Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The Evidence I Here Part 6 Treating poverty works like medicine


Adding to poor patients' incomes works to decrease the health effects of poverty, Canadian doctors are finding.

"Treating people at the low income with a higher income will have at least as big an impact on their health as any other drug I could prescript to them," Bloch said.

"I do see poverty as a disease," Bloch said.

For children in particular, the strong and frequent bombardment of "toxic stress" from living in substandard housing with adults who are also stressed can set the stage for lifelong damage, doctors say.

Ron Payne 
Welfare Legal 
Hamilton, Ontario 
Email welfarelegal2004@hotmail.com

Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Evidence Is Here Part 5 First A Lawyer Then A Hostel


The Evidence Is Here Part 5  First A Lawyer Then A Hostel

B.C. woman may lose home over huge lawyer bill
Woman owes $180,000 despite winning lawsuit and being awarded costs

A B.C. woman stands to lose her home to her lawyer, who is moving to foreclose on her to pay his six-figure bill.
"My friends and family say this can't be happening. There's got to be a mistake," Dale Fotsch said.

Case dragged on
A decade ago, her common law ex-husband Leigh Wilson went after Fotsch, trying to get a piece of her property after their breakup. The case took nine years to resolve, which was years longer than her lawyer had predicted, she said.
"There was a three-week trial – three weeks! For my little place in the country. I mean, it just seems a little overboard and ridiculous," Fotsch said. "There were three tables of binders, with papers stacked sky high."
She said she had already paid thousands in legal fees when the case finally went to trial in 2007. As it advanced, her lawyer said he wouldn't continue unless she allowed him to secure a $100,000 mortgage against her property, at 18 per cent interest per year.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/11/30/bc-legalbills.html


 
Ron Payne 
Welfare Legal 
Hamilton, Ontario 
Email welfarelegal2004@hotmail.com
Blog http://welfarelegal.blogspot.ca/

Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Evidence Is Here Part 4 Modern Day History


The Evidence Is Here Part 4

Modern Day History

The accuser picks the judge.
The accuser picks the prosecutor.
The accuser gets it’s legal fees paid by the accused. 

Kopyto hit with costs order over $38,000! But the Fight Continues…

The Evidence Is Here Part 3 The inmates ARE running the asylum

20 Things Worth Knowing About Toronto’s Crack-Smoking Mayor, Rob Ford


Many Americans awoke this morning to discover that (a) the mayor of Toronto is a guy named Rob Ford, and (b) Rob Ford smokes crack. Gawker reported last night that a cell-phone video clearly showing Ford lighting up a crack pipe — which was supposedly filmed within the last six months, while he was mayor — was being shopped around for six figures. Gawker's John Cook saw the video in person with his own two eyes, as did two reporters from the Toronto Star. Ford's lawyer calls the video "false and defamatory" and asks, hilariously,  “How can you indicate what the person is actually doing or smoking?”
 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/rob-ford-crack-video-toronto-mayor.html

Doug Ford, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, sold hashish for several years in the 1980s.
Another brother, Randy, was also involved in the drug trade and was once charged in relation to a drug-related kidnapping.
Their sister, Kathy, has been the victi
m of drug-related gun violence. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014/?page=all

www.theglobeandmail.comLong before the current controversy at Toronto City Hall, The Globe and Mail set out to trace the Ford brothers’ rise to prominence. Reporters found the Mayor’s siblings have former ties to drug trafficking, a charge of physical assault and other brushes with the law

Part 3(a)
Until the local news started asking questions, Hector Santiago had a pretty good thing going.
Video: Drunk Homeless Man Caught Directing Traffic For NJ Transit Buses

The Evidence Is Here Part 2 Poverty Is Man Made

The Evidence Is Here Part 2

Poverty Is Man Made


UK-linked tax havens are the biggest G8 culprits
People using tax havens are depriving the world of more than $150 billion (£100bn) in lost revenue, enough money to end extreme poverty twice over, according to new figures published today by Oxfam. 

A high proportion of this tax dodging is taking place on David Cameron and George Osborne's watch. Of the $18.47 trillion (£12tn) that Oxfam estimates is being held by individuals in tax havens around the globe, over a third - $7.18 trillion (£4.7tn) - is sitting in accounts in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. Despite the fact a deal was done earlier this month to get some of these tax havens to be more transparent and share tax information, and David Cameron's letter to Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies this week, there is no tax deal on the table that will benefit poor countries who are struggling to reclaim the billions of pounds they are owed. 


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Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Evidence Is Here Part 1 The Poorer The Sicker


The Evidence Is Here Part 1

The Poorer The Sicker

Sudbury's most economically deprived areas had more than four times as many emergency department visits for mental health episodes as the more well off parts of the city.

Premature mortality, before the age of 75, was almost twice as high in the more deprived regions. Obesity rates were twice as high in the deprived regions and infant mortality rates were 2.4 times higher.

The Sudbury and District Health Unit report said if the social gap between rich and poor neighbourhoods were eliminated there would be 14,077 fewer emergency department visits per year in the city, 1,783 fewer hospitalizations for all causes and 9,706 more people in the City who rate their health as excellent or very good
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2013/05/20/health-unit-maps-poverty-health