Co-op housing at a crossroads
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Recent News
Budget cuts are health-care cuts, professionals warn
Posted in the Toronto Star / Robyn Doolittle / Urban Affairs Reporter
A group of Toronto health professionals is warning that proposed cuts to a variety of city programs are actually health-care cuts in disguise.
Axing or reducing funding to …
Closing the gap between EI and welfare
Posted in the Toronto Star / Laurie Monsebraaten Social Justice Reporter
Tiffany McDowell was thrilled to land a customer service position at an Oshawa technology firm last January, several months after her daughter’s first birthday.
The job, which required no …
ABOUT POVERTY: Facts about Poverty in Toronto
- The City of Toronto’s population contains one half of the population of the entire Greater Toronto Area but 68% of the individuals living below the poverty line and 75% of the households that are receiving social assistance.
- In 2004, 190,610
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Ounce of Prevention
Change the first five years of a childs life and you change everything.
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Minimum wage hike key to cutting poverty
*Published in theStar, Laurie Monsebraaten Social Justice Reporter
Lilia Martinez is happy to clean offices, cook in a restaurant, look after children — you name it.
But the 52-year-old Mexican immigrant, who has done all of these …
Rexdale Youth Challenge City Councillors to Ride the TTC for 1 week
A group of Rexdale youth have challenged Toronto City councillors to “walk in their shoes” by riding the TTC from January 10 – January 17, 2012. The group of youths and volunteers from North Western Toronto posted a video on …
Low-income areas pay more for car insurance
* The Canadian Press Posted: Dec 13, 2011
Ontario’s NDP accused auto insurance companies of charging lower-income drivers higher premiums because of the neighbourhoods they live in, but the industry dismissed the claim Tuesday.
New Democrat researchers, using the same
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A Scarborough clinic for those with no health insurance
* Source: Noor Javed Staff Reporter from the Toronto Star
In the decade she has worked at the volunteer health clinic for the uninsured, the one story that Toronto public health nurse Jennifer D’Andrade can’t seem to forget is that …
Province increases social assistance by 1 per cent
From the SPEC.com / Tom Cooper / Tue Nov 15 2011
One per cent has been getting a lot of attention lately.
It’s a figure identified by the Occupy movement in many cities across this continent. A slogan and a …
