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ATTENTION VETERANS
EX•SERVICEMEN AND'
WOMEN &' DEPENDENTS
The Royal Canadian Legion Provincial Service
Bureau Officer, Randolph Groundwater, will be visit-
ing,iin the'. area.
Anyone wishing information, advice or assistance
regarding:•.
• War Disability Pensions.
• Treatment• for entitled veterans,
Appeals• . against adverse original
application for war Veterans and
Widows Allowance..
Contact the Service Officer or Secretary of the
Branch. no later than July 9+.199?.. •
• .. Irvine Eedy
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• Service Officer.
•
This troll .dropped' in,
for .a visit at Morrison
Berries during the
fourth • annual straw..
berry festival on
Saturday. Stephanie
Morrison (left), with
help from a member
of the 'Magic •in.
• Motion's Children's.
Theatre troupe,
played the littlest
goat in .the story of
the troll ' and the
goats. She is : trying
to make her way
,across the bridge' to
greener grass on the
other side. The troll
relents and allows
her to cross as she is
the smallest goat and.
his appetite is really
for bigger ones.
(Livingston photo)
From the mail bag
has concerns w thr Bill.
Dear editor: '
Ontario tenants on lim-
ited ;incomes: -may be fac-
:,i.ng even more discrimina
tion : unless • last -Minute.
changes are _ Made to Bill "
•...96 : the Tenant Protection:
Act which is now before
the Ontario legislature.
The problematic parts
- of the Bill are sections
'which ,Would make amend-
, orients ; to the. 'O-ntario,
Human- Rights. Code As it
is now, the Code prohibits
landlords fromrcdiscrimi-
natii3g on the. basis of the
source of the prospective
tenants' incorne:.This proms
tects• people with • Iow"
incomes, including those
receiving family benefits,
-`.disability' benefits, and
general welfare `benefits,
from being refused aceom-. •
modation because of land-
lords' prejudices:•
- Section 200, of Bill 96
would allow landlords to
use "income information"
as a criterion for refusal.
:So landlords wishing to
exclude people with chs
abilities, single 'parents; or
other.. disadvantaged
• groups from their premis
' es, Can claim their refusals •
'are based on ''iincome
information which they`
interpret to. mean their
their'
premises are not .'"afford-• ,
able" by . the .prospective
"• tenant.
Discrimination in hous-
2_4ing isalready a serious
problem iii Ontario. In
1993, . a lJnited Nations
committee called for
improved :.human rights
protection and enforce-
ment after finding evi-
dence .of widespread dis-
crimination in housing in :.
Canada against social ser
vice recipients: Bill' 96. resulting in hundreds of
would ' weaken human thousands of homeless,•
rights ,.protection, .:.notpredominantly women and •
improve it. children,' .
Keith Norton, recently ",..The 'proposed
'appointed' ".by Premier : amendment to the • Code
Harris, .the Chief `` also refers to credit. checks;
Commissioner ° ".of the, landlord references arid co -
Ontario Human Rights , signors -The . position
Commission; is, a.: leading,‘' CERA and- the Human
objector to this amend- Rights Commission took
merit. He has written to the in the recent "-bdarc 'of
Premier- and. to Al' Leach inquiry hearings was Iand-
Minister of Housing. ask- lords may disqualify appli-
i.ng that the amendment be ,;• cants :,on the basis of a bad
withdrawn, 'credit rating without :via-
A • bulletin' from the slating' the Human Rights
Toronto-based Centre.: for Code.(though it may not be
Equality Rights iii fair).. Oti• (he other hand, it,
Accommodation `(CERA) .: is a violation'of the rights
states.::, "Income discrimi- • of ;young people and new,
nation is the most: serious "comers to disqualify -them.
barrier facing low income simply, because.- they are
households in. need of 'unable toprovide; a refer-
housing. The. provincial ';price orcredit andit is
government has with ;clearly discriminatory to
drawn.al.t financial support -. requireeveryone on social •
for new social housing.' assistance: toprovide a c`o-
Low •income, households in
need of housing can only
rely on the private market,
"If landlords whose. y act of • • these
ff p
units" are More affordable tections from discrimina-
and, desirable are permitted' , tion." •
to exclude all low income : SWAN (Stop Woman
tenants, low ncome AbuseN'ow) is particularly
households are either left . concerned with the poten
homeless or are forced to char es tial 'im on women who
rent the most over -priced
are ttem tin to leave
and undesirable apart- : abusive spouses.. Anything
ments on the market, which limits access to
'Professor .Michael affordable. housing puts
Ornstein . of York these' women and . their
signor. Bill' 96 would leave
young People refugees
and other first-time renters
without' an- .e salve ro
University has shown that children at • great .risk..
if. all .landlordswere, to use • Man
y ,women who are
the most car -ninon "afford- abused in their homes must
ability" criterion; requiring, rely .initially on public
thattenants pay no more assistance to leave their
than 30 per cent' of income abusers and establish• safe
househoids. 'Aiso, one
`towards' rent, about"one •
aspect of the abuse many
third of Ontario's tenants women experience is the
would be disqualified from • control their partners exert
the most affordable apart- over all financial dealings
ments on the market - of .' 'the' family. Many
women leave abusive
spouses with no credit his-
tory in their own name
'If -you "share SWAN's
concern about how these
changes may affect women
trying to escape violence,
and indeed.' on all . citizens
with'." Marginal.. incomes,.
you can:still:take action to
influence 'the final°•form of
Bill 96:•
'The Bill .,passed.:'second
'' reading in early June :