With great thanks to the folks at the Income Security Advocacy Centre for putting this together, and to CLEO for making the content available.
Ontario has recently undertaken a broadly-focused review of its social assistance (welfare) system. These webinars were done to help people understand what was happening, and present a few ideas for ways the system could be improved. They’re all fairly long, but for good reason. It’s an ambitious project and the cynic in me wonders whether it will ever turn into anything, but I’m impressed that they’re doing it at all. The webinars from ISAC are:
Part II: Moving benefits outside OW and ODSP (OW is income support “welfare” and ODSP is disability “welfare”)