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Inflation, housing insecurity and sky-high food costs have made it ‘impossible’ for ODSP recipients to live, advocate says

Canada's Speaker of the House Anthony Rota apologizes for honouring a Ukrainian veteran who fought with the Nazis

A new McMaster survey is highlighting how Ontarians who rely on social assistance haven’t seen enough increases in benefits to offset skyrocketing rent and food prices.

A new report from McMaster supports that those who were most economically vulnerable prior to the COVID-19 pandemic are worse off.

“I think you’d have to see this as a loss of citizen voice,” McMaster prof says.

A new McMaster survey is highlighting how Ontarians who rely on social assistance haven't seen enough increases in benefits to offset skyrocketing rent and food prices.

Multiple public opinion polls have suggested Crombie is the current frontrunner.   MP Nate Erskine-Smith, MP and former provincial cabinet minister Yasir Naqvi, and Ted Hsu, a former Liberal MP and current provincial caucus member, all took turns taking aim at Crombie. 

Ontario Superior Court Justice William Chalmers ruled in favour of a suit filed last year by a Toronto resident.

Broad, multi-party support for the Liberal child care legislation may bode well for the program’s durability. And it can also be read as an implicit endorsement of the Trudeau government’s particular — and muscular —use of the federal spending power. 

Poilievre's statements on housing suggest he shares the Liberals' enthusiasm for the 'power of the purse'