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2009

Tuesday 29 December 2009 Give beggars the bum's rush
There are too many panhandlers on Montreal streets, and the city must do something
The May 27, 1907, edition of a now defunct city daily reported that three Montrealers - John Wardlow, Nicholas McMahon and Michael Ryan - were each sentenced to six months in prison and fined $25, and an additional three months if the fine could not be paid. What was their misdemeanour, you ask? It was "begging on the thoroughfares of the town."

Monday 22 December 2008 MONTREAL: HOMELESS SHELTERS MAKE URGENT APPEAL
The death of a homeless man this week has spurred three large homeless shelters in Quebec to renew their appeals for more government help. On Saturday morning, a man was found dead in a park in downtown Montreal. It's presumed that he died from cold overnight when temperatures fell to minus 16 degrees Celsius. His body lay within one kilometre from Quebec's largest homeless shelter. The shelters are asking the provincial government for CDN$3.3 million that the government promised a year ago to fund emergency services. Montreal has 550 emergency beds. The city's shelters accommodate up to 4,000 homeless people each year.

Tuesday 25 November 2008 OTTAWA: POOR ARE SICKER
A new study says poor people in Canada are likely to be sicker than other segments of the population. Researchers at the Canadian Institute for Health Information compared illness and hospitalization rates for low income and well-off Canadians living in major cities. It found that people with lower incomes were more likely to spend time in hospital for a wide range of health problems. It also concluded that some of the diseases that put the poor in hospital could just as easily be treated in the community.

Friday 12 September 2008 Politicians line up to back aid for homeless
"I spoke with the leader of my party and we made a commitment to renew the program for a period of five years as soon as we're in power," said Marc Garneau, ...

Friday May 30, 2008 Helping the homeless to get off the street
He goes by the name of King Can Jack and he keeps émilie Gamelin Park spic and span.

Saturday Dec 15, 2007

United States. About 3,800 under 24 go homeless in New York

An estimated 3,800 people under age 24 go homeless each night in New York City, but they blend in so well, they are hard for social workers to find, according to the city's first-ever census of homeless youth.Three-quarters come from minority groups, with black youths accounting for nearly half the total and Latino youths representing a quarter, said the survey, made public yesterday. Gay, lesbian and bisexual youths were especially vulnerable, accounting for nearly one-third of homeless cases.

© The Gazette (Montreal) 2007

Tuesday 30 October 2007 The poor are clearly with us
Poverty rates higher in 1980s
The conclusion: If you count real people, the number of Canadians living in poverty has grown by almost half a million from the 1980s – a whopping increase of 16 per cent. The poverty rate has only decreased slightly.

View Larger Image More middle-class people have these in their pockets.

Tuesday Oct 2, 2007 WILLIAM WATSON, Freelance Counting more poor people brings down average
Last week, Statistics Canada published a study on high incomes in Canada. The good news is that despite what sometimes seems to be the best efforts of our governments, there are high incomes in Canada. The bad news is that it seems there hasn't been much income growth recently except at the top end of the income distribution.

HENRY AUBIN, The Gazette Stiffing the poor When homeless men in Montreal ask passersby for money, many of us might think that we have already done our part in looking after them by paying taxes. So we walk on, often pretending not to see the extended hand.
...Three organizations are the Old Brewery Mission, Maison du Père and the Welcome Hall Mission. (The Salvation Army has not offered this particular service in Montreal for several years.) Quebec gives them a total of $12 million per year.
That's peanuts. It covers just under 10 per cent of costs or - get this - $5 a day for the care of each man. That care covers three meals, clothing and a bed.
The remaining 90 per cent of the three shelters' funding comes from private
...Toronto's men's shelters, she said, get $61.70 daily per capit
...The three shelters are asking Quebec for $4.6 million next year. ...It would come to $24 a day per homeless man, 60 per cent less than what Toronto shelters get

Thursday 21 December 2006 OTTAWA: HOMELESS PROGRAM EXTENDED
Federal Social Development Minister Diane Finley says the government has extended funding for housing and related services for the homeless. The minister says $270 million will be made available over two years, the same amount as offered by a program established by the former Liberal government. That program emphasized partnerships with the provinces, the private sector and non-profit organizations. Mrs. Finley says the extended program will aim at many the homeless more self-sufficient.

