Blog
Penney Kome
| Members of the new federal Advisory Committee on Canada's Poverty Reduction Strategy all have personal experience of poverty, and they are working to build resilient communities across the country. |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| 2019 is a new year full of hope and promise. It's time to share those gifts by implementing a basic income. |
Blog
Ed Finn
| There are sombre facts and figures available that paint a much darker picture of unemployment in this country than the basic statistics alone. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| The problem with the federal government's new anti-poverty statement is that it includes no new poverty reduction measures. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| A social safety net to ensure that every individual has enough to live on should be standard in a liberal democracy. Canada had such a social safety net, until it was abolished nearly 25 years ago. |
News
Steve Price-Thomas
| This is a time for seriousness and substantial answers to huge problems. Can the G20 come up with any of them? |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| A year ago, the Trudeau Liberals were still new to power, and yet they seemed to be slipping into the arrogant habits for which they had fervently criticized their Conservative predecessors. |
News
Meagan Gillmore
| Anti-poverty activists are calling Ontario's announcement of a basic income pilot project for low-income adults a positive first step, but say more must be done to help people living in poverty. |
News
Meagan Gillmore
| Labour leaders in Ontario are criticizing the provincial government's plans to pilot a guaranteed basic income, saying it doesn't address a broken social assistance system and precarious job market. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| What if the owning and renting classes simply view a basic income as another source to be scarfed up, so it ends up merely expanding the gulf between the rich and the rest? |
Podcast
Face2Face
| Adam talks about his book Cotton, its empire, commodities and politics, "clothing poverty" and anti-globalization and why we need to be concerned about how the world works. |
Blog
Molly McCracken
| Addressing poverty requires more revenue directed at reducing poverty, not less. This is why reducing tax revenue through the Basic Personal Exemption in the name of poverty is particularly insidious. |