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August 10 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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Inmates stuck in cycle of jail and homelessness:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/inmates-stuck-in-cycle-of-jail-and-homelessness/article1667524/
Ombudsman to report on emergency rooms:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/08/09/ombudsman-lhin.html
Ralph Benmergui: “Progressives must school themselves
in the art of war”:
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/2003-the-lack-of-real-news
Economy:
Chrysler’s numbers getting better:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/08/09/chrysler-earnings.html
Dramatic housing slowdown:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Canada+sees+dramatic+housing+slowdown+global+report+says/3380495/story.html
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/08/10/july-housing-starts.html
It’s global:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/global-housing-rebound-loses-steam/article1667774/
Are those jobs numbers accurate?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/dismal-july-job-figures-under-fire/article1667417/
Recovery is just not normal:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/experts-podium/all-evidence-suggests-recovery-is-far-from-normal/article1667365/
National:
Colour of Poverty calls out Conservatives on threats to
employment equity:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2010/08/06/PolicyCalledIntoQuestion/
On the prison farm protests:
Blockade:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/08/09/ot-prison-farms.html
Selling the cattle:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/08/10/ot-prison-cattle.html
On those FIGHTER JETS!:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/845780--mcquaig-f-35-jets-are-useless-without-war
Now it’s veterans:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Shrinking+Veterans+Affairs+Department+would+huge+mistake+critics/3377834/story.html
Are they trying to discredit the Auditor General?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberal-staffer-accuses-tories-of-trying-to-discredit-auditor-general/article1667099/
Budget deficit may end one year early:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/09/canada-government-balancedbudget.html
Green Party leadership:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/green-party-leadership-race-in-the-balance/article1667490/
On Stimulus:
Despite job losses, Harper says stimulus must end:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2010/08/06/Harper-No-Stimulus/
Problems with stimulus spending:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/08/09/pbo-stimulus-spending.html
Construction scramble:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/end-of-stimulus-program-produces-construction-scramble/article1667390/
Globe says government should be flexible on stimulus end:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/theres-a-smarter-way-to-end-this-stimulus/article1667315/
Poll Numbers:
They’re neck and neck:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Liberal+Conservative+popularity+narrows+dead+heat+poll/3378332/story.html
Reveals ‘critical mass of frustration’:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/pm-faces-critical-mass-of-frustration-polls-suggest/article1667831/
On the Census:
The assault on reason will be remembered at the polls:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-long-form-will-return-voters-wont/article1667205/
Munir Sheikh speaks out:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/we-still-have-time-to-reverse-the-census-decision/article1667194/
Coverage of his speaking out:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/former-statscan-chief-makes-last-ditch-plea-to-save-census/article1667393/
Conservatives again ignore Parliament, refusing to produce
census docs:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2010/08/05/tories-refuse-census-docs/
Harper says jail time threat is inappropriate:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/09/harper-long-form-census-scrapped.html
Here’s what the new census will look like:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/an-alternative-guide-to-the-new-census/article1666670/
On Unreported Crime:
He, too, is a victim. (Ed: good column, except for that
final line):
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/09/john-moore-i-am-a-victim-of-unreported-crime/
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August 9 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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Special Diet Allowance op ed by a very concerned recipient,
published Saturday:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/845003--save-ontario-s-diet-allowance
The Premiers come out of their meeting with an agreement
on bulk drug buying – but no consensus on the census:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/06/premiers-meeting-health-care-environment-census.html
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/provinces-to-team-up-on-drug-purchases/article1665258/
Some thoughts on what they missed doing:
Dropping the economic ball:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/844942--premiers-drop-economic-ball
Need to save public services: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/we-need-a-grand-bargain-to-save-our-public-services/article1664718/
Premier Dad:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/mcguinty/article/845344--the-upside-and-downside-of-being-premier-dad
Legalizing online gambling?:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/844961--ontario-set-to-bet-on-legalized-online-gambling
New curriculum coming this fall:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/08/08/ontario-curriculum.html
We need a war on bedbugs:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/bedbugs/article/844964--fiorito-we-need-a-declaration-of-war-on-bedbugs
Economy:
Wheat futures soar, bread prices may be next:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wheat-futures-soar-bread-cnnm-159383351.html
The Conference Board on preventing the next disaster:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/Economics/hot_eco_topics/default/10-08-06/Preventing_the_Next_Financial_Crisis.aspx
Our “jobs machine” runs in reverse:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canadas-job-machine-goes-in-reverse/article1664046/
National:
Now that he’s back on the job, here’s
what he should be dealing with:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/845338--pm-has-some-explaining-to-do
“If you thought Harris wreaked devastation on Ontario
, Harper may have bigger plans — and on a national scale.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/stephenharper/article/845013--siddiqui-harper-s-ottawa-becomes-republican-la-la-land
Stimulus spending and the BBQ circuit:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/stimulus-projects-may-miss-deadlines-harper-joins-iggy-on-bbq-circuit/article1666507/
Um, didn’t the Conservatives say they were going to
end this kind of hog-troughery?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/key-tory-ridings-in-quebec-showered-in-stimulus-money-study/article1665981/
Ignatieff’s image recast:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/845356--hebert-michael-ignatieff-s-tour-recasts-his-image
The new Minister of Vocal Amplification:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/06/don-martin-canadas-new-minister-of-vocal-amplification/
No “major” cuts:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Public+service+major+cuts+Baird/3374596/story.html
Taking stock of a Conservative summer:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/bruce-anderson/stephen-harpers-summer-so-far/article1665839/
Should have been there:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/governance-and-its-discontents/article1665657/
On Law and Order:
Critics say the plan won’t work:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/845272--ottawa-s-prison-plan-won-t-work-critics-say
The latest instalment of “VHC: Ottawa ”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/just-the-facts-maam/article1664717/
And Stock Day’s prisonyard of dreams:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/stockwell-days-prisonyard-of-dreams/article1664643/
“Escalating the bonkers American war on drugs, gambling
and sex”:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Terence+Corcoran+Stephen+Harper+Prohibition/3371491/story.html
Arrests at prison farm protest:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/nine-arrested-at-prison-farm-protest/article1666432/
What it looks like across the border:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/845073--america-capital-of-punishment
On the census:
Lauded economist slams the decision:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/lauded-economist-slams-census-decision/article1665623/
Another Globe editorial: “The ‘they’ Mr.
Clement is condemning is, in fact, ‘us.’”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/senseless-census-argument-number-four/article1665067/
No consensus among the premiers:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/no-consensus-on-census/article1665255/
Paul Martin says they’re dumbing us down:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/845380--paul-martin-accuses-tories-of-dumbing-down-canada
On the G20:
Class action lawsuit filed:
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/how-peaceful-protest-led-to-a-class-action-suit/article1664385/
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/844755--g20-lawsuit-seeks-45m-in-damages
Canada a permanent home for G20 secretariat?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/make-canada-the-g20s-permanent-home/article1664535/
Globalization depends on the G20:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/success-of-globalization-rests-with-g20-paul-martin-says/article1665734/
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August 6 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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65 years ago today – Hiroshima :
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/844517--hiroshima-s-call-to-sanity
Labour Market Survey is out – the news is not good
(more below) and shows that ending stimulus now is a bad idea:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/08/06/an-appalling-jobs-report/
Funeral homes can no longer afford to pay for burials
for people on low income:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/844092--funeral-homes-subsidizing-services-for-the-poor
Circus focuses on the marginalized:
http://www.thestar.com/living/disabilities/article/844386--circus-spotlight-is-on-the-marginalized
What the Premiers are talking about:
Health care costs:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Premiers+disagree+cure+soaring+health+care+costs/3362898/story.html
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/premiers-tackle-elephant-in-the-room/article1663763/
Government’s role in the economy:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/premiers-split-over-ottawas-role-in-stimulating-economy/article1663640/
Coyle’s take:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/844644--coyle-b-c-premier-wants-olympic-efforts
And here’s what we’d like them to be talking
about:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/activists-call-for-war-on-poverty-100102259.html
Around the Province:
Remember – a lot depends on how you cast your vote,
says Pat Capponi:
http://thestar.blogs.com/yourcitymycity/2010/08/when-living-and-dying-are-beyond-your-means.html
Around the Country:
Service cuts to social assistance, in BC:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/August2010/06/c9013.html
Yukon working toward a government-wide social inclusion
and poverty reduction strategy – campaign starting:
http://whitehorsestar.com/archive/story/theres-a-vital-social-message-at-your-feet/
The Economy:
More on the bad employment numbers – we’ve lost more than 139,000 full time jobs:
ProgEcon:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/08/06/job-market-stalls/
Financial Post:
http://www.financialpost.com/news/Canada+sees+first+loss+2010/3366839/story.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Canada+sheds+jobs+numbers+disappoint+again/3367041/story.html
Markets take a hit as a result:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/06/canada-job-employment.html
Who’s hiring and who’s firing:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/as-jobs-market-stalls-whos-winning-and-whos-losing/article1664058/
Ken Lewenza’s take on the jobs numbers:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/August2010/06/c8975.html
Flaherty says we’re not out of the woods yet:
http://www.nationalpost.com/World+economy+woods+says+Flaherty/3367309/story.html
And he’s no ideologue:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/ideological-purity-wont-blind-flaherty-to-role-of-government/article1664354/
National:
Harper rallies the troops:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/harper-emerges-briefly-to-rally-conservative-troops/article1663127/
Harper says economy too frail for an election:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/06/cabinet-shuffle-harper.html
Harper says opposition threatening election:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Harper+accuses+opposition+pushing+election/3363423/story.html
Harper focuses on economy:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/844324--harper-focuses-on-the-economy-as-poll-numbers-drop
Harper ignores the census:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/05/harper-caucus-meeting.html
Harper burns bridges:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/844407--hebert-harper-burning-his-bridges
Harper’s summer of fun:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/05/don-martin-harper-needs-to-stick-to-issues-that-matter/
If there were an election today….
