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

Archive for October, 2009

Do The Math Update (October 13)

Check out the latest update on Do The Math activities in Toronto (Parkdale) that occurred October 9. Do The Math Reports

Endorse The Disability Declaration

The ODSP Action Coalition is requesting individuals and groups to endorse their Disability Declaration.  The Declaration sets out some of the rights that people with disabilities have according to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, and then states what changes the Ontario government needs to make to ODSP to fulfil those [...]

Do The Math Update (October 9)

Check out the latest update on Do The Math activities in Belleville that occurred September 30, 2009. Includes a short video clip the opening and some of the table discussions. Do The Math Reports

No Relief in Sight This Thanksgiving: 1700 Ontarians “Do the Math” and Find Social Assistance Rates Don’t Add Up

PRESS RELEASE October 8, 2009 TORONTO – Thanksgiving is a time to remember that everyone should have enough food to eat — if not to celebrate with an abundant meal, at the very least to meet the minimum requirements for health and dignity. But data released from a new website shows what too many people [...]