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Canada’s national child care advocacy association, Child Care Now, has welcomed a reduction in child-care fees in Ontario, while expressing concern that far too few families stand to benefit. Child-care fees have been reduced from an average of $23 a day to an average of $19, and capped at $22. The fee …
Read More »City of Winnipeg discusses new implementation plan, adding to poverty reduction strategy – Winnipeg
It’s been two years since the City of Winnipeg voted in a strategy to address poverty and ways to reduce it. Now, the city is taking what has worked and what hasn’t to craft a new plan for the next four years. This comes on the heels of data that …
Read More »Manitoba scores slightly higher than average on poverty reduction: report – Winnipeg
Provinces are falling behind when it comes to poverty reduction, according to a new report by Food Banks Canada. The organization’s newly-released Poverty Report Cards assigned grades to the provinces’ overall poverty mitigation strategies in comparison with each other. With a C- grade, Manitoba scored slightly better than most, with …
Read More »Toronto’s speed cameras show a reduction in speeding, report indicates – Toronto
An evaluation of three years’ worth of data from Toronto’s automated speed enforcement (ASE) cameras shows a reduction of speeding, the City of Toronto says. The City said the data collected from ASE cameras from January 2020 to December 2022 at 204 locations “highlight how speed cameras have been effective …
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