Reading Time: 3 minutes But they can also be a life saver when the need for cash is urgent and credit from traditional sources is unavailable
Tag: Poverty
Very few Canadians live in poverty for long
Reading Time: 3 minutes To help those truly in need we must first distinguish whether they are suffering temporary or persistent spells of poverty
Our continuing obsession with inequality
Reading Time: 3 minutes The grand pooh-bahs at Davos were more concerned with inequality than they were with poverty and terrorism
A glimpse into Vancouver’s Eastside Skid Row
Reading Time: 3 minutes There were drug addicts on the street in 1976, but somehow many of the interactions seemed to involve mentally ill people
Vancouver cannot ignore its dark ‘Skid Row’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Vancouver has to begin catering less to the needs of the international elites and more to its own citizens
5 things we know about economic inequality
Reading Time: 3 minutes And why we need to act
Five things you should know about food insecurity in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Over four million Canadians, including 1.15 million children, will experience some level of food insecurity this year
Measuring the true extent of child poverty in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Misleading poverty statistics does little to help those most in need
How doctors can help tackle their patients’ poverty
Reading Time: 4 minutes . . . without leaving the doctor’s office
Food banks permanent feature of Canadian landscape
Reading Time: 3 minutes We have to find ways to make sure food banks are needed less in the future