20th Annual Women’s Memorial March for Missing & Murdered Women
Vancouver, February 14th, 1pm The march will begin at the Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Street (corner Hastings, Vancouver) where family members will speak in remembrance. At 1 pm, the march takes to the streets and proceeds through the Downtown Eastside, with stops to commemorate where women were last seen or found; speeches by [...]
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Income Inequity and the Community Response:
A Video Conference Forum with Dr. Richard Wilkinson December 14, 2010, 9am – 12 noon Vancouver, Victoria, Prince George, Surrey, Abbotsford, Nelson, Duncan, Smithers, Terrace, Fort St. John, Prince Rupert This 3 hour forum will explore the question of why more equal societies do better on a variety of measures: health, wellness and productivity. It [...]
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Dignity for All Campaign Applauds Report Calling for Federal Poverty Reduction Plan
Dignity for All: the Campaign for a Poverty-Free Canada – a coalition of over 430 organizations from across the country – applauds the report from the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee which calls for the federal government to immediately commit to a federal action plan to [...]
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Your Chance to Make Poverty Reduction a BC Budget Priority
The BC Legislature’s Standing Committee on Finance is currently touring the province and collecting submissions (verbal and written) on what people think the province’s priorities should be for the 2011 BC Budget. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives economist Iglika Ivanova recently appeared before the committee last week. In “Our Priorities for BC Budget 2011? she [...]
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Municipal leaders want a provincial plan: UBCM resolution passes!
After recieving resolutions submitted by White Rock, Nelson, Grand Forks, Parksville, Vancouver, and Victoria this year at the annual Union of BC Municipalities Convention, the UBCM delegates passed a resolution calling on the province to adopt a comprehensive poverty reduction plan. Resolution B51 highlights “the need to provide adequate and accessible income support for the [...]
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Federal government response to senate report disappoints
From Campaign 2000, Media Release (Toronto) — The Government of Canada has turned its back on low income people in Canada, the diligent work of the Senate and the majority will in the House of Commons for serious action on poverty. In its response to the 2009 Senate report In From the Margins: A Call to Action on [...]
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Vancouver’s downtown eastside unaffordable
A new study by the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) says that seniors on basic pensions and people on welfare can only afford 12% of the privately owned SRO hotel rooms in the Downtown Eastside which is down from 29% last year. Read “Pushed Out: Escalating Rents in the DTES”.
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The real story behind BC’s housing numbers
Despite many recent announcements from the provincial government (over 100 housing-related news releases in the last year), BC continues to face a serious lack of affordable housing. CCPA and SPARC analyzed all those BC Housing press releases and BC Housing’s own service plans and compared the numbers to reality. They found that only 280 net [...]
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The Peoples Republic to End Poverty
Vancouver, August 19th, 6-10pm Republic Nightclub, 958 Granville Street This art show & fundraiser brings together a collection of established artists and organizations reaching marginalized individuals through art. Featuring live art, body painters, and established local artists as well as artists working with organizations from the downtown eastside of Vancouver such as Gallery [...]
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UBCM poverty reduction resolution coming this fall!
Whistler, September 27th – October 1 The annual UBCM Convention (Union of BC Municipalities) is an opportunity for government leaders from across the province to come together and take a united position on important issues facing their communities. This year’s Convention will include a resolution to urge the province to adopt a poverty reduction strategy. [...]