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Government Austerity: What does it mean to us? The Community Speaks Back!

April 4, 2012

Provincial and Federal budgets

How will they affect us? What can we do about them?

Join the discussion – Refreshments served
Date: Thursday April 5, 2012
Time: 10:00 am—12:00
Rexdale Community Health Centre
8 Taber Road, Etobicoke, ON M9W 3A4

Bus 45 N towards Steels from Kipling Subway Station
(Near Kipling Ave and Redcliffe Blvd)

Wheelchair Accessible

For more information please contact: Sheena at 416-231-5499 or ssethi@socialplanningtoronto.org

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Co-op housing at a crossroads

January 9, 2012

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Budget cuts are health-care cuts, professionals warn

January 9, 2012

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 …

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Closing the gap between EI and welfare

January 1, 2012

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 …

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ABOUT POVERTY: Facts about Poverty in Toronto

December 19, 2011

  • 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

December 19, 2011

Change the first five years of a childs life and you change everything.

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Minimum wage hike key to cutting poverty

December 17, 2011

 

 

*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 …

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Rexdale Youth Challenge City Councillors to Ride the TTC for 1 week

December 14, 2011

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 …

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Low-income areas pay more for car insurance

December 14, 2011

* 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

December 12, 2011

 * 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 …

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