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Fast Facts: Teenaged photojournalists document the inner city
Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell the stories of their neighbourhoods to the rest of Winnipeg. The results are insightful and compelling; the inner city is as beautiful as it is ugly, a place of play and a place of fear and…
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Slow progress wins Nova Scotia a failing grade in the fight against child poverty among Canadian provinces
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX–A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that Canada and Nova Scotia have lost ground in efforts to reduce child poverty. Promises to Keep: The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2003 finds that child poverty today is worse than…
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Fast Facts: Nova Scotia Education Overhaul a Cautionary Tale for Manitoba
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Wednesday May 12, 2021 Public education is a public good that promotes well-being and citizenship for all. Efforts to improve public education should be done for this purpose. Manitoba has instead joined a concerning trend across Canada demanding constant improvement in education…
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BC Priorities in the face of an economic downturn
Gordon Campbell’s recent 10-point economic plan will have no impact on BC’s most serious problem – persistent and extreme poverty. BC has the highest poverty rates in the country (by any measure used). Thirteen percent of the population is living in poverty, and for five years running BC has had…
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Poverty reduction: What other provinces are doing
BC has much to learn from other provinces when it comes to poverty reduction. Six provinces now have poverty reduction plans, although most are still fairly new, and therefore we don’t yet have data to tell us what kind of success they are meeting with, the exceptions being Quebec and…
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BC Budget 2021: Stay-the-course budget misses the mark on key areas of urgency outside health
The BC government tabled a surprisingly stay-the-course budget today, making some improvements on the margins but missing the opportunity to shift BC towards a more inclusive and sustainable economy. While it appropriately includes large sums of time-limited spending relating to the pandemic (and indeed BC has led other provinces on…
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Time for a new social contract to eradicate child and family poverty in Nova Scotia
The annual child and family poverty report card, published in partnership with Campaign 2000, is a reminder of how broken our social contract is, and of the urgency to fix it. What values should be prioritized and what rights should be upheld?
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Taxation and Poverty
Injustice built into our tax system hurts poor the most U.S. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously declared: “I don’t mind paying taxes. They buy me civilization.” I completely agree. But in the last 28 years, tax policies have been ever more biased in favour of powerful special interests which…
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Towards Justice
Tackling Indigenous Child Poverty in Canada Download 1011.76 KB25 pages This report provides the third installment in a series of papers that track the gap between Indigenous children and other children in Canada, using the after-tax Low-Income Measure (LIM-AT). That snapshot provides a disturbing picture of child poverty in Canada: one where…
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Basic income panel calls for major reforms to income security in BC
When the final report of BC’s Basic Income Panel came out in January, the media coverage was largely reduced to a few dismissive headlines that the panel had rejected basic income. Behind the headlines, however, is a comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of the state of poverty in BC and the…
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Poverty reduction update
Lots of developments on the Poverty Reduction front over the last two weeks. Here are a few updates: First, last week brought news that Danny Williams is stepping down as premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. Personally, I’m sad to see him go. Rarely mentioned in the news reports last week…
