March 1, 2009
In the past week, the Ontario government introduced anti-poverty legislation aimed at reducing child poverty by 25 per cent in five years. The bill won't make it a law for Ontario to reduce poverty...
Keywords: Government Policy, Poverty Research, Ontario
January 27, 2009
Last week, a memorial service in Edmonton honoured the forty-seven homeless people who had died over the last year. This was the fourth annual event to honour the lives and remember the deaths of...
Keywords: Alberta, Homelessness, Nova Scotia, Ontario
December 18, 2008
Seven foreign agriculture workers recently fired and evicted by Canada’s largest mushroom producer, Rol-Land Farms, joined members of UFCW Canada, Justicia for Migrant Workers, and academics to speak...
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, Workers' Rights, Ontario
December 5, 2008
The Ontario government has released their Poverty Reduction Strategy with a plan to reduce the number of children living in poverty by 25 per cent over the next 5 years.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Government Policy, Poverty Research, Ontario
December 4, 2008
Some provincial governments across Canada have implemented poverty reduction strategies. The following links have information on these strategies.
Keywords: Government Policy, Poverty Research, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec
December 4, 2008
GTA Children’s Aid Societies and the Social Planning Network released a report on child poverty that shows a huge increase in the number of children living in poverty. The report shows that lack of...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Poverty Research, Ontario
December 2, 2008
People living in poverty in the Great Lakes area may be experiencing a higher level of air pollution in their communities, according to a study released by the Pollution Watch project. The study...
Keywords: Poverty Research, Ontario, Québec
November 24, 2008
The Ontario Association of Food Banks has released an important and timely new report on the economic cost of poverty in Ontario. This is a first for Ontario and possibly for any Canadian...
Keywords: Foodbanks and Food, Poverty Research, Ontario
November 4, 2008
A promised two percent raise in welfare rates in Ontario will kick in for December cheques but according to an article in The Star this will boost payments to a level recommended in 1988. The two...
Keywords: Welfare, Ontario
October 28, 2008
A new report from Toronto Public Health links health and income, and shows that people with low income experience greater risk of illness, higher rates of disease and death at an earlier age than...
Keywords: Health, Homelessness, Ontario
September 21, 2008
The 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction, a coalition of over 100 organizations across Ontario is urging the premier of Ontario to follow through on his promise of reducing poverty in the province....
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Government Policy, Organizing, Ontario
September 20, 2008
The African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC) is a not-for-profit organization established in October 1994 expressly to address anti-Black racism and other forms of systemic and institutional...
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Organizing, Ontario
August 25, 2008
The Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) has released a report, Our Choice for a Better Ontario: A Plan to Cut Poverty in Half by 2020 (in PDF). The report includes thirty concrete...
Keywords: Foodbanks and Food, Poverty Research, Ontario
August 13, 2008
A disabled activist and member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty has received an apology from a Toronto restaurant who discriminated against him. The manager at the Everest restaurant had told...
Keywords: Disability, Organizing, Ontario
July 13, 2008
The Wellesley Institute has sponsored an innovative research report by the FTM Safer Shelter Project Research Team about the unique needs of homeless trans men (female to male (FTM)/ Transgender/...
Keywords: Homelessness, LGBTQ, Ontario
July 13, 2008
The Ontario Human Rights Commission has released a report, Right at home: Report on the consultation on human rights and rental housing in Ontario (in PDF) that focuses on housing as a human right,...
Keywords: Housing, Human Rights, Ontario
July 13, 2008
You or your organization can make submissions to the Ontario Government's poverty reduction strategy on the Growing Stronger Together website. See an earlier PovNet story for more information about...
Keywords: Government Policy, Ontario
July 6, 2008
Colour of Poverty Campaign is trying to ensure the Ontario government's poverty reduction strategy begins to address the reality that people of colour are disproportionately living in poverty in...
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Organizing, Ontario
June 28, 2008
Various community groups are keeping a close eye on the ongoing consultation of the Ontario Cabinet Committee on Poverty Reduction. For a variety of informed viewpoints on Ontario's poverty reduction...
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Government Policy, Poverty Research, Ontario
May 22, 2008
Read an article in the Toronto Star, "Poverty 'steals from your soul'" about a board member of the National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) (Link removed - No longer exists) travelling to Ottawa to...
Keywords: Organizing, Ontario
