News & Events
Goar: Summit participants face a painful truth
Posted February 18, 2011 - This column by Carol Goar says the session on income security at the recent Greater Toronto summit opened an honest, though painful, conversation about how to include everybody -- including the 75,000 Torontonians living on social assistance -- in the movement to build a strong, sustainable city-region.
Article source Toronto Star
Port Colborne and Wainfleet endorse Put Food in the Budget initiative
Posted February 18, 2011 - The city councils of Port Colborne and Wainfleet have passed resolutions to call on the provincial government to immediately introduce a $100 a month healthy food supplement for all adults on social assistance.
Campaign urges province to implement monthly social assistance supplement
Posted February 17, 2011 - A campaign in York Region is urging the province to implement the $100 monthly supplement for adult recipients of the Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program in the upcoming budget.
Article source yorkregion.com
Government of Canada consults on immigrant skilled worker program
Posted February 17, 2011 - Citizenship and Immigration Canada is proposing changes to the Federal Skilled Worker Program to help Canada select immigrants who have the best chance of integrating and making a better contribution to the Canadian economy. CIC will be consulting with stakeholders and the public on the proposed changes beginning immediately.
Article source Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)
Waterloo Region's smoke-free affordable housing registers only 21 complaints
Posted February 16, 2011 - Waterloo's TheRecord.com reports that there have only been 21 complaints since Waterloo Region imposed a smoking ban last year in its multi-unit dwellings.
Article source The Record.com
ARCH publication promotes appropriate communication with clients with disabilities
Posted February 15, 2011 - A Lawyers Weekly article cites the ARCH Disability Law Centre publication Providing Legal Services to Clients with Disabilities as a resource for helping lawyers communicate effectively with clients with disabilities.
Article source The Lawyers Weekly
February 16: Emergency public meeting on new CBSA policy
February 16, 2011 - This meeting is about the Canadian Border Services Agency's change of policy, which now requires officers to enter or wait outside anti-violence against women spaces to detain and deport women survivors of violence.
Article source No One Is Illegal
Legal Aid Ontario and St. Clair College partner to provide forms assistance service
Posted February 15, 2011 - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has formed an innovative partnership with the St. Clair College Paralegal Program to provide free help to Windsor-area residents in completing a range of documents, from Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) forms to license applications.
Article source Legal Aid Ontario
Province moves forward on workplace safety recommendations
Posted February 15, 2011 - In the wake of a tragic Christmas Eve scaffolding accident that killed four migrant workers in 2009, a new interim "health and safety prevention council" has been named by Labour Minister Charles Sousa as the government gets ready to hire a chief prevention officer.
Article source Toronto Star
The ins and outs of subletting
Posted February 15, 2011 - This Moneyville article discusses subletting and the rights and obligations of both landlord and tenant.
Article source Toronto Star
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