Wednesday Apr 19, 2006 rci STOCKHOLM: CANADIAN WINS HONOUR FOR HELPING CHILDREN
A Canadian has received an international honour in Sweden. The 23-year-old Craig Kielberger, the Toronto founder of Free the Children, was awarded the World Children's Prize. The award is often referred to as the children's Nobel Prize. Kielburger was in Sweden on Monday morning when his organization was awarded the prize. Free the Children is a network in which children help other children around the world. The organization has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize three times.

2005

Tuesday Sep 20, 2005ts Prying open the welfare trap ....Baillie urged Canadians to "challenge the elephant" with the goal of surpassing the American standard of living within 15 years. He put the bank's economists to work to figure out how to pull it off.

Sunday Jun 12, 2005 ts `A new deal` for world`s poor
LONDON—The world`s richest countries have reached a historic deal to cancel at least $40 billion (U.S.) in debts owed by some of the poorest nations.

Wednesday Jun 8, 2005 rci OTTAWA: WELFARE INCOMES REPORTED DIPPING The National Council of Welfare, a federally named body, says welfare incomes were far below the poverty line in 2004. The Council's latest report on the subject says that welfare incomes are far below what the average Canadian would consider normal, and that federal, provincial and municipal governments should join to revamp their welfare programs entirely. The Council's chairman, John Murphy says that the 1.7 million Canadians who rely on welfare to survive continue to suffer. The report says that a single, employable welfare recipient in New Brunswick received $3,388, 15 per cent of the provincial average.

Thursday Mar 3, 2005 ts
Canada's standard of living slips
Living standard fell further behind U.S. in past two years, with gap expected to widen

Wednesday Feb 16, 2005 ts REED LINDSAY A resident of Port-au-Prince’s Bel Air neighbourhood lifts a blood-stained piece of cardboard from a road where three people were shot dead on Feb. 6. Witnesses say the victims were burglars shot by police and that at least one of them was shot at point-blank range. 250x185 " width="125" height="92" >Police blamed in Haiti killings
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Abdias Jean was eating lunch on the street near his home in the seaside slum of God`s Village last month when he spotted a group of police officers walking in his direction. Jean, a correspondent for a news program aired on a radio station in Miami, ducked into a friend`s house.

Saturday Jan 15, 2005. ts Mayor urges ban on street sleeping Toronto Mayor David Miller issued a plan yesterday to ban people from sleeping in Nathan Phillips Square and other public spaces.

Jan. 2, 2005. ts The poor haven't changed — we have
In recent years, the word "underprivileged" has fallen out of use.

Friday Dec 10, 2004 ts One billion children need help Today, even a world grown weary of shocking statistics and bad news will receive a number that jolts: half of all children in the world are deprived of the essentials for survival and are suffering a brutal childhood as a result.

Friday Nov 19, 2004 HOMELESS MAN CRITICIZES 6-MONTH SENTENCE FOR HIS ATTACKERS A homeless man who was beaten and urinated on by a group of teenagers who filmed the unprovoked attack says the six-month sentence handed to two of them isn't enough. [6-MONTH SENTENCE a waist! Artic servival then 10 years work with the poor!]

Stephen S. Poloz VP EDC Economics Weekly Commentary
Charities Depend on Economic Fundamentals - September 8, 2004
As the annual fall charitable giving drive gets underway, it is worth reviewing the macroeconomic fundamentals and considering what the prospects are. Past issues

2003

Tuesday Nov 25, 2003 cbcLITTLE CHANGE IN CHILD POVERTY RATES The rate of child poverty in Canada has fallen, but it's still far from what federal politicians hoped it would be when they presented a unified front on the issue 14 years ago, an advocacy group says.
But NB Canada No. 1 in G7 education spending

Tuesday Nov 25, 2003 TORONTO: CHILD POVERTY STILL NOT WIPED OUT
A lobby for Canadian children reports that the problem of child poverty in Canada still hasn't been solved. The Toronto-based Campaign 2000 group says that in 2001 more than 15 per cent of Canadian children were poor. That adds up to one million children. The percentage is down only slightly from the previous year. Campaign 2000 is a coalition comprising 85 national and local social groups. Its aim is to monitor to what extent a resolution passed by Canada's House of Commons 14 years ago that poverty among children should be eradicated by the year 2000 is being achieved.

Monday Oct 6, 2003 bbc
	Slum growth 'shames the world' The neglect of the billion people worldwide living in slums is a disgrace, a senior United Nations official says.

