Quality of life in Canadian communities : Mending Canada's frayed social safety net : the role of municipal governments

Sys tem Incidence of low income, percentage of total census families BOX 1 — MEASURING POVERTY IN CANADA: LICO, LIM AND MBM This report generally relies on the concept of the A criticism of both the LICO and LIM is that neither Low Income Cut Off (LICO) in order to report on accounts for the variation in the costs of basic poverty. [...] The following initiatives strengths and needs of each of the city’s neighbour- serve to highlight spatial dynamics at the local level hoods, and enables the City to better design program and provide tools for the public dissemination of interventions. [...] Municipalities with the lowest QOLRS — the City of Vancouver, the City of proportion of families with income below LICO are Toronto and the Montreal Metropolitan Community — Halton, Waterloo and Durham (with 6.6, 7.4 and have the highest proportion of families with 7.6 per cent respectively). [...] Hence, “without a comprehensive, Assistance in the City of Toronto, outlines the extensive coordinated and universal approach to programs and efforts of the City of Toronto in the provision of healthy public policies with a long term vision of social services to its citizens and provides an Action addressing poverty we will never reach the Canadian Plan to improve necessary supports, many of which [...] Most QOLRS communities experienced modest The highest rates of unemployment in 2009 were in changes in a comparison of the percentage of families the CMAs of London, St.