennials bleak unless the government steps in now:
http://www.bnn.ca/financial-outlook-for-millennials-bleak-unless-the-government-steps-in-now-stats-expert-1.741792
Widow takes feds to appeals tribunal after CPP benefits denied due to her age:
http://www.cp24.com/news/widow-takes-feds-to-appeals-tribunal-after-cpp-benefits-denied-due-to-her-age-1.3391700
Multiculturalism isn’t bad for women – but racism is:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/04/multiculturalism-isnt-bad-for-women-but-racism-is-kanji.html
In an aging Canada, women need to save more than men, even if they make less:
http://globalnews.ca/news/3423474/in-an-aging-canada-women-need-to-save-more-than-men-even-if-they-make-less/
International
Australia’s government announces crackdown on welfare “cheats”:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/turnbull-government-announces-crackdown-on-welfare-cheats/news-story/346eafe7bed19d0b737caa6e537531d6
Lunch-shaming in US schools has no place in the battle against child poverty:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2017/may/02/lunch-shaming-battle-against-child-poverty
UK welfare reform is not only cruel but chaotic. Theresa May must address this:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2017/may/02/welfare-reform-cruel-chaotic-theresa-may
116-year old Mexican woman denied welfare for being too old:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/116-Year-Old-Woman-Denied-Welfare-for-Being-Too-Old-20170430-0005.html
Irish Minister overstating welfare fraud problem:
http://www.limerickpost.ie/2017/04/28/minister-overstating-welfare-fraud-problem/
Why a $15 minimum wage is good economics:
http://prospect.org/article/why-15-minimum-wage-good-economics
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