To monitor and inform on cross-Ontario activity on the poverty reduction agenda

Archive for May, 2008

Back Talk: Women & Poverty Forum (Toronto)

Save the Date: June 23 3:30-6:30 for: Back Talk: Women Speak About Reducing Poverty in their Lives Sistering and Street Health are co-hosting a forum for homeless, marginalized and low-income women to speak out on what they think should be in the government’s poverty reduction strategy on Monday June 23, from 3:30 to 6:30 at [...]

Minister’s Consultation (Sudbury: May 26, 2008)

The following observations of the Minister’s consultation on poverty reduction in Sudbury on May 26, 2008 are offered by Dave Stevenson of North Bay. We should all be proud of our efforts to get North Bay heard at today’s provincial consultation with Deb Matthews. The group consulting with the Minister was small. Six of us [...]

Ideas to Relay to Ontario Government on Poverty Reduction (Peel)

Peel Poverty Action Group (PPAG) has arranged a meeting to get the ideas of people who are cash-poor to relay to the Ontario government’s Cabinet Committee on a Poverty Strategy. The meeting takes place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, 2008, at Britannia Glen Co-op, 5995 Glen Erin Drive, Mississauga, on the south-east corner [...]

Hamilton Meeting Focuses on ODSP and OW (May 22, 2008)

About 100 people settled into the pews of First Pilgrim United Church in Hamilton yesterday afternoon for a public forum on poverty reduction. Planned and organized for about six weeks in advance, the event was intentionally scheduled for MPPs’ Constituency Week so that local Members of Provincial Parliament in Hamilton would be able to attend [...]

A Community Briefing On Poverty Reduction In The Nipissing District (North Bay)

A coalition on poverty reduction has formed in our community, and is organizing a community briefing in a public forum to be presented to local politicians, service agencies, the media, and the community-at-large. DETAILS WHAT? A public community briefing on poverty reduction WHY? Regrettably, North Bay has not been chosen by the Ontario government’s anti-poverty [...]