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/snap-election-would-leave-harper-with-razor-thin-minority-pollster-says/article1662785/
On the Cabinet Shuffle:
Baird named new house leader:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/John+Baird+named+House+Leader+cabinet+shuffle/3367437/story.html
Jane Taber at Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/pm-hands-procedural-reins-to-john-baird/article1664178/
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/844706--pm-names-baird-house-leader-in-mini-shuffle
Is the shuffle on the Titanic?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/is-harper-just-shuffling-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic/article1664093/
Chief Atleo welcomes new Indian Affairs minister:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/August2010/06/c8995.html
On More Prisons:
Even Kelly McParland doesn’t buy their rationale
for more prisons:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/05/kelly-mcparland-stockwell-days-criminal-logic/
Post forum on the unreported-crime-means-we-need-more-prisons
absurdity:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/06/full-comment-forum-justifying-more-jails/
Stock Day is no longer alarmed:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/stockwell-day-stands-his-ground-on-crime-stats/article1662976/
Internal polling told them crime’s not that big an
issue:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/844433--ottawa-s-own-poll-downplays-crime-concerns
Census:
This is the attitude that arises when government
sees society simply as a group of utility maximizing individuals:
Shawn Graham is unimpressed:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/nb-premier-lashes-out-at-harper-government-over-census-comments/article1664428/
Inconsistencies abound:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/08/06/taxpayers-and-the-census/
It’s a manufactured crisis, says Layton :
“It’s no big deal”:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Census+issue+life+death+concern+Tories/3362950/story.html
Conservatives miss document deadline :
http://www.nationalpost.com/Liberals+want+more+debate+Tories+miss+census+deadline/3362955/story.html
Carol Goar separates fact from myth – it’s been
death by a thousand cuts:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/844537--goar-separating-fact-from-myth-in-the-census-saga
On the G20:
Class action lawsuit launched:
Post:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/08/06/woman-launches-g20-wrongful-detainment-lawsuit/
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/08/06/g20-class-action546.html
International:
How about instead of convincing them to give half their
cash away to make a better world, why not convince your billionaire pals to
start with paying their taxes and decent, liveable wages?:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/05/philanthropy-does-not-pay-taxes
On gay marriage:
“Minority rights are not something you
submit to a vote”:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/05/john-moore-the-bible-loses-again/
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August 5 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
Bedbug pandemic possible:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/08/04/pei-bed-bug-pandemic-584.html
People with disabilities need more info about supports:
http://www.thestar.com/living/disabilities/article/843734--disabled-benefits-should-be-better-tax-credits-and-benefits-for-disabled-should-be-better-advertised
NDP calls on three ministers to resign:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/843813--three-ministers-should-resign-during-opp-probe-opposition
Vibrant Communities in York region:
http://poverty-awareness.blogspot.com/2010/08/vibrant-communities-provincial-poverty.html
On the Premiers’ meeting:
Poverty activists jockeying for attention:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/interest-groups-jockeying-for-leaders-attention-100011974.html
Could you get serious about Aboriginal education please?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/premiers-urged-to-get-serious-about-aboriginal-education/article1662351/
Fragile economic recovery tops agenda:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/fragile-economic-recovery-tops-agenda-at-premiers-meeting/article1662749/
Economy, health care, and water:
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/05/premiers-meeting-council-conferations.html
NB premier disagrees with Stelmach; wants more stimulus
– and questions census decision:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/nb-premier-calls-for-more-federal-stimulus-questions-census-decision/article1661532/
Poverty summit yesterday:
http://www.brandonsun.com/breaking-news/Local-summit-to-focus-on-eradicating-povery-in-Canada-99932879.html
Around the Country:
Energy poverty in Halifax :
http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/energy-poverty/Content?oid=1754699
CPJ blog on New Brunswick poverty reduction:
http://www.cpj.ca/en/blog/rebekah/moving-forward-poverty-reduction-new-brunswick
Economy:
GM and Chrysler report strong sales:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/08/04/july-canadian-auto-sales.html
Toronto housing market down:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/buyers-exit-toronto-housing-market/article1662642/
Same for Vancouver and elsewhere:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/vancouver-homes-market-goes-cold/article1661751/
Why? Realtors think it’s the HST:
http://www.nationalpost.com/cooling+housing+market+realtors/3362495/story.html
National:
Mike Creek on Peacock Poverty, on the ongoing work toward
a national poverty reduction strategy:
http://www.peacockpoverty.org/2010/08/04/poverty-on-the-federal-level-mike-creek-2/
The Star says, don’t let the facts stand in the way
of ideology:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/844005--day-s-fantasy-world
What’s really alarming? The Globe says it’s
“doubling the cost of the prison system, at a time of restraint, on the
thinnest of pretexts”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/sound-the-alarm-on-stockwell-days-statistics/article1662083/
Travers talks bogeymen:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/843930--travers-tories-enlist-imaginary-enemies
Emasculating the opposition while failing to till his
own soil (sorry for the massively mixed metaphors there):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/and-in-this-corner-the-great-grit-slayer/article1662057/
Don’t we already have a coalition?:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/02/a-coalition-dont-we-have-one-already/
Moon buggy stimulus:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/made-in-canada-moon-buggy-backed-by-stimulus-cash/article1662294/
Polls show they’re finally running neck-and-neck:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/04/ekos-poll.html
Post:
Thumbs up for Iggy:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/08/05/ekos-poll-conservative-lead-slipping/
Globe:
It’s the revenge of the propeller-heads:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/revenge-of-propeller-heads-leaves-tories-even-with-liberals/article1662564/
On the Census:
Lawsuit filed against changes:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/04/census-lawsuit.html
Injunction could delay implementation:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/injunction-could-delay-voluntary-census/article1662060/
Um, fighter jets vs mandatory census…. Which one
has broader impact?:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/844047--bad-policy-brilliant-politics
Bob Rae’s take:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/a-voice-in-the-wilderness-bob-rae-weighs-in-on-census/article1661579/
You gotta know that when the media start printing unflattering
pictures of the pols, they’re on shaky ground:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/whats-harpers-take-on-census-he-wont-say-just-yet/article1662335/
On the G20:
From Caledon :
http://www.caledoncitizen.com/news/2010-08-05/Our_Readers_Write/Is_Canada_really_free.html
International:
How do you measure poverty? A new index shows how:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/04/poverty-about-more-than-money
Hmm. Poverty impact statements, eh? Interesting…
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/phil_haslanger/article_30f53617-bf6f-5a69-ab24-d42c0f2980f7.html
The growing gap in the US :
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ranks-millionaires-club-climbs-numbers-people-living-poverty/story?id=11327341
Great article about the effects of depression-related
illness:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/02/depression-mental-health-breakdown
|
August 4 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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The criminal investigation is about carpet cleaning contracts
and kickbacks:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/carpet-cleaning-contracts-behind-probe-of-ontario-ministries/article1661192/
Sales tax credit payments start next week:
http://news.ontario.ca/rev/en/2010/08/putting-more-money-in-families-hands.html
Tories want transparency on Stewardship Ontario:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/843498--tories-seek-light-on-secretive-recycling-agency
Laurel Rothman’s in Winnipeg , wanting the Premiers
to discuss poverty – which is not on their agenda:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/843635--coyle-poverty-absent-from-premiers-agenda
Here’s her Op Ed from the Winnipeg Free Press, with
Sid Frankel:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/provinces-need-to-pull-children-out-of-poverty-99821394.html
And here’s what they will be talking about:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/843516--premiers-set-nation-s-agenda
But let’s hope they don’t talk about this –
why an ‘economic charter of rights’ is bad policy:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/843583--economic-rights-don-t-need-their-own-charter
Building a better wheelchair:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/08/04/shad-valley-wheelchair-invention.html
Ratna Omidvar, on success now:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/immigrants-want-success-now-not-tomorrow/article1660760/
ECT saved my life:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/shock-treatments-saved-my-life/article1660852/
Around the province:
Smiths Falls painting over reminder of job losses:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/08/04/hershey-tower.html
Economy:
Worrying about deflation:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/843581--something-new-to-worry-about-this-summer-deflation
Optimism fading in small businesses:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/small-businesses-gloomier-in-poor-signal-for-the-economy/article1661274/
National Issues:
Doctors recommend massive health care system overhaul,
including universal prescription drug coverage:
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/843623--doctors-call-for-major-health-care-overhaul
Transparency over stimulus spending questioned:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-scrap-stimulus-reports/article1660896/
“Making really important and expensive policy decisions
sort of on the seat of our pants.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/stockwell-day-cites-alarming-rise-in-unreported-crime-to-justify-new-prisons/article1661054/
Ivison’s take on unreported crime:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/03/john-ivison-nothing-baffling-about-days-crime-comments/
National Politics:
Conservatives raking in more cash than Liberals:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-rake-in-more-cash-than-rivals/article1660766/
More on the paltry war chest:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/paltry-war-chest-says-a-lot-about-ignatieffs-leadership/article1661336/
On the Census:
Globe editorial: Will they listen?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/short-census-question-will-the-government-listen/article1660871/
Premiers plotting census strategy:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/annual-premiers-meeting-to-plot-census-strategy/article1661111/
Race, earnings, and the census:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/08/03/race-and-earnings-revisited/
International:
China is building 3 MILLION UNITS of affordable housing
this year:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/chinas-luckiest-people-get-the-keys-as-low-income-housing-arrives/article1661186/
If he ain’t a socialist, then what is he?:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/04/david-frum-the-socialist-in-the-white-house/
New study says poverty causes brain development problems
in children:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/08/01/toxic-stress/
Millions of Japanese stuck in hidden poverty:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iJeyV7uhigbErXZgsQmWp6AAMW4g
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are having no impact
on the ground in poorest countries – partly a problem of lack of disaggregated
data:
http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/165721/1/
|
August 3 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
--------------------------------
Workers Action Centre – Call to Action Against Bill
C-68:
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/722817/ebc8c41f96/283613579/9fa0e959e4/
Critics say it’s no way to enforce employment standards:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/08/03/ontario-workplace-complaints546.html
Questions on Census derail Stockwell Day’s presser:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/census-questions-derail-stockwell-days-economic-performance/article1660338/
He was talking about government’s commitment to be “tough
on crime” by spending on prisons, despite not having stats to back it
up:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/03/canada-economy-stockwell-day.html
More on Stock Day:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/what-stockwell-day-meant-to-say/article1660585/
How the Post reported the foo-faraw:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Stockwell+concerned+about+rise+unreported+crimes/3355016/story.html
But here’s what he said about the census – they’re
not backing down:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/843306--tories-won-t-compromise-on-census
The Canadian Institute of Actuaries gets in on the opposition:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/August2010/03/c8072.html
And, uh oh, condo sales in Toronto drop for first time
in 16 years:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/condo-sales-in-toronto-drop-for-first-time-in-16-years/article1660475/
Premiers meeting this week – will it be recovery?
Or deficits?:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/843068--premiers-dilemma-economic-recovery-or-fighting-deficits
Changes to Ontario ’s employment standards puts the
onus on workers – Workers Action Centre to launch campaign today:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/843099--employment-bill-stymies-complaints-against-employers-critics-say
The New Deal was not a stimulus package:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/842648--goodbye-john-maynard-keynes-hello-margaret-thatcher
Economy:
EI and the recovery:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/08/03/employment-insurance-and-the-recovery/
National:
Switching from stimulus to restraint – while spending
big bucks:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/842900--pm-s-actions-words-at-odds
Demographics signal bleak future:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/842990--demographics-point-to-bleak-future
On the Census:
Statistical Society of Canada meets this week and launches
a petition to save the mandatory long form:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-stat-crunchers-join-census-fight/article1659883/
Don Gutnick on the Fraser Institute’s involvement:
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/07/29/WhyAttackCensus/
International:
Jobless in US slipping into poverty:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8878764.stm
80% of kids in areas of London live in “intolerable
poverty”:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23861869-eight-out-of-10-children-live-in-poverty-in-three-areas-of-city.do
|
August 2 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
People with low incomes more likely to die from cancer,
no matter the time of detection:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/02/income-cancer-study.html
Ontario Libs need to kickstart their agenda:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/ontario-liberals-need-to-kickstart-election-agenda/article1659211/
Good teachers effect not only what you learn, but also
what you earn:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/home-cents/how-your-kindergarten-teacher-affects-what-you-earn/article1656161/
The Economy:
Economic expansion is slowing:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Economic+momentum+ebbing/3341691/story.html
We must extend EI stimulus:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/we-must-extend-ei-stimulus-measures/article1657989/
Homelessness is sure to rise post-recession:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/842175--homeless-tide-sure-to-rise
It’s a staples recovery:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/30/staples-recovery/
US jobless numbers expected Friday:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/features/at-the-bell/all-eyes-on-jobs-numbers/article1659367/
Retail housing forecast revised:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/30/c7518.html
National:
Violence against women in Canada – a reason to fear
our government:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/violence-against-women-an-international-epidemic/article1657795/
And meanwhile, women are still vanishing from Vancouver
’s DTES:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/842988--women-still-vanishing-from-vancouver-s-eastside
Maybe they’re not so tough on crime:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/nunavut-shows-the-feds-are-not-so-tough-on-crime/article1656701/
Is further diversification the plan behind the review
of employment equity?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/a-chance-to-diversify-the-senior-civil-service-ranks/article1657898/
PMO’s communications spending up by $1M:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/prime-ministers-office-spending-to-jump-more-than-1-million/article1659233/
Who’s doing what this summer:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/summer-vacation-pm-off-the-clock-ignatieff-on-the-bus/article1658081/
Walkom on Iggy’s bus tour:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/842490--walkom-a-day-with-michael-ignatieff-and-uncle-vladimir-as-the-liberal-leader-tries-to-show-voters-he-s-a-normal-guy
Travers on how Harper’s done it:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/stephenharper/article/842374--travers-stephen-harper-changes-canada-by-changing-politics
On the Census:
New questionnaire going to print August 9 – time’s running out:
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/time-running-out-on-census-compromise/article1657642/
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/842655--time-almost-up-for-census-compromise
Statisticians gather for conference in Vancouver :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/number-crunchers-vancouver-convention-set-to-hail-statscans-ex-chief/article1657511/
Catholic bishops join the chorus of those opposed:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/30/tories-census-catholics.html
Ivan Fellegi explains bias:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/842176--voluntary-census-intrinsically-biased
The census helps demographers know – which one are
you?:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/842471--who-are-you-the-census-helps-demographers-know
Plugging Zerbesias:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/08/01/who-we-are-data-libre-and-census-watch/
The issue of privacy:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/30/privacy-and-the-census-its-really-not-all-about-you/
Census, homelessness, and gated communities:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/31/census-homelessness-and-gated-communities/
News from Calgary :
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/08/01/calgary-stampede-census-related-of-course/
Is it compromise? Or capitulation?:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/31/george-jonas-drop-the-census-charade/
Some census wordplay:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/warren-clements/like-jackhammers-and-foul-smells-its-an-assault-on-the-census/article1657561/
More opposition from Quebec :
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/30/c7617.html
On the G20:
Don’t criticize the government, or you’ll go
back to jail:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/30/g20-hundert-henderson.html
International:
Cuba vows to take steps out of the economy:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/08/01/cuba-economy.html
Immigrant squatters in Paris roughly removed:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/07/31/paris-squatters-eviction-video.html
What’s up with China ’s economy:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/derek-decloet/why-chinas-economy-isnt-always-what-it-seems/article1658155/
|
July 30 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
---------------------------------------
Bob Rae’s words of wisdom for Dalton McGuinty:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/841959--coyle-rae-of-hope-for-dalton-mcguinty
A family’s campaign against bedbugs:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/one-familys-campaign-against-bedbugs/article1656654/
Ontario spends less per PSE student than any other province:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tuition-creeping-beyond-government-funding/article1656628/
The war against seniors poverty is not won:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/842180--goar-new-pool-of-cheap-labour-seniors
Economy:
GDP is up, just barely:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/30/canada-gdp-may.html
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canadian-gdp-edges-higher/article1657050/
How recovery has slowed to a crawl:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/canadas-recovery-slows-to-crawl-gdp-up-01-in-may/article1656967/
US economy doing better, but slowing too:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/30/us-economy-gdp.html
But US central banker warns of deflation:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/29/deflation-bullard.html
Federal:
Some Ottawa gab:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/ignatieff-busts-a-move-as-pm-prepares-to-go-public/article1657031/
More on the Conference Board’s prediction of an early
end to the deficit:
Post:
http://www.financialpost.com/news/Federal+deficit+eliminated+year+ahead+schedule/3336981/story.html
But the provinces will have a tough time:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/ottawa-finances-on-track-but-provinces-face-hard-choices/article1655911/
Here’s the Conference Board’s report:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/Economics/hot_eco_topics/default/10-07-29/Canadian_Feds_Ahead_of_Plan_on_Fiscal_Rebalancing.aspx
On the Census:
Economists don’t like government’s decision:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economists-weigh-in-on-census-debate/article1656565/
Can the provinces fix it?:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/29/can-the-provinces-fix-the-census-fiasco/
An exit strategy:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/29/an-exit-strategy-for-the-conservatives/
Stanbury on “coercion”:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/30/stanbury-on-coercion/
International:
Greek PM’s nix of shadow economy takes some getting
used to:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/broken-europe/greeks-adjust-to-pms-elimination-of-untaxed-shadow-economy/article1656692/
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|
July 29 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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The end of the era of GM in Windsor :
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/wheels/article/841515--gm-closes-transmission-plant-in-windsor
GM’s gone, now Ford’s laying off workers in Windsor :
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/windsor/story/2010/07/29/wdr-ford-layoffs-essex-engine-100729.html
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ford-to-cut-nearly-400-jobs-in-windsor/article1655882/
Star editorial on Ontario government’s failure to communicate:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/841471--a-failure-to-communicate
Price shock coming on electricity bills:
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/841415--hydro-utilities-warn-of-price-shock
ORC cleans house just before police raid:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/841599--realty-corp-axed-staff-days-before-opp-raids
Across the Province:
Why not have a party for Toronto elections?:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/29/toronto-party-elections456.html
Tory could actually win:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/marcus-gee/john-tory-could-enter-torontos-mayoral-race-late-and-win/article1655227/
Grants help in Hamilton-Wentworth:
http://www.ancasternews.com/news/article/216048
Barrie’s Nana hosting fundraiser August 14:
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2688898
Around the Country:
Woman in New Brunswick denied EI to care for son after brain surgery:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/07/29/nb-ei-benefits-denied-brain-surgery-636.html
Meals on Wheels van stolen in Calgary :
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/07/29/calgary-meals-wheels-van-stolen-keys.html
The Economy:
Home resale prices up:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/28/home-resale-prices.html
But gains are unlikely to continue:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Canadian+home+prices+gain+most+months/3332901/story.html
Federal:
Deficit could be gone by 2015, says Conference Board:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Federal+deficit+eliminated+year+ahead+schedule/3336981/story.html
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/29/conference-board-federal-deficit.html
Annual civil service survey scrapped to save cash:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-scraps-civil-service-survey/article1654843/
Behind the scenes in the PMO:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/lawrence-martin/the-incredible-shrinking-tory-tent/article1654999/
Where’s Waldo?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/is-pm-on-well-earned-holiday-or-hiding-from-controversy/article1655865/
Reforming the Indian Act:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/841560--how-to-reform-the-indian-act
On the Census:
Reviews are not kind to Tony Clement:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/the-reviews-are-in-and-they-are-not-kind-to-tony-clement/article1654547/
Spare a thought for poor Tony Clement:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/28/the-drowning-of-tony-clement’s-credibility/
Something about that “technical issue” stinks:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-munir-sheikh-matter-was-no-technicality/article1655113/
Somebody else should have resigned:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/841556--siddiqui-civil-servants-shine-amid-tory-darkness
Waking the sleeping giant:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/841407--travers-census-clamour-wakes-sleeping-nation
A mistake, but part of a trend:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/census-call-is-part-of-data-collection-trend/article1653638/
Layton wants to meet to find a fix:
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/07/29/layton-harper-census-reform.html
Premiers will discuss how to find a fix at Federation meeting next week:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/premiers-seek-difficult-compromise-on-census/article1655218/
(Note: info about Federation meeting: http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/28/c7049.html )
Canadian Library Association joins calls to reinstate:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/29/c7366.html
Great. Now the census carcass is getting picked over:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/voluntary-census-deletes-questions-about-unpaid-work/article1655060/
On the G20:
The only charge brought under the phantom regulation seems to have disappeared itself:
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/29/g20-charges-security651.html
Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/man-shows-up-to-face-g20-five-metre-charges-discovers-they-dont-exist/article1655049/
Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/841512--charge-mysteriously-disappears-for-g20-accused
10 questions an inquiry should address:
http://spacingtoronto.ca/2010/07/05/lorinc-10-questions-a-g20-inquiry-should-address/
And, just for fun:
Post columnist says the biggest threat to marriage is heterosexuals:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/28/lorne-gunter-heterosexuals-are-the-greatest-threat-to-marriage/
