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The Origins of Halloween in Canada

Celtic Origins

The custom of celebrating Halloween was brought to this country in the 1800s by Irish canal workers and immigrants fleeing the potato famine.
The word Hallowe'en is a modernization of "Hallow Eve", a name still used by some older people in Ireland to mean All Hallows Eve, the evening before All Saints Day on November 1, which used to be called the feast day of All Hallowed Souls.
The Hallow Eve custom is very ancient in Ireland and Scotland, and is a blend of two holidays, one Pagan, one Christian.

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In the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, November 1 marked the festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-fun), meaning "summer's end." Samhain is the word for November in Irish and Scots Gaelic.
Samhain was one of the two great seasonal doorways of the Celtic year; the other was Beltane on May 1. The festival saluted the dying sun, the rise of the winter stars (Pleiades), the final gathering of the harvest and the beginning of the dark time of the year.
At the royal hill of Tara and elsewhere, the priests held a a Fleadh nan Mairbh (Feast of the Dead), and made sacred bonfires of oak, offering sacrifices to ensure the rebirth of the light the following May 1. In very ancient times, they sometimes burned criminals, prisoners, and animals alive, and took omens and made predictions by observing how the victims died.
At community bonfires, the people would cast the bones of slaughtered cattle upon the flames. (the word bonfire is thought to derive from these "bone fires.") With the bonfire ablaze, they extinguished all other fires, then each family solemnly lit their hearth from the common flame, thus bonding the families of the village together.
The people honoured and feared October 31 - Oíche Shamhna - the night before Samhain, and believed that that spirits of people who had died that year rose from the dead and were allowed to roam free on this night. If they were treated properly, by an offering of food on the doorstep, the spirits would leave the household in peace. But if the spirits were ignored, they could punish the whole community.
As the custom developed, young people wore costumes and masks during the Samhain festival to frighten and confuse the spirits, and went door to door seeking food for the feast and wood for the bonfire. To light their way, they would carry lanterns made out of turnips with a candle inside.
The origin of "trick or treat" and "shell out" comes from the shout the young people made at their neighbours' doors. Donors received their blessing but misers were given a curse or a prank - their outhouse was tipped over or their fence gate unhinged.
Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit. This is the origin of the word, "spooky."

Roman and Christian Halloween

In Europe, All Saints' Eve was a day of religious festivities in various Celtic and other cultures. Many traditions held that it was one of the "liminal" times of the year when the spirit world could make contact with the natural world and when magic was most potent (for example, Catalan mythology about witches).
By A.D. 43, Romans had conquered most of England, and in the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the land, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with Samhain.
The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans honoured the passing of the dead. The second day honoured Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees whose symbol is the apple. This may explain the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
By the 800s, Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. Pope Boniface IV determined to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. He designated November 1 as All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. In England it was known as All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day). The night before, the old Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
But the celebration of Samhain persisted, and in 1000 AD, the church made November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It was celebrated with bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints', All Saints', and All Souls', were called Hallowmas.

Halloween Today

In England, Guy Fawkes' Day, a patriotic holiday celebrated on November 5, has largely taken the place of Halloween. Children light bonfires and burn effigies of Guy Fawkes, a conspirator who tried to blow up Parliament in 1605. In Mexico, the Day of the Dead coincides with All Souls' Day, blending Roman Catholic and Native American traditions about the souls of the dead.
In Canada, we celebrate Halloween on the night of October 31, with children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. Polls show that Halloween is becoming almost as popular as Christmas, now that it's also a dress-up party time for adults. Some cynics see Halloween as the start of the retail shopping season before Christmas.

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Alberta RCMP wants you to treat yourself to safety this Halloween

Alberta (October 27, 2015) – The Alberta RCMP is offering up some Halloween tricks to ensure the real treat this year is safety. There are some simple tips to remember before your little ghouls and goblins head out to collect their candy loot.
Trick or treaters should:

• Wear bright costumes with reflective tape or glow sticks. You will be more visible to drivers.
• Wear face paint instead of a mask. Masks can impair vision and hearing. They should be removed while walking from house to house and crossing streets.
• Wear properly fitted costumes and footwear.
• Costume weaponry should be easily identifiable as imitation.
• Carry a flashlight.
• Be accompanied by a trusted adult.
• Travel in groups if mature enough to be unsupervised.
• Carry a cellphone if unaccompanied by an adult.
• Always walk on sidewalks.
• Stay on one side of the street. Safely cross the street to the houses on the other side. Do not crisscross back-and-forth.
• Stay in well-lit areas.
• Plan a route and stick to it. Do not take shortcuts.
• Never enter a stranger’s house or vehicle.
• Never eat treats that have not been inspected by an adult.
• Know the places along the route where it is safe to go for help.

Halloween safety is not limited to the little ones. There are steps adults can take to keep themselves, and their property, free from any hair-raising experiences.
Homeowners should:

• Ensure your house is well lit.
• Keep walkways obstacle free.
• Avoid using candles in your pumpkins. Use lights or glow sticks instead.
• Report suspicious activities to your local police.
• Keep pets indoors away from trick or treaters.

“Halloween on a Saturday could mean more kids roaming the streets after dark and more late-night costume parties for adults,” said A/Commr. Marlin Degrand, Acting Commanding Officer of the RCMP in Alberta, “It’s extremely important that drivers remain sober and drive cautiously to make sure everyone gets home safely.”
Drivers are reminded this Halloween to:

• Drive sober.
• Avoid driving in residential areas while trick or treaters are out.
• Slow down and be extra cautious. Expect that children dart out from parked cars.
• Watch carefully for people using crosswalks.
• Do not wear costumes that interfere with the safe operation of a motor vehicle by restricting movement, impeding vision or prohibiting the use of safety restraints.

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If There are Problems

1. Working Things Out
2. Applications to Director
3. If you are Served with an Application to Director

Working Things Out

If you have a problem with your landlord, do your research first. Read the RTA and Regulations, visit our website, or call our Contact Centre. Find out your rights and responsibilities, as well as your landlord's.

Put your complaint in writing and deliver it to the landlord. Follow up in person or by telephone. Many times landlords and tenants are able to work out issues on their own.

If you can't figure things out, you can make an Application to Director for mediation or for a hearing.

You should consider:

• Have you made every effort to resolve the problem yourselves?
• Is it really a landlord/tenant problem?
• Do you have enough evidence to back up your complaint?
• If you are seeking payment of money, and if you are awarded money, do you have a reasonable chance of collecting from the landlord?
• Can you find the landlord to serve papers?

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Applications to Director

To file an application to Director:

Find the form online (see "Downloadable Forms") or get a copy from your nearest Nova Scotia Access Centre.

Complete all parts of the form. If you have questions call the Contact Centre at 902-424-5200 or 1-800-670-4357.

You must bring the form in person to an Nova Scotia Access Centre. There is a $31.15 filing fee.

If you are unable to pay the application fee, you may be able to have the fee waived. Please see our fee waiver process below.

You can also request in your application that you would like to have the application fee awarded to you as part of the decision. If the application fee is awarded, it will be paid by the respondent. No other costs associated with the application may be awarded.    

To file an application you will need:

• Your landlord's name and address.
• A copy of the lease, if there is one, and copies of any other documents that have relate to the complaint. Make three copies of all documents.
• The amount of rent for the unit and the amount of the security deposit, if you paid one.
• Dates for when the tenancy started, ended, or will end.
• Details concerning whether you received a copy of the lease and a copy of the RTA.
• Details concerning whether a Notice to Quit was given to you or to your landlord, and if so, when and how.
• If you are filing for repairs, details concerning the repairs that are needed.

IMPORTANT: If you believe your landlord has given you Notice to Quit because you have taken action to secure or enforce rights under the Residential Tenancies Act, make an application to the director asking that the notice be set aside.

