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10 December 2018
December 10th is Human Rights Day, and this year, the world is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What economic and social rights are outlined in the UDHR and what do they mean for people in Canada?
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08 December 2018
Welcome news from earlier this week that Canada has acceded to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities! CWP was at the first review of Canada under the CPRD and this is an important step for the rights of people in Canada living with disability. The Optional Protocol establishes additional recourse for people in Canada to make a complaint to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities if they believe their rights under the Convention have been violated.
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05 December 2018
A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives with Canadians for Tax Fairness shows how a national single-payer pharmacare program could work to achieve huge economy-wide savings while significantly increasing access to prescription drugs.Canada is the only industrialized country with a national health program and no corresponding pharmacare system and 1 in 10 people in Canada are unable to afford their necessary prescription drugs.
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03 December 2018
"It appears that the current government’s plan is more sophisticated but equally perverse to that of the previous Harris government: it aims to push social assistance recipients with disabilities into a cheaper program with fewer supports. If this happens, a considerable portion of the people who will be affected are 55 years of age and older." - Ricardo Tranjan, CCPA Ontario
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30 November 2018
Reminder: From now until January 31, 2019, Statistics Canada is conducting a consultation on the Market Basket Measure, the tool that will be used as Canada’s first official poverty line. Contribute to the survey here!
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27 November 2018
NEW from the Dignity for All campaign: "The stakes are high for ensuring the Poverty Reduction Act really is an “Opportunity for All”, and not a missed opportunity.
What we cannot forget is that the gaps in the strategy translate to failures for real people’s lives. It is more important than ever to work together for a plan to end poverty in Canada."
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27 November 2018
Today is #GivingTuesday, a global day for charitable giving! Learn more about us on our Giving Tuesday site and help support our work to build a Canada without poverty.
Learn more at: https://givingtuesday.ca/partners/canada-without-poverty-2
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26 November 2018
Press Release on the Right to Housing legislation for the National Housing Strategy :
“People like me become homeless because of gaps in the system. The right to housing won’t make a difference if it doesn’t enable us to close those gaps and give us a voice in the process.”
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26 November 2018
Communiqué de presse de la droit au logement campagne :
« Des gens comme moi deviennent sans-abri à cause des lacunes du système. Le droit au logement ne fera pas de différence s'il ne nous permet pas de combler ces lacunes et de nous donner une voix dans le processus. »
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22 November 2018
Today is #NationalHousingDay. It's been one year since the launch of the National Housing Strategy, and we are waiting for concrete action from the government to make housing an accessible right for all in Canada. Have you contacted your MP to tell them to legislate the right to housing?
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22 November 2018
C'est la Journée nationale du logement! Une année est passée depuis l'annonce de la Stratégie nationale sur le logement et la remarque du Premier Ministre Trudeau à l’effet que « le droit au logement est un droit de la personne » .
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20 November 2018
"Frankly, aiming to lift only half of those children out of poverty in 12 years is not ambitious enough and we know that collectively we can do much better."
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19 November 2018
An excellent deep dive into food insecurity and poverty in Nunavut from The Globe and Mail:
"Addressing food insecurity in Nunavut is a matter of abiding by the moral imperative that no Canadian child should go to bed hungry. Demanding anything less than robust, culturally appropriate food-security policies co-designed with the Inuit organizations is remaining complicit in the systematic abuse of the Inuit. And because it has been demonstrated time and time again that investing in tackling the social determinants of health (i.e. education, early childhood development, housing and food security) is less expensive than dealing with their downstream consequences, it is also a question of making sound economic decisions.
Unfortunately, food insecurity is just one of a host of social problems that disproportionately affect the Inuit – entering Canada’s Arctic is akin to crossing a border into an expansive developing country with an incredibly high cost of living. In fact, 52 per cent of Inuit in Inuit Nunangat (the term for the territory spanning four Inuit regions) live in overcrowded homes and only 34 per cent of adults have a high-school diploma (as opposed to 9 per cent and 86 per cent of all Canadians, respectively). And while non-Inuit earn a median income of $92,011 a year before tax in Inuit Nunangat, their Inuit counterparts are only making a median of $23,485."
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14 November 2018
Canada Without Poverty contributed to some pieces as part of the Canadian Living feature on poverty for the holiday season, including a piece on the lived experience of poverty from our Deputy Director.
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01 January 1970
WHat great groups of Canadians, we have in Canada. The more we web our way online, the more we find and appreciate Poverty is everyone's business - it could one of our own tomorrow! Love the love that we find in such great groups of great people! Time for change is now!
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01 January 1970
مرحباً انا من سورية لاجئين في لبنان عندي ٨ اولاد بلاتعليم اود ان اسافر الى كندا ارجو المساعدة ولكم جزيل الشكر والتقدير والاحترام ٠٠٩٦١٧٦٦٩٩٤٦٢
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