|
July 28 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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McGuinty confirms details of OPP raid:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/27/opp-raid.html
MCSS one of three ministries being investigated for corruption:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/mcguinty-confirms-identifies-three-ontario-ministries-under-investigation/article1654025/
Communications incompetence:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/840796--coyle-liberals-excel-at-communications-incompetence
Sloppy, but learning:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/840833--dalton-mcguinty-admits-government-has-been-sloppy-but-vows-to-learn-from-mistakes
OEB creating low-income energy programs across the province:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/22/c6180.html
Ontario in “impressive recovery”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/ontario-from-whipping-boy-to-impressive-rebound/article1650095/
Laurel Rothman and Trish Hennessy on how to spur recovery:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/839720--fight-poverty-to-spur-recovery
Across the Province:
It’s the end of General Motors in Windsor :
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/windsor/story/2010/07/28/wdr-gm-plant-closing.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/says+goodbye+Windsor/3329642/story.html
Food as a municipal election issue:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontomayoralrace/article/837863--fiorito-chewing-on-food-as-an-election-issue
John Tory mulling mayoralty bid in Toronto (again):
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/speculation-mounts-over-john-tory-mayoral-bid/article1654064/
Post:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/27/john-tory-mulls-entering-mayoral-race-friends-say/
Post again:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/28/john-tory-for-mayor-of-toronto-no-no-no-no-yes-perhaps-yes/
Around the Country:
First Nations announce Poverty Reduction Approach:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/20/c5025.html
Affordable condo experiment in downtown Vancouver :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/developer-experiments-with-affordable-condos-near-downtown-vancouver/article1651548/
More on family law changes in BC:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/family-law-reforms-pushing-conflict-resolution-out-of-the-courtroom/article1644954/
The tension between past and future in Aboriginal communities:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/battling-aboriginal-tradition/article1652255/
The Economy:
The jobs recovery is far from complete:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/21/jobs-recovery-far-from-complete/
The missing link – jobs and inflation:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/19/jobs-and-inflation-the-missing-link/
Inflation down:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Consumer+prices+rise+June+StatsCan/3313201/story.html
Erin Weir on 1% menace:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/23/one-percent-menace/
Consumer confidence falls in July:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/27/july-consumer-confidence-drops.html
Poll shows folks not feeling confident:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/21/c5728.html
Rick Salutin on the fear factor:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-fear-factor-in-national-economics/article1648818/
Federal:
Deficit reduced as growth ramps up:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Higher+revenue+sends+deficit+down/3314041/story.html
Finally, the polls show movement:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tory-lead-narrows-in-latest-poll/article1653188/
Time to end the Indian Act:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/839638--it-s-time-to-end-the-indian-act
Here’s a privacy issue for ya:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/20/the-privacy-issue-that-harper-should-focus-on-credit-info/
What’s up with the Green party?:
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/can-greens-achieve-mass-appeal/article1647017/
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Elizabeth+challenged+over+leadership+Green+party/3305924/story.html
Donkeys Against Prison Farm Closures:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/donkey-joins-demonstration-against-closure-of-prison-farms/article1649717/
New report on voluntary pensions:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/22/c6111.html
Even Kelly McParland thinks Iggy’s looking good on
tour:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/with-harper-in-hiding-ignatieff-cracks-a-cold-one/article1652872/
But you wouldn’t know it from their editorial policy:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/silver-powers/another-sun-masterpiece/article1651884/
The Census (yes, there’s more):
Great Star editorial:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/840882--bias-triumphs-in-census-row
More on Sheik’s testimony:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/sheikh-shares-his-disdain-at-census-changes-with-commons/article1653937/
Government refuses to listen:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/survey-says-government-still-not-listening-on-census/article1653939/
Business relies on long form data – most can’t
afford to purchase data:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/grow/expanding-the-business/business-concerned-over-census-changes/article1653800/
Decision is a mistake, and part of a longer-term trend:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-census-call-is-part-of-a-trend-on-data-collecting/article1653638/
They’re out to lunch:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/27/john-ivison-conservatives-have-a-knack-for-picking-small-hills-to-die-on/
Globe continues to chastise government for bad policy:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/long-form-testimonials-shine-light-on-bad-census-policy/article1653802/
Ottawa shenanigans:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberals-take-poison-pen-to-ideal-tory-census/article1654300/
Employment Equity:
Great Star editorial on the Tory roots of employment equity:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/839637--job-equity-has-old-tory-roots
It’s “Play To The Base” month:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/placating-the-tory-faithful/article1649180/
PSAC’s response:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/23/c6356.html
Globe thinks the discussion is ‘reasonable’:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/census-distracts-from-reasonable-equity-discussion/article1650365/
Senator Donald Oliver on the review:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/senator-who-fought-for-employment-equity-defends-tories/article1651635/
Tasha K on “discriminatory hiring practices”:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/23/tasha-kheiriddin-thats-affirmative-tories-seek-to-end-discriminatory-hiring-practices/
The national unity card:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/silver-powers/people-who-live-in-national-unity-glass-houses/article1653568/
The G20:
Supreme Court Charter rights ruling may have implications:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/charter-rights-ruling-raises-implications-for-g20-complaints/article1649475/
Yup, there were rubber bullets:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/07/27/14846736.html
Kielburgers on what’s lost:
http://www.thestar.com/news/globalvoices/article/838364--global-voices-the-point-of-the-g20-is-lost-in-the-headlines
Woman suing police for injuries:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/26/woman-suing-toronto-police-for-g20-injuries-report/
New review of police action:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/ontario-watchdog-launching-new-review-of-police-action-during-g20-summit/article1648886/
Various reviews are no substitute for full inquiry:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/839178--no-substitutes-for-full-inquiry
78 complaints filed:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/22/rights-group-files-78-complaints-alleging-g20-police-brutality/
International:
The fight is on in France :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/broken-europe/cest-la-vie-in-french-public-sector-but-the-fight-is-on/article1654013/
The EU Is eyeballing federal public contracts – new trade deal in the works:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/eu-eyes-canadas-lucrative-public-works-contracts/article1651777/
Prepping for Arizona ’s immigration law:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/07/28/arizona-immigration028.html
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July 28 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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The latest on the OPP raids – it was Transportation and the ORC:
Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/questions-linger-over-opp-raids/article1652761/
Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/transportation-ministry-ontario-realty-corp-raided-in-opp-probe/article1644411/
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/26/opp-raid.html
Persichilli on the Bureaucracy: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/839643--persichilli-no-one-bothers-to-watch-the-bureaucrats
Friday updated Globe story on proposed Ontario public sector wage freeze:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-government-to-propose-wage-freeze-for-public-sector/article1649078/
Across the Province:
Fiorito calls for your stories on bedbugs:
http://www.thestar.com/article/839959--fiorito-help-us-win-the-war-on-bedbugs
Business partnership delivers free lunches in Halton:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/26/c6611.html
Around the Country:
BC overhauling family law:
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/07/19/bc-family-law.html
Globe editorial: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/taking-family-law-beyond-the-courts/article1646554/
A report from the CCPA on meaningful training programs for people on BC who receive social assistance:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/meaningful-training-programs
The Economy:
Inflation falls to 1%:
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/23/canada-inflation-june.html
Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/inflation-rate-slows-in-june/article1649304/
Price deflation at Loblaw:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/22/loblaw-earnings-fall.html
EI numbers up in May:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/22/may-ei-beneficiaries-rise.html
National:
Deficit hits $4.4 billion:
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/07/23/federal-deficit-finance.html
Conservatives now reviewing employment equity hiring in federal civil service:
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/22/affirmative-action-review.html
Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-look-to-scrap-affirmative-action-in-federal-hiring/article1648642/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-take-aim-at-employment-equity/article1649115/
And cutting funds to more NGOs – Brian Stewart’s never seen anything like it:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/23/f-vp-stewart.html
Meanwhile, HIV / AIDS on the rise in Canada :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-changing-epidemic-canadas-aids-rate-on-the-rise/article1648558/
And groups blockading over prison farms:
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/23/kingston-prison-farm.html
Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/839620--200-protest-to-keep-prison-farms
Will Iggy catch a little of the Shawinigan ?:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/838978--will-chretien-s-magic-rub-off-on-ignatieff
On the Census:
Linda McQuaig makes exactly the point:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/840510--mcquaig-making-it-easier-to-ignore-the-poor
Globe stands firm:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/on-the-census-canada-should-accept-no-substitute/article1648942/
Bank of Canada to evaluate impact of voluntary census (plus other interesting economy stories):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/concensus-building-tory-decision-sparks-anger-study/article1648771/
Calls grow to take Stats Can arm’s length:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/calls-grow-for-arms-length-statscan/article1649084/
Why we’re so obsessed:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/why-were-census-obsessed/article1649356/
Lies, damn lies:
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/apicazo/2010/07/lies-damn-lies-and-census
National Stats Council comes out against:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/840267--government-appointed-advisory-group-says-canadians-need-full-census-info?bn=1
On the G20:
New review of G20 policing:
Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/ontario-watchdog-launching-new-review-of-police-action-during-g20-summit/article1648886/
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/22/oiprd-g20.html
A big rush:
Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/840529--documents-show-cabinet-spent-little-time-on-secret-g20-change?bn=1
Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/840529--cabinet-rushed-secret-g20-change-documents-show
Woman shot with rubber bullets speaks out:
Rabble: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alex/2010/07/woman-shot-g20-police-speaks-out
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/mt_ept/stories/2010/07/26/g20-police-shot-rubber-bullets-woman-says.html
G20 art:
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/839734--g20-art-eyes-the-face-of-authority
What about those security contracts?:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/07/26/14836151.html
Carol Goar:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/839654--goar-city-s-bruising-moment-in-the-global-spotlight
International:
Why the jobless recovery?:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/07/a-grand-unified-theory-of-the-jobless-recovery/60409/
UK’s child poverty pledge doesn’t take important data into account:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23859448-george-osbornes-child-poverty-pledge-fails-to-consider-cuts-in-benefits-cuts.do
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Thursday, July 22 (2010) |
Great Big Thursday Media Roundup - Whew!
