Joint Statement: Let’s Break the Cycle
The Ontario government has embarked on yet another consultation cycle on income security reform, which is delaying real action to reduce poverty. Social assistance rates in Ontario…
Op-Ed: Filing Tax Returns Helps
Health care providers can help patients with low income access benefits by encouraging them to file their taxes. This CBC News editorial by Dr. Gary Bloch and John…
Op-Ed: Poverty Impacts Health in Rural Ontario
The erosion of social assistance rates, rise in precarious employment, increasing costs of living, colonization, and systemic racism all contribute to poverty in Ontario. This has…
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