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Sherri Torjman
Sherri Torjman is a social policy consultant. She was Vice-President of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy from 1992-2017.
Publications
- Single workers are Canada’s forgotten poor
- Reconstructing care for seniors
- Tax credits: What you think you see is not what you get
- Disability policy: From remedies to rights
- Intergenerational policies and programs
- Policy innovations for an aging society
- Caledon Institute Welcomes the New National Housing Strategy
- Welfare in Canada, 2016
- Caledon praises Federal Economic Statement
- It’s time to tear down the “welfare wall” for persons with disabilities
- National Child Data Strategy: Results of a Feasibility Study
- Dismantling the Welfare Wall for Persons with Disabilities
- The 2017 Farewell Budget
- Poverty Reduction and Disability Income
- Welfare in Canada 2015
- Compassionate Care Benefits within Employment Insurance
- Federal government must build conditions for young entrepreneurs’ success
- Dear Minister: Help low-income families by acting now, not in 2020
- Disability Supports and Employment Policy
- Minimum Wage, Maximum Wager in Alberta
- Innovation: counting what counts
- Canada Pension Plan: The New Deal
- Risks and rewards of the sharing economy
- Long-Term Commitment for Long-Term Care
- When is a dollar more than a dollar?
- The Canada Child Benefit Needs to be Fully Indexed to Inflation
- The Social-Policy-Is-Back Budget
- Farewell, Wizard of Oz
- Ottawa Must Get Serious about Poverty Reduction
- Welfare in Canada, 2014
- The Canada Social Report… So Far
- MaRS: The Big-Brain Approach to Prosperity
- Delivery of Social Benefits through the Personal Income Tax
- Economic Policy Needs a Broader Conversation
- The Canada Social Report Needs You
- We Are All Disabled
- Poverty and Poetry
- Disability Supports: Missing on the Policy Radar
- Tax credits: great politics, bad policy
- Policies in Support of Caregivers
- Memo to the Mayors of Canada
- Child benefit reform is back on track
- The 2015 Deficit-of-Ideas Budget
- Liveability — for whom?
- Symposium on Children of the Recession
- Cut the Tax Cut
- Welfare in Canada 2013
- The Six Billion Dollar Man
- If you don’t pay, you can’t play: the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit
- The Elephant Not in the Room
- Policies that Build Community
- Canada’s Invisible and Invaluable Labour Force
- Policies that Build (caring) Community
- Book Review: Poverty in Canada
- 15 Years of CCEDNet: Taking Flight Together
- The glass is more full than empty
- Disability Policy Highlights
- On the Mark
- Disabling the Disability Mindset
- Disability – By Design
- The 2014 Unbalanced Budget
- Paying for Canada
- More Buzz on When Bees Meet Trees
- Bees, Trees and the Innovation Ecosystem
- Welfare in Canada 2012
- Disability in December
- Laurie Needs Affordable Housing
- Poverty and Prosperity in Nunavut
- Strengthening the Canada Pension Plan: Take it to the public
- Welfare Re-form: The Future of Social Policy
- Throne Speech Signals on Caregiving
- Lessons from the Data Rescue Crowdfunding Campaign
- Making the Case for Making the Case
- The “Royal We”
- Knowledge Exchange for Mental Health
- Private money, public programs? There will always be strings
- The Case for a Canada Social Report
- Ensuring the Welfare of ‘Welfare Incomes’
- The Skilled Budget
- Financing Long-Term Care: More Money in the Mix
- Proceedings of Caledon’s 20th Anniversary
- Guiding principles for social policy budgets
- As the fiscal chill thaws: social policy ideas for the medium term
- A proposal to strengthen the Canada Pension Plan: the 1.5 option
- Enhancing the Working Income Tax Benefit
- Social Return on Investment: Strengths and Challenges
- Assessing the Benefits of Community Human Services
- Home-care crunch coming
- Saving Welfare Incomes and Poverty Profile
- 65 Shades of Grey
- The No-Budge Budget
- Old Age Insecurity?
- Recreation and Resilience
- Social Purchase for Social Purpose
- Tackling Inequality Now
- Community-Led Development
- Submission to the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance
- Counsel for the Council
- Inequality Is Not Inevitable
- Inequality Is Not Inevitable
- Recognizing the Recognition
- Bleeding Hearts and Heads
- Acrimony on Acronyms
- Celebrating the Strengths in “Vulnerable” Neighbourhoods
- Policy Challenges: The Caregiver/Care Receiver Relationship
- Thank you note to the Minister of Finance
- Caring for the Carers
- Social Inclusion in the City of Hamilton
- When is $500 not $500?