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From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
Ontario news
Op Ed in the Spec from Janet Gasparini , Doris Grinspun
and Adrianna Tetley on changes to social assistance:
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/811336
OCAP stages protest at Liberal headquarters over Special
Diet Allowance; activists arrested:
Sun:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/07/21/14783981.html
Petition to reinstate the Special Diet Allowance program:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/special-diet-allowance/sign.html
Eco-fees gone:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/21/ontario-eco-fees592.html
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/837836--taxpayers-on-the-hook-as-eco-fees-scrapped
But Liberals should take eco-fee issue as a warning:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/eco-fees-fiasco-should-be-a-warning-for-the-liberals/article1646636/
Ontario Human Rights Commission says election candidates with disabilities shouldn’t have to count accessibility costs in campaign spending limits:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/20/ont-human-rights.html
Still little news on the OPP raids of Ontario ministries:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/837748--opp-probing-corruption-by-staff-in-at-least-three-ministries
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/19/opp-government-investigation456.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/20/ontario-raids.html
On the Public Sector Wage Freeze Proposal:
Ontario proposing public sector wage freeze:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Ontario+finance+minister+unions+back+wage+freeze/3296724/story.html
Dwight Duncan’s remarks:
http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/ontariobudgets/2010/faq.html
One million people would be affected (ed. note: What will
that do to growth in the economy?):
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/19/ontario-wages.html
It could garner public support:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/20/ontario-wage-freeze653.html
But it likely won’t happen without “a fierce
fight”:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/20/ont-wage-freeze.html
The Globe says we should all be realistic:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/it-is-time-for-public-sector-realism/article1646088/
Others say it’s unreasonable and irrational:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/837616--public-sector-austerity-unreasonable-and-irrational
Star says it’s perhaps an echo of Bob Rae:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/837685--echo-of-bob-rae-s-social-contract
Response from Catholic Teachers:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/21/c5795.html
Response from OFL:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Ontario-Federation-Labour-President-Sid-Ryan-Asks-Is-Finance-Minister-Dwight-Duncan-1293325.htm
Around the Country:
Canada Without Poverty tours southern British Columbia
; finds housing a mess:
http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/07/21/PovertyInBC/
The Economy:
Unemployment rolls swell again for first time in 8 months:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/number-of-jobless-on-ei-up-for-first-time-in-eight-months/article1648144/
Erin Weir commentary:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/22/more-unemployment-more-ei/
Bank of Canada hikes interest rates again:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/20/bank-canada-interest-rates.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Bank+Canada+raises+overnight+interest+rate/3296898/story.html
Bank of Canada says economy is slowing:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/22/bank-of-canada-monetary-policy-report.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Growth+petered+quarter+Bank+Canada/3309194/story.html
National:
The Liberals were still trailing the Conservatives in the polls as of Tuesday:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/21/ekos-poll.html
But this article sums up nicely the issues currently at
play federally:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/22/kelly-mcparland-stephen-harpers-summer-of-the-needless-crisis/
AFN Chief Atleo calling for replacing the Indian Act; new relationship:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/07/20/mb-afn-indian-act-manitoba.html
The AFN’s new vision for aboriginal education:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/22/c6015.html
Crime was down again last year (thanks, StatsCan!):
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/20/crime-statistics020.html
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/837802--crime-rate-continues-to-drop-statscan-finds
Post:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/20/crime-rate-fell-17-in-past-decade-stats-can-report/
And Jay Hill, the Conservative House Leader, announces he’s not running again – does this mean Cabinet shuffle? Election?:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/07/21/jay-hill-bc-politics-house.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Veteran+Tory+seek+election/3304769/story.html
The Census:
Perhaps the biggest news is the resignation of the Chief Statistician, Munir Sheikh:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/21/statistics-canada-quits.html
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/838401--statscan-chief-quits-over-census-furor
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/StatsCan+boss+resigns+over+changes+long+form+census/3305442/story.html
On the implications:
GREAT column from Travers:
http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/838589
Globe editorial:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/federal-statistical-folly-in-full-view/article1647903/
The Opposition parties are calling for a reversal of the decision:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/22/statscan-census-tories-.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Tories+grilled+over+census+changes/3309773/story.html
But there has been all kinds of other coverage of this issue over the last two days – far too much for me to include here (I can’t keep up!). But here are a few juicy ones:
You may wish to vote on the Census question – there are currently a couple of polls, one on the Globe site and one on the CBC:
1) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/glob
e-online-poll-census/article1648059/
2) http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/
07/census-is-it-an-invasion-of-privacy.html
The history of Canada ’s 345-year-old Census:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/a-history-of-counting-canadians/article1647613/
Ten ways the Census affects regular Canadians:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ten-ways-the-census-could-affect-you/article1646825/
Tony Clement gives his reasoning:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/tony-clement-clears-the-air-on-census/article1647055/
Carol Goar on the alienation of voters:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/838087--goar-busy-tony-clement-is-alienating-voters
Decision gets a drubbing in Quebec :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/survey-says-census-plans-crash-and-burn-in-quebec/article1647660/
Provinces not pleased:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/provinces-rally-against-ottawa-as-anger-over-census-mounts/article1646827/
Neither is Toronto Planning:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/22/toronto-long-census545.html
Creating Harper Hysteria (note the comment about a “lame
protest song”):
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/21/kevin-libin-census-move-provokes-harper-hysteria/
Here’s that “lame protest song”, by the
way, which has been featured in most major media for the last couple of days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HThxOTtWNR0&feature=related
The G20:
Toronto Police Board is looking for public input into
their review
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/22/g20-police-board-review653.html
Authority in question:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/838726--police-board-s-authority-will-be-examined-in-wake-of-g20
International:
Obama urges action on emergency unemployment benefits:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/07/19/obama-unemployment.html
Obama signs financial reforms into law:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/21/obama-financial-reform-law.html
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Monday, July 19 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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Theresa made it out, with the right supports and opportunities:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/837267--ex-addict-puts-poverty-behind-her
And so did Mike:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/837262--escaping-the-poverty-trap
Inside McGuinty’s latest Caucus meeting – lots
of issues; note Special Diet in particular:
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/836887--is-mcguinty-too-sneaky-for-his-own-good
Dwight Duncan appeals for wage freezes tomorrow:
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-to-appeal-for-public-sector-wage-freezes/article1644169/
Transport and ORC raided:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/transportation-ministry-ontario-realty-corp-raided-in-opp-probe/article1644411/
Clarification to come today:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/18/opp-investigation.html
Around the province:
Star editorial exhorts next mayor to keep Miller’s
program for disadvantaged communities:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/837236--keep-david-miller-s-program
Economy:
Jobs boom hits Ontario :
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/833996--june-jobs-boom-hits-ontario
Interest rates going up:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/bank-of-canada-poised-to-raise-interest-rates/article1644190/
Foreign investors looooooooove Canada :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/foreign-investors-continue-their-love-affair-with-canada/article1644487/
It’s not a double-dip, but we’re slowing down:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canada-expected-to-follow-us-in-economic-slowdown/article1644192/
National:
Besides the Cheech and Chong story, lots of interesting
rumours:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/canadas-gone-up-in-smoke-cheech-chong-complain/article1644527/
How things are faring on Iggy’s bus tour:
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/all-aboard-the-liberal-express/article1643059/
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/837334--ignatieff-back-to-the-grassroots
On the Census:
Another Globe editorial, this time debunking government’s
arguments to date:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/flawed-arguments-for-census-changes/article1643217/
He’s not changing his mind. Meanwhile, government
continues to be interested in the “bedrooms” of farmers:
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/07/16/clement-house-census.html
Fighting for the “too-lazy-to-mark-an-X vote”
(actually, there’s so many great zingers in this column it’s hard
to pick just one):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/long-form-census-nah-well-ask-paul-the-octopus/article1643027/
Jeffrey Simpson on the government’s detestation of
evidence-based policy making – “facts that don’t fit ideology
or partisan gain are distinctly unwelcome”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/pms-census-policy-senseless-but-great-for-the-party/article1642881/
Armine Yalnizyan, on why Simpson’s column nails it:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/18/the-anti-information-information-society-brought-to-you-by-the-anti-government-government/
Oh my. The Fraser Institute now says everyone who’s
opposed is a “special interest” whining because they’ll now
have to pay for the info:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/no-more-free-ride-on-census-data-fraser-institute-says/article1642790/
Kathleen Perry takes on Tony Clement on The House:
http://www.cbc.ca/thehouse/
Is there a split in the Conservative Caucus, or not?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/placating-tory-base-on-the-census-causes-harper-government-grief/article1644204/
They consent to answer questions in committee:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Government+explain+decision+scrap+long+form+census/3293569/story.html
Even the Post’s Tasha K thinks keeping it is good,
but thinks the form should be “revamped”:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/19/tasha-kheiriddin-the-great-census-crisis-of-2010/
Armine Yalnizyan on the Globe’s poll:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/18/the-globe%e2%80%99s-experiment-in-census-taking/
On the $16 billion fighter jets:
Globe says the $16 billion on fighter jets is a “cost
of sovereignty”. Meanwhile, Tony Clement looks all excited and manly:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/f-35-fighters-are-the-price-of-sovereignty/article1643207/
Fighter jet deal raises questions:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-9-billion-jet-fighter-deal-raises-questions/article1643316/
Ah, the sound of freedom. Despite being the wrong choice,
made by somebody else:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/836959--16-billion-for-the-wrong-planes
Conservatives prove to be spendthrifts, on all the wrong
things:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/stephenharper/article/836823--travers-the-buck-starts-at-stephen-harper
Not so fast, says the Star:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/837235--not-so-fast-on-f-35-purchase
On the G20:
Hamilton activists prep for rally on Saturday:
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/808773
“If I can’t dance…..” Toronto protestors have fun on Saturday:
Complaints process flawed:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/837240--g20-complaints-process-flawed
Alok Mukherjee’s trial:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/the-greatest-trial-of-alok-mukherjee/article1643178/
International:
Matched savings accounts help people move out of poverty:
http://www.visualeconomics.com/_2010-07-16/
China closes gates on poor migrant worker neighbourhoods
at night to “enhance the idea of safety and reduce illegal crimes”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/inside-chinas-gated-communities-for-the-poor/article1644361/
Germany contemplating welfare cuts as part of austerity
plans:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/18/world/la-fg-germany-welfare-20100718
US government study shows poverty is most important factor
in HIV infection:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/19/study-poverty-more-than-race-tied-to-hiv/
The Guardian’s economics editor says “the lunatics
are back in charge, and want cuts cuts cuts”:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/14/lunatics-economy-cuts-frankin-roosevelt
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Friday, July 16 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley (ISAC)
The Fraser Institute finally comes out on the census (They
support the government. Surprise!):
http://www.nationalpost.com/Fraser+Institute+dismisses+need+mandatory+long+form+census/3287291/story.html
City of Toronto has already passed a resolution condemning
the move – from Gord Perks’ website:
http://www.gordperks.ca/park_post/2010/07/16/items-of-interest-65/
$16 billion. On fighter jets:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-to-spend-16-billion-on-fighter-jets/article1642399/
Or maybe it’s $9 billion. Either way, that would
sure pay for a lot of support for people who are poor:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Canada+spend+billion+fighter+jets/3286938/story.html
PS. Fighter jets? Seriously. FIGHTER JETS?
