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.
Tag food security
ChewOnThis! 2018
Thousands take to streets to call for a poverty-free Canada Volunteers call for the federal government to build on the newly-released Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy in Budget 2019 to end poverty in Canada.
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”?
A Short Sighted Budget
If yesterday’s budget did little for the middle class, it did even less – in fact it did nothing – for the over 4.8 million people struggling to make ends meet. The fact that poverty costs Canada an estimated $24…
Food insecurity indicator of poor progress on poverty
*Guest blog by Rachel Loopstra of the PROOF research team Definitions of poverty are often contested and there remains no official poverty measure in Canada. How much income is enough? Should income measures be consumption-based or relative, or is it…
CWP 2012 Pre-Budget Submission
Canada Without Poverty has sent a submission to the federal finance committee applying to appear in the fall and present recommendations for the upcoming 2013 budget. Aligned with previous presentations, the submission captures the reality of poverty across the country…