Reading Time: 3 minutes Provides relatively little tax relief for low-income families, and skirts single parents altogether
Tag: Poverty
Housing crisis a health emergency
Reading Time: 3 minutes The health impacts of homelessness and inadequate housing are well known, including an increase in diabetes, epilepsy and Hepatitis C
Food banks’ message not resonating with Canadians
Reading Time: 4 minutes To build a relationship beyond their current constituents, the language used by food banks needs to change
Eliminating poverty is achievable
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadians could look to the past for innovative ways of dealing with poverty
Homelessness shouldn’t be a crime
Reading Time: 3 minutes The outcome of several legal decisions might just change the way we view homelessness
Basic income just what the doctor ordered
Reading Time: 4 minutes Time to start prescribing healthy incomes
Social determinants of health no longer an abstract concept
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a medical student at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), I saw first-hand the lives and health-care needs of low-income families in Toronto
Finally time for a Guaranteed Annual Income
Reading Time: 4 minutes But what exactly is a Guaranteed Annual Income?
The relationship between poverty and health in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Low income limits an individual’s opportunity to achieve their full health potential because it limits choices
Doing your taxes good for your health
Reading Time: 3 minutes Taking advantage of tax credits can go a long way to making things easier for low-income Canadians