Friday's rally in Toronto was organized as a pre-budget showdown in response to the Drummond report.
Anti-poverty
Making it easier to ignore the poor
We hear a great deal about the lives of the rich, much of it sympathetic and often fawning.
Even Conrad Black, despite his history of anti-Canadian outbursts, is treated almost fondly by commentators who generally have a hard-hearted, tough-on-crime attitude toward less well-heeled felons.
The poor rarely get such sympathetic attention; indeed they rarely get much attention at all. And they're soon to get even less.
That is the real reason for the Harper government's decision to scrap the long-form census matters, and why the debate over it is more than a bizarre obsession with statistics in this overheated summer.
Activist Communiqué: Stop the cuts and fight poverty - Solidarity Against Austerity rally and march Friday
| March 14, 2012United We Eat, Divided We Starve: OCAP film screening & discussion
Feb 28 2012 - 7:00pm
Feb 28 2012 - 9:00pm
Location
Queen Street Commons Café
43 Queen Street South
KitchenerCanada
Phone:
226-789-6786
43° 26' 56.8968" N, 80° 29' 23.1324" W
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United We Eat, Divided We Starve: OCAP's Raise the Rates Campaign
Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Part of the PMUS Poverty & Health series
Contact name:
Shannon Balla
Contact email:
The grinch who stole childcare: Action at Toronto city hall
Dec 8 2011 - 9:30am
Dec 8 2011 - 10:00am
Location
lobby at city hall, toronto
100 Queen Street West inside city hall!
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 39' 10.7856" N, 79° 23' 3.3612" W
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Parents! Children! Childcare workers! Supporters!
Join us as we deliver a holiday to Rob Ford (AKA the grinch who stole childcare!)
Our kids aren't gravy!
In the midst of an affordable daycare crisis, Rob Ford and his followers are insisting on slashing childcare spaces -- cutting 2000 desperately needed subsidies, closing childcare centres and even considering cuts to quality control inspections and family resource centres. On top of these proposals are a myriad of other cuts to affordible housing and nutrition programs that hurt our families and communities.
This is not the kind of city we want to raise our kids in!
Join us, our kids and our grinch.
Meeting INSIDE City Hall 9:30am SHARP.
Contact name:
sophia
Contact email:
McGuinty ensures poverty: One per cent for the poor from the one per cent in Ontario
There is generally little focus in mainstream media on social assistance rates. Last week, Carol Goar took on the issues in an editorial entitled "Queen's Park offers crumbs to Ontario's poor". The article brought attention to the issue of social assistance rates, but it misses some major points on the fight to raise welfare and disability rates in Ontario. As Marian Kramer of the National Welfare Rights Organization in the U.S would say, "the media covers the plight but not the fight of the poor." So let us fill in the blanks.
Assistance rates 55 per cent lower than in 1994
No one is illegal
No one is Illegal (NOII) is a movement composed of immigrants, refugees and allies that advocates for the rights of migrants around the world.
They organize around the notion that granting citizenship to some who are privileged and denying it to others exploits migrants and perpetuates oppression. They host workshops, rallies and campaigns related to international and local immigration issues.
History
