*Guest blog by Rachel Loopstra of the PROOF research team Definitions of poverty are often contested and there remains no official poverty measure in Canada. How much income is enough? Should income measures be consumption-based or relative, or is it…
Yesterday, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) added their voices to the call for a national poverty strategy. As a result of cross-Canada consultations on the social determinants of health, the CMA has concluded that to improve health four main areas…
*Message from Dignity for All: the campaign for a poverty-free Canada UPDATE: Today marked the last day of the Council of the Federation meetings in Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario. Housing was set to be on the agenda for discussion, and it appears…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2013 Premiers Urged to Address Housing Crisis at Council of the Federation Ottawa: A group of over 50 organizations from across Canada has signed a joint letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne urging her to…
Yesterday in Nova Scotia, a critique of the provincial government’s 2011 changes to special needs allowances as part of the income assistance system was released. The report titled, Cornerstone Compromised: A critical analysis of changes to Special Needs Assistance in…
(SVP voir ci-dessous la version française) Canada Without Poverty, formerly named the National Anti-Poverty Organization, was founded in 1971 and is a federally incorporated, non-partisan, not-for-profit and charitable organization dedicated to the elimination of poverty in Canada. All directors on our 16-seat…
Statistics Canada released annual numbers on low-income last week illustrating that poverty remains a persistent problem across the country. The 2011 numbers are the most recent data available as there is a two-year gap between the release of these figures. …
It is a big news week in the social justice circuit. Two very important reports have been released that highlight exactly how Canada is faring in regards to poverty. The first report from the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness offers…
*Speech made by ED Leilani Farha Thursday, June 13th accepting the Barbra Schlifer award in Toronto. Of course it’s not really the pages I’ve published, the UN halls I’ve walked, or the meetings I’ve attended that landed me here tonight. …
An excerpt from the recently released Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition progress report for their Housing Action Plan: Two years ago, the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition (YAPC) released A Home for Everyone: A Housing Action Plan for Whitehorse. In it, Coalition members concluded…
The right to housing in Canada is under the microscope today as the Ontario Superior Court reviewed a landmark Charter Challenge that considers whether homeless persons have had their rights violated by the Ontario provincial government and federal government. Originally…
The city of Calgary is setting priorities – and poverty is hitting the top of the agenda. This week CWP board member Derek Cook, the Executive Director of the Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative (CPRI), presented a poverty strategy to the…