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Fall / Winter 2012: Media Coverage for Raise the Rates Across Ontario:

Date	Publication	Title
November, 2012	CTV News	VIDEO: Kitchener Anti-Poverty groups protest provincial funding cuts
November 24th, 2012	The Spec	Poverty Fights needs more action, not more review
November 24th, 2012	Rabble.ca	Women and trans groups call for the Ontario government to cancel cuts to Community Start-up benefit
November 11th, 2012	The Sudbury Star	Rally Held to Protest Cuts to Social Assistance Benefits
October 26th, 2012	The Record	Eliminating social assistance startup program can have ‘devastating consequences,’ anti-poverty advocate says
October 18th, 2012	Toronto Star	Front Page: Homelessness: Ontario’s $21 million cut likely to leave more people without a roof
October 13th, 2012	Sun News	Community rallies to stop social assistance cuts
October 12th, 2012	Ottawa Citizen	Anti-poverty town hall blasts provincial cuts to social services
October 11th, 2012	The Sudbury Star	Expecting ‘wave of homelessness’

September 27th, 2012: Kingston Communitty BBQ event:

Press Release: McGuinty government making poverty worse with planned cut to “Community Start Up” benefit

Thewhig.com – Program cut ‘attack on the poor’

Our Kingston Community BBQ event was an amazing success, which helped to highlight how the elimination of the Community Start Up benefit will make poverty worse in Ontario.

The Liberal government’s 2012 budget brought a number of regressive cuts to social assistance, including the Community Start Up, slated for elimination in 2013. The BBQ and clinic, supported by CUPE Ontario and other labour partners, is part of a provincial campaign to stop the cut.

Video from CKWS Newswatch in Kingston. Click Here to read more.