NL CERB Clawbacks Push People into Poverty: Advocates

Newfoundland & Labrador will be clawing back income support from anyone who received CERB. Advocates fear this will increase poverty and homelessness.
Newfoundland & Labrador will be clawing back income support from anyone who received CERB. Advocates fear this will increase poverty and homelessness.
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As International Women’s Day approaches, it’s been nearly a year since Jenny Wright stepped down as Executive Director of the St. John’s Status of Women Council. In October, the Independent revealed RNC and provincial government involvement in the sequence of events leading to her departure. Since that time, there have been a range of responses from community organizations, Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, and state officials. Five months after the story emerged, and nearly a year after Wright stepped down, the Independent takes a look at what’s transpired in the wake of the revelations. The provincial government has maintained clear support for key figures involved in the overreach, including Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Chief Joe Boland and now-Deputy Minister for Status of Women Linda Ross. But many important relationships across the community remain strained. The St. John’s Status of Women Council, as well as the Provincial Action Network for the Status of Women…
"As long as sex work is criminalized then authorities have a mandate to treat sex workers as criminals. They're oversurveilled
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Newfoundland & Labrador will be clawing back income support from anyone who received CERB. Advocates fear this will increase poverty
Media coverage of reports of gang rapes in St. John’s has directed many to contemplate their moral stance on sex work, instead of their moral stance on rape and the appropriate police response to the rape of any person.
"As long as sex work is criminalized then authorities have a mandate to treat sex workers as criminals. They're oversurveilled
Newfoundland & Labrador will be clawing back income support from anyone who received CERB. Advocates fear this will increase poverty
During COVID-19 one of the concrete ways we worked to take care of our own sex working community was to