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Updates from the Road: DfA in Southern Ontario

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 in Canada. Period.

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…

Widespread support for a National Anti-Poverty Plan

Widespread support for a National Anti-Poverty Plan Dignity for All campaign presents over 4,000 postcards to the All-Party Anti-Poverty Caucus FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON: Wednesday, May 6 – At a meeting on Parliament Hill today, The Dignity for All…

Updates from the Road: DfA on the East Coast

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…

A Short Sighted Budget

If yesterday’s budget did little for the middle class, it did even less – in fact it did nothing – for the over 4.8 million people struggling to make ends meet.  The fact that poverty costs Canada an estimated $24…

Dignity for All Hits the Road!

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!

New Report: AFB proposes poverty-reduction focused spending

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…