*Carleton Intern Emily Shoff has started a new project called “Engage Ottawa“ where she will connect with community anti-poverty advocates and raise awareness of the plight of low-income Canadians around Ottawa. You can follow her journey from January to April…
Today marks the second day of tough talks between the federal government the provincial/territorial premiers over the renewal of the Canada health and social transfers (CHT & CST). The debate has mainly centered around the amount of money each province…
Canada Without Poverty is happy to announce that we now have a regular blog on the Huffington Post Canada website. Executive Director Rob Rainer, and Director of Education & Outreach, Megan Yarema, will offer insight on, and responses to, poverty…
The beginning of a new year can offer a sense of promise – a hopefulness for change and opportunity – and yet what many people with low-income face remains the same: poor housing, increased costs of living, and dismal welfare…
Saturday, December 10, marks international Human Rights Day for 2011. This occasion “commemorates the day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights….Although the Declaration with its broad range of political, civil, social, cultural…
This morning Canada Without Poverty’s Executive Director Rob Rainer had the opportunity to co-host a special edition of CBC’s The Current that looked at poverty across the country. In a follow-up program from last Fridays show titled “We are the…
In the past week two key stories stand out and demand attention. First, there has been significant attention paid to a housing crisis in Attawapiskat – a Cree First Nations community in northern Ontario. Mouldy, dilapidated housing with no electricity…
*By CWP intern Emily Shoff Food is a human right, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Keep this statement in mind when thinking of Northern communities where the land is non-agricultural, where wild animals are a rare commodity…
On Friday December 2nd the CBC is hosting its 25th annual Food Banks Day. In response to this event, various BC anti-poverty organizations are writing to the CBC to ask them to change their food banks message and programming from…
Since mid-September the Occupy movement has grown substantially around the world from a group of people in New York to a global force in over 900 cities worldwide. It is a collection of varying slogans and perspectives that has garnered…
*By CWP intern Jen Russell. An article by the Public Service Alliance of Canada raised an interesting question: ‘Why do we pay taxes?’ The article notes that “we pay taxes to support the public infrastructure, programs and services that support…
On Sunday the famed children’s TV show Sesame Street introduced audiences to it’s newest neighbourhood cast member, Lily. What makes Lily special is that she is a child struggling with hunger because she lives in poverty. She, like many other…