News & Events
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I Can! 7th Annual Town Hall
Making connections to achieve goals Wednesday, June 19, 201312:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. The Hamilton Convention Centre1 Summers Lane, Wentworth Room B & C Emcee: Deirdre Pike, Senior Social Planner Join us for information about available benefits including the Housing Stability Benefits, roundtable discussion, community agency information booths, and success stories. Space is limited!Please register by …
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Data day will not be celebrated in Hamilton
SPRC reserves judgement on NHS data until questions are answered about data quality By Sara Mayo, Social Planner On May 8, Statistics Canada will be releasing the first data from the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS). Major new data releases are usually hotly anticipated and a busy time for social planners, but the Social Planning …
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BIG IDEA: Is your workplace flying the rainbow flag?
May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia. Actually, we should call it the International Day Against Homophobia,Transphobia and Biphobia, says Deirdre Pike, senior social planner at the Social Planning and Research Council and co-chair of the Hamilton Positive Space Collaborative. . “I’d add lesbophobia, too, but that reminds me of what I was called in school,” she …
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Provincial budget ‘heading in the right direction’ on poverty, Hamilton groups say
By Cory Ruf, CBC News Anti-poverty advocates in Hamilton say the province is “heading in the right direction” with budget measures that address youth unemployment and social assistance rates. Tabled at Queen’s Park on Thursday afternoon, the bill proffers a $295-million program, aimed at creating 25,000 new jobs for unemployed and underemployed youth. The budget, if …
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Community Forum on Precarious Employment Highlights
If you missed the Community Forum on Precarious Employment on April 18, here are highlights and a link to a recording from this event. The event was co-hosted with McMaster University Labour Studies Department, the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, Workforce Planning Hamilton, Living Wage Hamilton, and the New Hamilton Initiative. [View the story “Community …
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The Spectator’s View: Younger workers need living-wage jobs
Hamilton’s youngest workers are among the lowest paid in all Ontario. That’s hardly the legacy we would want to leave for the next generation. A new report by the Social Planning and Research Council says the median wage for workers in the 20-to-24 age group has fallen by nearly half in the last three decades. Young workers …
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