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After decades of cuts, doubling social assistance would end legislated poverty Deep cuts to social assistance were one of the signature acts of Mike Harris’s 1990s Conservative government. In his 1996 budget, he cut support for the poorest Ontarians by 22 per cent. Many were outraged. But quietly over the past 26 years, things have grown worse. Today, people on social assistance are barely surviving in Ontario – especially as rent skyrockets.
Food banks responding to 'social and economic inequities', writes Chiara Padovani Opinion May 30, 2021 by Chiara Padovani North York Mirror A few days ago I booked a vaccine appointment for someone who couldn’t believe it could be that easy. A senior, a cancer survivor and a front-line worker, she had been trying for months to get a vaccine.
By Jessica ParishContributors Chiara Padovani Tues., March 31, 2020timer4 min. read Enough with milquetoast incrementalism. We need housing policy solutions for right now, and for the future that is to come. We are in the midst of a crisis of massive proportions, whose consequences will reverberate through every aspect of people’s everyday lives for months, if not years to come.
Women have had enough. "Nosotras paramos! Ni una menos!" ("We strike! Not one woman less!") became the rallying chants across Argentina in October 2016, when women across unions, social movements and individually participated in a women's strike. The women's movement had been growing over the last decade, but no one imagined that a national women's strike was possible.
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