September 30, 2011
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed the federal government's appeal of an exemption which has allowed Insite, a supervised injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, to operate. PHS...
Government Policy, Health, Legal Research, British Columbia, All of Canada
August 31, 2011
Quest Food Exchange operates its low-cost grocery store model at three locations in the Lower Mainland:
611 E Hastings - In the Union Gospel Mission building (This location has wheelchair access)...
Foodbanks and Food, Health, Organizing, British Columbia
October 20, 2010
The P.E.I. Department of Health is moving forward with plans to expand its needle exchange program to Montague.
Read more: Needle exchange expanding to Montague | CBC
Health, Prince Edward Island
May 14, 2010
York University health researchers produce public primer on who gets sick and why in the report, Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts. They find the primary factors that shape the health...
Health, Poverty Research, All of Canada
March 31, 2010
The BC Liberals are cutting dental support, medical diagnostic equipment, and birth control for the disabled and those on welfare. The $75 monthly Shelter Allowance for people who don’t pay rent will...
Disability, Government Policy, Health, Homelessness, Welfare, British Columbia
December 9, 2009
Dr. Wong, a specialist in community medicine, is being investigated after a complaint by a city councillor for signing special diet forms for people on welfare. Dr. Wong has been involved in special...
Foodbanks and Food, Health, Ontario
November 20, 2009
Nov 18th, 2009 by Michael Shapcott
Poverty is cutting almost eight years off the average life expectancy of Canadian men, and almost five years from women. Only half of the poorest men in Canada can...
Health, Poverty Research, All of Canada
July 17, 2009
A study from UBC and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that kids who grow up in poverty are more likely to have health problems such as heart disease, stroke...
Children and Youth, Health, Poverty Research, British Columbia, All of Canada
May 7, 2009
Street Health, a community-based agency that provides physical and mental health programs to homeless people in Toronto, has released their final research bulletin from their award winning research...
Health, Homelessness, Ontario
November 17, 2008
A report by the Saskatoon Health Region looks at poverty-reduction policy and programs in other places to determine how Saskatchewan could lift people out of poverty and reduce the health gap between...
Health, Poverty Research, Saskatchewan
October 28, 2008
A new report from Toronto Public Health links health and income, and shows that people with low income experience greater risk of illness, higher rates of disease and death at an earlier age than...
Health, Homelessness, Ontario
June 8, 2008
Vancouver's safe injection site, Insite, has been given respite from closure after a BC Supreme Court ruling found that it is protected by the Canadian Constitution. According to a press release from...
Health, British Columbia
May 21, 2008
An interesting article in the Tyee, "Dying for the Rich" looks into a widely researched correlation between a wide income gap and a shorter overall life expectancy. Although in Canada, public health...
Health, British Columbia, All of Canada
February 26, 2008
A study done by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV-AIDS has found that 40% of people who died of HIV-AIDS in BC never accessed treatment mainly due to poverty. The study found homelessness, mental...
Health, British Columbia
February 13, 2008
The Caledon Institute has released a policy paper, Canadians Need a Medium-Term Sickness/Disability Income Benefit (in PDF) discussing the possibility of a new sickness or disability benefit. The...
Disability, Health, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
August 1, 2007
The BC Government has been hosting want they call a Conversation on Health (Link removed - No longer exists) with the residents of BC. In response, a coalition of community groups called the Women's...
Health, Women, British Columbia
January 7, 2007
An article in the Dominion,"Race and Waste in Nova Scotia" outlines the struggle of a small black community in rural Nova Scotia to fight the opening of a second landfill in their area. The residents...
Ethnicity and Race, Health, Nova Scotia
September 16, 2006
The Canadian Association of Social Workers has released a new report entitled The Declining Health and Well Being of Low Income Women in Canada: A Preventable Tragedy. This CASW report, the fourth in...
