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…
As we continue to celebrate ChewOnThis! 2015, the Dignity for All Campaign is still pushing forward to promote awareness about the desperate need for national action on poverty. Recently, the Executive Directors of Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public…
Today, we celebrate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the amazing work of supporters who have been spreading the word that we need a plan to end poverty in Canada.
WITH A WAVE OF VOICES! On October 17th, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, join a chorus of voices telling candidates that #WeNeedAPlan to end poverty in Canada!
Since the release of Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada, the Dignity for All Campaign has been travelling across the country to spread the word that #WeNeedAPlan and #WeHaveAPlan. Last week marked a huge step in the…
Get Ready for #ChewOnThis 2015 #ChewOnThis is a little less than a month away and already over 40 communities across Canada have signed up, from St. John’s to Victoria and Whitehorse, communities from coast-to-coast-to-coast are taking part in the…
We Need You to Help End Poverty in Canada. This October, Dignity for All supporters will be taking to the streets for the third annual ChewOnThis! Campaign. This fall, ChewOnThis! will bring together hundreds of volunteers from food banks, schools,…
Today in St. John’s Newfoundland, Premier Paul Davis hosts the summer 2015 meeting Council of the Federation. In this meeting, Premiers from across Canada will take a moment to discuss issues that they consider priorities leading up to the federal…
As you know, Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public Justice are taking Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada to communities across Canada. Starting this Sunday was phase 2 of the tour, throughout Southern Ontario!
With the Budget Implementations Act recently passed last week, CWP is concerned about Canada’s lack of action for those living in poverty. Not only did this budget do little for the middle class, it did even less – in fact…
Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public Justice are taking Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada to communities across Canada. This week the tour was kicked off with a trip by Michèle Biss of CWP and Janelle…