Social Planning Toronto is pleased to announce that we have hired Jeremy Tudor Price as our new Communications Officer.

“I am pleased to welcome Jeremy Tudor Price to our staff as our new Communications Officer. Jeremy brings very strong technical and communications skills to the position, and combines strong experience in the private sector with a real interest and commitment to working with the Council and our community partners. I know he will be a real asset to the Council. Please join us in welcoming Jeremy to the organization. (Jeremy can be reached at [email protected])

The Welcoming Communities Initiative has released a new report titled Putting Equity on the Agenda: Are We Being Heard? that relates the findings from a year's study and reflection in York Region by the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians. [PDF Format]

A major Senate report tabled today is declaring that Canada’s system for lifting people out of poverty is substantially broken and must be overhauled.

This provincial forum, sponsored by Health Nexus and the Best Start Resource Centre, will address pertinent information for service providers working with families with young children living in poverty.

Individuals/organizations are invited to submit abstracts for oral presentations or poster presentations by Friday December 18, 2009 for a conference aiming to gather local academic and community researchers with interest in health services for uninsured and undocumented clients.

The report is based on the testimony of more than 170 witnesses who spoke at hearings held in nine cities across Canada over a two-year period. The release can be viewed live online December 8th at 3:45pm.

The Ontario government must set targets for attracting more low-income, disabled, rural and aboriginal students to higher learning in order to fight poverty and boost the province's economic recovery.

More Ontarians turned to food banks in the past year than ever before, says the Ontario Association of Food Banks in the 2009 Ontario Hunger Report.

Ontario has appointed the head of Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank to head a panel of anti-poverty advocates to advise the government on a long-awaited review of its welfare system.

The 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction warns that the province risks missing its target unless further action is taken in their new report Making Good on the Promise: Evaluating Year One of Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy.