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Friday November 21st 2008
Regional - OntarioNewsTwo percent welfare increase in OntarioNovember 4, 2008 - 5:49pm
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 percent increase gives single people only $5 more to spend on basic necessities. ( categories: News | Ontario | Welfare )
Poverty linked to poor health in TorontoOctober 28, 2008 - 8:39am
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 people with higher income. The report shows the relationship between income and health in Toronto is not just about the extremes of wealth and poverty. Most of the indicators show a gradient of health relative to income such that health status improves through each income increment. ( categories: News | Ontario | Health | Homelessness )
Coalition urging premier to stay course on poverty reductionSeptember 21, 2008 - 8:20pm
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. The network has put forth a plan that focuses on ensuring sustaining employment, so that people who work don’t live in poverty; reforming social assistance, so that people who can’t work get the support they need; and providing for strong community supports, to give opportunity and inclusion to all. ( categories: News | Ontario | Government Policy | Organizing | People of Colour )
Online ResourcesMaps of income distribution in GTANovember 4, 2008 - 3:05pm
Type of Resource: WebsiteAbout: The Toronto Star has mapped income distribution in the Greater Toronto Area. There are three maps: average household income, the lowest-income households and the highest-income households. Website: Map(s) of the Week: Income( categories: Online Resources | Ontario | Poverty Research )
Multilingual Audio and Text Legal GuidesOctober 14, 2008 - 7:00am
Type of Resource: GuideType of Resource: WebsiteAbout: CLEO has made available text and audio materials on six high-need legal topics in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Simplified Chinese), Somali, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu. The materials, which are also available in English and French, cover the following topics:
Website: Six Languages Text and Audio Project( categories: Featured | Online Resources | Ontario | Multilingual | Family | Immigrants & Refugees | Legal Research | Workers' Rights )
Solutions from Lived Experiences through Arts-Informed ResearchOctober 5, 2008 - 10:07am
Type of Resource: PublicationType of Resource: WebsiteAbout: Solutions from Lived Experiences through Arts-Informed Research is a collaborative effort to build on the work of several community-based, participatory action and/or arts-informed research projects involving people with experiences of homelessness in Toronto. The arts and homelessness website has policy reports, resources, information on community-based participatory research and information on the projects they have worked on. ( categories: Online Resources | Ontario | Art/Culture | Homelessness )
LinksI Was HereOctober 5, 2008 - 5:00pm
http://www.nfb.ca/iwashere - I WAS HERE is a media workshop that puts digital cameras and photoblogging websites into the hands of young parents. Five women, all pregnant or parenting, have been documenting their lives in Toronto through their own eyes. All have had experience with homelessness. ( categories: Links | Ontario | Art/Culture | Homelessness | Women )
Asleep in TorontoOctober 5, 2008 - 4:52pm
http://anagraphia.blogspot.com/ - This is an artists photoblog of homelessness in Toronto. ( categories: Links | Ontario | Art/Culture | Blogs | Homelessness )
The 519 Church Street Community CentreSeptember 8, 2008 - 8:17am
http://www.the519.org/ - The 519 is a meeting place and focal point for its diverse downtown communities. Within a supportive environment, it responds to the needs of the local neighbourhood and the broader Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTTQ) communities by supplying resources and opportunities to foster self-determination, civic engagement and community participation. ( categories: Links | Ontario | LGBTQ )
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