From My Bottom Step

W3: Poverty In Ontario

I’ve just discovered another website that I feels deserves some recognition. Poverty In Ontario: Hungry For Answers is an excellent counterpoint to the Liberal government’s spin about how much more compassionate they’ve been to people living in poverty compared to their predecessors. Continue Reading

Update to AAC re LTC Subsidies

An update re public transit subsidies. #LTC [video]

Park Campers

Victoria had a bit of a homeless problem…

Attack on the Blind?

I’ve been aware of past citizen requests for public transit subsidies, but I only just become aware of this latest development when I was approached for assistance by a member of the local chapter of the Canadian Council of the Blind.

At it’s 2009/11/02 meeting, the Community and Protective Services (CAPS) Committee requested that the City Clerk schedule a 2009/12/07 public participation meeting to receive delegations about the following subsidized transit options that a report from the General Manager of Community Services asked to be considered: Continue Reading

“Eradication of Poverty” Day

Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Bernie’s Potentially Hurtful Proposal

Ward 3 councillor Bernie MacDonald is proposing that London pass a by-law similar to the one in Oshawa which restricts the number of unrelated students who are allowed to live in off-campus housing.

At first blush, this seems to be a good way of reducing student rowdyism.

But, is that true? According to the Police Chief, most of the problem-makers aren’t students. In fact, he suggests that most … Continue Reading

Are they Trying or Lying?

This article originates from, and is republished with the permission of, the Toronto-based Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
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CUPE’s Poverty Reduction Proposal

CUPE Ontario will make a deputation this afternoon that will propose three policy shifts that the government must make in order to achieve a reduction of poverty in the province… Continue Reading

Year-End Reminder – 2007

Well, it’s getting towards that time of year again when politicians receive automatic salary raises, usually accompanied by a silence that is uncharacteristic of them.
It’s the time of the year that I like to point out that fact.
It’s the time of the year that I like to propose, as I so often have in … Continue Reading

2007 Kettle Campaign

Last week’s ‘The Londoner’ … Continue Reading