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Trish Garner
Trish Garner is the provincial organizer for the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, a broad-based network of over 400 organizations throughout BC. She is a tea-swilling Brit with a passion for social justice. As the BCPRC’s Community Organizer, Trish focuses on communications, outreach and community engagement to raise awareness about the root causes of poverty and inequality, and how we can collectively tackle them. Trish has a PhD in gender, sexuality and women’s studies from SFU and continues to work on LGBTQ issues. She lives with her partner and their three young children in East Vancouver.
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Tackling poverty in BC: Celebrating how far we’ve come and looking ahead
As I flipped my calendar over to a new year, I thought about the work the current provincial government has done: 2018 was a year…
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Sharing our realities: Life on disability assistance in BC
Both people with disabilities and those who work within the income assistance system say the effects of provincial government policy in British Columbia are demoralizing.…
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A BC poverty reduction plan is long overdue
As the BC government prepares to table its budget on February 21 and political parties try to convince British Columbians to vote for them in…
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Poverty Reduction: When will the government start listening to British Columbians?
If the government were listening to British Columbians, it would have heard that families are struggling to make ends meet because of rising food and…
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The hidden epidemic of working poverty in Metro Vancouver
We are often told that the solution to poverty is for the poor to “get a job” or for various sectors to create more jobs.…
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Charity is not the right way to tackle poverty in British Columbia
The existence of poverty in British Columbia is a violation of human rights. There is not only a moral duty to eradicate poverty but also…
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Latest poverty stats show BC still has one of the highest poverty rates in Canada
The latest poverty statistics were released by Statistics Canada last Wednesday, and the data once again shows that British Columbia has one of the highest…
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And then there was one: BC is now last province without a plan to tackle poverty
On October 22, the Government of Saskatchewan announced in their Throne Speech that it would commit to the development of a poverty reduction strategy, making…
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Where’s the fanfare for tackling poverty effectively? Connecting the dots between three political moments over three months
The following op-ed was originally published in The Georgia Straight. On June 16, I attended the B.C. government’s Disability Summit, the culmination of a three-month…
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Where’s the fanfare for tackling poverty effectively?
Connecting the dots between three political moments over three months The following op-ed was originally published in The Georgia Straight. On June 16, I attended the…
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Opposition propose BC Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act
Now is the time for bi-partisan collaboration in addressing the root causes of poverty On Tuesday, May 6th, in the BC Legislature, the Official Opposition…
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A poverty reduction plan for BC
Targeted government spending saves billions of dollars in the long term We’ve heard a lot about government spending recently. The Liberals released their “spend-o-meter” charting…
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