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Department responsible
for welfare Name
of the welfare program Legislation
Policy
Manual Welfare
statistics Welfare rates (benefits) Latest
search results on for Related Links (PDF file - 816K, 33 pages) For more information about welfare in other Canadian jurisdictions, see the Canadian Social Research Links Key Provincial/Territorial Welfare Links page |
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"Freelaw® is free, unlimited access to up-to-date electronic
versions of all Government of Saskatchewan Public and Private Acts, Regulations,
The Saskatchewan Gazette, Forms, Rules of Court and Historical legislation
- all fully downloadable and searchable in Portable Document Format (PDF)"
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including links to Liberal and NDP Caucus pages
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- incl. links to : * Services for Children
and Families /* Services for People with Disabilities * Services for Low-income
People * About Saskatchewan * About Government * About Social Services * Archived
News Releases * Common Questions * Ministry Overview * Forms & Publications
* Legislation * Office of Disability Issues * Programs & Services * Saskatchewan
Housing * much more...
Social Services is the Department responsible for welfare in Saskatchewan.
Name
of the welfare program
Legislation
NOTE: the links below take you to the front page
for each reg - from that page, just click the "Open Document" button
to open a PDF file with the regulation
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main welfare regulations
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Policy
Manual
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Welfare
statistics
No statistics available on the Social
Services website
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Source:
Welfare rates (benefits)
(PDF file)
See also section 25 of the
Chapter 15 of the SAP Policy Manual Online
(see link above) offers information on individual items of need and special needs,
but no rate tables
(PDF file)
Latest
search results on for
"welfare,
-child, -animal, Saskatchewan"
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Related Links
(PDF file - 816K, 33 pages)
(for seniors)
(PDF - 925K, 2 pages) Family
Health Benefits are intended to assist lower income families with the costs
of raising healthy children (Source: )
(PDF file - 371K, 43
pages) - August 2003
- interesting comparison of recent welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, Canada,
the U.S. and Britain
- includes a bonus ten-page article entitled Low Income Cut-Offs (LICO)
and Poverty Measurement (LICO, Market Basket Measure, etc.)
TIP===> See the appendix to this report (pp 27-31) for a detailed comparison
of the main features of the "old" Saskatchewan Assistance Plan
(welfare) and the new Transitional Employment Allowance.
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(PDF file - 816K, 33 pages)
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Selected news releases:
News
Release
September 4, 2008
Individuals with disabilities and parents of
children with disabilities in Saskatchewan will be able to better plan for the
future, following the exemption of Registered Disability Savings Plans (RDSPs)
from social assistance calculations. The exemption means that RDSP assets and
income - including funds withdrawn for payment to a beneficiary - will not be
included when determining eligibility for the Saskatchewan Assistance Program.
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Context:
In the determination
of financial eligibility for needs-tested welfare or disability benefits,
each
province and territory decides how it will treat assets and income from various
sources, both at the point of application and on an ongoing basis.
Related link:
September 4, 2008
Exciting news! Yet another
province has decided to exempt the RDSP from affecting Disability Benefits. Saskatchewan
put out a news release earlier today from the Ministry of Social Services indicating
that the RDSP will not affect the calculations for those receiving social assistance,
exempting both the RDSP as an asset and income. (...) This a a very exciting development
for people in Saskatchewan as it now means they, along with BC, Newfoundland,
and Yukon, can fully utilize the benefits that the RDSP provides.
Source:
--- everything you wanted to know about the
RDSP....
The RDSP Blog is a product
of the
PLAN is a non-profit organization, established in 1989
by and for families committed to future planning and securing a good life for
their relative with a disability.
Recent posting on the RDSP Blog:
August 14, 2008
August 31, 2007
Foster families
will be getting more financial support, Community Resources Minister Kevin Yates
announced today. The funding is part of an $18 million package to increase support
for vulnerable children and families in the province.
Also from Community Resources:
News
Release
August 29, 2007
The provincial government is providing immediate
help to address rising housing costs through increased shelter allowances. (...)
The
changes include:
• increasing the shelter rate for most Social Assistance
Program and Transitional Employment Allowance recipients by $5 to $75 per month;
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increasing the Saskatchewan Rental Housing Supplement by $6 to $21 per month.
