Today, Food Banks Canada released the 2015 Hunger Count report. For the anti-poverty community this report is critical to our understanding of the experience of poverty, particularly as it relates to reliance on food banks throughout each province and territory.
For immediate release OTTAWA (13 November 2015) – Canada Without Poverty (CWP) is encouraged to see that Prime Minister Trudeau has instructed the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos, to commit to the relief of poverty…
“When we begin to realize that ‘the poor’ are not a different species, but really just ‘us’, we will have come a long way toward ending the discrimination that is associated with poverty.” – Derek Cook, CWP Board Member for…
Congratulations to Leilani Farha on receiving an honourary degree from Mount Saint Vincent University!
(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…
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…
Today, we celebrate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the amazing work of supporters who have been spreading the word that we need a plan to end poverty in Canada.
The federal election campaign has had many twists and turns, perhaps none more disappointing than the focus on the wearing of niqab for part of the citizenship ceremony.
WITH A WAVE OF VOICES! On October 17th, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, join a chorus of voices telling candidates that #WeNeedAPlan to end poverty in Canada!
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?
Since the release of Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada, the Dignity for All Campaign has been travelling across the country to spread the word that #WeNeedAPlan and #WeHaveAPlan. Last week marked a huge step in the…
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…