Canada Without Poverty has sent a submission to the federal finance committee applying to appear in the fall and present recommendations for the upcoming 2013 budget. Aligned with previous presentations, the submission captures the reality of poverty across the country…
How do you prevent youth, living in poor disadvantaged communities, from resorting to desperate acts to help them feel a sense of worth and social inclusion?  By investing in community security and policing initiatives or into their lives, futures, and…
In advance of the meeting of the Council of the Federation this week (the annual meeting of the 13 premiers from all provinces and territories), Canada Without Poverty blogged on the Huffington Post about the effects Employment Insurance changes will…
The most influential social determinant of health is income. As inequality grows in Canada, so will the costs to health care and society as more people succumb to physical and mental illness. That is the main point in the Toronto…
After much protest, Bill C-38, the omnibus budget bill passed third reading in the Senate last Friday (to see how Senators voted click here). This gargantuan bill that went well beyond consideration for federal financial measures (aka: a budget) and…
Today Canada Without Poverty posted a blog on the Huffington Post Canada website celebrating the launch of the federal all-party anti-poverty caucus. Here is an excerpt: “Partisan politics are to be set aside in the new All-Party Anti-Poverty Caucus as…
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…