The supplement is available to lower-income families and people with disabilities,
including those who are working in lower paying jobs; and
• increasing
the Provincial Training Allowance by $20 to $35 per month. The allowance is available
to people enrolled in adult basic education and quick skills programs.
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- small PDF file, one-page overview of Saskatchewan income supports for housing
--- the Social Assistance Program, the Transitional Employment Allowance, the
Provincial Training Allowance, and the Saskatchewan Rental Housing Supplement.]
Related links:
August 30, 2007
The
province is giving low-income people more money to cover their rent, but some
say with a housing crisis underway, it's not nearly enough. Combined allowances
and supplements are going up by amounts ranging from $11 to $96 a month, the Saskatchewan
government announced this week.
Source:
Lori Coolican,
August 30, 2007
Depending on their situation and where they live, some of Saskatchewan's
poorest residents will receive up to $96 more in monthly welfare benefits
starting Oct. 1. But others will get far less.
Source:
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Google.ca News Search Results : "" For related links, go to the Government Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm |
- incl. links to : Information Materials - Employability
Assistance for People with Disabilities - Enablelink - Housing programs - Saskatchewan
Council on Disability Issues
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This agreement
was signed under the , which
replaced the Employability Assistance for People with Disabilities initiative
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News Release
October 3, 2007
"(...)The
increase will take place in three stages that will see the minimum wage move to
$8.25 per hour on January 1, 2008, to $8.60 on May 1, 2008 and to $9.25 per hour
on May 1, 2009. The minimum call out pay, which is three times the level of the
minimum wage, will also increase accordingly. An adjustment will also be made
to minimum wage in 2010 to bring the minimum wage to the Low Income Cut-off (LICO).
Along with this increase, legislation will be introduced that permits the minimum
wage to be indexed in future years annually on May 1, to the consumer price index.
Indexing the minimum wage beginning in 2010 will ensure that minimum wage workers
are able to maintain a standard of living equivalent to the LICO. ...) There are
approximately 12,400 minimum wage earners in Saskatchewan."
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Related links:
October 3, 2007
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October 4, 2007
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(December 17, 1999)
Saskatchewan
Social Services
September 1, 2000
August
31, 2000
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- Reduction of Social Assistance Dependency in Saskatchewan
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Other Saskatchewan Sites - Autres sites de la Saskatchewan
(Mostly in reverse chronological order with the most recent addition at
the top)
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(PDF - 239K, 8 pages)
November 2009
* 35,000 Children in Poverty in Saskatchewan
* No Consistent Improvement Over Time
* Comparing Three Measures of Poverty
* Third Highest Provincial Child Poverty Rate
* 45% of Aboriginal Children in Low-Income Families
* More than One in Three Immigrant Children Poor
* 40% of Children in Female Lone-parent Families in Poverty
* Families Deeply in Poverty
* Saskatchewan Child Poverty Often Long Term
* One in Three Poor Children in Families with Full Employment
* Government Transfers Benefit Children
* Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor
* Child Poverty Rate High by International Standards
* Poverty Measures
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Boom and Bust: The Growing Income Gap
in Saskatchewan
September 2009
(PDF - 4.7MB, 59 pages)
(PDF - 130K, 19 pages)
For the past thirty years, the richest in the province have secured
the lion’s share of Saskatchewan’s economic growth, while those
at the lower end of the income spectrum have made few or no gains over the
same period. That is the conclusion of the Saskatchewan CCPA’s new
report: Boom and Bust: The Growing Income Gap in Saskatchewan.The report’s
author - Paul Gingrich retired professor of Sociology and Social Studies
at the University of Regina - finds that the gap between the richest and
poorest families in Saskatchewan has increased dramatically over the past
generation and has mushroomed since 2000 – during the best of economic
times.
Source:
Related link:
By Jason Warick
December 4, 2009
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May 25, 2009
New resource from the :
(PDF - 461K, 33 pages)
By Bill Holden, Nicola Chapin, Carmen Dyck and Nich Frasier
Community-University
Institute for Social Research
Source:
Social Development Report Series, 2009
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Also from CCSD :
(PDF - 341K, 29 pages)
By
David I. Hay, Information Partnership
Related links ===> Go to the Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
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(PDF - 103K, 9 pages)
November
2008
"(...)Despite government resolve, little has changed for poor children.
Nearly one in every five Saskatchewan children lives in a family with an income
below the LICO."
Source:
Related links from :
(PDF
- 167K, 6 pages)
[ version française:
(PDF - 565K, 8pages) ]
Press
Release
21 November 2008
OTTAWA – The federal government would make
a timely strategic move if it invested now to reduce stubborn poverty rates in
Canada, says a new report by Campaign 2000. The 2008 Report Card on Child and
Family Poverty in Canada, available at www.campaign2000.ca, shows the nation’s
child poverty rate is almost what it was in 1989 when Parliament unanimously resolved
to end child poverty by the year 2000.
- includes links to the latest report and earlier years
for : * British Columbia * Alberta * Saskatchewan * Manitoba * Ontario * New Brunswick
* Nova Scotia
Campaign 2000 is a cross-Canada public education movement to build Canadian awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.
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Health
Disparity in Saskatoon: Analysis to Intervention
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(PDF - 10.3MB, 365 pages)
o (PDF - 208K, 4 pages)
o (PDF - 584K, 20 pages)
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79 pages)
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o (PDF - 4MB,
141 pages)
o (PDF - 852K, 119 pages)
Source:
Saskatoon Health Region is one of the most complex and integrated
health delivery agencies in Canada, responsible for providing services ranging
from hospital and long term care to home care, public health and other community-based
programs.
Related media coverage
from the :
By Janet French
November 14, 2008
A
massive report to be unveiled by the Saskatoon Health Region on Monday offers
dozens of potential solutions to alleviate poverty in Saskatchewan and reduce
the yawning gap between the health of the rich and the poor. In addition to drawing
a detailed picture of the health differences between Saskatoon's richest and poorest
residents, the 361-page document borrows successful social policies from around
the globe -- Ireland, Sweden, Britain, Seattle and even other Canadian provinces
-- and suggests how they could be applied here.
[ NOTE: the above article contains the notation : "FIRST IN A SIX-PART SERIES", but there are no links on the to a page with links to all six articles in the series. I found the following links to related articles by doing a search of the Star Phoenix using the search string . ]
November 15, 2008
November
15, 2008
November 17, 2008
November 18, 2008
November 18, 2008
November 20, 2008
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(University of Regina)
Established in
1972, the unit receives funding from the University and through various research
contracts and grants. SPR conducts critical analytic research to promote social
justice and enhance individual, family and community development.
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links to: About SPR - What's New - Research Associates - Research Projects - Research
Resources - Events - Publications
Source:
Here are a few sample reports:
(PDF
- 13.5MB, 57 pages)
By Graham Riches and Gordon Ternowetsky
September 1989
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includes three complete papers:
* Child Hunger and Family Poverty in Saskatchewan
: Broadening the Debate
* Who are the Real Welfare Bums?
* Welfare Reform
in Saskatchewan : Implications for the Poor, Labour and Social Work
Source:
(browse 21 reports by title)
(formerly Social Administration Research Unit)
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[pdf, 8pp, 127KB]
November
24, 2006
Click on this link to access child poverty
report cards for BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia.
Related Links from :
Campaign 2000
23
November 2006
The rate of child and family poverty in Canada has been stalled
at 17-18% over the past 5 years despite strong economic growth and low unemployment,
according to a new report by Campaign 2000.
[pdf, 6pp, 311KB]
2006
report card on child poverty in Canada
- reports in English and French going back to 2002
TIP: if you scroll
to the bottom of the earlier editions page, you'll also find links to a 2002 report
to the UN Special Session on Children entitled A report on a decade of child
and family poverty in Canada and a November 2001 Campaign 2000 Bulletin entitled
Family Security in Insecure Times: Tackling Canada's Social Deficit.
(PDF file - 609K, 36
pages)
October 2005
"This paper examines (...) recent program changes
in Saskatchewan as part of the neo-liberal response to the new global economy
and its search for cheaper, more flexible labour. The province is failing to support
the interests of the poor and is continuing down the path of compelling them to
undertake low wage employment."
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[pdf, 12pp, 422KB]
November
2005
Related Link (national child poverty report):
New from :
News
alert - Campaign 2000
Kelowna, BC, 23 Nov 05
"Activists took their
annual child poverty report directly to the First Ministers meeting here today.