- When is $500 not $500?
- Prisons or poverty? The choice is clear
- A simple way to help Canada’s poorest seniors
- Policy Agenda in Search of a Budget
- Social Inclusion Consultation Workbook
- The Forgotten Caregivers of Pension Reform
- Memo #3 to Hamilton: What Does Inclusion Look Like?
- Poverty Reduction in Québec: The First Five Years
- A Basic Income Plan for Canadians with Severe Disabilities
- Caregivers and Costs
- EI Financing: Reset Required
- Memo #2 to Hamilton: From Sidelines to Centre Field
- Memo #1 to Hamilton: The Games Mean Business
- Reconstructing Social Assistance in New Brunswick: Vision and Action
- Information Blackout
- Health Care Reform: Lessons from the Edge
- Three main social challenges Canada will face in the future
- Breaking down the welfare wall in New Brunswick
- Canada at 150: The Social Agenda
- Proposed Reforms to Post-Secondary Education
- Welfare Routes to Post-Secondary Education
- Welfare Rules and Post-Secondary Education
- The Power of Post-Secondary Education
- The Déjà Vu All Over Again Budget
- Barriers to Post-Secondary Education
- How did the just society become just don’t care?
- From Silver to Gold
- A Poverty Reduction Strategy for Nova Scotia
- The Three Ghosts of Poverty
- Talking Turkey on Taxes
- Student Aid Meets Social Assistance
- New Ingredients for the Health Care Mix
- Woman with the White Moustache
- All Aboard Manitoba’s Poverty Train
- Canada’s Shrunken Safety Net: Employment Insurance in the Great Recession
- Collaboration on Policy: A Manual developed by the Community-Government Collaboration on Policy
- The federal role in poverty reduction
- Put Your Money Where Your Wealth Is
- The Red-Ink Budget
- Community Roles in Policy
- Caring for the Caregivers
- The Forgotten Fundamentals
- Poverty Policy
- Make Work Pay
- Social Profits
- Caregivers and Dementia: Report Appendices
- Caregivers and Dementia
- From Psychology to Policy
- Voluntary Sector Roles in Public Health
- Caledon Response to Liberal Poverty Strategy
- Five-Point Plan for Reforming Disability Supports
- Waist Reduction
- Shoring Up Our Public Anchors
- A Throne Speech for All Parties
- Sound-Bite Policy
- The Enabling Environment for Community Work
- Organizing for Neighbourhood Renewal
- Repairing Canada’s Social Safety Net
- Mixed Brew for the ‘Coffee Shop’ Budget
- Money and Meaning: Blended Value in Community Enterprise
- Supports – or Surgery?
- Shared Space: The Communities Agenda
- Preparing for the Demographic Tsunami
- Towards a New Architecture for Canada’s Adult Benefits
- More Than a Name Change: The Universal Child Care Benefit
- Reading, Writing and Neighbourhood Renewal
- Finding Common Ground on Child Care
- There’s Madness to this Method
- Evaluation Framework for Federal Investment in the Social Economy: A Discussion Paper
- A World Fit for Children
- What is Policy?
- Policy Dialogue
- Disability Tax: The Budget’s Quiet Little Secret
- The Vote or Veto Budget: An analysis of the 2005 federal Budget
- Sustainable Development Framework for Science and Technology: Social and Cultural Dimensions For the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on Science and Technology (PMACST)
- Disability Tax Fairness
- Presentation to the Finance Committee Pre-Budget Consultation
- Engaging Disenfranchised Groups in Urban Health
- Managing for Results Asks the Small Questions Managing for Sustainability Asks the Big Questions
- Policy Development and Implementation in Complex Files: Lessons from “Vibrant Communities”
- Policy Development and Implementation in Complex Files: Lessons from “Vibrant Communities”
- R-e-s-p-i-t-e Spells Respect
- Culture and Recreation: Links to Well-Being
- Learning and Evaluation for Poverty Reduction
- The Disability Supports Deduction: A Big Small Step
- Who Does What in Comprehensive Community Initiatives?
