Fight Poverty to Spur Recovery

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We would like to offer a big thank you to the Community Justice Fund for their recent donation to the North Hastings Community Trust. We understand the number of applications received this year was higher than in previous years so we are grateful to still be included. Interesting statistic; 26% of the client who receive funding from the Trust are victims of crime, this includes victims of domestic violence, other types of assault and theft. The funds granted here will be used to help such cli...
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Nonprofits Need the Mandatory Long-Form Census by Jane Hilderman

Many of the most immediate and vocal opposition to the recent decision made by the federal government to eliminate the mandatory long-form questionnaire in the Canadian census has come from the business community, which uses this data to forecast labour and marketing trends, for example.

However, the loss of the reliable and in-depth data that the long-form (in its mandatory form) provides will also significantly hurt the ...

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The Low-Income Energy Network (LIEN) is pleased that Energy and Infrastructure Minister Brad Duguid issued a letter yesterday to the Ontario Energy Board (OEB), requesting it to resume work on a province-wide strategy to help low-income consumers reduce their energy consumption and costs. The Minister also sent a companion letter to the Ontario Power Authority (OPA), directing it to roll out an electricity conservation and demand management program targeted specifically to low-income c...
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