When you bring your completed application to the Nova Scotia Access Centre, a staff member will review the form to make sure it has been completed correctly and that all the necessary information and documents are attached. The staff member will assign a file number, the name of the contact person in the office, and a hearing date. They will prepare papers for you (the applicant) and for your landlord (the respondent). You must serve the completed papers on your landlord. The papers can be delivered by registered mail or served personally.

Fee Waiver Process

If you receive the Guaranteed Income Supplement, Income Assistance, or Family Benefits, you may fill out an application to request to have your Application to Director fee waived. If you do not receive any of those benefits, you may still be able to have your fee waived. For more information on the fee waiver process, click here.

Personal Service

Personal service can be done by the applicant or the applicant can get someone (friend, relative or someone else) to do the service.

Whoever does the personal service must complete the affidavit of service form, swearing that personal service was done. The form (Affidavit of Service) shows the name of the person who served the document, place, date and time of service. The form must be signed in the presence of a Commissioner of Oaths (there is usually one available at Nova Scotia Access Centre).

Registered Mail

This is done through the post office. When you are sending the application by mail, you must get a tracking card that shows the respondent has signed for it. The person being sent the application is the only one who can sign for the registered mail. You should make the post office aware that you require a signature card and advise them who must sign it. Proof of service is required for the hearing to proceed. After you get notice the respondent has signed for the mail, come back to the Nova Scotia Access Centre to sign an Affidavit of Service.

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If you are Served with an Application to Director

It is important that you take time to read the application carefully. It contains information relating to the problem and what the other party is seeking.

An information sheet that explains the process will be part of the package you receive. The application will also list the name and phone number of the tenancy officer who has been assigned the file. We recommend that you contact this person to answer any questions you have before starting mediation.

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Related Links

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• Changes to the Residential Tenancies Act
• At the Beginning of a Tenancy
• During a Tenancy
• At the End of a Tenancy
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1. Working Things Out
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Working Things Out

If you have a problem with your landlord, do your research first. Read the RTA and Regulations, visit our website, or call our Contact Centre. Find out your rights and responsibilities, as well as your landlord's.

Put your complaint in writing and deliver it to the landlord. Follow up in person or by telephone. Many times landlords and tenants are able to work out issues on their own.

If you can't figure things out, you can make an Application to Director for mediation or for a hearing.

You should consider:

• Have you made every effort to resolve the problem yourselves?
• Is it really a landlord/tenant problem?
• Do you have enough evidence to back up your complaint?
• If you are seeking payment of money, and if you are awarded money, do you have a reasonable chance of collecting from the landlord?
• Can you find the landlord to serve papers?

Back to top

Applications to Director

To file an application to Director:

Find the form online (see "Downloadable Forms") or get a copy from your nearest Nova Scotia Access Centre.

Complete all parts of the form. If you have questions call the Contact Centre at 902-424-5200 or 1-800-670-4357.

You must bring the form in person to an Nova Scotia Access Centre. There is a $31.15 filing fee.

If you are unable to pay the application fee, you may be able to have the fee waived. Please see our fee waiver process below.

You can also request in your application that you would like to have the application fee awarded to you as part of the decision. If the application fee is awarded, it will be paid by the respondent. No other costs associated with the application may be awarded.    

To file an application you will need:

• Your landlord's name and address.
• A copy of the lease, if there is one, and copies of any other documents that have relate to the complaint. Make three copies of all documents.
• The amount of rent for the unit and the amount of the security deposit, if you paid one.
• Dates for when the tenancy started, ended, or will end.
• Details concerning whether you received a copy of the lease and a copy of the RTA.
• Details concerning whether a Notice to Quit was given to you or to your landlord, and if so, when and how.
• If you are filing for repairs, details concerning the repairs that are needed.

IMPORTANT: If you believe your landlord has given you Notice to Quit because you have taken action to secure or enforce rights under the Residential Tenancies Act, make an application to the director asking that the notice be set aside.

When you bring your completed application to the Nova Scotia Access Centre, a staff member will review the form to make sure it has been completed correctly and that all the necessary information and documents are attached. The staff member will assign a file number, the name of the contact person in the office, and a hearing date. They will prepare papers for you (the applicant) and for your landlord (the respondent). You must serve the completed papers on your landlord. The papers can be delivered by registered mail or served personally.

Fee Waiver Process

If you receive the Guaranteed Income Supplement, Income Assistance, or Family Benefits, you may fill out an application to request to have your Application to Director fee waived. If you do not receive any of those benefits, you may still be able to have your fee waived. For more information on the fee waiver process, click here.

Personal Service

Personal service can be done by the applicant or the applicant can get someone (friend, relative or someone else) to do the service.

Whoever does the personal service must complete the affidavit of service form, swearing that personal service was done. The form (Affidavit of Service) shows the name of the person who served the document, place, date and time of service. The form must be signed in the presence of a Commissioner of Oaths (there is usually one available at Nova Scotia Access Centre).

Registered Mail

This is done through the post office. When you are sending the application by mail, you must get a tracking card that shows the respondent has signed for it. The person being sent the application is the only one who can sign for the registered mail. You should make the post office aware that you require a signature card and advise them who must sign it. Proof of service is required for the hearing to proceed. After you get notice the respondent has signed for the mail, come back to the Nova Scotia Access Centre to sign an Affidavit of Service.

Back to top

If you are Served with an Application to Director

It is important that you take time to read the application carefully. It contains information relating to the problem and what the other party is seeking.

An information sheet that explains the process will be part of the package you receive. The application will also list the name and phone number of the tenancy officer who has been assigned the file. We recommend that you contact this person to answer any questions you have before starting mediation.

Back to top

Related Links

• Consolidated Residential Tenancies Act and Regulations
• Changes to the Residential Tenancies Act
• At the Beginning of a Tenancy
• During a Tenancy
• At the End of a Tenancy
• If There are Problems
• Application to Director Fee Waiver Process
• Investigation and Mediation
• Manufactured Homes and Land-lease Communities

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This consolidation is unofficial and is for reference only.  For the official version of the regulations, consult the original documents on file with the Registry of Regulations, or refer to the Royal Gazette Part II.

Regulations are amended frequently.  Please check the list of Regulations by Act to see if there are any recent amendments to these regulations filed with the Registry that are not yet included in this consolidation.

Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this electronic version, the Registry of Regulations assumes no responsibility for any discrepancies that may have resulted from reformatting.

This electronic version is copyright © 2015, Province of Nova Scotia, all rights reserved.  It is for your personal use and may not be copied for the purposes of resale in this or any other form.

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R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 430

O.I.C. 93-110 (February 2, 1993, effective January 30, 1993), N.S. Reg. 17/93

as amended to O.I.C. 2015-96 (March 31, 2015, effective April 1, 2015), N.S. Reg. 156/2015

1     A Notice of Claim shall be in Form 1.

Section 1 amended: O.I.C. 2000-169, N.S. Reg. 58/2000.

