Specialized Teams is a Great Idea. Glad that OW will help with Education & Training Opportunities and that LEAP financial incentive is also a Great Idea so young parents can have some funds to help towards their future education and/or their childrens. Specialized Training programs, is something I myself am interested in, along with employment placement (job search), since I do not have a mental/physical/addiction issue; already have my high school diploma & a college certificate, but I have been out of the work force for 10yrs. Love that OW will help with employment needs ie: bus-pass, fuel, childcare, tools/clothing related to the job and that OW will help even 'after' the job is secured.
It would be nice if Ontario Works could act as a mechanism to represent the voices of people in need. This presentation is nice, and it is nice to have social assistance. However, the people in the video are not at all like the average people you see in an OW office. What if simply finding work will not provide you with any affluence to grow as a person? Should people not be able to find careers which allow them the freedom to choose a sustainable, resilient, lifestyle that requires a disposable investment? I mean to say, shouldn't we be able to live in harmony with nature, minimize our footprint and provide what we need for ourselves without money, and shouldn't our government encourage it? We do have the option of working, living minimally, and saving for the future. However, the harder you work, the more you need to sustain you; most minimum wage work eventually leaves you burnt out. People around the OW office are usually exhausted, depressed, and beaten down. If there were actually enough jobs to employ everyone, the current system would make sense. However, the reality is that there are not enough jobs. Then we get to the grey area: UNDER-REGULATED EMPLOYMENT! So many jobs exist in aging, hazardous, and insufficiently maintained work environments. This leaves all ready desperate, vulnerable, people looking for work at greater risk of workplace injury. Now for the hard part: POST-INJURY RE-INTEGRATION! If you have only ever pulled your back, dropped something on your foot, broke a nail, burned, cut or bruised yourself; then fine, recovering and getting back to work is no big deal. However, if you were involved in a serious, work-related, accident then you would learn how difficult it can be. First, if you want to have affluence, you must go to school and become qualified for a higher paying career. However, in order to overcome the barriers to enter that work force, you must either give up your rights under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety act, in addition to WSIB insurance, for the chance to get required experience in a low paying co-op position. Greenhorns be warned, this is when you are the most vulnerable, and most likely to get into a serious accident, as an employee. Conveniently, you have no right no refuse or insurance right when you need it the most. For those who get injured after jumping through these hoops normally get a decent settlement. Those who get injured before Co-op placement have no valued experience to insure; no settlement. Those people get treated like worthless dirt. Left to choose between a life of hard work and low pay, suffering with a disability, or living in fear each day you complete a co-op placement; knowing full well the consequences if things go wrong and how shit out of luck you will be if you refuse to work or get injured on the job. The alternative, you end up like like my good friend; dead at the young age of 21. Sounds like the perfect learning experience to me. I propose that the government offer grants, through OW, of $30 000 for families or individuals who wish to invest it into a sustainable living arrangement. The money could be used as a down payment towards a mortgage loan on property and materials needed to construct energy efficient, or net-zero living space. In addition to living space, the money would provide access to green energy technology, and enclosures/circulating systems, needed to operate a greenhouse. Simple structures, such as shipping containers could provide the starting hub to build a home from. By providing, this opportunity to people, OW could ensure that people end up financially independent and able to provide their basic needs and shelter. This money could be later re-integrated by including a small fee in the monthly mortgage payments. In effect, the money would act as a line of credit and investment in our future energy needs, public health, well being, and protection of human rights. Independence does not, and should not, mean working full time in constant need of a pay-cheque; faster and faster, until we have nothing but problems and no time for contemplation. This would be a step towards equality in a democratized system which allowed true enforcement of human rights. The world needs to throttle back dependence on fossil fuels. Our current economic system is driven by fossil fuel, and therefore, most jobs available today support the fossil fuel industry. If Ontario's government only wants us back to work, then they have not practiced foresight. Only by providing people the affluence needed to become independently sustainable, can we build a sustainable society. If we are forced to work in a profit driven economy to generate that affluence, we may inadvertently become the problem. Not to say, "we don't need fossil fuel", or, "we don't need jobs"; just we do need to live in a home that is ours, provides it's own energy, water, food, and waste disposal. At the very least, we need the freedom to take home our income and not give it away to energy companies and property owners. We need something to alleviate the stress now, so that we can earn and pay dividends in the future. $30 000 spent today = exponentially growing, compounding return factors, , health benefits, savings and resilience into the future. Another way to look at it: $30 000 = 3.846 years on social assistance for an individual = OR the annual cost per individual of the top 5% of medical patients treated in hospitals = OR the cost of air ambulance in Northern Ontario = OR max grant from Canada-Ontario Farm Stewardship Program = OR the cost of a wedding in southern Ontario = OR max payout to a business on the Going Green Table.
it because Ontario works is a scam it just a pretty build to make politician to feel like there make a different at the same time cheating system so that the poor still suffer case in point your rent 1000$ a month they give you 700$ and say figure out the rest then you lose your place then Ontario works say oh your bill are less now so you get less now they just want to keep people poor Ontario works is a scam
start working and STAY working! find and KEEP a job. Bet you'd love for me to just work my life away wouldn't you? while you acquire more assets and skeet of to the mountains to ski.
