Browse our directory of links to practical and in-depth resources about anti-poverty/poverty issues and advocacy in BC and Canada. June 1, 2011
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
June 1, 2011
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
June 1, 2011
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
June 1, 2011
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...
Keywords: Blogs, Organizing, All of Canada
June 1, 2011
Technorati is a blog search engine. You can use it like Google to find blogs.
Keywords: Blogs, Media, Technology, General resources, International
June 1, 2011
A Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) website with links to refugee and immigrant services across Canada.
Un site web fournit par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada (CIC) avec des chaînons à les...
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, Government information, All of Canada
June 1, 2011
The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition was born out of the hope that together a coalition of faith groups could contribute to new public policies based upon greater justice and dignity for...
Keywords: Organizing, Ontario, Organizations
May 30, 2011
LawLine Journal Blog was created to share some of the solutions to the legal problems of callers to LawLINE a phone service of the Legal Services Society for people with low incomes who face legal...
Keywords: Blogs, Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
Canadian Prison Law is a resource site of prison law cases and of statues and legislation that involve prisoners and prisons.
Keywords: Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
The John Howard Society is an organization of provincial and territorial Societies comprised of and governed by people whose goal is to understand and respond to problems of crime and the criminal...
Keywords: Prisoners' Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies is an association of self-governing, community-based Elizabeth Fry Societies that work with and for women and girls in the justice system, particularly...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Prisoners' Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco (COH) initiates program and policy changes that result in the creation of exits from poverty. The COH unites homeless people and service providers with...
Keywords: Homelessness, Organizing, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
Union members, injured worker advocates and others have created an organization, the Public Compensation Coalition to work towards restoring the balance and fairness to the workers' compensation...
Keywords: Organizing, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Organizations, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
Poverty Olympics is a site put together by a group of concerned citizens and community groups who want the 2010 Winter Games’ legacy to be one of reducing, not increasing, poverty and homelessness.
Keywords: Homelessness, Organizing, Poorbashing, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives
May 30, 2011
Picture the Homeless Blog - Housing, homelessness & policy blog.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Organizing, United States
May 30, 2011
Spirit of Warrior Harriet Nahanee is a blog dedicated to actions and analysis surrounding the legacy of Harriet Nahanee, an elder who died working to expose and resist the destruction of the Olympics...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Blogs, Organizing, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
Homeless Nation, a website created for and by homeless people in Canada hosts blogs for people living in poverty. You can read other blogs or sign up and get your own blog.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Media, General resources, United States
May 30, 2011
No Excuse: The Poverty Project is a blog managed and mostly written by Hamilton Spectator poverty beat reporter, Bill Dunphy, and is part of the paper's larger Poverty Project. The blog has daily...
Keywords: Blogs, Media, Poverty Research, Ontario
May 30, 2011
Wellesley Institute Blog is a blog for the Toronto based institute with news, reports and research on health, housing and other poverty issues.
Keywords: Blogs, Health, Housing, Poverty Research, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
David Eby is a lawyer with the PIVOT Legal Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His work is focused on housing, policing, and poverty.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Research, Poverty Research, British Columbia
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