Is Canada on the cusp of change for 4.9 million people living in poverty? This October, an important policy commitment has begun to take shape that could affect the lives of almost 5 million people in Canada, including 1.3 million…
$10 for a bag of potatoes. $8 for a bag of apples. $10 for a bag of flour. That’s what residents in Northern Ontario in communities from Timmins to Attawapiskat pay for supermarket staples, according to a recent report from…
All young people have a fundamental, legal right to be free of homelessness and to have access to adequate housing.
For immediate release OTTAWA (22 February 2016) – Earlier today, Canada Without Poverty’s (CWP) President, Harriett McLachlan delivered a grave account to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) on the current state of poverty in…
Dear Ministers Wilson-Raybould, Dion, Joly and Bibeau, We write urgently on behalf of a number of non-governmental organizations who are in Geneva attending the review of Canada’s compliance with the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
CWP was recently invited to take part in a pre-budget consultation (for the 2016 federal budget) discussing how to support those in Canada who need it most and help communities and individuals thrive, among other topics. The consultation was facilitated…
New from CWP: Leilani Farha, CWP’s Executive Director and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing sheds light on the recent announcement by the federal government to undertake a nation-wide homeless count.
Last month, CWP ran a series of blogs and social media activities asking our community #WhyRights matter to them in ending poverty. We took their answers and created a “word cloud” — a visual representation of the ideas that were coming…
Almost 1.4 million children (approximately 1 in 5) are living in poverty in Canada. Last week, as our colleagues at Campaign 2000 released their 2015 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, people across the country were struck…
What does the arrival of 25,000 Syrian refugees mean for those already experiencing poverty in Canada? We think that it means a real opportunity for long term social policy change for those living in poverty.
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…