Reading Time: 4 minutes Poor nutrition in Indigenous children, starting with colonization, through residential schools, continues today. It must stop
Tag: Poverty
Reward working to improve income for the working poor
Reading Time: 3 minutes Help the working poor with targeted benefits like the CWB, not misguided minimum wage hikes
Quest for equality must first address poverty, childcare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Too many people are one job loss, one illness, one retirement or one calamity away from disaster. We need income security
Raising minimum wages: good intentions, bad policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Raising the minimum wage is a flawed strategy for achieving the critically important social objective of raising people out of poverty
Indigenous middle class key to closing tragic cultural chasm
Reading Time: 3 minutes The large and growing Indigenous middle class has shown us the way, by successfully integrating without any loss of their Indigenous culture and identity
Marxism rears its ugly head in the academic world
Reading Time: 4 minutes Brutal communist societies did advance economic equality, although what was shared equally was poverty rather than prosperity
Charity is not enough to fight poverty, social inequality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Food banks remain a symptom of bigger problems – poverty and social inequality. We need systemic change to fix those bigger problems
Seeing red about Canada’s inadequate AIDS policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need more courageous policy action at all levels of government to address the structural drivers of HIV/AIDS
Market factors, not national strategies, make housing affordable
Reading Time: 3 minutes As homes age, they should filter through various socio-economic strata. But construction approval roadblocks slow that process to a crawl
The work to end poverty and homelessness is just beginning
Reading Time: 4 minutes The National Housing Strategy’s $40-billion investment is good news for Canada. But the devil is in the details