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What's 404 Fury, you ask?
That's when you click on a content link - say, to a report title or to a specific directorate in a government department) - that you've saved or found on Canadian Social Research Links or a similar website. On the next page, you see "404 Error - Page not found" page. "ARGH", you might say, "I sure wish I'd saved that report before it got vapourized." I say that all the time, along with a few choice colourful phrases. Governments keep changing their sites, almost as if they're deliberately trying to confuse/frustrate people who are looking for information.
How to beat 404 Fury?
Wayback machine to the Rescue!
The Wayback Machine - Archive.org (Internet Archive)
"Browse through billions and billions of web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback Machine, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. "
The Wayback Machine is a tool that lets you revisit/recreate bygone versions of sites and extensive archival content of websites and web pages. Paste a URL in the box on the home page, and the Wayback machine will retrieve as many copies of that page as it has archived. If you paste http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ into the Wayback Machine, for example, you'll see (as at November 5, 2013) links to 325 separate versions of this entire website (not just the home page) going right back to December 2000, two months after I purchased my own domain name ("canadiansocialresearch.net").
Play with it - you don't have to register or anything, and you can't break it.
And don't miss the special collections of historical links!
Wayback Bookmarklet - Click this link, then scroll halfway down the page to "Take The Wayback Machine With You". Drag the Wayback link to your browser's toolbar (also called a Links bar). Now, when you click a link to a website OR to website content and the link is dead, just click your Wayback toolbar link and you'll be transported to a calendar with links to any historical versions of the website or the file at the Wayback Machine. Select the latest version before the link went dead.
[You'll just have to play with this tool to learn how useful it can be to help you retrieve lost files and sites!]
What does the Wayback Machine look like? (photo)
The Wayback Machine contains (as of April 2009) 150 billion archived pages on a 20' by 8' by 8' box that sits in Santa Clara, courtesy of Sun Microcomputer.
(Click the link to see the actual physical Wayback Machine - it looks like one of those transatlantic shipping containers.)
It serves about 500 queries per second from the approximately 4.5 Petabytes (4.5 million gigabytes) of archived web data.
Where does the name Wayback Machine originate?From the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (a Saturday morning cartoon show from the 1960s) - it's the name of Mister Peabody's time-travel machine.

Here's a practical example of how Archive.org works.

In 2005, the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services created a page to celebrate its 75th anniversary. The page, which included some very interesting historical articles on welfare, was summarily deleted a year or so later, because, well, because the 75th anniversary had come and gone, and who cares about how welfare operated in Ontario in 1915 or 1920. Not the Ontario government webmaster, apparently.
Ministry of Community and Social Services:
Supporting Ontario's communities since 1930
The year 2005 was the 75th anniversary of the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services. To mark the occasion, the Ministry posted to its website a collection of six historical factoids and vignettes about welfare as it existed in the first quarter of the 20th century and even before. When I checked the link in the summer of 2007, not only had the page disappeared from the MCSS website, but the above URL now (still in 2009) takes the cyber-visitor to "Thriving Communities", the ministry's framework for a contemporary approach to supporting Ontarians. That's all well and good, but six historical accounts of welfare in Ontario were simply discarded like yesterday's trash, without so much as a "does-anybody-even-care-about-history-out-there" warning.
Solution:
I went to Archive.org and copied the URL of the Ministry into the Wayback Machine (the text box near the top of the page). Then, on the Archive.org results page, I selected the link to the October 2004 site snapshot. Then, on the archived MCSS home page that appeared, I simply clicked on the 75th anniversary button and found the "missing" page and all its secondary links, all live.
Here's the URL of the archived copy of this page from Archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050518172022/www.mcss.gov.on.ca/CFCS/en/Celebrating75Years/default.htmTIP : scroll down to "Stories from our Past" for links [you have to click on the word "more" in each case] to the following six short historical bits about welfare and social services in Ontario in the last century:
* Origins of the welfare department (1930)
* Breaking 650 lbs. of rocks to qualify for welfare in 1915
* houses of refuge
* the Mothers' Allowance Act (1920)
* the first foray into the field of day care in the mid-40s
* the Soldier's Aid Commission (est. 1915).
TIP: you can use this same technique to retrieve many (but sadly, not all) "404" pages that have disappeared from the Web.
Sites that are database driven, generate dynamic web pages or have robots.txt exclusions can't be archived.
(Long Live HTML!!)

Put the Wayback Machine right in your browser: The Wayback Machine Bookmarklet

Drag this link up to your browser's Links or Bookmarks bar:
Wayback
When you land on a 404 web page and you want to find an earlier version of that page,
just click the toolbar link ---you'll be transported to any existing archived versions of the page in the Wayback Machine.

More info about The Internet Archive from Wikipedia

The Internet Archive (IA) - from Wikipedia:
"The Internet Archive (IA) [also called the "Wayback Machine"] is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive of the Web. With offices and data centers located in California, the archive includes snapshots of the World Wide Web - archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time, along with software, movies, books, and audio recordings. To ensure the stability and endurance of the Internet Archive, its collection is mirrored at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. The IA makes its collections available at no cost to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. It is a member of the American Library Association and is officially recognized by the State of California as a library."

The Government of Canada Web Archive

Government of Canada Web Archive:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/index-e.html
Since the Fall of 2007, Library and Archives Canada has been harvesting the web domain of the Federal Government of Canada (starting in December 2005).Client access to the content of the Government of Canada Web Archive is provided through searching by keyword, by department name, and by URL. At the time of its launch in Fall 2007, approximately 100 million digital objects (over 4 terabytes) of archived Federal Government website data was made accessible via the LAC website. The GC WA currently contains over 170 million digital objects and more than 7 terabytes of data.
Source:
Library and Archives Canada
Comments:
1. This site is definitely worth closer examination if you're looking for a federal government report or other resource that has disappeared from the Internet since early 2006. As the blurb above states, you can search through superseded versions of federal websites by keyword, department name or URL. I highly recommend that you consider using both the Government of Canada Web Archive and the Internet Archive as complementary tools; the former contains only three years' worth of digital objects (reports, tables, etc.), whereas the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" contains digital objects going right back to 1996.
2. The Canadian government archive a spring chicken and a lightweight compared to the Internet Archive.
To put everything into perspective, the government archive only goes back to the end of 2005, and it includes *only* sites that belong to the Government of Canada. As per the above blurb, it currently (in 2009) contains "over 170 million digital objects and more than 7 terabytes of data". According to Wikipedia (see the article above), "As of April 2009, the Wayback Machine contained about 4.5 Petabytes (4.5 million gigabytes) of archived web data, and it was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes per month."
[Snarky factoid:
The Canadian Government site boasts of "more than 7 terabytes of data", which is about the average size of the home collection of real audiophiles and video collectors.]

