BCFED Press Release: BC Liberal government still not listening on needed...
Original Press Release from here. Vancouver – The BC Liberal government is still not listening to British Columbians on minimum wage rates with an increase that leaves working people below the poverty...
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Gordon Neighbourhood House’s Vancouver Food Summit
Today, the Gordon Neighbourhood House is hosting the Vancouver Food Summit, an opportunity for community food practitioners and stakeholders to spend a day sharing experience and expertise, challenging...
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CCPA Reports Address Pillars of Poverty Reduction Plan
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have recently released two reports illustrating the interrelated challenges that could be addressed by a poverty reduction plan, and detailed...
View ArticleFamily launches human rights complaint against maternity leave clawback
The Community Legal Assistance Society filed a human rights complaint on behalf of Jess Alford, whose maternity benefits were clawed back from her partner’s disability assistance. “My family’s income...
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Open Letter to Premier from 150 BC Community Groups Call on Clark to Raise...
To see the Open Letter and a history of the campaign, click here. VANCOUVER, May 18, 2016 /CNW/ – In an incredible show of solidarity and commitment to addressing poverty for some of BC’s most...
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Youth Rights! Right Now!
See Canada Without Poverty’s website for the original post. Canada Without Poverty released their new guide for ending youth homelessness with a human rights framework: Youth Rights! Right Now! Ending...
View ArticleA Message from Fight for $15 BC: We are one step closer.
We have some exciting news. Today we are one step closer to ending poverty wages in BC. This afternoon in Kamloops, John Horgan, the leader of the BC NDP, has made a commitment to implement a $15 per...
View ArticleNEWS RELEASE: Working poverty on the rise in most Metro Vancouver municipalities
Study maps trends by municipality and neighbourhood (Vancouver) Contrary to stereotypes about poverty being concentrated mainly in Vancouver and Surrey, a new study finds the growing ranks of the...
View ArticleRaise the Rates’ 5th Annual Welfare Food Challenge!!!
Raise the Rates’ 5th Annual Welfare Food Challenge Starting October 16, 2016 This is an invitation to join Raise the Rates’ Annual Welfare Food Challenge in October, 2016. The previous 4 years of the...
View ArticleWest Coast Leaf’s High Stakes Report
See the page for West Coast Leaf’s new High Stakes report here. West Coast Leaf’s July 2016 law reform report High Stakes: The impacts of child care on the human rights of women and children is the...
View ArticleWebinar: Reaching out to employers about the living wage
Have you identified a sympathetic employer but are not sure how to take the first step towards asking them to join a living wage campaign? This one-hour webinar will discuss concrete approaches to...
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Vancouver Food Summit 2016: Report
The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition was proud to participate in Gordon Neighbourhood House’s 2016 Vancouver Food Summit. The recently released report from the Summit shows that following the event 77 of...
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3 positive steps toward ending poverty in Canada
By David Macdonald, Article originally appeared on the CCPA’s Behind the Numbers blog. In 1989, when the House of Commons voted unanimously to end child poverty by the year 2000, there was much...
View ArticleAdvocacy groups seek bill affordability program for low income BC Hydro...
The BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) is representing the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, along with six other anti-poverty, seniors’, and tenants’ organizations, to ask the BC Utilities...
View ArticleUnited Way Lower Mainland Blog: Working hard but staying poor
Originally Published by the United Way Lower Mainland Labour Day in Canada originated with a Toronto printer’s strike in 1872. Printers were fighting for a 9-hour workday in an age when many people...
View ArticleHow My Kids’ School Renewed My Belief in Democracy
By Trish Garner, The Tyee See original article here. Back-to-school week is always intense. But for my family this year, it was especially intense — and remarkably inspiring. Our preparations included...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Municipalities join in collective call for a poverty...
For immediate release What: [Victoria] British Columbia is now the only province in Canada without a poverty reduction strategy. Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27, 2016, the BC Poverty Reduction...
View ArticlePlaces large and small seek B.C. poverty-reduction plan
By Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist See original article here. Poverty and homelessness are not just big-city problems, say local government officials gathered in Victoria this week for the Union of B.C....
View Article“This doesn’t bode well for the success of our society”– councillors call on...
British Columbia is now the only province in Canada without a poverty reduction strategy despite having one of the highest poverty rates in Canada. Yesterday, Tuesday, September 27, 2016, the BC...
View ArticleWhen will the government start listening to British Columbians?
It’s that time of year again. Every fall, the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services holds province-wide public consultations on what people think should be included in the next...
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