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Updated January 29, 2012
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Canadian Social Research Newsletter Archive

What's New and the weekly Canadian Social Research Newsletter
Whenever I add a link to any page on the Canadian Social Research Links site, I copy it to the What's New page. At the beginning of each week, I copy the content directly from that page into the Canadian Social  Research Newsletter and I create an HTML version of the newsletter (see the links immediately below), which I post to my site. The HTML version of the newsletter also serves as an archive for "old" content from the What's New page. Finally, I copy the contents of the newsletter into an email message and send it to the CUPE mail server which disseminates it to all subscribers.

Archived newsletter issues (starting with the latest at the top):

January 29, 2012
* Harper drops hints about Canadian Old Age pension reform at the World Economic Forum (CBC News) - January 27
* Economic Inequality.ca Bulletin No. 1 - January 27
* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives : National Update - January 27
* Canada Child Benefits, July 2011 to June 2012 (Canada Revenue Agency)
* Social Security Statistics, Canada and Provinces, 1978-79 to 2002-2003 (links updated) - January 27
* 2011 Canadian Housing Observer (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) - January 24
* Manitoba Department responsible for welfare --- name change [Correction]
* The Employment Insurance Program in Canada: How it Works (Library of Parliament Research Publications) - October 2010
* From Mothers' Allowance to Mothers Need Not Apply: Canadian Welfare Laws as Liberal and Neo-Liberal Reforms (Osgoode Law Journal) - April 2008
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, November 2011 - January 26
--- Study: Criminal victimization in the territories, 2009 - January 26
--- Study: Firm entry and exit in Canada, 2000 to 2008 - January 25
--- Job vacancies, three-month average ending in September 2011 - January 24
--- Profile of seniors’ transportation habits - January 23
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 (Davos-Klosters, Switzerland) --- 25-29 January, 2012
* CRINMAIL (weekly children's rights newsletter)

January 22, 2012
* Provincial-territorial departments responsible for welfare : recent name changes in four provinces
* [Alberta] Provincial Government Invites Response to Social Policy Framework Discussion Guide (Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations) - January 20
* Growing income gap generates little blame, Environics poll suggests (CBC News) - January 19
* Alberta : The Journey Towards a Provincial Poverty Reduction Strategy (Alberta Urban Municipalities Association) - January 18
* Crown - First Nations Gathering - January 23 -24, 2012
* From the Library of Parliament:
--- The Canada Health Transfer : Changes to Provincial Allocations - February 25, 2011
--- Public Service Reductions in the 1990s: Background and Lessons Learned - April 12, 2010
* New Brunswick pre-budget consultation submission (Common Front for Social Justice) - January 2012
* SPAR Monitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change (City of Toronto) - January 18
* Three news releases from the Council of the Federation - January 17:
--- Growing the Economy
--- Premiers Appoint Working Group on Fiscal Arrangements
--- Premiers Announce Health Care Innovation Working Group
* Four-part special series on the growth of inequality in Canada (Vancouver Sun) - December 20
* Poverty: A Huge Cost to Our Health-care System (Megan Yarema in Huffington Post Canada) - January 16
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index, December 2011 - January 20
--- Employment Insurance, November 2011 - January 19
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Right-Wing Talking Points Translated Into English (The Conservative Lie - blog) - August 19, 2010
* Wikipedia U.S. 24-hr blackout January 18: What are SOPA and PIPA? (Toronto Star)
* [U.S.] Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About Food Stamps (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) - January 20
* Inequality rises across the G20 as economic growth leaves the poor behind (OXFAM International) - January 18
* Spain joins Italy, France and Germany in support of Robin Hood Tax (National Union of Public and General Employees) - January 18
* CRINMAIL (weekly children's rights newsletter)

