Canada must step up to address failed Nutrition North
The announcement this week that Nutrition North has failed to address the needs of rural and remote communities is disheartening – yet doesn’t surprise many within the anti-poverty community.
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Progress on a Food Guide, but not on food insecurity
In the lead up to the release of Health Canada’s newest Canada Food Guide, people across the country were mired in debates about nutrition, sustainability, and food security.
Provinces and territories make limited progress on economic and social rights: Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2018 OTTAWA – A new report from Canada Without Poverty (CWP) shows a lack of significant progress by provincial and territorial governments on the realization of economic and social human rights, including the right to…
Precarity in Canada Requires Comprehensive Poverty Plan
Press Release: Precarity in Canada Requires Comprehensive Poverty Plan A new infographic series shows how people in Canada are struggling to make ends meet
Dignity For All launches Living in the Gap campaign
The Dignity For All campaign, co-led by Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public Justice, has launched the Living in the Gap: A Snapshot of Precarity in Canada campaign to mark the third anniversary of the release of the DFA model anti-poverty plan.
Spotlight on Poverty: K Brookland
“It’s up to us, the poor people, to help make governments aware of the problems relating to poverty. We may not succeed, but we have to at the very least try.” – K Brookland, CWP Board Member for New Brunswick
Census data reveals far more than how much the average Canadian makes
Last week, Statistics Canada released the 2016 Census data on income which showed a mixed bag for the country’s overall economic health.
Unequal systems: food access and prejudice in Canada
Does this sound familiar to you: “the only reason that poor people are so unhealthy is that they don’t know how to eat a healthy diet”?
Take Action on Poverty This October 17th!
This week we have a video blog from ChewOnThis! organizer Adam Vasey with the Downtown Mission of Windsor on how the campaign can engage people in your community to be part of the growing movement from coast-to-coast-to-coast to take national…
Chew On This! Food for thought on poverty
Canada has a poverty problem. 4.9 million people across Canada currently live in poverty, 1.3 million of whom are children. 235,000 people experience homelessness annually. 1 in 8 Canadian households struggle to put food on the table.
150 Years of Colonialism and Poverty
This blog is the second installment in our series for Canada 150 through a poverty and human rights lens.
Canada 150 & Youth: What is it we’re celebrating?
This blog is the first installment in our series for Canada 150 through a poverty and human rights lens. There is no escaping the fact that Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation is less than a month away, especially here in…