Category: Press Release
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Press Release: Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy
June 23, 2015 Health Providers Concerned That Toronto’s Twenty-Year Poverty Reduction Strategy Fails To Help Those In Immediate Need TORONTO – Health Providers Against Poverty (HPAP) applauds the City of Toronto’s release of an Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy, however we remain apprehensive that this report will lead to real, measurable changes for our patients. While the Strategy…
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Press Release: 2015 Ontario Budget
Apr 24, 2015 2015 Ontario Budget Fails People Living In Poverty Toronto–Despite the Ontario government’s commitment towards its renewed Poverty Reduction Strategy, the 2015 Ontario Budget contains little that benefits people living in poverty. “It’s encouraging that the government is not cutting back on prior investments in affordable housing, but we need much more to…
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Press Release: Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy
Sept 9, 2014 Health Providers Call for Immediate Targets and Action on Poverty in Ontario TORONTO – Health Providers Against Poverty responded with disappointment to the release of the Ontario government’s second five-year Poverty Reduction strategy. Although the Strategy keeps poverty on the public agenda, and expands the focus to include homeless adults, members are…
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