Today Minister of Finance, Joe Oliver, announced that eight of the big banks in Canada will be offering no-fee accounts for specific vulnerable groups. The catch – the number of people that will be eligible is a small portion of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Thursday, May 8, 2014 CWP’s Executive Director Named as UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing OTTAWA: The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has just announced that Canada Without Poverty’s (CWP) Executive Director, Leilani Farha, has…
A few weeks ago CWP came across a column in the Windsor Star newspaper that was discriminatory against poor people and full of hateful comments. Entitled, ““Don’t Encourage Street Pests” , the columnist focused on negative language instead of his…
*By Michele Biss, Articling Student. The voices of the mainstream are deafening right now. The personal experiences of people who are marginalized are being drowned out in the noise of politicians, journalists and broadcasters who seem to have the government’s…
An unfortunate reality has reared it’s ugly head in Windsor, Ontario this past week – poor bashing is alive and well. In what has become a heated debate on panhandling, the Windsor Star newspaper has decided to take the conversation…
Yesterday, CWP’s Executive Director, Leilani Farha, spoke at the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) on Parliament Hill against the Fair Elections Act (Bill C-23). In defence of the right to vote, and in protecting the interest of…
March 31st marks the last day of the current Canada Health Accord. Signed by the federal and provincial/territorial governments in 2004, this 10-year plan brought $41 billion in financial transfers to provincial health systems with the goal of equitable access…
Homelessness is a precarious situation leaving thousands of individuals and families to face various forms of housing instability. From the most recognizable face of homelessness (those living on the street) to the invisible faces of homelessness (families living in overcrowded…
University of Toronto researchers released a report yesterday pointing to the desperate situation many low-income families are facing in Toronto. The report entitled “Nowhere Else to Go: Inadequate Housing & Risk of Homelessness Among Families in Toronto’s Aging Rental Buildings” is…
The theme for International Women’s Day this year is “Equality is progress for all”, and yet many women continue to struggle in poverty affecting their health, stability and safety, and family. Check out the interactive image below to learn more…
By Chuk Plante and Rachel Malena of Upstream, c/o the Poverty Costs Team Researchers with the Saskatchewan-based campaign Poverty Costs have found that poverty is costing the province of Saskatchewan as much as $3.8 billion a year in heightened service…
*CWPs blog on the Huffington Post Canada website re-posted At the heart of democracy is the right to choose our government by casting a ballot. From the establishment of our political process in Canada, to the fight for the right…