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February 12, 2018

Cathy Majtenyi: The wage gap is everyone's business

Cathy Majtenyi: The wage gap is everyone's business
About a week after Ontario’s new minimum wage kicked in, I grabbed a sandwich at a well-known coffee shop.
Published in Register Columnists
November 10, 2017

Province is promising action on poverty

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne addresses faith leaders at the annual ISARC event at Queen's Park Nov. 2.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has promised to make getting people out of poverty a campaign issue as provincial politicians gear up for the 2018 election.
Published in Canada
May 30, 2017

Battle for a living wage is a key to Church’s drive for social justice

The Ontario Association of Food Banks reports that even though employment in the province is back at 2008 levels, food bank use is still seven to 14 per cent higher than before the last recession started.

Even as the Ontario government moved to enact new labour laws and increase the minimum wage to $15, experts agree there is no quick fix to protecting workers from the threat of poverty.

Published in Canada