We are looking for blogs that focus on anti-poverty/poverty issues. If you write a poverty-focused blog, send us a link!
A blog written by a former writer, illustrator and graphic designer, now living rough in Vancouver. He blogs about binning, bicycles, computers, anime, his experience as a homeless person, interesting things he finds in the garbage, and life in general.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, British Columbia
Blog for the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness.
Keywords: Blogs, coalition, British Columbia
The Edmonton Social Planning Council has an Issue Brief Blog that they will be updating regularly with commentaries on a variety of current and topical issues. In addition, film and book reviews will be posted by ESPC volunteers.
Keywords: Alberta, Blogs, Government Policy, Poverty Research
From PeacockPoverty:
PeacockPoverty is a collection of individuals with an experience of poverty who join together to share knowledge, strength, talent and wisdom with each other and our friends.
Peacock Poverty posts poverty news and opinion in an online magazine format with contributor blogs. Updated regularly, the site has a comprehensive index of categories for older posts.
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Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Human Rights, Media, Organizing, Poverty Research, Unemployment, Welfare, General resources, Multimedia, All of Canada, International
The Lead-Up brings you commentary on the issues that will – or should – define the 2009 provincial election.
Keywords: Blogs, Government Policy, British Columbia
Frances Bula, a former Vancouver Sun reporter, writes the State of Vancouver blog. The blog has stories and opinion pieces on city politics, the Downtown Eastside, homelessness and other Vancouver issues.
Keywords: Blogs, Media, British Columbia
Challenging the Commonplace, a blog by two social researchers with stories on a variety of issues including poverty and homelessness.
Keywords: Blogs, Media, All of Canada
THIS Magazine Blog is the blog of one of Canada’s longest-publishing alternative journals where editors and contributors reflect on issues of the day and events the mainstream media won’t cover.
Keywords: Blogs, Media, All of Canada
A blog about the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us. A project of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Keywords: Blogs, Poverty Research, All of Canada
Penny Goldsmith, PovNet’s Executive Coordinator, has been awarded the Carold Institute’s Allan Thomas Fellowship to Promote Civil Society and Voluntary Action to document the history of PovNet as a vehicle for social change. She is looking for comments, reflections, suggestions and anything else you have to say about the PovNet experience.
Keywords: Blogs, British Columbia, All of Canada
I WAS HERE is a media workshop that puts digital cameras and photoblogging websites into the hands of young parents. Five women, all pregnant or parenting, have been documenting their lives in Toronto through their own eyes. All have had experience with homelessness.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Media, Technology, Women, Ontario, Multimedia
This is an artists photoblog of homelessness in Toronto.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Homelessness, Ontario
The Prince Edward Island Advisory Council on the Status of Women is an arms-length from government advisory agency. The nine members of Council are appointed by government to work for equality and to support women's full and active participation in social, legal, cultural, economic, and political spheres of life.
Keywords: Blogs, Women, Prince Edward Island
BC LawMatters is a blog for public librarians in BC who are participating in the LawMatters project, which will provide all British Columbian residents with local access to basic legal information at their library.
Keywords: Blogs, Legal Research, British Columbia
The Carnegie Community Action Project's blog has news and information on housing, homelessness, and actions in the Downtown Eastside.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, British Columbia
The Alliance to End Homelessness is a coalition of community stakeholders in Ottawa committed to working collaboratively to end homelessness by gaining and promoting a better understanding of homelessness and advocating for strategies to end it.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Ontario
Peel Poverty Action Group is composed of service providers, advocates and individuals working towards the elimination of poverty in the Region of Peel.
Keywords: Blogs, Organizing, Ontario
The People’s Potato is a vegan soup kitchen run out of Concordia University. The project was initiated in 1999 in order to address student poverty.
Keywords: Blogs, Children and Youth, Organizing, Québec
F-email Fightback is a feminist blog about taking action on issues that effect women in Canada. The byline is "Harper’s Conservatives want women to stay home and be quiet. . . We refuse!"
Keywords: Blogs, Women, All of Canada
This is the Make Poverty History Campaign's Blog. It was initiated to help grow the community of Make Poverty History and increase the connections and sharing in a campaign and a cause that needs attention and awareness.
Keywords: Blogs, Organizing, All of Canada
Browse links about applying for various provincial/territorial and federal services and other common application processes.