Tag: put food in the budget
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Put Food in the Budget Urges Candidates to Raise Social Assistance Rates: June 12 Ontario Election
From “10 Things You Might Not Know About Poverty In Canada,” George Stroumboulopoulos shared with us the following insights regarding poverty in Canada: It’s hard to measure. It varies widely between different groups. Child poverty is high in Canada. It’s a significant burden on the economy. Many Canadians spend too much on shelter. Poverty can…
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Put Food in the Budget Campaign: Submit Your Evidence to “A Poor People’s Inquiry” in Ontario
This is an update to the previous blog, Put Food in the Budget: Please Urge Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to Raise Social Assistance Rates Now! Did you know that? A single person in Ontario, Canada, receives only $626 a month in social assistance. After paying the rent, many people in Ontario don’t have enough money…
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Canadian Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage in Ontario: Province-Wide Rallies on March 21, 2013
This video presents “Trish Hennessy – raising Ontario’s minimum wage”: According to the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC), full-time, full-year work at Ontario’s new minimum wage of $10.25 an hour generates earnings that are approximately $3,000 below the poverty line. ISARC urges us to join or support the Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage,…
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Please Give the Gift of Dignity to Canadians This Holiday Season!
York Region Food Network urges you to “give the Gift of Dignity” to Canadians this holiday season as follows: “Want to give the Gift of Dignity this Holiday Season?” “Sign our Petition to Put Food in the Budget of our neighbours on social assistance. An immediate increase of $100/month to enable people to purchase healthy…
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You’re Invited: Holiday Lunch Dec.19 + Urge Dalton McGuinty to Give a $100 Increase to OW and ODSP
The following video portrays these concerns: currently a single person on social assistance in Ontario, Canada, gets $585 per month to cover housing, food, transport, and everything else this amount is not enough to cover a healthy food supply and forces those in need to find a different food bank source for day to day.…
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National Volunteer Week and PUT FOOD IN THE BUDGET’s Plea
National Volunteer Week, April 10 to 16, is Canada’s largest celebration of volunteers, volunteerism, and civic participation. To Canadian volunteers everywhere, Thank you! The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is one of Canada’s leading grantmaking foundations. As an agency of the Government of Ontario, the mission of the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is building healthy and vibrant…
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On Valentine’s Day Please Send a Momentous Message to the Minister of Finance
Please click here to get a magnified version of the above Valentine’s momentous message to the Minister of Finance. The following call to action is from Susan Bender of The South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC):