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Special Diet
Let Them Eat Cake: Poor and Hungry In Ontario
Submitted by ocap on Tue, 12/06/2005 - 19:04.
Come to a Town Hall Meeting:
Discuss with our expert panelists the link between poverty and illness, the serious consequences of inadequate social assistance rates, and the recent cuts to the special diet benefit made by the McGuinty Liberal government.
Join us Thursday December 15th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at St. Michael’s Hospital Auditorium, 30 Bond Street, Toronto (Queen Street entrance
Violence Against Women Activists Call on Government to Reinstate Special Diet Allowance
Submitted by ocap on Thu, 12/01/2005 - 02:15.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 30, 2005
MD Launches Privacy Complaint Over New Special Diet Application
Submitted by ocap on Wed, 11/23/2005 - 16:04.November 23, 2005
MD Launches Privacy Complaint Over New Special Diet Application
'Scripts for food' cooks up controversy
Submitted by ocap on Mon, 11/21/2005 - 04:10.MEDICAL POST
November 15, 2005 Volume 41 Issue 39
'Scripts for food' cooks up controversy
Doctors divided over signing form that gives welfare recipients extra 'special diet' money
Ontario Works change a bad idea: doctor
Submitted by ocap on Wed, 11/16/2005 - 03:10.By W. Brice McVicar
BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER - Monday, November 14, 2005 @ 10:00
Tenant Action Group in Belleville: Hunger Clinic VII A Success!
Submitted by ocap on Sat, 11/12/2005 - 02:13.
Coming on the heals of Pupatello's announcement that she has cut the provincial "special diet" allowance, TAG held its seventh "Hunger Clinic" assessing 123 people for the "special diet" allowance.
In a race to beat the Liberal imposed cut-off date, TAG forged ahead reaching over 904 deperate people in total since we started our OCAP inspired "Hunger Clinic".
A single mom with three kids now gets an extra $1,000 from the benefit above and beyond her normal welfare cheque!
