Tag: ow (ontario works)

You’re Invited: Public Consultation & Review of Canadian Social Assistance in Ontario March 7, 2012

This is an update to my previous blogs: 2012! Happy New Year! Please Give the Gift of Dignity to Canadians This Holiday Season! Here is a letter from Yvonne Kelly of The PUT FOOD IN THE BUDGET CAMPAIGN inviting you to attend a public consultation re: the Options Paper just released from the Commissioners reviewing…

February 29, 2012
“Billions for Business, Pennies for the Poor”: Please Petition Premier McGuinty to Give a $100 Increase to Canadians’ OW and ODSP

One Paycheck Away is a one-minute video depicting the growing gap between the rich and the ‘rest of us” in Canada, as shown here: The following Put Food in the Budget editorial provides the update to my previous blog You’re Invited: Holiday Lunch Dec.19 + Urge Dalton McGuinty to Give a $100 Increase to OW…

January 9, 2012
2012! Happy New Year!

Wishing our readers a better, healthier, and Happier New Year 2012! It’s been an amazing year! Thank you for your marvellous help; together we had accomplished so much as well as made great differences as follows:

January 1, 2012
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.…

December 16, 2011