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Post Secondary Education – An Indebted Opportunity

Go to school, get a degree, find a job. This ideal process is not so common as the youth unemployment rate currently doubles the national unemployment rate.  Statistics Canada recorded in May 2012 that while the national employment rate remained…

Celebrating Tax Benefits Day!

Canada Without Poverty is pleased to champion the 2nd annual Tax Benefits Day to highlight the beneficial role taxes play in enabling valued public services and supporting valued public institutions.  Tax Benefits Day counters the misguided Tax Freedom Day, announced yesterday…

New federal All-Party Anti-Poverty Caucus

We are pleased to report that a new federal All-Party Anti-Poverty Caucus is being formed and that it will hold its first event on Parliament Hill on June 12th.  Canada Without Poverty has been working to help catalyze the formation…

Response to federal comments on food security

In the wind-up to the tour by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Mr. Olivier De Schutter, the federal government made a number of comments publicly and in parliament on poverty and food insecurity in Canada that Canada…

Huffington Post: Food is a Right

We talk about the right to free speech and we challenge racial discrimination, but we don’t often speak of economic and social rights or challenge the loss of dignity.  It is high time this conversation took flight in Canada. Last…

A Photographic Exploration of Housing and Health

*Written by Surita Parashar –  facilitator for “The Way I See It” Housing instability is a growing problem in British Columbia, particularly in the city of Vancouver. Approximately 133,000 renter households in BC report having difficulty meeting their core housing…

Why is there no Ministry for Poverty Elimination?

*By Tony Macerollo The way governments organize themselves say a lot about how politicians and senior public servants see their responsibility in the service of the people. There are some tried and true and ones you can’t get out of:…

Ending Poverty Requires Many Hands

*By CWP Intern Laura-Lee MacDonald Every morning when I hop off the bus or walk my bike up the sidewalk to the lock-up, I pass panhandlers and homeless men and women. If I have change I offer it, and say…

Engage Ottawa: Take Note hits Carleton Campus

*By CWP Intern Emily Shoff Poverty:  a black hole, an empty fridge, a lack of opportunity, inequality.  On Tuesday, March 27th Carleton students mapped out poverty with post-its at the Take Note event.  An outline of Canada rapidly filled into…

Decision to cut National Council of Welfare is wrong

Decision to cut poverty advisory group is wrong, say anti-poverty leaders Ottawa and Toronto – The National Council of Welfare does not duplicate any other organization in the nonprofit sector, and the federal government’s termination of funding for this poverty…