Child poverty linked to discrimination and systemic inequality, study suggests
Jane Syvret plays with two of her three children in a park near their Toronto home. Syvret, 27, who is of Indigenous and Black heritage, says her family… Continue Reading
Poverty Reduction
On welfare reform, Ontario urged to ‘just do it’
Critics call sweeping plan to overhaul supports for low-income Ontarians too little, too late. Venus Carter, 54, who has been on Ontario Works since she lost her job at a chocolate factory nine years ago, welcomes the proposed welfare changes,… Continue Reading
News Canada Canadian incomes jump, Ontario residents hit by manufacturing downturn: Statistics Canada
After growing up in a middle-class home in Edmonton, Patricia Huculak moved to Toronto 11 years ago to escape a violent spouse and has struggled with poverty and homelessness ever since. But things are finally looking up for the 47-year-old… Continue Reading
Advocates taking Canada’s housing policy to UN
Advocates taking Canada’s housing policy to UN Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star Order this photo Mike Creek, right, a formerly homeless Toronto man, and lawyer Kenneth Hale, of the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario. Laurie Monsebraaten Feb 20 2016… Continue Reading
Ontario’s Trillium Benefit: A new way to help the poor
Ontario’s Trillium Benefit: A new way to help the poor Ontario’s new monthly Trillium Benefit for low-income people brings the province one step closer to a guaranteed annual income, advocates say. Laurie Monsebraaten Jul 12 2012 About 3.5 million low-… Continue Reading
National Household Survey 2011: Ontario making progress fighting poverty
National Household Survey 2011: Ontario making progress fighting poverty Ontario rates of low-income suggest provincial efforts to reduce poverty are paying off. Laurie Monsebraaten Sep 11 2013 Dawnmarie Harriott was on welfare and living in a downtown Toronto rooming house… Continue Reading
Porter: Linda Chamberlain’s job was making her broke
CATHERINE PORTER Nov 19 2010 Linda Chamberlain left her dream job because it was making her broke. She’s richer earning nothing, living in her subsidized apartment and getting monthly disability cheques from the government — $260 a month richer. When… Continue Reading
PARC: Thirty Years Of Rebuilding Lives
News Staff Apr 1, 2010 “We accept people where they are at when they come in the door…if you’re homeless, working the streets, have addiction issues, mental health issues, family or no family, if you’re in crisis, if you’ve just… Continue Reading
Welfare reform creeps at snail’s pace
Laurie Monsebraaten Nov 30 2009 Bronwen Sims calls it Ontario’s “work disincentive program.” The 35-year-old woman, who suffers from bipolar disorder and fibromyalgia, has been living in poverty on Ontario’s disability support program for the past 10 years while doctors… Continue Reading
Advocates call on the province to step up child poverty funding
Laurie Monsebraaten Nov 24 2008 Ontario will have to spend at least $6 billion over the next five years to make a dent in the province’s “stubbornly high” child poverty rate of almost 12 per cent, advocates say. That’s comparable… Continue Reading