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HP Blog: Time for action to end child poverty

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Campaign 2000 released their annual child poverty report card yesterday with updates both nationally and in various regions across the country.  To  help raise awareness, we posted a blog on the Huffington Post Canada website and shared some of the…

News Alert: Homelessness & First Nations Child Poverty

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It is a big news week in the social justice circuit.  Two very important reports have been released that highlight exactly how Canada is faring in regards to poverty.  The first report from the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness offers…

UNICEF Report ranks Canada 17 out of 29 rich countries

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A new UNICEF report confirms that Canada’s children are not doing well in comparison to other wealthy nations.  Ranked 17 out of 29, Canada has maintained its position in the middle while more children live in poverty today than in…

Child poverty worse now than it was 20 years ago

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…

Hunger Awareness Day: Too Many Canadians are Hungry

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In 1989 NDP MP Ed Broadbent, now an Honorary Director of Canada Without Poverty, put forward a motion to end child poverty that was moved unanimously in the House of Commons. Today, on Hunger Awareness Day, we not only acknowledge…