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October 25, 2015
* TrudeauMetre.ca
* Federal Election 2015 : results and selected commentary
--- Elections Canada Home Page
--- Macleans
--- Huffington Post Canada
--- Globe and Mail
--- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
--- Toronto Star
--- CBC News
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]
----- Consumer Price Index, September 2015 - October 23
--- Smooth new lines - the trend-cycle - October 22
--- Employment Insurance, August 2015 October 22
--- Study: Women in Canada: Immigrant women - October 21
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
October 18, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 16 october 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Selected coverage of the October 19, 2015 federal election
--- WHOA CANADA! (63-minute movie) - October 2015
--- NEW from rabble.ca:
--- Progressives' post-election task: Organizing for change - October 16
--- Highlights and fears from election 2015 - October 16
--- It gets worse: Economy continues decline under Harper government - October 15
* Globe and Mail Federal Election 2015 coverage
* How do your beliefs on social issues align with those of each political party?
* Macleans Federal Election 2015 Coverage
* The Harper Record 2008-2015
* Hollowing out the Middle: Recasting Workforce Development Programs under the Harper Government (Donna Wood, University of Victoria)
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]
----- Social assistance receipt among refugee claimants in Canada : Evidence from linked administrative data files, 1999 to 2011 - October 15
---- Labour Force Survey, September 2015 - October 9
* Unincorporated self-employment in Canada, 1989 to 2010 - October 8
--- Political participation and civic engagement of youth, 2013 - October 7
--- The impact of mental health problems on family members, 2012 - October 7
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
October 13, 2015
* [Ontario] The “Welfare Diet” 20 years later : The growing nutrition crisis for Ontario’s poorest people (John Stapleton et al) - October 2015
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change - October 7 [SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto]
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]
----- Canada's population estimates: Age and sex, July 1, 2015 - September 29
----- Canadian identity, 2013 - October 1
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] Tennessee’s First Year Of Drug Testing Welfare Applicants Didn’t Go Very Well (ThinkProgress) - October 7
* The World Bank Announces a Major Milestone in the Fight Against Extreme Poverty (World Bank) - October 4
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
October 4, 2015
* Minimum wage increases in five provinces October 1, 2015 [Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador]
* Welfare in Canada : Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective (University of Toronto Press)
* The Harper Record 2008-2015: Book Launch and Cinq à Sept (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - October 5, 2015
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]
----- Canada's population estimates: Age and sex, July 1, 2015 - September 29
----- Canadian identity, 2013 - October 1
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* BIEN NewsFlash Volume 88, October 2015 (Basic Income Earth Network - BIEN)
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
September 27, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 25 September 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Canadian Election Proposals : Four Things N1eeded to Make Pharmacare Work for Canadians (Politudes : International Social Policy Monitor) - September 26
* Vanishing Canada: A Maclean’s investigation into Ottawa’s “war on data” - September 18
* Minimum Wage Rates in Canada: 1965-2015 (Caledon Institute of Social Policy) - September 2015
* Who's Hungry 2015 : Daily Bread Food Bank's Annual Report on Hunger in Toronto - September 21
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]
----- Payroll employment, earnings and hours - September 24
----- Spending on research and development, 2015 (intentions)- September 23
----- Real-time CANSIM tables
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
September 20, 2015
*Women and Girls in Canada (Status of Women Canada) - February 10, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 18 September 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Federal Election 2015 - Odds and Sods
* Selected content from Jennefer Laidley's Media and Policy News
* Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in Canada (Nick Falvo) September 17
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]
--- Consumer Price Index, August 2015
--- Employment Insurance, July 2015
--- Aboriginal population and households in Canada, 2011 to 2036
--- Labour market outcomes of young postsecondary graduates, 2005 to 2012
--- Employment services, 2013
--- Civic engagement and political participation, 2013
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* New from the Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities and the U.S. Census Bureau:
--- Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014
--- American Community Survey
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
September 13, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 11 September 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Groundworkforchange.org - Supporting solidarity and just relationships with Indigenous peoples - September 2015
* NEW : Canadian Rental Housing Index
* The Fiscal Monitor for June 2015 (Finance Canada)
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
By Gilles:
There was no newsletter for the week of August 31 to September 6 because Mrs. Canadian Social Research Links Guy and I had a week-long visit with Daniel, Son-of-Canadian-Social-Research-Links-Guy on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake in Beautiful BC....
August 30, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 28 August 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* 10 Reasons to Vote for Anyone but Harper (Huffington Post Canada)
* Human Rights and Poverty Reduction Strategies : A Guide to International Human Rights (Canada Without Poverty) - August 2015
* Fraser Institute study says income inequality isn’t a problem in Canada (Christopher Sarlo, Jason Clemens and Joel Emes) - July 2015)
*What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Real-time CANSIM tables - August 26, 27 and 28
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, June 2015 - August 27
--- Consumer Price Index, July 2015 - August 21
--- Employment Insurance, June 2015 - August 20
--- Avoidable mortality among First Nations adults in Canada: A cohort analysis - August 19
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] Why the Conversation Over Drug Testing Welfare Applicants Continues (CLASP.org)
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN

August 23, 2015
No newsletter this week --- visiting with family and friends in southern Ontario...
August 16, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 14 August 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Canada Votes 2015 (Social Planning Network of Ontario)
* We've Got the Stephen Harper Hates Us Blues (videos)
* The Old Duff on Trial... ad nauseam
* Ontario Premier Releases Details of Ontario Retirement Pension Plan - August 11
* Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled (The Tyee)
* [British Columbia] Regulation changes support families on income assistance (BC Government) - July 24
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Job Vacancy and Wage Survey, first quarter 2015 - August 13
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
August 9, 2015
* Jennefer's Mini Media Scan - early August (Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change [SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto] - August 5
* Stephen Harper has the worst economic record of any Prime Minister since World War II (PressProgress) - July 30
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, July 2015 - August 7
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
August 2, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 31 July, 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Ottawa slammed for refusing to help run Ontario pension plan (Ontario Government) - July 30
* Northern Ontario stats aren't reliable enough to be used, data librarian says (CBC News) - July 27
* Rhetoric and Reality: Evaluating Canada's Economic Record Under the Harper Government (Unifor) - July 2015
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, May 2015 - July 30
--- Spending on research and development in the higher education sector, 2013/2014 - July 29
--- Research and development in the higher education sector, 2014/2015 - July 29
--- Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012 : Memory disabilities among Canadians aged 15 years and older - July 27
--- Education Indicators in Canada, July 2015 - July 27
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] - Medicaid at 50: Ten Key Facts (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) - July 30
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
July 26, 2015
* Concluding observations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the sixth periodic report of Canada - July 2015
* Access to Health Services for Remote First Nations Communities, from the Spring 2015 Report of the Auditor General of Canada - July 22
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Employment Insurance, May 2015 - July 23
--- Police-reported crime statistics, 2014 - July 22
--- Pension plans in Canada, as of January 1, 2014 - July 22
--- Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in April 2015 - July 21
--- Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey, 2013 - July 21
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
July 19, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 17 July, 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Annual summer meeting of Canada's Premiers (Council of the Federation) - July 17
* Assistance with the payment of costs of non-insured drugs for people receiving social assistance - July 19
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index, June 2015 - July 17
--- Fact sheets (July 15):
***** Bisphenol A concentrations in Canadians, 2012 and 2013
***** Tobacco use of Canadians, 2012 and 2013
***** Lead, mercury and cadmium concentrations in Canadians, 2012 and 2013
--- Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2012 (CANSIM Tables) - July 14
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
July 12, 2015
* Canada's Human Rights Record Under UN Review For First Time Since 2006 (Huffington Post Canada) - June 7
* Media & Policy News for 10 July, 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* [British Columbia] Why not honour Jean Swanson for her tireless fight against legislated poverty? (Georgia Straight) - July 8
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, June 2015 - July 10
--- Full-time Employment, 1976 to 2014 - July 9
--- Canadian Income Survey, 2013 - July 8
--- Study: Cases in adult criminal courts involving intimate partner violence, 2012 - July 8
--- Income Research Paper Series: "Low Income Lines, 2013-2014" - July 8
--- Shelters for abused women, 2014 - July 6
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
July 5, 2015
* A guaranteed annual income would solve the problem of poverty while actually saving public money. (Toronto Star) - July 4
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- National Aboriginal Day... by the numbers - June 17
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, April 2015 - June 25
--- Minimum wage in Canada since 1975 - June 29
--- Study: Employment patterns of families with children, 1976 to 2014 - June 24
--- Changes in wealth across the income distribution, 1999 to 2012 - June 3
--- Changes in debt and assets of Canadian families, 1999 to 2012 - April 29
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] Finding and Using Health Statistics (The Scout Report)
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
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June 28, 2015
SHIFTING DOWN TO SUMMER MODE....
Wherein we ask ourselves :
What's better than a dry, sunny day at the office?
http://goo.gl/7wGlsX
No new site content added since last week's newsletter except for selected links (see immediately below)
from the Canada Social Report : http://www.canadasocialreport.ca/
(from the Caledon Institute of Social Policy)
List of topics covered in the Canada Social Report and selected links:
[Click the link above, then select the content you wish to read.]
* Social Policy Record, 2015 Child Benefits
* Policy Monitors
* Key Indicators (Currently under development)
* Poverty Reduction Strategies
* Welfare in Canada
* Social Assistance Summaries (Sequel to the Social Assistance Statistical Report series)
* Minimum Wages - Report forthcoming
* Poverty Profile (Currently under development)
* Working Poor :
--- Two Toronto/Hamilton reports:
1) The Working Poor in the Toronto Region : Mapping working poverty in Canada’s richest city
2)The Precarity Penalty

