Did you know that in Canada one-fifth of all households experience extreme housing affordability issues – with 18% of all renters (over 730,000 households) experiencing severe housing affordability problems, threatening their security of tenure? Or that it’s estimated that approximately…
We can’t afford not to end veteran homelessness. At the end of this week, in Ottawa, hundreds of individuals will gather with Prime Minister Trudeau around the fallen soldier memorial to place poppies on the monument and recognize the lives…
Yesterday, CWP’s President, Harriett McLachlan, and ED, Leilani Farha, appeared in front of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA committee) in a study preparing for Canada’s Poverty Reduction…
Canada held to account for its disappointing women’s rights record by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women For Immediate Release Joint Statement by Canadian Civil Society Organizations
Did you know that next week, Canada is going to be under review for its compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)? CWP, along with other NGOs, will be in Geneva on the ground to take part…
Is Canada on the cusp of change for 4.9 million people living in poverty? This October, an important policy commitment has begun to take shape that could affect the lives of almost 5 million people in Canada, including 1.3 million…
$10 for a bag of potatoes. $8 for a bag of apples. $10 for a bag of flour. That’s what residents in Northern Ontario in communities from Timmins to Attawapiskat pay for supermarket staples, according to a recent report from…
Canada Without Poverty Launches Charter Challenge to Restrictions on Freedom of Charities to Promote Changes to Laws and Policies
For immediate release OTTAWA (28 June 2016) – As federal, provincial and territorial housing ministers gather in Victoria, BC for the Ministers’ Forum On Housing, they will be doing so in the shadow of a housing and homelessness crisis.
The much anticipated arrival of the return of the long-form census has been greeted with such excitement and enthusiasm across Canada that the StatsCan website crashed because of the sheer number of responses.
Last week’s release of the federal budget came with much excitement and curiosity from the anti-poverty community. In the weeks leading up to budget we started to see small hints of the potential for a budget that would truly have…
For immediate release OTTAWA (22 March 2016) – Today’s federal budget has brought forward some key measures to address poverty, including investments in income support and access to justice programs. However, Canada Without Poverty (CWP) is concerned that a…