January 15, 2012
* Economic Inequality.ca - new site, launched Jan. 2012 --- Public meeting (in Toronto) Jan. 24
* Media scan by Jennefer Laidley of the Income Security Advocacy Centre:
--- ‘Austerity’ shouldn’t crush the poor
--- The power of the tax credit
--- An excellent blog on responses to austerity
--- Andrew Jackson blogs on the Mowat Employment Insurance report
* New from the Caledon Institute of Social Policy:
--- Counsel for the Council [of the Federation]
--- Disability papers
--- Provincial/Territorial Policy Monitor - December 2011
* The Federal Role in the Future of Health and Health in Canada (By Bill Tholl and Guy Bujold for the Health Action Lobby) - January 12
* Standing Up for Freedom and Privacy - Symposium (Toronto, January 27, 2012)
* The 11th North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress - Call for Proposals Deadline extended to January 31 (Basic Income Canada Network)
* Are We Doing Enough? A status report on Canadian public policy and child and youth health (Canadian Paediatric Society) - January 10
* A comparison of Canadian and American welfare reforms in the 1990s--- and a word of caution...
* Annual Tax Expenditures and Evaluations Report (Department of Finance Canada) - January 9
* "Microsoft"anti-virus scam - January 8
* Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (Nick Falvo in Progressive Economic Forum) - January 8
* Nunavut Poverty Summit Produces Broad Agreement on Plan of Action (Nunavut Roundtable for Poverty Reduction) - December 1, 2011
* 2012 : New Year, Same Challenges (Canada Without Poverty) - January 3
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Canadian Economic Observer - January 2012 issue - January 12
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [U.S.] Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: Recent Proposals and Continuing Controversies (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) - October 2011
* [U.S.] Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ["food stamps"] (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) - January 10
* CRINMAIL (weekly children's rights newsletter)

January 8, 2012
* Ontario : Latest welfare statistics (November 2011) and analysis by John Stapleton - January 6
* SPARmonitor : January 4, 2012 (SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto)
--- Paid and Unpaid Work over Three Generations
--- The Recession’s Ongoing Impact on America’s Children
--- Canada’s CEO Elite 100: The 0.01%
--- Income Inequality in Western Canada
--- Common Ground: A Strategy for Moving Forward on Poverty Reduction
--- Ending Violence against Aboriginal Women and Girls
* Canada's CEO Elite 100 : The 0.01% (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) -
* Recent blog posts from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA):
--- Social Insurance Benefits Increase for 2012, by Andrew Jackson
--- Flaherty’s Christmas List — all Mixed Up, by Toby Sanger
--- Is Money Enough? The Meaning of 6% and Flaherty’s Health “Plan”, by Armine Yalnizyan
--- Government intervention needed to address youth unemployment, by Graham Cox
--- Sitting on the Sidelines: Young People Miss Out on the Recovery
--- A Progressive Alternative to the Harper Agenda, by Andrew Jackson January 3
* BC Poverty Reduction Coalition - new site launched
* [British Columbia] Surrey MLA Starts Month on Welfare (Raise the Rates) - January 6
* MyPermissions.org - a great new privacy tool (for Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, December 2011 - January 6
--- Do Relative Canada/U.S. Prices Equate to the Exchange Rate? - January 4
--- New Evidence on Exchange-rate-adjusted Prices in Canada - January 4
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* The Latest on Inequality from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - January 4
* LIS (formerly known as the Luxembourg Income Study)
* CRINMAIL (weekly children's rights newsletter)

January 3, 2012
* Closing the gap between EI and welfare : The Jobseeker’s Loan (Caledon Institute of Social Policy) - January 1, 2012
* Save more in 2012 with the Tax-Free Savings Account (Finance Canada) - December 30
* Harper Government Highlights Tax Relief for 2012 (incl. Family Caregiver Tax Credit) (Finance Canada) - December 30
* The Canada We Want in 2020 : Inequality Is Not Inevitable (Canada 2020) - December 2011
* [Manitoba] Welfare fills gap as jobless wait for Employment Insurance (Winnipeg Free Press) - December 30
* Get practical on homelessness : At Home/Chez Soi (Mental Health Commission of Canada) - December 29
* Campaign 2000’s year-end overview of the state of poverty reduction in Canada - December 2011
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]: Nothing.
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit: Ditto.
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* CRINMAIL (weekly children's rights newsletter)

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Earlier issues of the Canadian Social Research Newsletter:

[ Go to the 2011 newsletter archive - on a separate page of this website]
[ Go to the 2010 newsletter archive - on a separate page of this website]
[ Go to the 2009 newsletter archive - on a separate page of this website]
[ Go to the 2008 newsletter archive - on a separate page of this website]
[ Go to the 2007 newsletter archive - on a separate page of this website]
[ Go to the 2006 newsletter archive - on a separate page of this website]
[ Go to the 2005 newsletter archive - on a separate page of this website]