…the next two years in the last federal budget and $1.9 billion over five years for homelessness and housing programs announced last September). It only seems like a lot of money until you realize both the scale of the national affordable housing crisis and the paltry federal commitment, especially compared…
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A new normal for taxation in Canada: Tipping the scales on wealth tax
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…compared to the rest of the population. As of November 2020, 79 per cent of reported COVID-19 cases in Toronto identified with a racialized group, while only 52 per cent of the overall population identify as belonging to a racialized group based on 2016 data. In contrast, we have heard…
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Day three of Canada's national housing and homelessness conference includes a call to action
Day three (Friday) of Canada’s national housing and homelessness conference – and the 600-plus delegates unanimously backed a resolution that calls on the federal government to remove the restrictions that it has imposed on the $2 billion in affordable housing investments in the recent federal budget; and also calling on…
A new normal for seniors’ care: A focus on diversity and health equity
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…extremely long waitlists across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Worsening health outcomes have been reported by family caregivers whose loved ones were placed in LTC homes without options for familiar food or people who understand their culture and language. Immigrant seniors in the GTA have reported that they were less…
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United Nations to Canada: You need a national housing plan
…In his report, Mr. Kothari reviewed general housing and homelessness concerns, examined issues facing women and Aboriginal people, and studied the housing impact of the Vancouver Olympics. “The recent federal budget includes an additional $2 billion for affordable housing, and the new investments are welcome,” says Mr. Shapcott. “However, it’s…
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Happy International Women's Day – much work still to do!
…and income disparity – and that recent policies of the federal government (including, it should be added, several embedded in the latest federal budget) have made a bad situation worse. He calls for Aboriginal women to be part of all decision-making processes affecting Aboriginal people. For IWD 2009, it is…
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Alberta announces $3.2b plan to end homelessness
…to the creation of 11,000 new homes by 2012, according to the provincial government. Full details, including funding and implementation lines, will be released in next month’s provincial budget. Alberta’s plan – the first of its kind among the federal government and Canada’s provinces and territories – builds on top…
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Bill C-13
The federal finance committee is holding public hearings on Bill C-13, which is the legislation that implements much of the recent federal budget. Politically, the decision is pretty much of a foregone conclusion ” it is unlikely that the opposition parties will defeat the government at the moment. But there…
Ontario makes substantial down payment on new provincial housing plan
…out by the Wellesley Institute in our 2009 budget recommendations to the Government of Ontario, which was to fully match federal affordable housing dollars. But provincial housing investments still lag behind the deep and persistent need across the province, and Ontario is lagging behind provides such as Alberta in making…
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UK’s third sector braces for multi-billion government funding cuts
New Philanthropy Capital has just released a new report, Preparing for Cuts, that warns that the UK government’s current round of budget-cutting could slice up to £5.1bn ($8.2 billion Cdn) from non-profit and charitable organizations. The community sector draws about one-third of its revenues from government in the UK. The…
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