Tag: 2006
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Letter to the Special Diet Review Committee on Poverty as a Medical Condition
Special Diet Expert Review Committee Director, Ontario Disability Support Program 80 Grosvenor St., 3rd floor Toronto, Ontario, M7A 1E9 June 5, 2006 Re: Evidence-based submissions for consideration by the expert committee I am writing on behalf of Health Providers Against Poverty to ask that “Poverty” be included as a medical condition in the Special Diets…
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Press Release: Ontario Government Sentences Low Income Ontarians to Chronic Illness and Premature Death
Mar 24, 2006 Ontario Government Sentences Low Income Ontarians to Chronic Illness and Premature Death TORONTO – The spring budget released by the Ontario Liberal government on March 23rd raises social assistance rates by a ridiculous 2 percent. This means that the lives of Ontarians surviving on welfare and disability are simply considered to be…
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Letter To Minister of Social Services on Health Crisis Due To Poverty
Sept 8, 2005 A group of Ontario health care providers have written a letter to the Ontario Minister of Community and Social Services, Sandra Pupatello, to express their concern about the negative effects of poverty on their patients’ health after a decade of falling Welfare rates. Download a PDF version of the letter
Health Providers Against Poverty 