The Evidence is here Part 7 Killing Our Kids

The Evidence is here Part 7     Killing Our Kids

Provincial Ontario government spends millions killing our kids but…

From Mary Janiga of CAS

17 deaths in foster care in ontario

107 deaths investigated by CAS under their supervision OMG

http://www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/english/DeathInvestigations/office_coroner/PublicationsandReports/PDRC/2013Report/PDRC_2013.html#12a

 
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Cuts by the province of Ontario have already started at the Children’s Aid Society and it’s because of this and other evidence, I would suggest more are coming.

The family court system and CAS are dysfunctional and the evidence is clear.

In a case I advised on, an alleged child abuser asked the court for visitation of his daughter. This case was sanctioned by CAS and paid for by Legal Aid.

CAS told him that he could have supervised visits.

When CAS was informed that their was a no contact order in effect, CAS ran for the hills never to be heard from again, as they were in fact attempting to breach a court order.

 This case lasted more than three years in family court and in the end he lost.

What a waste of taxpayer’s money.

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

Blog http://welfarelegal.blogspot.ca/ 

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.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/05/24/poverty-disease.html

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

Blog http://welfarelegal.blogspot.ca/ 

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/

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. 

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/blogs/2013/05/tax-haven-cash-enough-to-end-extreme-poverty

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

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

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