March 26, 2010
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
March 24, 2010
As part of the City of Vancouver's goal to end street homelessness by 2015, the City completed a 24 hour homeless count. The count will provide the City with updated information for staff as they...
Keywords: Homelessness, British Columbia
March 23, 2010
From March 22-26, CBC Television, Radio and cbc.ca will explore why so many Manitobans struggle with poverty and how they survive with Not Enough Money.
Keywords: Poverty Research, British Columbia
March 2, 2010
Keywords: Government Policy, British Columbia
February 26, 2010
Over the last month thousands of activists and various organizations and campaigns have called for an end to homelessness and a increase in social housing. The Red Tent Campaign handed out hundreds...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
February 25, 2010
Keywords: Legal Aid, British Columbia
February 18, 2010
Keywords: Homelessness, British Columbia
February 11, 2010
Renovated Golden Crown Hotel must allow kicked out tenant to move back in.
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
February 10, 2010
Advocacy and activist organizations in Vancouver are looking for endorsement for the upcoming Olympic Tent Village and rally. The rally will support a tent village that will be
linked to Pivot Legal...
Keywords: Homelessness, British Columbia
February 9, 2010
As media from around the country and around the world focus on Vancouver and the Winter Olympics, they are publishing stories about poverty, homelessness and protest. See the links below for some of...
Keywords: Homelessness, British Columbia
February 8, 2010
Keywords: Disability, British Columbia
February 2, 2010
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
February 2, 2010
A coalition of housing activists are handing out red tents on the streets of Vancouver to pressure the federal government to create a housing strategy. The Red Tent Campaign plans to hand out over...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
February 2, 2010
Independent government tribunal had budget cut as appeals rose 46 per cent.
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
February 1, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of unemployed Canadians could see their benefits run out with no job prospects in sight, according to an analysis the Canadian Labour Congress released Monday.
Read more: http...
Keywords: Unemployment, British Columbia
February 1, 2010
The Poverty Olympics Torch Relay was launched on January 17th by a group of advocates and activists to draw attention to poverty and anti-poverty struggles around the province. This torch relay is...
Keywords: Organizing, British Columbia
January 25, 2010
The following is a brief timeline and backgrounder on the cuts to legal aid in BC culled from various press releases and news articles. See the links in the More Information section below for more...
Keywords: Legal Aid, British Columbia
January 20, 2010
First Call, the BC child and youth advocacy organization has compared child poverty statistics from 1989 and 2007. The year 1989 was the best year of the 1980s for the economy, and the national child...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Poverty Research, British Columbia
January 12, 2010
On January 11th, members of the Kamloops bar withdrew all duty to protest the closure of five regional legal aid offices.
Duty counsel are lawyers paid by the Legal Services Society to help lower...
Keywords: Legal Aid, British Columbia
December 16, 2009
A coalition of community members and activists in the Downtown Eastside marched against the Assistance to Shelter Act. The coalition says although the government claims that the aim of the Act is to...
Keywords: Homelessness, Organizing, British Columbia
