189 search results for
Poverty
Recommendation 76:
End wage discrimination against farm workers and implement the general minimum wage as a wage floor for all piece-rate farm workers, as recommended by the Fair Wages Commission in 2018.
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Recommendation 153:
End transit fare evasion ticketing.
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Recommendation 8:
End the policing practice of street checks; reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by police in the DTES; prohibit police from carrying and using all lethal weapons; develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences; and end the counter-charging and criminalization of Indigenous women who defend themselves or their children.
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- Access to justice ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 183:
End the health risks associated with living in the DTES by ensuring healthy environments and built-environments in all buildings, residences, and outdoors. This includes the right to:
- Clean air and clean streets.
- Green space and urban ecological systems.
- Sanitation.
- Accessible and clean public washrooms.
- Potable water.
- Functioning water fountains and more access to water sources.
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Recommendation 152:
End the criminalization of homelessness by eliminating bylaw infractions and criminal charges for sleeping or tenting in public spaces, and end the displacement of tent cities.
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Recommendation 115:
End the apprehension of Indigenous children due to poverty or Eurocentric ideas of neglect that stem from a legacy of colonization. Poverty must not be conflated with neglect or mistreatment, and removing children from their families exacerbates cycles of trauma and poverty.
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Recommendation 79:
End contract flipping that enables employers to keep wages low for tens of thousands of workers.
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Recommendation 65:
End clawbacks of income and disability assistance including clawbacks of Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefits and penalties for cohabitation.
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Recommendation 1:
Eliminate the enforcement of Street and Traffic By-Laws against people who rely on public space.
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Recommendation 63:
Eliminate barriers to accessing income and disability assistance by reducing unnecessary eligibility criteria and simplifying the application processes. This includes:
- Removing the two-year financial independence requirement for income assistance.
- Basing income assistance eligibility on current income only.
- Removing the penalty clawback for failure to work search requirements for income assistance.
- Removing the work search requirement for mothers with children over the age of three years old.
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