Congratulations Dr. Farha!
Congratulations to Leilani Farha on receiving an honourary degree from Mount Saint Vincent University!
Laura Neidhart
Join the CWP Board of Directors!
(SVP voir ci-dessous la version française) Canada Without Poverty, formerly the National Anti-Poverty Organization, was founded in 1971 and is a federally incorporated, non-partisan, not-for-profit and charitable organization. All Directors on our Board have a lived experience of poverty and…
ChewOnThis! Why do we accept poverty in Canada?
As we continue to celebrate ChewOnThis! 2015, the Dignity for All Campaign is still pushing forward to promote awareness about the desperate need for national action on poverty. Recently, the Executive Directors of Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public…
New UN SD Goals and Poverty: What’s the connection?
How can you connect the dots between the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals, the calls for a national anti-poverty plan in Canada and CWP’s newly updated Poverty Progress Profiles?
#ChewOnThis
Get Ready for #ChewOnThis 2015 #ChewOnThis is a little less than a month away and already over 40 communities across Canada have signed up, from St. John’s to Victoria and Whitehorse, communities from coast-to-coast-to-coast are taking part in the…
UN Committee Challenges Canada
For immediate release: UN Committee Challenges Canada on its mistreatment of human rights charities July 23rd 2015 – The United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) today released its much anticipated response to the formal review of Canada’s civil and political…
CWP denounces Income Tax Act
CWP denounces Income Tax Act as violation of freedom of expression and assembly in address to the United Nations July 6th, 2015 – Earlier today, the President of the Board of Directors of Canada Without Poverty, Harriett McLachlan, and CWP’s…
Where’s the Contingency Fund for people in poverty?
With the Budget Implementations Act recently passed last week, CWP is concerned about Canada’s lack of action for those living in poverty. Not only did this budget do little for the middle class, it did even less – in fact…
Widespread support for a National Anti-Poverty Plan
Widespread support for a National Anti-Poverty Plan Dignity for All campaign presents over 4,000 postcards to the All-Party Anti-Poverty Caucus FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON: Wednesday, May 6 – At a meeting on Parliament Hill today, The Dignity for All…
A Short Sighted Budget
If yesterday’s budget did little for the middle class, it did even less – in fact it did nothing – for the over 4.8 million people struggling to make ends meet. The fact that poverty costs Canada an estimated $24…
Have You Taken the Pledge to End Poverty?
Have you taken The Pledge? For the price of a cup of coffee, you can help end poverty in Canada! With the beginning of the 2015 fiscal year, everyone here at CWP has been busy planning for the year ahead.…
Welcome James Armbruster to the CWP Team!
CWP is excited to announce that James Armbruster will be joining CWP as our new Development and Communications Coordinator! To introduce himself to you, our dedicated followers and supporters, James has written the following introduction, check it out below: