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martin dufresne
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posted 02 September 2008 09:04 AM      Profile for martin dufresne   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What gets short shrift on Babble? As two general elections are bound to take up 90% of babblers' bandwidth for months, I wonder what other issues, movements, significant developments in society and in personal lives generally have disappeared or never surfaced here? I suggest each of us merely mention one or two of them, with minimum acrimony. If this has ever been the subject of a thread, perhaps a long-timer can link to it? Thanxxx

Edited to prime the process: Older women slipping into deep poverty, without any support network.

[ 02 September 2008: Message edited by: martin dufresne ]


From: "Words Matter" (Mackinnon) | Registered: Dec 2005  |  IP: Logged
rural - Francesca
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posted 02 September 2008 09:29 AM      Profile for rural - Francesca   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Changes to Ontario's Child Tax Benefit means the loss of the back to school allowance and winter coat allowance for those on government supports.
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oldgoat
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posted 02 September 2008 09:44 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What that does mean is actually slightly more money spresd throughout the year, as the tax benifit is no longer clawed back by ODSP?OW, but that clearly gets lost in the monthly pay the rent or buy other neccesities dilema. Having that extra chunk right now was really helpful for my clients who have kids.
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martin dufresne
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posted 02 September 2008 10:18 AM      Profile for martin dufresne   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The Income Security Action Centre has an action campaign organized to fight this, notably by pressuring municipalities to join the protest and use their discretionary funding to make up these allowances for the first year.
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In response to the community outcry, the Ministry of Community and Social Services has issued an internal bulletin to municipalities giving them the authority to use discretionary funding to provide families on OW and ODSP with assistance for this year only. The province will pay 80% of the cost. Municipalities like Toronto, London, Sudbury and Ottawa have stepped up but many other municipalities are not.

Take Action! ISAC's Action Alert and Update give ideas for what you can do to tell the Province, local OW/ODSP Directors and Municipalities to ensure no child goes to school without a backpack, pens and paper. Use ISAC's press release template to get media attention.



(I am ISAC's E to F translator!)

From: "Words Matter" (Mackinnon) | Registered: Dec 2005  |  IP: Logged
rural - Francesca
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posted 02 September 2008 11:49 AM      Profile for rural - Francesca   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by oldgoat:
What that does mean is actually slightly more money spresd throughout the year, as the tax benifit is no longer clawed back by ODSP?OW, but that clearly gets lost in the monthly pay the rent or buy other neccesities dilema. Having that extra chunk right now was really helpful for my clients who have kids.

We just did 1,250 backpacks for kids this year - double last years. The parents are liking the extra $20 they are getting a month, but that's just going into not going backwards on other bills.


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Papal Bull
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posted 02 September 2008 01:41 PM      Profile for Papal Bull   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Housing for families on military bases?
The problems facing young people in finding a job that will provide them with confidence (ie, not a fast food job)

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triciamarie
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posted 02 September 2008 06:02 PM      Profile for triciamarie     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Work/life balance
How to prepare for the end of the world as we know it

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martin dufresne
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posted 03 September 2008 06:27 AM      Profile for martin dufresne   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Tranks, antidepressors and medicines in general. Our growing dependency on them.
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lagatta
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posted 03 September 2008 06:47 AM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Any links (or original subject matter) on any of those topics?

The War. The war on Iraqis, Palestinians and many other peoples in the Middle East and how it affects human beings.

Action to reduce dependency on the car and green urban planning.


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Fidel
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posted 03 September 2008 09:17 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Canada's looming energy crisis. Sure we have the tar sands, but we are being forced harder and faster toward dependence on those dirtiest fossil fuels for the sake of big energy companies and U.S. consumption of Canadian oil and gas. There is no plan for sustainable capitalism. Disaster and crises oriented capitalism lurching from one crisis to the next will become more problematic in the near future. We're headed for meltdown within the next ten to 20 years. Handbasket -- warm place.
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M. Spector
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posted 03 September 2008 02:17 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Instead of complaining about issues ignored on babble, why don't people just start threads on them?

That's what I always do. Then if others want to ignore them, they are free to do so. But at least I've tried to do my part to bring issues to light.


From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged
martin dufresne
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posted 03 September 2008 02:26 PM      Profile for martin dufresne   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You are the only one complaining, MS. We are just trying to map neglected areas and express personal priorities, without necessarily having to start a thread about every one of them. (Guess you missed the sentence about acrimony in the OP...)
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M. Spector
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posted 03 September 2008 02:39 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm not complaining. And there's no acrimony in my last post. Unless to you "acrimony" means anything you don't agree with.
From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged

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