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

Put Food In The Budget

Hard To Have Dignity If You’re Hungry

The McGuinty government’s poverty-reduction strategy is not addressing the needs of hundreds of thousands of Ontario residents. In fact, the most recent Ontario budget heightens the food insecurity people on social assistance experience and undermines the well-being of our communities.
Food insecurity means everything from being hungry to not knowing where the next meal is coming [...]

Social Assistance Advisory Council Report’s Bold Vision for Tomorrow Does Not Put Food on the Table Today

TORONTO, June 14, 2010 /CNW
The Social Assistance Review Advisory Council Report released Monday morning at Queen’s Park promotes a bold new vision for income security in the long run but is weak on what it asks the Ontario Government to do to help people on social assistance meet their basic daily living necessities now. [...]

Focus on Food & Income (April 13-15, 2010)

Several events on April 13, 14 and 15 in Toronto focused attention on the issue of the inadequate access of people on social assistance to healthy food.
Surviving on Peanut Butter and Tuna
More than 350 people attended The Stop Community Food Centre’s Community Town Hall at the Artscape Wychwood Barns on Tuesday evening, April 13. [...]

2010 Budget Holds Only Threat For Ontario’s Most Vulnerable

TORONTO, March 25, 2010 /CNW
The 2010 Budget fails the test of a Government committed to a comprehensive poverty reduction plan for Ontarians. An amount of $57 million is designated as an increase to the Basic Needs Allowance for people on social assistance, which is 1%, while inflation is projected to [...]

PFIB Meets with Community and Social Services Minister Meilleur

A delegation from the Put Food in the Budget Advisory group met with the Hon. Madeleine Meilleur, Minister of Community and Social Services, on Wednesday, January 20. The PFIB representatives were:

Michelle Gratton, Social Planning Council of Cornwall and Area
Nadia Edwards, volunteer at The Stop Community Food Centre
Darren Nesbit, leader in poverty reduction from Sarnia
Deirdre [...]