Reading Time: 4 minutes Restrictions on assets and gifts keep many in a state of deep and profound uncertainty and crisis, but other provinces have found a way out
Tag: Poverty
Can $11 billion end homelessness in Canada?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Building structures isn’t enough. But by bringing together supports and housing, we can give homes to people who struggle with health and shelter needs
The best kind of social medicine in Medicine Hat
Reading Time: 3 minutes By eliminating homelessness, the Alberta city has reduced the crime rate, the workload on first responders, hospital emergency visits and pressure on the courts
Funding help alone won’t ensure more students succeed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bridging the socio-economic gap in poor schools to improve literacy and math skills will ultimately give young people a leg up in post-secondary institutions
Food banks plant roots for the long term
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s food banks are embracing gardens and greenhouses, cooking classes and more to help clients achieve greater food security
When inequality in Canada goes up, child well-being goes down
Reading Time: 4 minutes Record numbers of children in Canada are living in poverty in spite of an all-party resolution in 1989 to end child poverty by the year 2000
Trudeau’s challenges: Trump, taxes and energy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s tax and energy advantages are coming to a sudden end, and we should expect businesses will move more investment to the U.S.
We cannot afford the cost of ignoring poverty
Reading Time: 3 minutes A society with no poverty would be healthier, happier and easier to live in – and would save us all money in the end
Vancouver’s tax on vacant homes misses the point
Reading Time: 3 minutes When new homes don’t keep up with demand, buyers or renters bid for a dwindling pool of listings, pushing prices up and people out
Open trade will do more for the poor than a ‘living wage’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Free markets and open borders are what keep the costs of food and other goods that we buy down