The Ontario government is inviting public input as it drafts a new five-year poverty reduction strategy.
Poverty promise remains elusive target
The failure to end child poverty in Canada, promised 30 years ago when parliamentarians pledged to stop the scourge by 2000, has seen a generation of children grow up without the supports they need, says Leila Sarangi.
Editorial: Poor need Minister
The poor need our hands to lift them up and give them hope, said Pope Francis on the World Day of the Poor. Three days later, Canada’s new government extended a hand in a different direction when it swore in our first-ever Minister of Middle Class Prosperity.
Uplift Day makes life a little easier for needy
Poverty and giving has a long history
St. Vincent de Paul Society looks for personal touch
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul plans to take its operations to the next level as it moves into the new decade.
Facing down poverty
More co-operation needed to tackle poverty, say bishops
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) is calling on Canadians to treat people in need with dignity and not only help them with their material needs but also support them spiritually as the third annual World Day of the Poor on Nov. 17 approaches.
Activists want poverty at top of agenda
OTTAWA -- On a wet and damp October Thursday on a pathway that goes under a street in downtown Ottawa near the Rideau Centre shopping mall not far from Parliament Hill, a group of people huddled in sleeping bags and blankets to fight off the chill.
ShareLife helps to break vicious cycle of poverty
OTTAWA – When Sr. Laura Girotto first set foot in Adwa, Ethiopia, in late 1993, it was hard to envision the miracle about to unfold.
Poverty fight a long way from over, activists warn
Poverty activists are encouraged by the latest StatsCan numbers showing poverty is on the decline in Canada, but warn that more ambitious programs are needed to end poverty once and for all.
Cardinal Collins sends a message of giving for Lent
Cardinal Thomas Collins is calling on Catholics to remember the importance of almsgiving this Lenten season.
The Church on the Street: Pets’ love brings warmth to cold streets
Winter was settling in and it was a blustery, cold evening as I walked around the streets with Tracey, a survivor of the street who for 14 drug-addled years had called the alleys and drug dens of the downtown area “home.”