Tuesday, January 21, 2020
OPINION: Canada and the rest of the developed world have entered an era of low interest rates and sluggish growth. We should expect interest rates to remain low by historical standards when the next recession occurs. Since the Bank of Canada will be...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Thirty years after the first unanimous all-party promise to end child poverty, Campaign 2000's new report shows that over 1,350,000 children in Canada continue to live in poverty, with Indigenous children, racialized and immigrant children, and...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
An alliance of social welfare advocates in Quebec are asking Quebec’s Labour, Employment and Social solidarity Minister Jean Boulet to reform the rules that make it harder for welfare recipients to get by. Specifically, the group wants the social...
Monday, December 2, 2019
OPINION: Over the last few years, news stories about lone parents and their children being left homeless by a lacking social support network have been periodically popping up. As austerity is ramping up in Manitoba, we can only expect these stories to...
Monday, November 25, 2019
Mentally ill homeless adults may have an easier time finding and keeping stable housing when they receive rent supplements and mental health support services, a Canadian study suggests.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Basic income trials always have the potential to make at least some people worse off than they were before. In many richer countries, low-income families already benefit from some form of welfare There is no question that high levels of income and wealth...
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Around 200 people protested cuts to Ontario health care on Saturday, decrying the Ford's government's planned changes to public health and ambulance services at a rally in Toronto. "We're extremely concerned about these cuts," said ...
Monday, November 4, 2019
OPINION: It’s a good thing the Ford government is in the midst of a broad review of Ontario’s social assistance system. That means it has no excuse to ignore a new report that provides some badly needed advice on how to fix this broken system...
Friday, October 18, 2019
Since 1876, when the Indian Act first forced First Nations people to live on reserves, the federal government has been responsible for providing First Nations housing. And it has done a bad job.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
(BLOG): Pensions and retirement income issues do not play a large role in the 2019 federal election party platforms. The shared assumption is that existing arrangements are working reasonably well, although some platforms do call for incremental changes...
