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Spotlight on Poverty: Derek Cook

“When we begin to realize that ‘the poor’ are not a different species, but really just ‘us’, we will have come a long way toward ending the discrimination that is associated with poverty.” – Derek Cook, CWP Board Member for…

Join the CWP Board of Directors!

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(SVP voir ci-dessous la version française)   Canada Without Poverty, formerly the National Anti-Poverty Organization, was founded in 1971 and is a federally incorporated, non-partisan, not-for-profit and charitable organization. All Directors on our Board have a lived experience of poverty and…

Women’s Leadership, Women’s Equality

What does women’s leadership mean for economic prosperity in Canada? How does poverty affect women’s equality? In the next three weeks, from February 14th to Women’s Day on March 8th, people in Canada are considering questions like this about the…

Some Things You Might Not Know About CWP

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Canada Without Poverty has a big goal – to eradicate poverty in Canada – but did you know, we are a small team of three individuals working out of a shared office in Ottawa? Well you aren’t alone. Lately, we’ve…