A commitment to community economic development:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/15/c4729.html
Around the Province:
More on the library bedbugs:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/836359--fiorito-how-and-why-the-library-takes-on-bedbugs
Economy:
Doing better in June:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/16/composite-index-june.html
StatsCan:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/100716/dq100716b-eng.htm
But consumers are worried:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Consumers+worried+about+strength+recovery+Survey/3286413/story.html
Progressive Economics says corporations aren’t reinvesting
those tax cuts, just hoarding them:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/15/corporate-canada-recovery-more-cash-less-investment/
National:
CAW calls on feds to extend temporary EI measures:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/16/c4901.html
Iggy’s got imperial arrogance:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-humbling-of-michael-ignatieff/article1641551/
On the Census:
They refuse to change the decision:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/16/composite-index-june.html
But it’s not just a screw up, it’s really something
special:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Statisticians+wild/3284799/story.html
Census FAIL:
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1858-the-conservatives-census-fail
Prominent economist says census change bad for public:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/07/16/ns-census-economist.html
Faith groups upset:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/16/census-faith016.html
CTV:
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Politics/20100715/census-backlash-100715/
It’s bad for health care:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/836240--axing-long-form-census-threatens-health-care-improvements-doctors-warn
Why bedrooms matter:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/16/what-hangs-on-bedrooms/
Star editorial:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/836488--the-politics-of-census-forms
Even the National Post thinks it’s a bad idea:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/15/national-post-editorial-board-leave-the-long-form-census-alone/
Armine’s Media Round Up:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/15/did-i-say-media-storm-over-the-census/
On the G20:
A licensed paralegal describes his experience:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/douglas-bell/linking-to-the-truth/article1641488/
JP bans note taking:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/douglas-bell/nota-bene/article1642298/
CCLA files five complaints:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/836519--civil-liberties-group-files-five-g20-police-complaints
Globe editorial:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/review-g8g20-spending-and-site-selection/article1641666/
International:
Welfare in Indiana – strict rules mean
no bump in caseloads, despite high unemployment:
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100716/NEWS01/7160311/1002/
|
Thursday, July 15 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley (ISAC)
Ontario Association of Food Banks launched farm partnership
program yesterday:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/14/c4181.html
Around the Province:
Peel Poverty Action Group pushes Mississauga on affordable
housing:
http://www.mississauga.com/news/news/article/847209
Across the Country:
Allergic woman relies on onion to save her life, since
disability not enough to afford EpiPen:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/07/15/pei-onion-bee-sting-allergic-584.html
Economy:
Home sales continue to drop:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Home+sales+continue+drop/3281111/story.html
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/15/housing-june-crea-sales.html
Stock Day launches roundtables on economic future:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/14/c4384.html
Gloomier outlook for US economy:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/14/fed-reserve-outlook.html
Maybe more stimulus?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/fed-considers-new-steps-to-bolster-us-economy/article1639952/
National:
Cost cutter stalking Parliament Hill halls:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/jim-flahertys-cost-cutter-stalks-government-halls/article1640983/
Last of cash available for shovel-ready projects:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/cities-get-green-light-for-recycled-stimulus-funding/article1640242/
Ottawa Notebook:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/is-intrusive-ignatieff-on-his-way-out/article1640870/
On the Census:
It was Harper. He doesn’t like “fodder for critics”:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/835993--siddiqui-pm-facing-revolt-over-census-change
Libs want opportunity to call Clement on the carpet:
Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberals-want-tony-clement-called-on-carpet-in-census-feud/article1639741/
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/14/liberals-census.html
Clement willing; CMAJ says it’s “ideology over
evidence”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/clement-willing-to-testify-as-medical-journal-joins-census-fray/article1641394/
Only 3 privacy-related complaints in 10 years. Now there’s
a reason:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Privacy+commissioner+sees+complaints+about+census+form/3278143/story.html
Federal inquiry not needed…..yet:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/15/g20-federal-inquiry546.html
Garneau says its manipulative and stupid:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Census+changes+manipulative+move+Liberal/3277006/story.html
Decision is trouble:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/835932--axing-census-questions-adds-up-to-trouble-for-tories
CLC’s letter to Clement:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/15/clc-letter-re-census/
On the G20:
Why is Harper going scot-free?
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/836033--hepburn-why-is-harper-escaping-g20-aftermath-scot-free
First court date tomorrow for man charged under made-up
five-metre rule:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/14/c4409.html
No public inquiry, but lots of probes:
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=175940
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Wednesday, July 14 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley (ISAC)
Trillium consulting with non-profit sector on “how
to strengthen the relationship between the Ontario government and the province's
not-for-profit sector”:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/14/c4170.html
Fox News North no big deal:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/relax-folks-we-wont-be-channelling-fox-news-north/article1638801/
Around the Province:
Letter from Minister of Education in the Belleville Intelligencer:
http://intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2665173
Employment’s up, but no hiring binge in Toronto :
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/835454--goar-employment-takes-off-except-in-toronto
Bedbugs in the library in tony Yorkville, Toronto :
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/835280--fiorito-bedbugs-moving-into-our-public-libraries
Economy:
Bankruptcies fall:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/bankruptcies-fall-in-april/article1639591/
US retail sales slip:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/14/us-retail-sales-june.html
National:
Why the Conservatives’ massive Budget bill means
Canadians are not well governed:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/omnibus-bills-subvert-our-legislative-process/article1638860/
How the Budget managed to pass in the Senate:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/travel-commitments-kept-most-truant-liberals-from-senate-budget-vote/article1638437/
The impact on the environment:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/federalbudget/article/835436--federal-budget-bill-damages-the-environment-critic-says
Ignatieff’s make or break bus tour:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/michael-ignatieffs-make-or-break-summer-tour/article1639034/
Liberals need to reconnect to public:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/13/ignatieff-summer-bus-tour.html
Maybe Iggy’s not that smart:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/13/kelly-mcparland-maybe-ignatieff-just-isnt-that-smart/
Conservatives still ahead in the polls:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/13/environics-poll.html
Funding politics seriously, French style:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/brian-topp/funding-politics-seriously/article1638793/
The Census Long Form:
Coalition of groups say long form census must be retained:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/filling-out-census-no-big-deal-groups-say/article1638680/
Tony Clement’s Muskoka census:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/13/kelly-mcparland-they-dont-need-no-census-in-muskoka/
The G20:
A rough lesson in civics:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/835456--opinion-a-rough-lesson-in-civics
More on Tim Hudak’s response:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/radwanski/thugs-and-hooligans-the-sequel/article1638568/
Be careful around public works:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/835453--best-be-careful-around-public-works
Police board inquiry lacks powers for proper review:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/police-board-inquiry-lacks-power-for-full-g20-review-former-members/article1638902/
And, a public inquiry makes recommendations on how to
improve policing after the G20 in ENGLAND :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/25/police-could-lose-public-consent
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Tuesday, July 13 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley (ISAC)
We may be axing the long form, but Britain is getting
rid of the census altogether!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7882774/National-census-to-be-axed-after-200-years.html
Why the U-turn on the Supercorp:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/834964--problems-force-liberal-retreat-on-supercorp
Windfall sought after Supercorp’s demise:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/with-demise-of-supercorp-search-for-windfall-stymied/article1637902/
OPSEU is glad it’s gone:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/12/c3791.html
People’s Blueprint:
Unheard Voices:
http://www.peacockpoverty.org/2010/07/12/the-unheard-voices-by-paul-fitzgerald/
This Is My Life:
http://www.peacockpoverty.org/2010/07/12/this-is-my-life-by-paul-fitzgerald-peoples-blueprint-panel/
Around the Province:
Mayors in Leeds-Grenville says spending $100K on training
for people on welfare little labour market attachment and multiple barriers
to employment is a waste, because there are no jobs:
http://recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2656718
Kingston radio station project helps people create sound
stories of their experiences of poverty – and pays them, too:
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2665495
National:
Harper’s nightmares:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/stephenharper/article/834970--travers-nightmares-lurk-in-stephen-harper-s-dreams
Nothing like the smell of sulphur in the morning:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Political+rhetoric+burns+with+fire+brimstone/3268773/story.html
On the Census Long Form:
Critics say changes could result in biased information:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Census+changes+could+result+biased+information+critics/3268332/story.html
Official Languages Commissioner reviewing long form decision:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/12/census-languages.html
President of C.D. Howe comes out again decision:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/good-information-comes-at-a-price/article1637565/
Discussion is deemed “off topic” and “irrelevant”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/web-links-to-census-discussion-vanish/article1637899/
A cadre of morons:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/834998--census-too-important-to-gut
Bloated Budget Bill:
Senate passes the budget (despite strong words last night from Libs that it
was “not the way to do the people’s business” so they would
split it into several pieces – ed.):
Seven Liberals didn’t show up:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/senators-skip-town-after-liberals-fail-budget-bill-test/article1638026/
G20:
Marin’s tweets finally pique interest:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/silver-powers/ombudsman-biases-his-g20-investigation-before-it-starts/article1638087/
Conservatives filibuster to block G20 hearings:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tory-filibuster-seeks-to-block-hearings-on-g20-policing/article1637756/
Same story, with different spin, from the Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Hold+hearings+security+issues+Opposition/3268337/story.html
International:
Schwarzenegger proposes cutting entire CalWORKS program
to save the state $1B:
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1450327
|
Monday, July 12 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley (ISAC) <laidleyj@lao.on.ca>
...
Ed Broadbent: “The Rise and Fall of Economic and Social Rights: What’s
Next?”