Source:
Canada Social Report
http://www.canadasocialreport.ca/

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June 21, 2015
* Canada Social Report (Caledon Institute of Social Policy and partners) - June 16
* Government Increasing Ontario Child Benefit in July to Help 500,000 Families (Ministry of Children and Youth Services) - June 17
* 20,000 Homes Campaign (Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and Community Solutions)
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change - June 17
* Media & Policy News for 19 June (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index, May 2015 - June 19
--- Employment Insurance, April 2015 - June 18
--- Study: Volunteering in Canada, 2004 to 2013- June 18
--- Canada's population estimates, first quarter 2015 - June 17
--- Job vacancies, three-month average ending in March 2015 - June 16
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
June 14, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 12 June (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* 2015 June Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the Senate of Canada : Senators’ Expenses
* [Saskatchewan] Social assistance policy swings leave needs unmet (Saskatoon Star Phoenix) - June 8
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change [SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto] - June 3
* Promising Practices to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls (House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women) - June 4
* Is it time to repair Canada's social safety net? (Rex Murphy, CBC Cross Country Checkup) - May 17
* Renewing Canada’s Social Architecture (Mowat Centre et al.) - May/June 2015
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Employer pension plans (trusteed pension funds), fourth quarter 2014 - June 5
--- Police-reported hate crimes, 2013 - June 9
--- Police-reported cybercrime, 2013 - June 9
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] Solutions to Fight Economic Inequality (TalkPoverty.org) - June 10
* [United States] Participation in Government Programs, 2009–2012: Who Gets Assistance? (Census Bureau) - May 2015
* The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) - May 27
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
June 7, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 05 June (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Aboriginal Affairs “retaliated” against First Nations child advocate over human rights complaint: Tribunal (APTN National News) - June 6
* Truth and Reconciliation Commission urges Canada to confront 'cultural genocide' of residential schools (CBC News) - June 2
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, May 2015 - June 5
--- Labour productivity, hourly compensation and unit labour cost, first quarter 2015 - June 5
--- The 2011 National Household Survey—the complete statistical story - June 4
--- Study: Changes in wealth across the income distribution, 1999 to 2012 - June 3
--- Mental health and contact with police in Canada, 2012
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
May 31, 2015
* Social Assistance and Related Programs, 1994
* Media & Policy News for 29 May 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Taxes for the Common Good : A Public Justice Primer on Taxation (Citizens for Public Justice) - May 2015
* Poverty and Deaths in British Columbia : The Coroners Service’s Mandate and Why It Must Investigate (By Tim Richards and the UVic Poverty Law Club) - May 2015
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Canadian economic accounts, first quarter 2015 and March 2015 - May 29
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, March 2015 - May 29
--- Unionization rates falling - May 28
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
May 24, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 22 May 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Inequality and inter-generational unfairness (The Broadbent Blog) - May 16
* [British Columbia] Federal Government’s Unilateral Removal of Funding from First Nations Social Development Society Denounced (First Nations Social Development Society) - May 20
* Calgary Mayor Nenshi pledges to take leadership push for Guaranteed Annual Income (Leaders and Legacies) - May 9
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change - March to May 2015 [SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto]
* 2015 State of the Federation : Canadian Federalism and Infrastructure - June 4-6, 2015 (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University, Kingston)
* Ontario to rethink disability welfare reviews (Toronto Star and Income Security Advocacy Centre) - May 16
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index, April 2015 - May 22
--- Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012 - May 22
--- Employment Insurance, March 2015 - May 21
--- Trends in social capital in Canada, 2003, 2008 and 2013 - May 20
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* City of Los Angeles Raises Hourly Minimum Wage to $15 - May 21
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
May 17, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 15 May 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Nova Scotia promising widespread reform of social assistance (CBC News) - May 13
* Ontario : Call for Proposals for Local Poverty Reduction Fund Now Open - May 13
* Renewing Canada’s Social Architecture - May 13
* Recent releases from the Caledon Institute of Social Policy:
--- Memo to the Mayors of Canada [Poverty reduction] - May 2015
--- Mémo à l'attention des Maires du Canada [Réduction de la pauvreté] - mai 2015
--- Child benefit reform is back on track - May 7
--- Federal and provincial policy monitors for April 2015
--- The 2015 Federal Budget and Housing: Too good to be true - May 2015
*What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Study: Participation in extracurricular activities and high school completion among off-reserve First Nations people, 2012 - May 13
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Social policy coordination in Canada: learning from the EU (Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue) - April 13 [ADDENDUM]
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
May 10, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 8 May 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Followup from the 2014 Fall Report of the Auditor General of Canada (House Standing Committee on Public Accounts) - May 2015
* 2015 Manitoba Budget (April 30, 2015) - Commentary from Make Poverty History Manitoba and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba Office
* Provincial elections in Prince Edward Island (May 4) and Alberta (May 5)
*What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, April 2015 - May 8
--- Elementary and secondary education expenditures, 2012/2013 - May 7
--- Study: Recent Developments in the Canadian Economy, spring 2015 - May 7
--- Police-reported crime in Canada's Provincial North and territories, 2013 - May 7
--- Long-term Care Facilities Survey, 2013 - May 4
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Social policy coordination in Canada: learning from the EU (Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue) - April 13
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
May 3, 2015
* Provincial elections in Prince Edward Island (May 4) and Alberta (May 5)
* Media & Policy News for 1 May 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Ontario Retirement Pension Plan to Become Law (Ontario Ministry of Finance) - April 29
* 2015 Spring Reports of the Auditor General of Canada + Response from Harper Government - April 28
* Media & Policy News for 27 April 2015 (By Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* The 2015 Federal Budget: Not a real seniors’ budget (Canadian Alliance of United Seniors) - April 2015
* Saskatchewan government creates advisory group on poverty - April 23
* Poverty Reduction Summit in Ottawa - May 6-8, 2015 (Tamarack Institute)
*What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Gross domestic product by industry, February 2015 - April 30
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, February 2015 - April 30
--- Study: Changes in debt and assets of Canadian families, 1999 to 2012 - April 29
--- The underground economy in Canada, 2012 - April 29
--- Injuries at work, 2013 - April 28
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
April 26, 2015
* The Working Poor : Mapping working poverty in Canada’s richest city (John Stapleton, Metcalf Foundation) - April 20
* Ontario Budget 2015 - April 23
* Economic Action Plan (federal budget) 2015 - April 21
* Release of The Fiscal Monitor for February 2015 (Finance Canada) - April 21
* The truth about Canada’s low-income benefits: They work (Globe and Mail) - April 21
* How’s Life in the City? Life Satisfaction Across Census Metropolitan Areas and Economic Regions in Canada (Statistics Canada) - April 22
* Recent Manitoba annual reports from the Dept. responsible for welfare in Manitoba (Manitoba Jobs and the Economy) - April 20
* From Gap to Chasm: Alberta's Increasing Income Inequality (Parkland Institute) - April 20
* Is that really YOU, Ole Duff?
* Equal Pay Day in Ontario is on April 20, 2015 this year ( Ontario Equal Pay Coalition)
*What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Employment Insurance, February 2015 - April 23
--- Youth and adult correctional statistics in Canada, 2013/2014 - April 22
--- The local unemployment rate and permanent retirement - April 22
--- Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in January 2015 - April 21
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* The Happiest Countries in the World (in 2012) (Global Finance Magazine) - April 22
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
April 19, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 17 April 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Pre-Budget Outlook (Parliamentary Budget Officer) - April 17
* Seven Reasons Why the Conservatives are More Disappointing than the Toronto Maple Leafs (PressProgress) - April 15
* [British Columbia] The Case for Increasing the Minimum Wage : What does the academic literature tell us? (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - April 14
* Making Ends Meet : Toronto’s 2015 Living Wage (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - April 10
* Don’t double limit on tax-free savings accounts: Editorial (Toronto Star) - April 10
* What happened when Canada stopped counting its numbers (Toronto Star) - April 14
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index, March 2015 - April 17
--- Prevalence and correlates of marijuana use in Canada, 2012 - April 15
--- StatCan Blog : Consulting users - April 15
--- Canadians and nature: Interacting with nature, 2013 - April 14
--- Study: Grandparents living with their grandchildren, 2011 - April 14
--- Survey of Financial Security: Public use microdata file, 2012 - April 14
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] Forget Steak and Seafood: Here’s How Welfare Recipients Actually Spend Their Money - April 15
(Slate.com)
* [United States] Standard Budgets (Basic Needs Budgets) in the United States Since 2006 (U.S. Census Bureau) - August 2012
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
April 12, 2015
* Should poor seniors have to pay to volunteer? (Toronto Star) - March 29
* Great Gatsby v. Zero-Dollar Linda (Munir A. Sheikh, for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute) - April 2015
* Racialized Precarious Employment and the Inadequacies of the Canadian Welfare State (SAGE Open) - April 10
* Minister Oliver Meets With Private Sector Economists to Discuss Canada's Economy - April 9
* Nova Scotia 2015-2016 Budget - April 9
