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Derek Cook, Director, Canadian Poverty Institute. Image courtesy of Derek Cook.
Defining poverty in Canada as a social disease first step to healing it
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.
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Canadian coins. Photo: KMR Photography/Flickr
Re-instating basic income in Ontario would help raise children out of poverty
Doreen Nicoll | 2019 is a new year full of hope and promise. It's time to share those gifts by implementing a basic income.
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Buttons from "$15 and Fairness" campaign. Photo: OFL Communications Department/Flickr
Official rates of employment overlook poorly paid jobs, poverty, inequality
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.
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Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of National Revenue and Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development. Photo: #G7Charlevoix/Flickr
Liberals' new poverty reduction strategy is more PR than strategy
Duncan Cameron | The problem with the federal government's new anti-poverty statement is that it includes no new poverty reduction measures.
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Calgary Housing Action Initiative housing march. Photo: Grant Neufeld/Flickr
Why are people destitute in Canada?
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.
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G20 Oxfam photo demo. Photo: Mike Auerbach/Oxfam
Protesters descend on Hamburg demanding substantial change from G20
Steve Price-Thomas | This is a time for seriousness and substantial answers to huge problems. Can the G20 come up with any of them?
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When it comes to respect for Parliament, Trudeau is uncomfortably like Harper
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.
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Anti-poverty activists urge Ontario to focus on poverty reduction, not just basic incomes
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.
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Ontario's guaranteed basic income pilot misses mark, labour leaders say
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.
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When talking guaranteed basic income, let's not forget the need to contest power
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?
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Adam Sneyd on Cotton, Globalization and Clothing Poverty.
Adam Sneyd on 'Cotton,' globalization, commodities and clothing poverty
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.
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Manitoba tax changes need to target wealthy to reduce poverty
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.