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Poverty

An impersonal decision-making process excludes communities whose stories need to be heard.
Legal Aid Ontario is slashing the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario budget by 25 per cent.
Legal Aid Ontario says the targeted cuts were necessary to preserve services in the North and rural areas.
“It was pretty much everywhere in the country that we heard about how poverty ... played a role in the violence.”
We need to dismantle welfare and replace it with a better and more dignified form of income support.