* Debate : Canadians Should Stop Worrying About Income Inequality (video) (Macdonald-Laurier Institute) - April 7
* Media & Policy News for 10 April 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Local Poverty Reduction Fund to Support Community-Driven Solutions (Ontario) - April 7
* New Brunswick Provincial Budget 2015-16 (New Brunswick Finance) - March 31
* Saskatchewan Provincial Budget 2015-16 (Saskatchewan Finance) - March 18
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, March 2015 - April 10
--- Infographic: The faces of volunteers in Canada, 2013 - April 8
--- Legal aid in Canada, 2013/2014 - April 8
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
April 5, 2015
* The plight of low income hardworking seniors (John Stapleton, Open Policy Ontario) - March 27
* Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy 2014 Annual Report (Ontario Government) - March 31
* Media & Policy News for 02 April 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* How Much Does the Federal Government Spend on Child Care and Who Benefits? (Parliamentary Budget Officer) - March 31
* Welfare recipients treated like guinea pigs : Ontario government’s ‘improvement’ to its disability program hurts those who are trying hardest. (Carol Goar,Toronto Star) - March 31
* Ontario Allocates $587 Million to Help End Homelessness (Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing) - March 30
* Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in Canada’s North (Nick Falvo in Northern Public Affairs) - March 25
* Social Assistance caseload/beneficiary statistics and expenditure information, by province/territory, 1997 to 2014 - March 25
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, January 2015 - March 31
--- Study: School mobility and educational outcomes of off-reserve First Nations students, 2012 - March 31
--- Study: Academic outcomes of public and private high school students: What lies behind the differences? - March 31
--- Farm operating revenues and expenses, 2013 - March 31
--- Canada at a Glance, 2015 - March 31
--- Police resources in Canada, 2014 - March 30
--- Study: Women in Canada: Female population, 2014 - March 30
--- Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2012 - March 30
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
March 29, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 27 March 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* TEDx talk on deep learning by computers (Rob Rainer, Basic Income Canada Network) - March 27
* House of Commons Committee items posted recently (Parliamentary website) - March 27
* Recent releases from Finance Canada:
--- Release of The Fiscal Monitor for January 2015 - March 27
--- Harper Government Introduces Legislation to Put More Money in the Pockets of Parents - March 27
--- Harper Government Tables Notice of Ways and Means Motion to Implement Tax Cuts for Families - March 24
* Alberta Budget 2015 (Government of Alberta) - March 26
* Budget 2015-2016 du Gouvernement du Québec - le 26 mars // 2015 - 2016 Budget, Government of Quebec - le 26 mars
* Social Assistance Summaries 2014 + Federal/Provincial/Territorial Policy Monitor (Anne Makhoul, Caledon Institute of Social Policy) - March 23
* Ontario announces $4.2 million for cash-starved legal aid clinics + an equal amount to come next year (Toronto Star) - March 22
* Action to End Poverty in Alberta and the payday lender issue in Calgary: an update (Joe Ceci, Momentum) - March 16
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Employment Insurance, January 2015 - March 26
--- Study: Food insecurity in Canada, 2007 to 2012 - March 25
--- Education Indicators in Canada, 2014/2015 - March 25
--- Pensions: The ups and downs of pension coverage in Canada - March 24
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
March 22, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 21 March 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* Alternative Federal Budget 2015 : Delivering the Good (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - March 19
* Ontario to raise minimum wage starting Oct. 1 (CP24.com) - March 19
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index, February 2015 - March 20
--- Government Finance Statistics, fourth quarter 2014 - March 19
--- Employment Insurance Coverage Survey, 2013- March 19
--- Job vacancies, three-month average ending in December 2014 - March 17
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* March 21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Canadian Union of Public Employees) - March 20
* [International] 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report (International Food Policy Research Institute - IFPRI) - March 18
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
March 15, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 13 March 2015 (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change - March 11
[SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto]
* [British Columbia] Free tuition, child care for single parents on welfare (Vancouver Sun) - March 11
* British Columbia Rental Assistance Initiatives
* Recent releases from the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition:
--- Minimum Wage and Poverty : The Facts - March 2015
--- BC Minimum Wage and Students : The Facts - January 2015
--- BC Minimum Wage and Women : The Facts - February 2015
* Winter 2015 Newsletter (Canadians for Tax Fairness) - March 13
* Poverty Reduction Summit (program & list of workshops) - May 6-8, 2015 in Ottawa (Tamarack Institute)
* Québec:
--- Bulletin SSQ sur les lois sociales (dont l'assistance sociale) (SSQ Groupe financier)
--- Bulletin on Social Legislation (including social assistance) - (SSQ Financial Group)
* National income floor for troubled times: a guaranteed annual income for everyone (Carol Goar, Toronto Star) March 8
* Hennessy's Index: About women (Trish Hennessy, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - March 8
* Frozen: BC Welfare Rates Haven't Risen in Eight Years - March 4
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, February 2015 - March 13
--- Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012 - March 13
--- National balance sheet and financial flow accounts, fourth quarter 2014 - March 12
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] The income gap between bosses and workers is getting even bigger worldwide (Washington Post) - March 13
* [United States] How Housing Matters (MacArthur Foundation)
* [United States] Don't Starve the Census (New York Times) - March 10
* NewsFlash : March 2015 (Basic Income Earth Network - BIEN)
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
March 8, 2015
* International Women's Day (IWD) 2015 - March 8
* [Ontario] Struggling on a low income (Guest blog by Pamela Chynn) - March 1
* SOUNDBITES e-Bulletin for March 6 (Social Planning Toronto)
* Departmental Action Plans and Progress Reports (House of Commons Public Accounts Committee)
* Women and Poverty [in New Brunswick] : March 8 is International Women's Day (New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice Inc.)
Les femmes et la pauvreté au Nouveau-Brunswick - Mise à jour 2015 (Journée internationale de la femme - Le 8 mars 2015)
* Employment Quality—Trending Down (CIBC World Markets Inc. • Economics) - March 5
* Interview with John Clarke, organizer at the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto (Free City Radio) - March 5
* UN Urges Canada to call inquiry into missing, murdered Native women (Red Power Media) - March 6
* Charities call for clarity [by the Canada Revenue Agency] on rules for contributing to public policy (Vancouver Observer) - March 5
* ENGAGE!Beautiful Thinking for March (Tamarack Institute) - March 2015
* 2015 National Housing & Homelessness Congress (Winnipeg, April 28 to May 1, 2015) - (Canadian Housing & Renewal Association)
* Doubling Contributions To The Tax Free Savings Account: Even Nastier Than Income Splitting (Armine Yalnizyan in the Progressive Economics Forum) - March 2
* Nunavut 2015-2016 Budget (Department of Finance) - February 25
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- The Business and Community Newsletter : March 2015
--- Labour productivity, hourly compensation and unit labour cost, fourth quarter 2014 - March 6
--- YouTube Videos : Statistics Canada Channel
--- Civil Court Survey, 2013/2014 - March 4
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* 2015 Index of Economic Freedom (Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation)
* [International, includes Canada] Power from the People [decline of unions + rising inequality] (International Monetary Fund (IMF) - March 2015
* [United States] The argument for a basic income (CNN) - March 1
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
March 1, 2015
* Media & Policy News for 27 February (Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre)
* New Brunswick : Strategic Program Review / Révision stratégique des programmes (New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice Inc. / Front commun pour la justice sociale du Nouveau-Brunswick inc.) - February 27
* Joint Statement from Ontario's Delegation at the Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - February 27
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change [SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto] - February 25
* 2015 Election Survey : See how your political beliefs align with each party
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index, January 2015 - February 26
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, December 2014 - February 26
--- Study: Senior care: Differences by type of housing, 2012 - February 25
--- Maintenance Enforcement Survey: Child and spousal support, 2013/2014 - February 24
* The Harper Government™ Alphabet of Shame (By the Canadian Social Research Links Guy) - March 1
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [U.S.] Measuring Student Debt and Its Performance - April 2014 (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) + A Strike Against Student Debt (New York Times) - February 27
* [U.S.] Beyond the Numbers
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
February 22, 2015
* British Columbia Budget 2015/16 - February 17
* Getting the Design Right on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office) - February 13
* Ascent of Giants : NAFTA, Corporate Power and the Growing Income Gap (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - February 9
* Justice for First Nations children: A talk by Cindy Blackstock (rabble.ca) - February 18
* [Ontario] Low Wages, No [Health] Benefits (Wellesley Institute) - February 16
* On Family Day, Minister Oliver Celebrates Tax Cuts for Canadian Families (Finance Canada) - February 16
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index: New basket weights, 2013 - February 20
--- Employment Insurance, December 2014 - February 19
--- Charitable donors, 2013 - February 17
--- Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in November 2014 - February 17
--- Income of immigrants: Saskatchewan, 2012 - February 17
--- Income of immigrants: Manitoba, 2012 - February 16
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* The Harper Government™ Alphabet of Shame (By the Canadian Social Research Links Guy) - February 22
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America (Urban Institute) - February 19
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
February 15, 2015
* [Ontario] It’s not just welfare computer system that needs a fix: Editorial (Toronto Star) - February 11
* Quebec Liberals aim to level what remains of welfare state (World Socialist Website) - February 13
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change - February 11
[SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto]
* FactsCan plans to test political claims during election - February 10
