I'm as incensed by the Star's action as Dennis. At every presentation we do,
WISE recommends democratic and electoral reform as the first, crucial step
toward addressing poverty and other SDOH. 

We can talk all we like about raising welfare rates, minimum wages, fixing
the broken EI system, implementing a GAIA, securing affordable housing...
Yet none of that will happen - or will happen in such dribbles and drabs
that the changes won't keep up with further erosion. It won't happen until
we have a political system that reflects the values of the general
citizenry, not Canada's elites.

Further, it's irresponsible and unethical for the media to take a position
on an issue that is so fundamentally a choice for the people, not corporate
entities, to make. What the TorStar has done is crass propaganda. Clearly,
this move is to protect its own interests.

Ocean, WISE Coordinator
http://www.wise-bc.org/

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