Wait times on B.C.’s welfare phone line soar to almost one hour
By Jason Proctor, CBC News See original article here. B.C.’s welfare recipients are increasingly living their lives on hold, according to data which shows the average phone wait time for social...
View ArticleCharity is the community response to poverty but where is government response?
CBC’s Food Bank Day earlier this month raised $630, 314. For the 100,086 users of food banks, which includes those on income assistance, people with disabilities, seniors and low-wage workers, that...
View ArticleGoing hungry: Charity is insufficient to address issue of household food...
By Graham Riches, Special to the Sun See original article here. Thirty years on, another Christmas, another round of media-led food-bank drives. And food charity, here in B.C. and across the country,...
View ArticleCampaign for National Drug Coverage: New Years Update
We’ve endorsed the Campaign for National Drug Coverage who sent out this New Years message: Happy New Year! We embarked on an important campaign together in 2015. And, thanks to your support, the...
View ArticleReport on Single Parents, Welfare and Work: SPARC BC, First Call, SFU and...
January 2016 See First Call’s post here. Read the report here. Navigating British Columbia’s social assistance system can be challenging. This report, Walking the Line to Put Their Families First: Lone...
View ArticleBC Poverty Reduction Coalition’s Trish Garner responds to Fraser Institute...
By Roshini Nair, Global News See original article here. A Fraser Institute study says the true rate of long-term poverty is much lower than commonly reported with only 1.5 per cent of Canadians being...
View ArticleSurrey Student Leaders Write to the Prime Minister
Students at Princess Margaret Secondary School’s Student Leadership wrote to the Prime Minister to express their concern about poverty in BC and a need for a poverty reduction plan. You can read a...
View ArticleFamilies could use some help on Family Day
By Adrienne Montani, Times Colonist See original article here. Family Day in B.C. is meant to recognize the value for working parents and other caregivers of spending time with their children, their...
View ArticleSubmission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition has collaborated with Canada without Poverty, the Canadian Poverty Institute, the Niagara Poverty Reduction Network, the MacKillop Centre for Social Justice and the...
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City of Vancouver’s Healthy City Strategy Includes Commitments to Address...
Phase 2 of the City of Vancouver’s Healthy City Strategy includes improving and revising their own policies and advocating for the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition’s Poverty Reduction Strategy at...
View ArticleBCTF calls for Poverty Reduction Plan
BC government doesn’t make the grade on education funding with continued cuts See Original here. VICTORIA-Finance Minister Mike de Jong may have started his budget speech today with a school report...
View ArticleRaise The Rates, Leave Our Bus Pass Alone
A message from Inclusion BC Please sign and distribute! CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION We want Premier Christy Clark and Minister Michelle Stilwell to raise the rates and leave our bus pass alone!...
View ArticleAre your rights protected?
A message from our partners at Canada Without Poverty with whom we collaborated (alongside the Canadian Poverty Institute, the Niagara Poverty Reduction Network, the MacKillop Centre for Social Justice...
View ArticlePoor B.C. singles need more support from Victoria
With Family Day and Valentine’s Day behind us, let’s turn our attention to those people who are unseen and uncared for on those holidays and ask ourselves what happens when you are a single adult in...
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Making Poverty Visible at the VPL
“We want to make our experience visible to people who haven’t lived our lives.” Last year, the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition set out on a road-trip around the province hosting community workshops on...
View ArticleEarly Years Spring Network Gathering
Trish Garner of the Poverty Reduction Coalition will be speaking alongside Adrienne Montani of First Call at the Early Years Spring Network Gathering hosted by the Community Action Towards Children’s...
View ArticlePoverty reduction plan lacks detail, accountability, Meili says
By Betty Ann Adam, Saskatoon StarPhoenix See original article here. The Saskatchewan government’s new poverty reduction plan doesn’t deserve to be called a strategy, says social justice advocate Dr....
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Groups unite to call for higher welfare and disability rates
See original post here “We need to ally together to end the poverty and discrimination that we face everyday so we can eat.” That’s what Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction president Tracey Morrison...
View ArticleTake Action: Calling All Municipalities!
The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition is calling on municipalities across BC to take action in support of a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy for the province. We are calling for action from...
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Canada Without Poverty: Do you want to be a leader in economic and social...
See the original newsletter here. CWP is excited to announce our NEW two-week online economic and social rights course: Putting Poverty in the ‘Rights’ Place: An Intro to Economic & Social Rights...
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