[news] Special Diet Allowance Faces New Danger

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

It's been quite a while since the issue of poverty got so much public attention. The Toronto Star has a ['War on Poverty'][1] campaign underway. Private members' bills at Queen's Park and in Ottawa are pressing for a [$10 an hour minimum wage][2]. Now, the City of Toronto's Medical Officer of Health is publicly calling for the McGuinty Government to provide the 750,000 people in Ontario who live on welfare and disability with a ['nutritional allowance'][3] to close the gap between their sub poverty income and that which it would take to enable them to eat properly.

  


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    [1]: http://www.thestar.com/poverty
    [2]: http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/02/03/3514993-sun.html
    [3]: http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/it/newsrel.nsf/9a3dd5e2596d27af85256de400452b9b/61d17e75e915885185257272005d0bdf?OpenDocument
    [4]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17245

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