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…
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…
Canada Without Poverty was invited to present to the Finance Committee on Bill C-38, the Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act. Today, CWP Executive Director Rob Rainer spoke to concerns of the omnibus bill and the need to focus on…
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…
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…
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…
*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…
Campaign 2000 and Canada Without Poverty honor the work of the National Council of Welfare and further comment on its unnecessary closure on the Huffington Post Canada website. Here is an excerpt of the blog: “The shock of the 2012…
*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:…
*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…
*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 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…