Health, Welfare, All of Canada
September 4, 2006
According to an article, "GPs 'fob off poor with sedatives,' (in PDF)" (Link removed - No longer exists) people in the poorer areas of Dublin are more likely to be prescribed potentially addictive...
Health, International
July 6, 2006
A new study provides evidence that the higher mortality rate of poorer men compared with that of wealthier men could be caused by the higher number of poor male smokers. One researcher suggested a...
Health, All of Canada
April 1, 2006
A report written in 1912 indicates the importance of housing: "It is from the standpoint of the health of the people that the all-important question of housing must be approached. Housing conditions...
Health, Housing, All of Canada
November 5, 2005
Interventions providing coordinated treatment and support for homeless adults usually results in greater health improvements than does the prevailing sporadic and substandard care, according to a new...
Health, Homelessness, United States
October 2, 2005
The rising price of nutritious food is making it difficult for low income families to eat healthily. A doctor proposes ways in which government funding could be used to ensure the health of...
Foodbanks and Food, Health, Ontario
May 21, 2005
A study by Statistics Canada examined the effect of income and education on healthy aging. It suggested that those with higher incomes will be healthier than those with lower incomes as they age....
Health, Saskatchewan
May 21, 2005
BC Centre for Women's Health (BCCWH) has many online resources on aboriginal health, health care reform, women and addictions, women with disabilities, lesbian health and many more. Check out the...
Health, Women, British Columbia
January 23, 2005
A study preformed at certain Canadian university nursing programs showed that many nursing students don't have much exposure to poverty and understanding of poverty issues. As poverty has a very...
Alberta, Health
July 5, 2004
The Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health recently released the final report from a two-year study on the health of rural, remote and Northern women. The report is the largest qualitative study...
Health, Women, All of Canada
July 5, 2004
The Ontario Employment Standards Amendment Act (Family Medical Leave) 2004, will provide up to eight weeks of job-protected leave for employees who wish to take time off work to provide care or...
Family, Health, Workers' Rights, Ontario
April 30, 2004
Homeless women in Toronto are dying at 10 times the rate of other women between 18 and 44, according to a study in Canadian Medical Association Journal. "Homeless people are at high risk for illness...
Health, Homelessness, Ontario
March 19, 2004
Life expectancy for First Nations and Inuit peoples in Canada is five to 10 years shorter than other Canadians and infant mortality rates among these communities is two to three times that of the...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Health, All of Canada
March 19, 2004
Life expectancy for First Nations and Inuit peoples in Canada is five to 10 years shorter than other Canadians and infant mortality rates among these communities is two to three times that of the...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Health, All of Canada
February 15, 2003
The Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs (OFCMHAP), represents 216 community based organizations in Ontario. OFCMHAP recognized that there is a distinct lack of...
Health, Mental Health, Ontario
October 6, 2002
A study that finds that some HIV/AIDS patients admitted to St. Paul s Hospital check themselves out early before their treatment is completed, in order to avoid a reduction in their welfare benefits...
Health, Welfare, All of Canada
May 17, 2002
The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition made several recommendations to the Federal Health Care Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada during the Commission's public consultations. Among others,...
Health, Yukon
May 17, 2002
"The BC Liberal Government has capped the number of allowable treatments to those most in need of medical services." End Legislated Poverty (ELP) has issued a press release regarding the negative...
Health, British Columbia
October 5, 2001
The BC government announcement that the Ministry of Human Resources will provide a monthly nutritional supplement of up to $225 to Disability Benefits recipients who face chronic progressive health...
Disability, Health, British Columbia
October 5, 2001
Thursday, October 04, 2001
Press Release
While we, of the fapg, applaud the Liberal government for making $225 per month available to persons living with severe medical conditions causing progressive...
Disability, Health, British Columbia
April 12, 2001
About 25,000 more children in low-income families qualify for full basic dental and optical care coverage due to changes to the BC Healthy Kids program. With this change, all children whose families...
Children and Youth, Health, British Columbia