* Ontario Launches Online Consultation Tool (Government of Ontario) - February 10
* Alberta - revised links for Alberta Works (welfare) and Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (Alberta Human Services)
* [Ontario] Social Assistance, Pension and Tax Credit Rates, January to March 2015 (also includes federal program benefit info)
* Misery fundraising can’t replace social safety nets (Globe and Mail) - February 9
* Québec Social assistance benefit levels increased January 1, 2015 / Nouveaux montants des prestations d'assistance sociale (Gouvernement du Québec) (janvier 2015)
* Families in Canada Conference, June 10-11, 2015 - Ottawa (Vanier Institute of the Family)
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
---Labour Force Survey: Robust and reliable - February 13
--- Registered retirement savings plan contributions, 2013 - February 13
--- Investment income, 2013 - February 13
--- Income of immigrants: Atlantic provinces, 2012 - February 13
--- Study: Provincial convergence and divergence in Canada, 1926 to 2011 - February 12
--- Income of immigrants: Alberta, 2012 - February 12
--- Canada's population estimates: Subprovincial areas, July 1, 2014 - February 11
--- Income of immigrants: British Columbia, 2012 - February 11
--- Income of immigrants: Quebec, 2012 - February 10
--- Income of immigrants: Ontario, 2012 - February 9
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* The Effect of Rising Inequality on Social Security (Center for American Progress) - February 10
* 14th Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress (New York, Feb. 26 to March 1, 2015)
* [ International ] Universal Basic Income ( Guaranteed Annual Income) (Medium.com + Reddit) - February 6
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
February 8, 2015
* Guaranteed Annual Income contains three words: Let’s talk about the ‘annual’ part (John Stapleton in Vibrant Communities Canada) - February 4
* Recent postings on the parliamentary website (House of Commons Committees) - February 6
* Responsibility for Housing (Nick Falvo, Progressive Economics Forum) - February 4
* What the Conservatives don't want you to know about their "tough-on-crime" agenda (PressProgress) - February 4
* Québec social justice groups denounce counter-productive welfare reform (The Métropolitain) - February 3
* First Peoples, Second Class Treatment (Wellesley Institute) - February 3
* We Have A Plan (for the elimination of poverty in Canada) – But do they? (Canada Without Poverty / Dignity for All) - February 3
* Six things you need to know about Child Poverty in Saskatchewan (Upstream) - December 12, 2014
* Last chance for reinstatement of the mandatory long-form census? (Macleans + Globe and Mail + others) - February 2
* Ontario Appoints Panel to Look at Ending Long-term Homelessness (Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing) - January 26
[Federal Government] 2014 Public Service Employee Survey (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - February 5
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, January 2015 - February 6
--- Exploring the first century of Canada's Consumer Price Index - February 6
--- Canadian Government Finance Statistics: Financial flows and balance sheet, 2007 to 2012 (provisional) - February 4
--- Revisions to the Labour Force Survey, 2001 to 2014 - February 4
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] The President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2016 (The White House) - February 2
* [United States] How big food brands are boosting profits by targeting the poor (Washington Post) - February 7
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
February 1, 2015
* Suggestions for the public consultations during the New Brunswick Strategic Program Review (NB Common Front for Social Justice Inc.) - January 31
* Federal Minister of Finance Welcomes International Monetary Fund Report Confirming Canada's Return to Balance in 2015 (Finance Canada) - January 30
* Release of The Fiscal Monitor for November 2014 (Finance Canada) - January 30
* Report: Renewal of the Labour Market Development Agreements (House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) - January 28
* Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in British Columbia (Fraser Institute) - January 20
* Six deceptive stories Stephen Harper will tell you during the 2015 election (PressProgress) - January 27
* Ontario Helps Over 25,000 Young People Through the Youth Employment Fund (Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities) - January 27
* Time for federal family policy to grow up: study (Canadian centre for Policy Alternatives) - January 27
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Gross domestic product by industry, November 2014 - January 30
--- General Social Survey: Giving, volunteering and participating, 2013 - January 30
--- Revisions and Improvements (II) to the Labour Force Survey (LFS), 2001 to 2014 - January 30
--- Revisions and Improvements (I) to the Labour Force Survey, 2001 to 2014 - January 29
--- Payroll employment, earnings and hours, November 2014 - January 29
--- Labour Force Survey: Year-end review, 2014 - January 28
--- Revisions to the Labour Force Survey, 2001 to 2014 - January 28
--- Study: Source-country female labour force participation and the wages of immigrant women in Canada, 2006 to 2012 - January 28
--- Sampling and Weighting Technical Report: National Household Survey, 2011 - January 28
--- Study: Career decision-making patterns of Canadian youth and associated postsecondary educational outcomes, 2000 to 2010 - January 27
--- Canada's crime rate: Two decades of decline - January 27
--- Survey of Financial Security, 2012 - January 27
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] Ending Child Poverty Now (Children’s Defense Fund) - January 28
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
January 25, 2015
* When your child turns 18 on a low income: Three big changes for a lone parent (guest blog from Tess in Open Policy Blog) - January 13
* [Québec] $6 welfare increase falls short of inflation rate (McGill Daily News) - January 19
* [Alberta] Poverty Costs 2.5: Investing in Albertans (Action to End Poverty in Alberta and Vibrant Communities Calgary) - January 2015
* Stephen Harper and the myth of the crooked Indian (Pamela Palmater in rabble.ca) - November 26 (2014)
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Consumer Price Index, December 2014 - January 23
--- Employment Insurance, November 2014 - January 22
--- Survey of Household Spending, 2013 - January 22
--- Quality, as usual - January 21
--- Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in October 2014 - January 20
--- Employment Insurance Coverage Survey, 2013 - January 19
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [United States] The State of the Union Address (The White House) - January 20
* [United States] How Expensive it is to be Poor (New York Times) - January 18
* [United Kingdom] Poverty and Devolution : The Role of Devolved Governments in a Strong National Social Security System (IPPR) - January 22
* [United Kingdom] Households below a minimum standard : 2008/09 to 2012/13 (Joseph Rowntree Foundation) - January 19
* [International] Wealth: Having it all and wanting more (half of global wealth held by the 1%) (OXFAM International) - January 19
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
January 18, 2015
* Annual earnings exemptions urged for Ontario welfare recipients (Laurie Monsebraaten, Toronto Star) - January 14
* Harper Government Ministers host pre-budget consultations across Canada (Finance Canada) - January 12
* Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - Organization of American States) - December 2014
* Five ways the government has put medicare on life support (PressProgress) - January 12
* Canada’s Premiers to Meet in Ottawa on January 30, 2015 (Council of the Federation) - January 8
* SPARmonitor - Monitoring Toronto's Social Change [SPAR = Social Policy Analysis & Research, City of Toronto] - December 24 (2014) and January 14 (2015)
* Three ways to end poverty in Canada (Art Eggleton in the Toronto Star) - January 5
* When buying socks for the poor is no solution (Halifax Media Co-op) - January 4
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Family violence in Canada: A statistical profile, 2013 - January 15
--- Study: Employer pensions and the wealth of Canadian families, 2012 - January 15
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Eleven myths about homelessness in America (Washington Post) - January 15
* Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty (Washington Post) - January 16
* [United States] Chart Book: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) - January 7
* NewsFlash Volume 287, no. 80, January 2015 (Basic Income Earth Network - BIEN) - January 17
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
January 11, 2015
* Poverty Reduction Summit: Every City, Province and Territory Working Together (Tamarack Institute) - May 6-8, 2015 (Ottawa)
* Recent releases from the Caledon Institute of Social Policy:
--- Cut the [Family] Tax Cut - January 2015
--- Symposium on Children of the Recession - January 2015
--- Federal Policy Monitor, December 2014
--- Provincial/Territorial Policy Monitor, December 2014
* From the National Film Board : The Emperor's New Clothes (1995 video)
* Counting down the 14 silliest Fraser Institute moments of 2014 (PressProgress) - January 5
* The Practical Challenges of Creating a Guaranteed Annual Income in Canada (Fraser Institute) - January 6
* [Trish] Hennessy’s Index, January 2015 : Political Divides (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - January 5
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, December 2014 - January 9
--- Government Finance Statistics, third quarter 2014 - January 7
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* [U.S.] Housing: Spotlight on Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor)
* [U.S.] How to Raise [Minimum] Wages in New York (New York Times) - January 7
* [International] Child Rights Connect (formerly the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of Children)
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
January 4, 2015
* Glory Days : CEO Pay in Canada Soaring to Pre-Recession Highs (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives ) - January 2
* 2014 Annual Review- Poverty Reduction (New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice) - January 2
* New from Finance Canada:
--- Increased Tax Cuts and Benefits to Families (Dec. 31)
--- Creating Jobs and Opportunities for Canadians in 2014 (Dec. 31)
--- Harper Government to Balance Budget in 2015 - January 2
* A review of 2014 at Employment and Social Development Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada) - December 23
* Quarterly report of Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security monthly amounts and related figures - January to March 2015 (Service Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada)
* The Employment Insurance Program in Canada: How It Works (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) - Revised August 2014
* Conservatives dismantling social programs built over generations (Toronto Star) - December 9
* The Wealth Gap: Perceptions and Misconceptions in Canada (Broadbent Institute) - December 2014
* What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- General Social Survey: Social identity, 2013 - December 23
* What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
* Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs
* Child Rights Information Network - CRIN
December 29, 2014
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COMMENT:  imho- PM Harper has served Canada honourably and well... and yes voted for change and time the youngbloods step up and take the reins of our Canada and imho Trudeau fits.....

