Vulnerable Populations and Access to Services
02-21-12
*By Carleton University intern Laura-Lee MacDonald Connection are Critical to Human Relationships. When a person needs help, where can they go to get it? Family and friends may not always be available for many people living in poverty, especially when also faced with multiple barriers created by disability, mental illness, and addiction. These barriers not only [...]
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Renewed call for a national housing strategy
02-17-12
Yesterday NDP MP Marie-Claude Morin re-introduced the former Bill C-304, An Act to secure adequate accessible and affordable housing for Canadians. Newly enumerated as Bill C-400, this piece of legislation brings back the call for a national housing strategy that not only deals with unaffordability, but requires secure housing for all Canadians with respect to [...]
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Engage Ottawa: The struggle against hunger
02-13-12
Meal planning and preparation can be an arduous task and for thousands in the Ottawa area an additional question is added to the equation: Do I have enough money to buy food? More than 720 individuals and families turn to the Centretown Emergency Food Centre (CEFC) each month in means of answering this question. Based [...]
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Welcome Peter Thurley to the Board of Directors!
02-7-12
Canada Without Poverty is pleased to welcome Peter Thurley to the Board of Directors. Peter will represent the Ontario seat and brings with him a personal experience of child poverty as well as the passion of an activist dedicated to improving the lives of others. He is also a Canada Millennium Scholarship Recipient over 2002-2004 [...]
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A poverty plan in Alberta will save the government billions
02-6-12
Alberta’s provincial government is facing a choice: spend billions to maintain poverty, or address the issue head on and save billions. The answer is not only simple, but it is supported by similar reports on the costs of poverty that have been developed in other provinces: develop a poverty strategy, save billions and create a [...]
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Huffington Post: Inequality exists, now what?
02-3-12
*The following is an excerpt from a blog posted on the Huffington Post this week. CWP Executive Director Rob Rainer writes about the presence of inequality in Canada and challenges Canadians to move forward asking ‘now what?’ Spiked by public attention to the Occupy phenomenon, 2011 was the year in which the issue of income [...]
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