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/rise-and-fall-economic-rights
Raising money for one family in Hamilton :
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/805359
Business is upbeat!, says Bank of Canada:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/12/boc-survey-business-optimism.html
Even the Canadian Marketing Association is calling for
the return of the long form:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/12/c3739.html
Iggy’s an elitist:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/12/tasha-kheiriddin-is-that-a-whiff-of-sulfur-coming-from-the-liberal-bus/
Steve Paikin asks, Is it time for Open Government?:
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779826&ts=2010-07-09%2020:00:00.0
Duff Conacher leaving Democracy Watch:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ethics-crusader-duff-conacher-leaving-democracy-watch/article1635404/
The Supercorp just ain’t gonna happen:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-supercorp-dead-in-the-water/article1636269/
Adam Radwanski, on why the Ontario NDP are so anti-HST:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/ndp-tackles-punitive-taxation-stigma-by-engaging-in-hst/article1633669/
Grimm’s fairy tales a guidebook for Dalton McGuinty:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/834667--coyle-everything-dalton-mcguinty-needs-to-know-he-can-find-in-grimm-s-fairy-tales
OAFB to launch farm partnership program for food banks:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/12/c3679.html
What does income insecurity sound like?:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/sound-income-inequality
Who is that Kory Tenycke, and what’s his deal with Fox
News North?:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/kory-teneycke-one-smooth-operator-whos-crazy-like-a-fox/article1635102/
Around the Province:
To Rob Ford, mayoralty candidate in Toronto : Fears are
not enough:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontomayoralrace/article/833758--hume-rob-ford-don-t-you-know-fears-are-not-enough
Economy:
Harper’s austerity prescription faulty:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/833949--dr-harper-s-faulty-prescription
How about we cut those corporate tax cuts in order to
pay down the deficit? That would be austere:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/834317--opinion-cancel-corporate-tax-cuts-to-deal-with-deficit
OK, but what about monetary policy?:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/12/media-storm-over-census/
Unemployment falls:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Canada+numbers+blaze+past+predictions+June/3255338/story.html
93,000 new jobs:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/09/canada-job-statistics.html
Private sector fuels job surge:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canada-adds-93000-jobs-in-june/article1633942/
More jobs OK, but fewer hours (not so much):
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/09/more-jobs-but-fewer-hours/
Dollar and TSX go up:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/09/markets-dollar-up.html
Business bullish on recovery:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canadian-business-bullish-on-recovery/article1636805/
Federal:
Stuffing the budget bill just not on, says Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/this-budget-bill-is-overstuffed/article1635128/
Conservatives playing down election threat:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/834423--tories-play-down-fall-election-threat
Harper secretive; Iggy out of touch:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/voters-see-harper-as-secretive-find-ignatieff-out-of-touch/article1636788/
What Iggy must do:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/bruce-anderson/what-michael-ignatieff-must-do-this-summer/article1636650/
And on the census long-form:
It’s the sound of backlash:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/09/rolling-thunder-census-review/
Statistical Society thinks government would want to be
well informed:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/dont-mess-with-census-statisticians-tell-tories/article1635031/
Haroon Siddiqui thinks Ivan Fellegi is right:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/834321--siddiqui-gutting-of-census-stirs-opposition-to-stephen-harper
Globe says they’re senseless on the census:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-federal-government-is-senseless-on-the-census/article1635140/
NDP demands immediate reinstatement:
http://www.ndp.ca/press/ndp-demands-immediate-restoration-census-long-form
Researchers will be handcuffed:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/834646--census-changes-will-handcuff-researchers
A media storm:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/12/media-storm-over-census/
On the G20:
What was up with Dalton last week?:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/833714--coyle-nixon-comment-a-low-point-for-dalton-mcguinty
The independent review will focus on decision making:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/g20-review-will-focus-on-decision-making-process-police-board-chair/article1635393/
Nobody really knew what was going on:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/834287--chain-of-command-questioned-in-g20
Deputy Police Chief says public inquiry might be a good
idea:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/g20-inquiry-could-be-helpful-deputy-chief-says/article1633876/
Lorinc’s 10 questions for the review:
http://spacingtoronto.ca/2010/07/12/lorinc-10-more-questions-about-tpsbs-g20-review/
Conservative MPP Randy Hillier makes an excellent case;
will probably be getting a phone call right about now:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/834320--opinion-g20-crackdown-reeks-of-tyranny
Did the cops take their ID off on purpose?:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/834461
Thousands rally on Saturday to call for public inquiry:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/10/g20-rally-toronto-independent-review.html
It’s not just about the police, says the Star; we need a public inquiry:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/834647--not-just-about-police
Continues to make the call:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/834500--inquiry-needed-into-g20-police-actions
Ontario Ombudsman to review the secret law that wasn’t:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/09/g20-ombudsman-security456.html
And here’s how Twitter worked and can work:
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/834367--coverage-of-the-g20-proved-twitter-s-news-edge
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Thursday, July 8 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley (ISAC):
The Conservatives are threatening a fall election:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/08/tories-senate-election-threat.html
Because the still-Liberal-dominated Senate chopped some nasty
bits out of the Budget:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/senators-carve-up-bloated-budget-bill/article1633015/
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/833604--senate-committee-takes-scalpel-to-budget-bill
Census long form cut not going over well in Harper’s
constituency:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/census-change-doesnt-go-over-well-in-harpers-constituency/article1633298/
Doug Bell on why we should take G20 concerns seriously:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/douglas-bell/thugs-hooligans-and-other-citizenry/article1632841/
IMF says Canada will outperform in 2010:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/08/imf-canada-forecast.html
John Stapleton, on the day the music died:
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1803-the-2010-g20-the-day-the-music-died
New interactive website on G8/G20, launched by rabble.ca:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/08/c3169.html
Several videos from Steve Paikin you may wish to watch:
On the G20:
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779842&ts=2010-06-28%2020:00:00.0
Revisiting the New Deal:
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779818&ts=2010-06-29%2020:00:00.0
Rethinking Keynes:
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779819&ts=2010-06-30%2020:00:00.0
And…. Was Hillary Clinton talking about Canada ?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/steel-vise-is-crushing-social-advocacy-in-some-democracies-clinton-warns/article1627753/
“Stellar” first quarter growth means Ontario
’s deficit may be lower than first thought:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/07/ontario-deficit.html
Around the Province:
Education and poverty in Belleville :
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2658666
Andrea Horwath learns the trouble with transit in Toronto
:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/832669--coyle-ndp-leader-earning-her-ttc-legs
Around the Country:
Great. New cop documentary set in Vancouver ’s Downtown
Eastside:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/series-follows-police-squad-in-downtown-eastside/article1631966/
Great. BC cutting $25 million out of welfare benefits:
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Province+from+income+assistance/2742328/story.html
Economy:
OECD says long-term unemployment in Canada has doubled
– recommends “monitoring” unemployed for “dependency”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/monitor-jobless-to-avoid-ei-dependency-oecd-says/article1632033/
Canada is No Poster Child, says CCPA:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/why-canadian-model-cannot-be-used-promote-financial-liberalization-wto
More reasons to keep our mouths shut:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/why-canada-shouldnt-strut-on-the-global-stage/article1630573/
Seven signs of a slowdown:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/seven-signs-of-a-slowdown-in-the-economy-15-in-us/article1630181/
Home sales predicted to fall:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/07/house-sales-forecast.html
House sales in Toronto sink 23%:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/06/toronto-house-sales-june.html
“Shared sacrifice” will be the new economic
order:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/features/experts-podium/shared-sacrifice-will-be-the-new-economic-order/article1629347/
TD says HST will mean permanent price increases:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/how-hst-will-permanently-boost-prices-in-bc-ontario/article1630354/
Federal:
Harper’s legacy could be sealed by austerity bid:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harpers-pro-austerity-position-could-seal-his-legacy---for-good-or-bad/article1632397/
The Jaffer situation just won’t go away:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Ethics+commissioner+investigates+Tory+minister+over+Jaffer+dealings/3241933/story.html
PLUS: a) The Census Long-Form:
Liberals condemn Conservative move on Census long form:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/07/liberals-census.html
Why you should care:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/why-you-should-care-about-the-long-census-forms-demise/article1630413/
Because it’s “dumbing down” democracy:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/833169--travers-census-change-latest-move-in-pm-s-dumbing-down-of-canada
Need more proof? Listen to Armine Yalnizyan:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/listen-ccpas-yalnizyan-take-census-longform-debacle-cbc-radio
b) Problems for the Federal Liberals:
Support for the Libs is down significantly:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/07/ekos-poll.html
Grave doubts in Liberal land:
How the elites lost touch:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/07/lorne-gunter-how-the-liberal-elites-lost-touch-with-canadians/
But a bus tour will do the trick:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/in-search-of-an-image-the-liberal-express-is-now-boarding/article1632006/
On the G20:
Margaret Atwood’s take:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-second-chance-or-a-boot-in-the-face/article1629286/
Norman Perrin returns civilian citation in protest:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/832700--fiorito-a-brave-man-s-g20-protest
SIU investigating assaults by police:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/832542--civilian-body-siu-to-probe-g20-role-of-police
Police union chief says independent inquiry will have
no teeth:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/07/mccormack-g20-police-review414.html
MPs to wade in:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/mps-wade-into-g20-security-swamp/article1631864/
Pressure grows for better review:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/police-watchdog-investigating-five-injuries-from-g20-weekend/article1631726/
Star says Board review not enough:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/832814--board-review-of-g20-not-enough
McGuinty says he doesn’t want another; more discussion
of five-metre “rule”:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/07/g20-mcguinty.html
Also says Charter guy also invoked War Measures Act. So
there:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/833319--mcguinty-invokes-trudeau-and-nixon-to-defend-g20-actions
More on the protester who had his prosthetic leg taken
by police:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/07/g20-summit-police-protester-pruyn.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/police+yanked+prosthetic+amputee/3243287/story.html
Security cameras being removed from downtown Toronto :
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/06/g20-cameras.html
Why Tim Hudak is a knob:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/radwanski/tim-hudak-cops-out/article1631278/
International:
New study shows marriage not the panacea for poverty that
Bush-era welfare policy thought it was:
http://www.womensenews.org/story/economyeconomic-policy/100706/marriage-loses-ground-anti-poverty-panacea
David Frum on child poverty in the USA . Seriously –
it’s worth a read:
http://www.frumforum.com/losing-the-fight-against-child-poverty
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By Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
425 Adelaide Street West, 5th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3C1
Phone: 416-597-5820 x 5155
Fax: 416-597-5821
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
|
Tuesday, July 6 (2010) |
John Richards gets his interpretation of strides made
on lone-parent poverty in the Globe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/lone-parent-poverty-canadian-social-policy-can-still-do-better/article1629287/
Here is Armine Yalnizyan’s response, from two weeks
ago:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/06/24/lone-parent-success-story-not-because-of-tough-love/
Fundraising drive over; demand for Salvation Army services
grew by more than 25 percent in 2009:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/06/c2304.html
The Star, on how to fund transit improvements:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/832369--how-to-fund-transit-plans
Around the Country:
The anti-HST movement in BC picks up even more steam:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/07/05/bc-fight-hst-court-announcement.html
So, Progressive Economics asks, what’s the real
deal on the HST and job growth?:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/06/will-the-hst-boost-job-growth-and-over-what-timeframe/
Economy:
Mainstream economists say no to Volcker Rule for Canada
:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/832425--volcker-rule-not-for-canada
Scotiabank says fears of double-dip are overblown:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/05/double-dip-recession-holt.html
Meanwhile, building permits across the country fall 11%:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/06/building-permits-may.html
Post:
http://www.financialpost.com/news/Canadian+building+permits+unexpectedly+plunge/3240838/story.html
Home sales in Vancouver are down:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/vancouver-home-sales-drop-sharply/article1629806/
The TSX is down:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/big-drop-leaves-tsx-at-low-for-year/article1629285/
As are indexes in the US :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/features/at-the-bell/markets-taking-a-turn-for-the-worse/article1628281/
Car sales are down:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/toyota-canada-sales-dive-near-14/article1628802/
But, thank goodness, Lady Gaga has 10 million Facebook
friends:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/lady-gaga-sets-facebook-record/article1629890/
G20:
“Those responsible for ‘one of the most grotesque
public expressions of police brutality, intimidation and mass violation of
civil liberties’ need to be held to account”:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/05/g20-detentions.html
Police board orders independent (but not public) inquiry:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/06/g20-police-review611.html
Post:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/06/adam-vaughan-independent-review-of-g20-police-actions-coming
Two more stories of unlawful detention:
Niagara at Large:
http://niagaraatlarge.com/2010/07/05/thorold-ontario-amputee-has-his-artificial-leg-ripped-off-by-police-and-is-slammed-in-makeshift-cell-during-g20-summit
Adam Radwanski says why the five-metres matters:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/radwanski/why-the-five-metres-mattered/article1628801/
|
Monday, July 5 (2010) |
What about affordable housing?, asks Carol Goar:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/831096--goar-housing-or-just-castles-in-the-air
The Star on the 0.7% rent guideline and the delayed affordable
housing strategy:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/831520--where-s-housing-plan
Ed Schreyer says, build some damn houses! (Well, maybe
not quite like that, but he says it):
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/831101--schreyer-build-houses-to-fight-poverty
Harper must pony up too:
http://www.straight.com/article-331966/vancouver/am-johal-stephen-harper-must-act-housing-or-face-political-price
WSIB fixes troubled injured worker re-training program:
http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/workplacesafety/wsib/article/831165--wsib-fixes-troubled-injured-worker-re-training-program
Nick Falvo comments on the SARAC report:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/01/social-assistance-in-ontario/
Radwanski on the timeline of the non-existent “five
metre” law:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/a-timeline-on-the-g20-five-metre-rule-that-didnt-exist/article1626001/
Tom Walkom nails it, as usual:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/831443--walkom-the-g20-summit-s-grim-lessons-for-civil-liberties
The Globe on the HST:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-hst/article1624093/
How and why it happened:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/hst/article/830336--why-ottawa-and-queen-s-park-embraced-the-hst
A new book says the solution to poverty is: just give
people cash:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/business-economics/the-poverty-solution-cash-16977/
Around the province:
Circles program in Sarnia looks at micro-credit:
http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2652087
Toronto City Summit Alliance calls for massive investment
in public transit:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/article/831509--to-avoid-transit-disaster-gta-needs-road-tolls-and-taxes-now-report
A test on whether privatization can make the grade:
Around the Country:
Protests in Montreal , Toronto , Edmonton against G20 policing:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/01/toronto-g20-protest.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/07/03/edm-g20-protest.html
Another story of random high-handed abuse of police power in Toronto :
New Brunswick’s new Crown Corp on poverty reduction met last week:
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1117664
Minimum wage goes up to $10/hour in Newfoundland – fulfills poverty reduction commitment:
Telegram:
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=345408&sc=79
Economy
Star cites faltering economy to warn against austerity:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/831521--new-economic-clouds
US job numbers not looking good:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/02/us-jobs-report-june.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/sheds+jobs+first+time+this+year/3227371/story.html
Will it be a double dip?
