The deadline to submit a response to Ontario's Social Assistance Review Commission's first discussion paper has just passed and submissions by the Income Security Advisory Committee (ISAC) and the...
Government Policy, Welfare, Ontario
Activists in Ontario have launched the website "Remember the Day," as they begin a campaign to highlight the crucial issue of rising poverty in Ontario as the provincial election draws near. Pathway...
Family, Government Policy, Organizing, Ontario
Visit CBC.Ca's Here and Now Toronto to hear CLEONet executive director Julie Mathews speaking to Laura Di Battista about barriers to accessing Legal Aid in Ontario.
Click here for the press release...
Government Policy, Legal Aid, 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
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
The Don't Ask Don't Tell campaign is being organized by a coalition of groups in Toronto to encourage city workers to not demand residents give immigration status in order to access city services.
Government Policy, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Ontario
25-in-5 Network for Poverty Reduction is a multi-sectoral network comprised of more than 100 provincial and Toronto-based organizations and individuals working on eliminating poverty. The website has...
Government Policy, Poverty Research, Ontario
Yesterday, the Ontario government released its long delayed affordable housing strategy. The strategy does lay out some regulation changes including simplifying the rent-geared-to-income calculation...
Government Policy, Housing, Ontario
Metcalf Innovation Fellow John Stapleton has released a new report that explores the weaknesses in the design of North American social welfare institutions through the stories of two individuals. It...
Government Policy, Welfare, Ontario, All of Canada, United States
Federal, provincial and municipal governments in Canada are declaring the recession over, yet people all across the country are still suffering from its effects.
Programs meant to help us weather the...
coalition, Government Policy, hunger, recession, Ontario
The City of Ottawa released its poverty reduction strategy, Poverty Affects Us All: A Community Approach to Poverty Reduction. The report includes a recommendation to advocate for increased...
Government Policy, Ontario
Some news from the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC):
First, the 25in5 Network for Poverty Reduction, of which ISAC is a partner, has released its accountability report on the first year of the...
Government Policy, Welfare, Ontario
Some links and resources on the Ontario 2009 Budget. The Canadian Social Research links page has an excellent list of resources on the Ontario Budget 2009 - http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/...
Government Policy, Ontario
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...
Government Policy, Poverty Research, Ontario
This site is designed as a tool for public reporting about social programs in Ontario. It is intended to facilitate access to information and analysis, and to encourage debate about the adequacy of...
Government Policy, Poverty Research, Ontario
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.
Children and Youth, Government Policy, Poverty Research, Ontario
Some provincial governments across Canada have implemented poverty reduction strategies. The following links have information on these strategies.
Government Policy, Poverty Research, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec
The Social Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO) is a coalition of social planning councils (SPC), community development councils (CDC), resource centres, and planning committees located in various...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Education, Ethnicity and Race, Family, Government Policy, Health, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Poverty Research, Ontario
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....
Ethnicity and Race, Government Policy, Organizing, Ontario
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...
Government Policy, Ontario