- Community Renewal
- New Ingredients for the Fiscal Pie
- Innovation and Poverty Reduction
- Think Piece: Policy Conversation on Community Learning
- The Social Role of Local Government
- The New Liberalism: Ideas and Ideals
- Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- The 2003 Budget: Political Legacy Needs Policy Architecture
- What Are Policy-Makers Saying about Respite?
- Innovation and CED: What They Can Learn From Each Other
- Architecture for National Child Care
- Foundations and Future of Social Policy in Canada: Three Short Speeches from the Caledon Institute’s 10th Anniversary Celebration, November 6, 2002
- The House of Commons and Common Houses
- Social Policy That Works: An Agenda
- The Bases Are Loaded
- A Social Vision for the New City of Hamilton
- Magnets and Glue: New Tools for Cities
- Labour Market Information Needs in a Changing Economy
- From Trade-Off to Trade-Up
- The Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefit
- Medicure
- Reclaiming Our Humanity
- From Information to Application: How Communities Learn
- New – and Newsworthy – Ideas on Welfare Reform
- Lessons for the Russian Federation from the Reform of Income Security Programs in Canada
- Sustainable Development: Innovation and the Quality of Life
- The Post-Welfare State in Canada: Income-Testing and Inclusion
- Social Capital and the ‘Our Millennium’ National Project
- Read the Fine Print!
- Yes, Virginia, There is a Guaranteed Annual Income
- Proposal for a National Personal Supports Fund
- Social Programs: Reconstruction Not Restoration
- First Ministers’ Last Priority
- A Proposed Model Framework for Early Childhood Development Services Within the National Children’s Agenda
- The Lessons of Walkerton Run Deep
- The Social Dimension of Sustainable Development
- Public Discourse on Public Education
- Survival-of-the-Fittest Employment Policy
- Education and the Public Good
- The Payback Budget of 2000
- Ottawa Should Help Build a National Early Childhood Development System
- Employment Insurance: Small Bang for Big Bucks
- Will the ‘Children’s Budget’ Include Kids With Disabilities?
- Are Outcomes the Best Outcome?
- Strategies for a Caring Community: The Local Government Role
- More Money in the Pocket
- Unravelling the Threads of Democracy
- Reintegrating the Unemployed Through Customized Training
- A Labour Force Development Strategy for Ottawa-Carleton
- Dumb and Dumber Government Rules
- Beware of Governments Bearing Tax Gifts
- Good Work: Getting It and Keeping It
- The Social Fundamentals
- Home Care: More Than Care at Home
- The Don’t-Make-Sense Welfare Rules
- Strategies for a Caring Society
- Welfare Reform Through Tailor-Made Training
- Health Care/Caring for Health
- The New Public Pollicy
- Partnerships: The Good, The Bad and The Uncertain
- The Key to Kyoto: Social Dimensions of Climate Change
- Can Communities Reduce Poverty?
- There’s No Love in ‘Tough Love’
- Community-Based Poverty Reduction
- History/Hysteria
- Welfare Warfare
- Cash Poor, Community Rich
- The New Handshake Federalism
- Social Reinvestment: Memo to the Next Prime Minister of Canada
- On Magnets and Magnates
- Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Humanity
- The Down Payment Budget
- Disentanglement – or Disengagement?
- Desperate for Respite
- Dollars for Services aka Individualized Funding
- The Disability Income System in Canada: Options for Reform
- Does Canada Need Ottawa?
- The 1996 Budget and Social Policy
- Workfare: A Poor Law
- Lest We Forget: Why Canada Needs Strong Social Programs
- Milestone or Millstone? The Legacy of the Social Security Review
- Can We Have National Standards
- CHST Spells COST for Disabled
- The Let-Them-Eat-Cake Law
- How Finance Re-Formed Social Policy
- The Dangers of Block Funding
- Investing in People is Good Business
- Saving the Review
- Green Light, Red Flag: Caledon Statement on the Social Security Review
- Seniors Beware: This Review’s For You Too
- Weathering the Social Review
- Small Technicality; Big Problem
- Shifting Gears on the Social Highway
- Social Programs: Tail or Dog
- Can the Finance Ministers Play Hockey?
- The Welfare Wall: The Interaction of the Welfare and Tax Systems
- The Welfare Wall: Reforming the Welfare and Tax Systems
- Breaking Down the Welfare Wall
- The Health and Welfare of Social Programs
- Plain Talk: Not When Ottawa Has Its Way
- Fiscal Federalism and You
- Federal Social Programs: Setting the Record Straight