Today in the Toronto Star, Leilani Farha, Canada Without Poverty’s Executive Director reflected on Canada’s recent review at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Here’s a look at the full piece: Last May I was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on…
Homelessness in a country as wealthy as Canada is dire. Each year approximately 230,000 people are homeless and the United Nations has called homelessness in Canada a ‘national emergency’. Today, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) said ‘no’ to hearing…
What does it really mean to live in poverty in Canada? Why is it important that people living in poverty have their voices heard in the development of law and policy on poverty?
By Zoey Feder Along with the Indian Act, which has enormously limited resources and continually confined Aboriginal rights, the residential school system has left in its bloody wake a legacy of intergenerational trauma and systemic poverty.
As you know, Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public Justice are taking Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada to communities across Canada. Starting this Sunday was phase 2 of the tour, throughout Southern Ontario!
Poverty is sexist. That’s what the ONE campaign has been saying in a clever campaign highlighting the need for women’s economic equality around the world. But in borrowing from the ONE campaign, we may add two more words to the…
Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public Justice are taking Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada to communities across Canada. This week the tour was kicked off with a trip by Michèle Biss of CWP and Janelle…
It’s an exciting time for the Dignity for All Campaign as we begin our cross-Canada tour of workshops to promote Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada!
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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is calling for a shift in spending priorities ahead of the federal government’s election-year budget. In their 20th annual Alternative Federal Budget (AFB), the CCPA suggests progressive ways the government could divvy up…
By: Kaitlin Mackenzie, Law Student Where do you turn when you have $40 in your bank account, your rent is overdue, you’re out of groceries and you don’t qualify for a bank loan? For most Canadians, the answer is a…
How are Patricia Arquette’s acceptance speech at the Oscars, the motion to end child poverty and Dignity for All’s National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada connected? They are all ways that we made it happen this year for women’s economic, social…