Specialized Teams is a Great Idea. Glad that OW will help with Education & Training Opportunities and that LEAP financial incentive is also a Great Idea so young parents can have some funds to help towards their future education and/or their childrens. Specialized Training programs, is something I myself am interested in, along with employment placement (job search), since I do not have a mental/physical/addiction issue; already have my high school diploma & a college certificate, but I have been out of the work force for 10yrs. Love that OW will help with employment needs ie: bus-pass, fuel, childcare, tools/clothing related to the job and that OW will help even 'after' the job is secured.
We want you working and stay working. We don’t want to pay you the money back that you were forced to give us.
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It would be nice if Ontario Works could act as a mechanism to represent the voices of people in need. This presentation is nice, and it is nice to have social assistance. However, the people in the video are not at all like the average people you see in an OW office. What if simply finding work will not provide you with any affluence to grow as a person? Should people not be able to find careers which allow them the freedom to choose a sustainable, resilient, lifestyle that requires a disposable investment? I mean to say, shouldn't we be able to live in harmony with nature, minimize our footprint and provide what we need for ourselves without money, and shouldn't our government encourage it?
We do have the option of working, living minimally, and saving for the future. However, the harder you work, the more you need to sustain you; most minimum wage work eventually leaves you burnt out. People around the OW office are usually exhausted, depressed, and beaten down. If there were actually enough jobs to employ everyone, the current system would make sense. However, the reality is that there are not enough jobs. Then we get to the grey area: UNDER-REGULATED EMPLOYMENT! So many jobs exist in aging, hazardous, and insufficiently maintained work environments. This leaves all ready desperate, vulnerable, people looking for work at greater risk of workplace injury.
Now for the hard part: POST-INJURY RE-INTEGRATION! If you have only ever pulled your back, dropped something on your foot, broke a nail, burned, cut or bruised yourself; then fine, recovering and getting back to work is no big deal. However, if you were involved in a serious, work-related, accident then you would learn how difficult it can be. First, if you want to have affluence, you must go to school and become qualified for a higher paying career. However, in order to overcome the barriers to enter that work force, you must either give up your rights under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety act, in addition to WSIB insurance, for the chance to get required experience in a low paying co-op position. Greenhorns be warned, this is when you are the most vulnerable, and most likely to get into a serious accident, as an employee. Conveniently, you have no right no refuse or insurance right when you need it the most. For those who get injured after jumping through these hoops normally get a decent settlement. Those who get injured before Co-op placement have no valued experience to insure; no settlement.
Those people get treated like worthless dirt. Left to choose between a life of hard work and low pay, suffering with a disability, or living in fear each day you complete a co-op placement; knowing full well the consequences if things go wrong and how shit out of luck you will be if you refuse to work or get injured on the job. The alternative, you end up like like my good friend; dead at the young age of 21. Sounds like the perfect learning experience to me.
I propose that the government offer grants, through OW, of $30 000 for families or individuals who wish to invest it into a sustainable living arrangement. The money could be used as a down payment towards a mortgage loan on property and materials needed to construct energy efficient, or net-zero living space. In addition to living space, the money would provide access to green energy technology, and enclosures/circulating systems, needed to operate a greenhouse. Simple structures, such as shipping containers could provide the starting hub to build a home from. By providing, this opportunity to people, OW could ensure that people end up financially independent and able to provide their basic needs and shelter. This money could be later re-integrated by including a small fee in the monthly mortgage payments. In effect, the money would act as a line of credit and investment in our future energy needs, public health, well being, and protection of human rights. Independence does not, and should not, mean working full time in constant need of a pay-cheque; faster and faster, until we have nothing but problems and no time for contemplation.
This would be a step towards equality in a democratized system which allowed true enforcement of human rights. The world needs to throttle back dependence on fossil fuels. Our current economic system is driven by fossil fuel, and therefore, most jobs available today support the fossil fuel industry. If Ontario's government only wants us back to work, then they have not practiced foresight. Only by providing people the affluence needed to become independently sustainable, can we build a sustainable society. If we are forced to work in a profit driven economy to generate that affluence, we may inadvertently become the problem. Not to say, "we don't need fossil fuel", or, "we don't need jobs"; just we do need to live in a home that is ours, provides it's own energy, water, food, and waste disposal. At the very least, we need the freedom to take home our income and not give it away to energy companies and property owners. We need something to alleviate the stress now, so that we can earn and pay dividends in the future. $30 000 spent today = exponentially growing, compounding return factors, , health benefits, savings and resilience into the future. Another way to look at it: $30 000 = 3.846 years on social assistance for an individual = OR the annual cost per individual of the top 5% of medical patients treated in hospitals = OR the cost of air ambulance in Northern Ontario = OR max grant from Canada-Ontario Farm Stewardship Program = OR the cost of a wedding in southern Ontario = OR max payout to a business on the Going Green Table.
it because Ontario works is a scam it just a pretty build to make politician to feel like there make a different at the same time cheating system so that the poor still suffer case in point your rent 1000$ a month they give you 700$ and say figure out the rest then you lose your place then Ontario works say oh your bill are less now so you get less now they just want to keep people poor Ontario works is a scam
Welfare
start working and STAY working! find and KEEP a job. Bet you'd love for me to just work my life away wouldn't you? while you acquire more assets and skeet of to the mountains to ski.
I own a felony, I was told to lie to get jobs, I did. LOL. Some lie for a good reason, most do not...