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Ontario renters can’t wait: the province must step up
The federal government has announced $27 billion in measures intended to mitigate the economic hardship brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Another blog examines them in detail. Overall, the…
The hidden and not-so-hidden casualty of COVID-19
Since the province has sensibly decided that “professional and social services that support the legal and justice system” are part of the essential services during…
Park it: Wi-Fi access is not educational equity
Last week, as Ottawa school boards began to take stock of the number of students without computers and Wi-Fi access, the Ottawa Catholic School Board…
Assisting Renters
Manitoba’s Rent Assist in the Context of Canada’s National Housing Strategy Download 3.37 MB 88 pages Assisting Renters examines how Manitoba’s Rent Assist program fits…
Fast Facts: Now, more than ever, we need Rent Assist helping Manitobans
Rent Assist is a made-in-Manitoba solution to housing need: a province-wide rent supplement program that helps lower-income renters in the private market to afford housing…
Without new rules, COVID-19 will mean windfall profits for payday lenders: CCPA report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Canada’s payday loan companies will see windfall profits at the expense of low- and moderate-income people if…
Swimming with the sharks
Poverty, pandemics, and payday lenders Download 424.67 KB16 pages As COVID-19-related layoffs affect workers across the country, Canada’s payday loan companies will see windfall profits…
Women bearing the brunt of economic losses: One in five has been laid off or had hours cut
Women are at the forefront of the economic crisis as yesterday’s labour force report from Statistics Canada reveals.
A return to normal is not an option
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What kind of return to normal do we want?
In a column published on the l’Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomique’s IRIS blog (and translated for Behind the Numbers), Guillaume Hébert says that the COVID-19…
COVID-19: A third of unemployed Canadians will receive nothing from either EI or new CERB
Analysis shows 862,000 will fall through cracks in income support programs without rapid reforms OTTAWA – As new federal policies are created and adapted to…
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