The findings are discouraging. For almost 30 years the poverty rate has been stuck
at one-in-six children. Whether families are mother-led, have two parents, are
working full time or on social assistance the numbers are static. A particularly
disturbing finding is that child poverty rates for Aboriginal, immigrant, and
visible minority children are twice the national rate. Campaign 2000 National
Coordinator Laurel Rothman, whose organization prepares the annual update, was
joined by Peter Dinsdale of the National Association of Friendship Centres. They
are clearly frustrated by misplaced government priorities and jurisdictional wrangling."
Complete report:
[pdf, 12pp, 500KB]
[pdf, 12pp, 388KB]
November 2004
Source:
(University of Regina)
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Related Links:
Complete report: [pdf, 12pp, 186KB] Source: Source: |
(PDF file - 371K, 43 pages)
("Race to the Bottom: Welfare to Work Programming
in Saskatchewan and its Similarities to Programming in the United States and Britain")
By
Garson Hunter, Ph.D & Dionne Miazdyck, Research Assistant
August 2003
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interesting comparison of recent welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, Canada, the
U.S. and Britain
- includes a bonus ten-page article entitled Low Income
Cut-Offs (LICO) and Poverty Measurement (LICO, Market Basket Measure, etc.)
TIP===>
the appendix to this report (pp 27-31) presents a detailed comparison of the main
features of the Saskatchewan Assistance Plan (the old Saskatchewan welfare program)
and the new Transitional Employment Allowance.
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Welfare in Saskatchewan: A Critical Evaluation Even though I disagree fundamentally with the Fraser Institute's view on the "success" of welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, I feel it's important to share this information about how one faction of Canadian society feels about welfare reforms and social programs in general. The authors state that
"[S]askatchewan politicians have chosen not to more fundamentally reform
the welfare system, as other Canadian jurisdictions have", referring specifically
to the deep welfare cuts in Alberta (1993), Ontario (1995) and BC (2002), provinces
that they offer as models for Canadian welfare reform. Ironically, the National
Council of Welfare (NCW) applauded the Saskatchewan government back in 1997 for
exactly the same reason in Another Look at Welfare Reform : "Compared with
some other provinces, Saskatchewan had done better for its welfare recipients
by doing nothing." I wrote those words myself, in my role as as principal
researcher for the NCW's welfare reform report, and I'm sure that even the harshest
social critics of the government of Saskatchewan wouldn't argue that point about
welfare in their province in the mid-to-late 1990s. I
suspect that the difference in perspective is that the NCW represents the interests
of disadvantaged Canadians while the Fraser Institute speaks for the rich and
the corporations ("...advises the Minister [of Human Resources Development
Canada] on the needs and problems of low-income Canadians and on social and related
programs and policies which affect their welfare...") - "Founded in 1974 at a time when many Canadians
believed that government should be the principal source of growth and development
in the economy, the Institute has helped bring about a considerable shift in public
opinion in recognition of the importance of market competition." |
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This page provides
information on region-specific services for Individuals, Business and Organizations.
Services
include: Jobs * Financial Benefits * Employment Insurance * Taxes * Training and
Careers * Identification Cards * Travel and Passports * Health * Consumer Information
* Canada and the World * Environment and Resources * Economy * Public Safety *
Culture and Recreation * Science and Technology.
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The Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy
(SIPP) is a non-profit, independent, non-partisan institute at the University
of Regina committed to stimulating public policy debate and providing expertise,
research and analysis on social, economic, fiscal, environmental, and administrative
issues related to public policy.
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Press
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(PDF file - 338K, 49 pages) NOTE:
recommended reading - detailed info on welfare reforms in Canada and more specifically
in Saskatchewan, includes analysis of the National Child Benefit and Saskatchewan
NCB programs! |
Related Link:
(CCPA) - National
Office
"The Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute
concerned with issues of social and economic justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA
is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates. By
combining solid research with extensive outreach, we work to enrich democratic
dialogue and ensure Canadians know there are workable solutions to the issues
we face. "
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(PDF file - 449K, 37 pages)
by Carmen Dyck
October 2004
Community-University
Institute for Social Research
University of Saskatchewan
"This research
project seeks to understand the effects of Saskatchewan's government job training
programs, such as Jobs First, not only on poverty in Saskatchewan, but also on
participants in these programs. The provincial government claims that job training
programs have decreased the number of people living on social assistance, and
while this may be true, it does not capture the realities of people who have been
moved from assistance into job training programs or minimum wage full time jobs,
neither of which provide an adequate sustainable income. This report gathers and
evaluates the literature on welfare to work programs for both Saskatchewan and
Canada. It seeks to understand the difficulty of living on assistance rates, regardless
of whether they are called training benefits, transitional employment allowances,
or supplementary employment benefits, as well as the reality of living on minimum
wage, the differences for people in rural areas, and the disparities of these
programs for women and men."
