Recently, the Federal Court decision Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care et al v. AG (Canada) was released. In the decision, Justice Mactavish found that the government has violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by restricting access to health…
In Today’s edition of the Toronto Star, Leilani Farha, Executive Director of Canada Without Poverty, commented on Kathleen Wynne’s commitments to poverty in her Speech from the Throne. Here’s a look at the piece: These are tough times in Ontario.…
If we truly want to eradicate poverty in Canada, we need to go beyond band-aid solutions. October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This year, you can be part of calling for real solutions by participating…
*By Emad Mahdavi, Law Student. Recent uproars regarding anti-homeless spikes in London (UK) and Montreal have provided a much-needed discussion on homelessness in Canada. Although the media buzz didn’t last long, it did momentarily hold our national attention.
This week is World Refugee Week. This is an opportunity for people in Canada to join together and lobby the government to make changes to policies that affect refugees. One of the big issues of focus this week is government…
Canada Without Poverty provides sound analysis of laws and policies that have an impact on people living in poverty across the country. We are a national organization and our work is normally focused at the national level. But on the…
This week 28 representatives from national labour and employment organizations, social justice groups, unions, individuals with a lived experience of poverty and faith based organizations are gathering in Ottawa to join Dignity for All: the campaign for a poverty-free Canada…
The city of Windsor has become the site of a heated debate over the issue of the rights of panhandlers. The question that keeps coming up in this discussion is: do people living in poverty have the right to ask…
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…
At Canada Without Poverty the question that keeps us scratching our heads is this: how do we convince governments that providing beds and bread is not enough? How do we get governments to recognize that being free from homelessness and…
Canada Without Poverty (CWP) has joined forces with the Charter Committee on Poverty Issues (CCPI) in a legal case going to the Supreme Court of Canada in October 2014. The case is called Taypotat v. Kahkewistahaw First Nation.
In movies and television men always seem to be asking the question: what do women want? The Status of Women’s Committee also attempts to tackle that question, looking at issues that affect women, such as economic leadership and the prosperity…