but this old lady is well aware that in 2008 PM Harper saved us from the USA/EU/IMF greed of banks and wallstreet who stole our pocketbooks around the world... and Peter Mackay who walked the talk for our troops when u could NOT find another politician who gave a sheeeeet..... 

PM Harper will do well..... and is truly loved and respected by millions and millions of Canadians and was feared and respected by China and Russia .... and we all know it. PM Trudeau will do well.... God loves Canada and Canadians... this is a wonderful surprise from the beautiful loved Bah'ai nation..... 

USA and the 5 ruling nations kiss Iran's Ass.... and then have the audacity to put down Russia and China's human rights? Canadian Journalist who happened to b Iranian as well.... came home with the most vicious rape, tortured and beaten remains ever seen from another country. Let's not get started on Nedas (2009) and the absolute hatred by the Persian snake of any OTHER Muslim belief ... and determination to harness women and abuse gays, unions and on and on.... Well good luck with that. 

PM Harper u did us well in hard, hard years .... and PM Trudeau will do us well in the future.... because -like u... he loves his children ... and always... CANADA AND CANADIANS FIRST... that's my story and i'm sticking to it. God bless our troops.... Old momma Nova.

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Canada’s PM to be nominated for nobel peace prize- B’nai Brith Canada to nominate Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a staunch Israel supporter, for the Nobel Peace prize.

B’nai Brith Canada has announced that it will nominate Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, for the Nobel Peace prize.
In a statement released on Friday, B’nai Brith CEO Frank Dimant said that “with recent developments across the globe posing new and difficult challenges, only one leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, has maintained the moral clarity needed to face them.”
“Moral clarity has been lost across much of the world, with terror, hatred and anti-Semitism filling the void,” he said.
“Throughout, there has been one leader which has demonstrated international leadership and a clear understanding of the differences between those who would seek to do evil, and their victims. More than any other individual, he has consistently spoken out with resolve regarding the safety of people under threat — such as opposing Russian aggression and annexation of Ukrainian territory — and has worked to ensure that other world leaders truly understand threat of Islamic terrorism facing us today.”
Dimant continued, “In accordance with the rules of the Nobel Foundation it gives me great pleasure to nominate in my capacity as Professor of Modern Israel Studies at Canada Christian College, Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the Nobel Peace Prize in honor of the outstanding moral leadership he has demonstrated.”
Harper has been a staunch supporter of Israel and continued to stand up for the Jewish state during the last conflict in Gaza.

The Canadian leader called on Canada’s allies and partners to recognize that Hamas’s terrorist acts “are unacceptable and that solidarity with Israel is the best way of stopping the conflict.” He also blamed Hamas for the heavy loss of civilian life in Gaza during the fighting.

In January, Harper visited Israel for the first time since becoming Prime Minister. During the visit, he gave a speech in the Knesset and alsoshowcased his musical talent during a special dinner with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184621

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GENERAL CAMPBELL- u raise the troops up and inspire us all over the world who have supported and loved and full devotion to our troops and yours since 2001 when u could not find a media or entity who cared about the human waste by vicious monsters who wipe their butts on the Geneva Convention.... what an injustice to our troops and humanity.... and the UN umbrella of red cross and doctors without borders must identify in huge letters that they care for the monsters along.... with their horrific injured victims perpetrated by these same monsters - children and women- so the monsters can come back and kill our troops and innocents AGAIN! - best quote: Dear G.campbl
please save afghanistan from pakistan terrorists. We are a human like you and your poeple. It is about 40 years that pakistan kill us. Why?
Peace never come.
Engineer parwez a human from kabul afghanistan.

October 8, 2015

U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan

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General John Campbell, commander of U.S. Forces - Afghanistan, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on U.S. strategy in… read more