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November 5, 2018

ISARC makes their case for welfare reform

The Bloch report, a 2017 report authored by St. Michael’s Hospital family physician and researcher Dr. Gary Bloch, included a series of measures to simplify getting welfare and remove barriers to welfare recipients working while receiving benefits.

As Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod gets set to reveal her welfare reform package on Nov. 8, the people who run Ontario’s food banks, shelters and volunteer supports for poor families are urging the provincial government to restore the basic income pilot project.

Published in Canada
July 31, 2018

Conservative platform included protection of conscience rights

“We’re not here to make an enemy of the new government. We’re here to say this is a necessity," Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, says.

A petition demanding conscience rights for doctors who oppose assisted suicide is the first move in a multi-pronged strategy to persuade Ontario’s new government to enshrine such rights in law.

Published in Canada