Poverty and the Provincial Budget: Health, Jobs and Resistance

Posted on March 29th, 2010 by apinto.

An OPIRG - University of Toronto event on responding to the Ontario 2010 budget, and the impact to social assistance rates:

Tuesday, April 6 @ 7pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
252 Bloor St. West, Room 5260

Featuring:
John Clarke, Organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
Michael Hurley, President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions
and Vice-President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Ontario.
Dr. Roland Wong, Occupational and Community Medicine Physician.

Sponsored by:
Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG-Toronto) www.opirgtoronto.org
University of Toronto Health Studies Students' Union
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) www.ocap.ca
Health Providers Against Poverty www.healthprovidersagainstpoverty.ca

OISE is an accessible location.

Contact: opirg.toronto@gmail.com.

Poverty represents a serious but reversible threat to the health of Ontarians. As health providers we enjoy privilege and access to power which many others do not. As a high-impact health intervention, we will work to eliminate poverty.