1.January.2003 London Spectator Jack Jones:The Last Trade Union Hero-The Plight of the Poor and the Luck of the Middle Classes by Andrew Gimson

Friday Dec 20, 2002 cbc
JURY URGES ONTARIO TO EASE CRACKDOWN ON WELFARE CHEATS Unless Ontario ends its harsh, zero-tolerance approach to welfare fraud more people may die, a coroner's jury recommended Thursday.

Tuesday Nov 26, 2002 ts
Child-poverty figures show slight decrease First decline in four years called encouraging Over 1.1 million children in Canada considered poor

Mon, November 25, 2002 ts
CHILD POVERTY DOWN BUT STILL TOO HIGH: REPORT Canada is finally making progress in reducing child poverty, but there's still a long way to go.

Mon, November 25, 2002 globe
Study: Poor families still suffering By COLIN PERKEL -- Canadian Press
TORONTO (CP) -- More than one-million children in Canada are living in poverty -- a dozen years after the federal government promised to fix the problem, a national study released Monday finds.

Nov 22, 2002 cbc MOST PROVINCES FAILING TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR HOUSING: REPORT A coalition of community groups is expected to release a report card on affordable housing in Canada Friday and most provinces will get a failing grade.

Nov 22, 2002 cbc LAID OFF ONTARIO WORKERS WIN RIGHT TO PENSION SURPLUSES Ontario workers who lose their jobs are entitled to a slice of the surpluses in their pension plans, the province's Court of Appeal said Friday.

Tuesday Nov 5, 2002
More than 14,000 Canadians call shelters home
New census data offer first national glimpse of homeless shelter use.

JOHN MAHONEY,
Canada's poorest down for the count: Maxime, a young man who preferred not to give his last name, sits under the warmth of an air vent yesterday while waiting for Montreal's Old Brewery Mission to open. Statistics Canada reports that the majority of those at Quebec homeless shelters on the day of last year's census were in Montreal." align=left > Groups that work with the homeless applauded Statistics Canada yesterday for counting people at homeless shelters during last year's census, but warned that the numbers reflect only a portion of the total number of Canadians on the street.

Tuesday Nov 5, 2002 cbc A homeless man keeps warm in his blankets in a park in downtown Toronto Monday. Critics: Stats on shelters are misleading By SUE BAILEY
OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government's first effort to count shelter residents was a faulty process with dangerously misleading results, critics say. More than 14,000 people called a shelter their temporary home during the 2001 census, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. It's the first national snapshot of people whOWN up in homeless centres and other transitional dwellings

Wednesday Nov 6, 2002 cbc STATSCAN PROVIDES FIRST COUNT OF CANADIANS LIVING IN SHELTERS Statistics Canada says more than 14,000 Canadians were living in shelters on May 15, 2001, providing the first official figures on the number of people living in emergency or temporary accommodations.

Tuesday Nov 5, 2002 cbc
How do we measure poverty? Martin O'Malley & John Bowman, CBC News Online | May 7, 2002 Updated Nov. 4, 2002

Tuesday Nov 5, 2002 cbc
'PERSISTENT POVERTY' CRIPPLING CANADIAN CHILDREN
The Canadian Council on Social Development released a grim report Monday that details societal damage done by child poverty and what the council calls "persistent poverty."

Tuesday Nov 5, 2002 rci OTTAWA: POVERTY ON THE RISE IN CANADA A new study suggests that one in six adult Canadians - two-million people - are working in full-time jobs that do not pay enough to support a family. The Canadian Policy Research Networks says the so-called working poor earn less than $10 an hour and are mnostly employed based in the retail, hotel and accommodation industries, with others in manufacturing, finance and personal services. The highest concentration of these workers live in Atlantic Canada, but more than half are in Quebec and Ontario. Another study by the Canadian Council on Social Development says that more than 300-thousand children rely on food banks each month to survive. It says that one in 10 children lived in poverty between 1994 and 1998 and did not do well in school.

Sunday Oct 6, 2002 cbc
TORONTO A ROLE MODEL FOR DELIVERING HEALTH CARE TO POOR Experts predict that in 30 years two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities, leading to an increase in disadvantaged and homeless who tend to congregate and suffer poorer health than the rest of the population.

Morrie M. Cohen a good friend to have