News & Events
Study links Safe Schools Act to homelessness among black youth
Posted April 3, 2007 - Ryerson University researchers have found that Ontario's controversial Safe Schools Act pushed Caribbean young people out of the school system and led them into conflict with their families.
Article source The Globe and Mail
Budget good first step, but much work remains to be done: anti-poverty activists
Posted March 29, 2007 - The Ontario government's recent budget is a positive first step in the fight against poverty. However, anti-poverty activists are disappointed that the clawback of the National Child Benefit Supplement was not ended and that other anti-poverty measures announced in the budget do not go further.
Article source Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
Ontario government introduces reforms aimed at helping injured workers
Posted March 28, 2007 - The Ontario government has announced benefit increases and other reforms to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (WSIA), introduced in the 2007 Ontario budget.
Article source Government of Ontario
Illegal immigrants in Toronto can now report crimes without fear of deportation
Posted March 27, 2007 - The Toronto Police Services Board has given the green light to police Chief Bill Blair to begin implementing a new "don't ask" policy that will allow people without legal status in Canada to report crimes without fear of deportation.
Article source Canoe Network News
Smoking could become grounds for eviction
Posted March 27, 2007 - A potentially precedent-setting case that could make smoking in rental housing grounds for eviction has begun in Kingston.
Article source Kingston Whig-Standard
Support grows for smoke-free apartments
Posted March 27, 2007 - An Ontario anti-smoking group says polling it commissioned has found majority support for banning smoking within individual residences in apartment buildings or any other multiunit household in the province.
Article source The Globe and Mail
Community consultation to address changing Ontario laws around police complaints
Posted March 26, 2007 - In April 2006, the Ontario government introduced Bill 103, an act to establish an independent police review director and create a new public complaints process by amending the Police Services Act. The Community Education and Access to Police Complaints Project (CEAPC) is conducting a community consultation on the hiring process.
Article source Scadding Court Community Centre
Supreme Court of Canada judgment a win for travellers with disabilities
Posted March 26, 2007 - The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a ruling that could order Via Rail to spend millions to provide better access to travellers in wheelchairs.
Article source Canoe Network News
Three-month waiting list for health care coverage leaves newcomers in "health care limbo"
Posted March 26, 2007 - Community groups protest as Quebec joins Ontario, New Brunswick, and British Columbia in forcing new immigrants to spend three months in limbo before health care coverage kicks in. Women are especially vulnerable to the delay.
Article source Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN)
People with disabilities left in poverty by Ontario budget
Posted March 23, 2007 - The ODSP Action Coalition has issued a response to the Ontario budget's 2% increase in social assistance rates. “This budget does not treat people who cannot work due to illness or disability with the dignity they deserve,” says Nancy Vander Plaats, chair of the ODSP Action Coalition.
Article source ODSP Action Coalition
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