Comparisons to the Dirty Thirties:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/an-economist-muses-on-the-creepy-comparisons-to-1930s/article1616598/
National
Armine Yalnizyan comments on recent Stats Can decision
to end long-form Census:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/ccpa-senior-economist-calls-statistics-canadas-census-decision-senseless
A petition that you can sign asking for reinstatement
of the long-form:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/07/04/sign-the-petition-reverse-the-statcan-decision/
CAUT calls for reinstatement of the long-form:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/02/c9863.html
Genealogy site calls decision “ludicrous”:
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/June2010/30/c9458.html
The Star says the decision is the wrong move:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/831021--wrong-move-on-census
Letter to editor:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/831901--census-tells-us-who-we-are
Commercial property rights extended to First Nations:
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/30/first-nations-land-title-claim.html
Conservatives do well on fundraising:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-maintain-sizable-fundraising-edge/article1627295/
International
Pain for people in poverty in Britain :
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/welfare+reform+who+will+suffer+most/3696677
“Shirking fathers” in Britain could lose benefits:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/28/poverty-tsar-shirking-fathers-lose-benefits
Britons on the breadline:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-impact-of-welfare-cuts-britons-on-the-breadline-2017939.html
They cut free school meals:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/30/iain-duncan-smith-poverty-budget
The Globe loves the British budget:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/britains-budget-is-an-example-for-the-g20-and-canada/article1628072/
Proportional representation vote to be held:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/uk-coalition-to-hold-electoral-reform-vote/article1626252/
|
Wednesday, June 30 (2010) |
From:
Jennefer Laidley (ISAC)
Hey there – I’m away now until Monday. Talk to you then.
Stories on the HST:
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/hst/article/829843--businesses-divided-on-the-arrival-of-the-hst
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/hst/article/830336--why-ottawa-and-queen-s-park-embraced-the-hst
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/830105--does-the-hst-have-consumers-running-for-cover
What’s up in BC:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/830269--anti-hst-campaign-reaches-critical-mass-in-b-c
Around the Province:
Al Gosling’s Revenge:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/830246--fiorito-al-gosling-s-revenge
Economy:
Economy stalls in April:
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/unchanged+April+StatsCan/3220067/story.html
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/06/30/april-gdp-canada.html
Erin Weir commentary:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/06/30/gdp-stalls/
Canadians feeling less confident:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/canadians-less-confident-in-the-economy-poll/article1622828/
Same thing around the world:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/world-recovery-under-threat-as-growth-slows-stimulus-wanes/article1623760/
Double-dip recession coming to the US , analyst warns:
http://business.financialpost.com/2010/06/29/u-s-double-dip-recession-is-officially-coming-analyst-warns
Carney joining the Basel Committee:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/carney-to-chair-international-financial-forum/article1622884/
Jim Stanford on foxes and hens:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/06/30/fox-guarding-the-henhouse/
The G20 news keeps getting more interesting:
First, is it a new economic model?:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/06/24/the-g20-towards-a-new-economic-model/
And what the G20 meant for people who are homeless:
http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/829255--fiorito-g20-s-positive-discussion-for-the-homeless
BIG NEWS:
Apparently, the police were just telling a fib about that little regulation
change that curtailed civil liberties in Toronto during the Summit :
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/29/g20-chief-fence571.html
Post:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/29/police-given-no-special-powers-during-g20-province
Stories of people who experienced its fallout:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/829854--outraged-protesters-rally-against-police
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/830323--g20-detainees-gather-to-heal
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/830109--confusion-rife-at-g20-bail-court
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/29/g20-oiprd-reporters-complaint.html
Largest mass arrests in Canadian history:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/g20-related-mass-arrests-unique-in-canadian-history/article1621198/
Adam Radwanski says there’s a whole lot of ‘splaining
to do :
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/mcguinty-washes-his-hands-of-police-mistreatment-allegations/article1623731/
Sid Ryan, on what the protests were all about:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/829904--thousands-stood-up-for-humanity
Star calls for public inquiry:
Once:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/829878--mass-arrests-not-justified
Twice:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/830230--why-inquiry-is-needed
Three times:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/830298--excessive-arbitrary-policing
More calls:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/830057--calls-for-g20-inquiry-ratchet-up
|
Monday, June 28 (2010) |
Happy Monday
June 28, 2010
...
From:
Jennefer Laidley (ISAC)
...
Hi all – I’m not going to include a post-mortem on the G20 protests, just a few stories on what the summiteers decided on (see below).
Some international news first:
UK targets people on disability and housing benefits:
Guardian:
http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/skysepQunFNTe3RtcOrYA_w/view.m?id=485499&tid=120787&cat=News
Yahoo:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100628/tuk-welfare-cuts-loom-as-chancellor-eyes-45dbed5.html
Belfast:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/osbornes-warning-over-welfare-bill-14857372.html
Study finds welfare cuts can cost lives:
Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65N6PS20100624?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=76
BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10403797.stm
Ekklesia:
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/12476
Science Daily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100624214312.htm
Other Things Going On in Ontario :
Sarnia-Lambton programs help people get off OW –
touted as “best practice”:
http://theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2643563
Henderson says, get the lead out on AODA:
http://www.thestar.com/living/disabilities/article/828644--henderson-enough-with-the-talk-it-s-time-for-action
Now to the G20 Summiteers:
Carol Goar highlights ILO’s training document [
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ilo_training_strategy.doc
(MS Word file - 431K, 46 pages) ] , presented to G20 leaders this weekend
– this should be a must-read in preparation for the Ontario Social Assistance
Review:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/828920--goar-skills-training-good-jobs-and-growth
Um…. Wasn’t the G20 supposed to be about maternal health? Appears it ended up being about neo-con economic policy….
Summit ends with decision to reduce deficits by half within three years, then reduce debt by 2016 – all voluntary, of course, but very reminiscent of the 1990s:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/27/g20-economics.html
Post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Canada+scores+solid+experts/3209232/story.html
Post:
http://www.financialpost.com/news/deals+deficit+debt+stabilization+strong+Canada/3208422/story.html
Argentina’s President doesn’t agree with deficit
fighting:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/economy/europes-focus-on-cutting-deficits-absolutely-wrong-argentine-president/article1620028/
$1 billion spent on riot police to keep regular folks
out, but hand-picked business leaders get to speak to the G20 and tell them
what THEY want??:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/economy/for-business-leaders-debt-reduction-not-stimulus-spending-is-top-priority/article1620804/
No bank tax. What a surprise:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/economy/canada-beats-back-bank-tax-at-g20/article1620278/
Globe thinks deficit cutting is great news:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/opinion/deficit-reduction-agreement-clear-welcome/article1620927/
Star thinks the summit was great:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/829514--summit-proves-worth
Simpson thinks it’s all for show:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/opinion/the-g20-summits-bottom-line-good-intentions/article1620694/
Walkom has a good take:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/829484--walkom-g20-flounders-on-economy-after-promising-start
Naomi Klein, on what the G20 did and did not achieve:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/opinion/sticking-the-public-with-the-bill-for-the-bankers-crisis/article1620729/
Across the Country:
Still can’t believe Vander Zalm has returned (makes
me all shuddery), but here he is launching recall campaigns in BC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/06/24/bc-recall-campaign-hst.html
---
By Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
425 Adelaide Street West, 5th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3C1
Phone: 416-597-5820 x 5155
Fax: 416-597-5821
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
|
Friday, June 25 (2010) |
[Partial listing of Jennefer's links for June 25, with a special focus on the G20]
_____
G20:
Why I will protest:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/why-i-will-protest-at-the-g20/article1616661/
More on the police state that’s descended in
Toronto:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/828372--man-arrested-and-left-in-wire-cage-under-new-g20-law
Here’s why Dave Vasey got arrested – thanks
to provincial Cabinet:
Star:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/828367--g20-law-gives-police-sweeping-powers-to-arrest-people
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/25/g20-new-powers.html
They can use the sound cannons after all:
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/25/g20-sound-cannon.html
And, um, WHAT? Sharpshooters??
http://www.torontosun.com/news/g20/2010/06/24/14501406.html
The downtown core is seriously empty:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/25/scott-stinson-at-the-g20-out-of-town-reporters-wonder-where-everyone-is
Rick Salutin on democratic decline:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-men-who-came-to-dinner/article1616898/
Um, where’s all the money going?
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/828308--g20-canada-s-billion-dollar-summit-mystery
Maybe here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/where-the-money-is-going/article1616969/
Paul Martin says abortion is AOK:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/24/martin-abortion.html
---
By Jennefer Laidley
Interim Research and Policy Analyst
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
425 Adelaide Street West, 5th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3C1
Phone: 416-597-5820 x 5155
Fax: 416-597-5821
ISAC website:
www.incomesecurity.org
Social Assistance Review website:
www.sareview.ca
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