Source:
===>links to over three dozen reports in CUISR's three focused research modules:
1.
Community Health Determinants and Health Policy
2. Community Economic Development,
and
3. Quality of Life Indicators.
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- incl. links to : About CUISR - Research
Modules - Research Series - Publications - Resource Library - Other Resources
- Conferences & Seminars - Funding & Training - Employment - Search -
Contact Us
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"The Prairie Women’s
Health Centre of Excellence is one of the Centres of Excellence for Women’s
Health supported by the Women’s Health Bureau of Health Canada. The Centres
are dedicated to improving the health status of Canadian women by supporting policy-oriented,
and community-based research and analysis on the social determinants of women’s
health."
May
2005
By Josephine Savarese, Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina
and
Bonnie Morton, Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry
"The Prairie Women's
Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) Research Program on Poverty and Women's Health
has supported several studies that examine the links between public policy, women's
poverty and women's health. In 2003, PWHCE initiated three research projects designed
to examine income assistance policies in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and their effects
on women's health. Reports from two of these projects were published in 2004:
Don't We Count As People: Saskatchewan Social Welfare Policy and Women's
Health and Surviving on Hope is Not Enough: Women's Health, Poverty,
Justice and Income Support in Manitoba. These two studies were based on
several focus groups held in each province and were designed to bring forward
the voices and perspectives of those most directly affected by income assistance
policies. As Wharf and MacKenzie have noted, 'the knowledge and experience gap
between those who make policy and those who must live with the consequences is
enormous.' The research helps bridge that gap by providing an important critique
of income assistance policies from the perspectives of women living on welfare.
The women's descriptions of their experiences reveal the inadequacy of income
assistance benefits and the harmful effects on their physical and emotional health."
(PDF file - 927K, 62 pages)
NOTE: the complete report includes
both studies noted above.
Don't
We Count as People? Saskatchewan Social Welfare Policy and Women's Health
By
M. Kerr, D. Frost, D. Bignell and Equal Justice for All.
February 2004
"(...)
This project was part of a larger initiative sponsored by the Prairie Women's
Health Centre of Excellence to examine social assistance policies in Manitoba
and Saskatchewan, their impact on women's health, and women's access to justice
as recipients of social assistance. Seven focus groups
were held with 43 women living on social assistance in five of the eleven administrative
regions of Saskatchewan in April 2003. In focus group discussions, these women
described the daily reality of their lives and the impact of social assistance
policies on their physical and emotional health."
(PDF file - 871K, 58 pages)
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The
SaskNetWork web site is about helping the people of Saskatchewan connect to the
resources they need in the areas of jobs, work, education and training, career
planning, self-employment, labour market information, financial help and the workplace.
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- "The Virtual Employment Resource Centre" (for people
with disabilities)
Career and Employment Resources for Persons with Disabilities
- Links to a wide range of information for people with disabilities and those
who support them.
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Another
Look at Welfare Reform (Autumn 1997) - an in-depth analysis by the National Council of Welfare of changes in Canadian welfare programs in the 1990s. The report focuses on the provincial and territorial reforms that preceded the repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan and those that followed the implementation of the Canada Health and Social Transfer. - large file (275K+) but well worth the wait for detailed information on welfare reforms in the 1990s in each Canadian jurisdiction, as well as a national overview of the broad issues of welfare reform and the setting for welfare reform in Canada Source : |
List
of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the third periodic
report of Canada : United Nations Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights - Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (June 10, 1998)
Saskatchewan
Government Response to the U.N. List of Issues
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(comprehensive list of daily, weekly and regional newspapers in Saskatchewan)
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