As CWP’s 2016 summer student I have been watching the Super InTent City case unfold very carefully. In the beginning I was hopeful – maybe this would be the stand Canada needs to push for a strong, rights-based, national housing…
CWP’s Michele Biss and Pivot Legal Society’s DJ Larkin share their thoughts on the Super Intent community and the BC Government’s duty to fulfill its human rights obligations to ensure that all people in the province are free of homelessness. You…
Canada Without Poverty has long been discussing the need for a Federal Anti-Poverty Plan to address the needs of people living in poverty from coast-to-coast. But in reality provincial and municipal governments also have a responsibility to address poverty. Eleven…
Twenty-three years ago the federal government made a commitment to end child poverty by the year 2000. Now, decades later, the government is reminded of its failure to follow through on this unanimous motion through annual child poverty reports released…