Your Legal Rights is a website of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario and...
Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Health, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), legal information, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, Ontario
The Ontario Provincial Government has appointed a commission to review the income security system, including social assistance. The commission's mandate is to develop a plan to reform the system. As...
Disability, Government Policy, isac, Organizing, social assistance review, Welfare, Women, Ontario
The Income Security Advocacy Centre is hosting video recordings of a symposium held by ISAC and the Social Assistance Action Committee in March 2011 on how the Social Assistance Review commission...
Disability, isac, ontario works, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Ontario
ISAC and the Ontario community legal clinic system’s Social Assistance Action Committee (SAAC) held a roundtable discussion on May 30, 2011, to explore the issue of how assistance is delivered in...
Disability, Government Policy, isac, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Ontario
This page at the Income Security Advocacy Centre provides information on and a link to, a letter sent to commissioners of the Social Assistance Review in Ontario, urging them to consider issues of...
Disability, isac, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Women, Ontario
The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and the Justice System website provides a resource for justice system professionals and others working to understand Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD...
Disability, Legal Research, Mental Health, Ontario
An up to date website containing resources, news, statistics and more, focusing on the issues faced by women with disabilities.
Disability, Women, Ontario
Citizen Advocacy is a non-profit organization which assists people with disabilities living in the Ottawa-Carleton area.
Disability, Ontario
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Social assistance policy manuals are an important source of detailed information about such questions as initial and ongoing eligibility, the treatment of assets and income, how benefits are...
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Beginning July 1, 2010, the two sales taxes Ontarians paid (GST & PST) were combined into one tax: the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). What does this mean for people on OW and ODSP in Ontario? The...
Disability, HST, ODSP, ontario disability support program, Ontario Works, OW, sales tax, tax, tax return, Welfare, Ontario
ODSP Action Coalition is made up of community clinic caseworkers, agency staff, and community activists who undertake campaigns and activities designed to raise awareness of issues affecting persons...
Disability, Ontario Disability Support Program, Ontario
Reach is a lawyer referral organization that helps people with all disabilities including people who are deaf, hard of hearing, people with physical disabilities, mental health issues, developmental...
AIDS, chronic pain, deaf, Disability, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, legal help, Legal Research, pro bono, Ontario
Tens of thousands of people who receive the special diet program may see more money from the governement as a result of a recent Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruling, but poverty activists fear the...
Disability, Foodbanks and Food, Ontario
CASSA is a social justice umbrella organization working with Ontario’s diverse South Asian communities. They have an extensive service directory with listings of organizations from across Ontario.
Aboriginal and First Nations, African, childcare, Children and Youth, children's aid, clinics, community centres, credit counselling, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Education, employment services, Ethnicity and Race, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, intercultural, Legal Aid, LGBTQ, Mental Health, multicultural, neighbourhood house, Organizing, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, south asian, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Utilities, Violence, Welfare, Women, women's centre, women's shelter, Workers' Rights, Ontario
Disability, Foodbanks and Food, special diet, Ontario
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The 2011 Welcome Home guide (PDF 4 MB) provides a brief overview of the services and supports available in the community that may make the transition to a new home a little easier including how to...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Education, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Ontario
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...
Disability, Organizing, Ontario
