February 21, 2012
With the recent deaths of eleven migrant workers in Ontario, which mirrors a similar tragic van crash in BC in 2007, advocates and activists are renewing their demands for the provincial and federal...
February 15, 2012
Economicinequality.ca is trying to create public discussion around economic inequality and the actions and policies required to reduce it. You can also follow them on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/...
February 9, 2012
From the CCPA site:
Old Age Security (OAS) is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. Canadians build on that foundation, saving for their retirement with benefits from the...
February 9, 2012
The Older Adult Knowledge Network (Oaknet) is a website of the Legal Resource Centre of Alberta. It has information on how Canadian law protects and affects older adults including information on...
January 11, 2012
According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) by noon on January 3rd, the first official working day of the year, Canada's Elite 100 CEOs (the 100 highest paid CEOs of companies...
November 24, 2011
November 2011 marks 22 years since the House of Commons adopted an all-party resolution to end child poverty in Canada. Today, Campaign 2000 has released its 20th National Report Card on Child/Family...
November 2, 2011
Each year, Foodbanks Canada conducts original research on the subject of hunger and low income in Canada.
Their annual HungerCount report is the only national survey of food banks and other food...
November 1, 2011
The Social Rights Advocacy Centre (SRAC) have their fingers crossed for the Supreme Court to announce that it has done the right thing on Thursday November 3rd by agreeing to hear Nell Toussaint's...
October 17, 2011
From PeacockPoverty:
PeacockPoverty is a collection of individuals with an experience of poverty who join together to share knowledge, strength, talent and wisdom with each other and our friends....
October 7, 2011
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Behind The Numbers blog takes a look at Canadian Business' list of Canada's richest 100 people and suggests it may be time Canada adopted a 'Buffett tax...
