Winter 2010/2011 brought extreme environmental conditions throughout the Canadian Arctic. This slideshow site uses images and text to show the results of a project that determines whether these...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, food security, Foodbanks and Food, Inuit, north, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Research and education
This website is a portal, or clearinghouse, of Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI) resources and information for those who are working with and for the migrant workers in the Province of...
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Info (PLEI), migrant workers, migrant workers, PLEI, PLEI, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Gateways
Economicinequality.ca is trying to create public discussion around economic inequality and the actions and policies required to reduce it. You can also follow them on Twitter.
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Keywords: 99%, income inequality, Organizing, All of Canada
The Newfoundland and Labrador Housing and Homelessness Network (NLHHN) is a group of community-based service providers, municipal, provincial and federal departments and agencies, and representatives...
Keywords: Homelessness, homelessness in Newfoundland, Housing, service providers, Campaigns and initiatives, Newfoundland, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education
Action to End Poverty in Alberta, coordinated by the Alberta Inter-City Forum on Social Policy, has been campaigning for a provincial anti-poverty strategy. Visit their website for more information,...
Keywords: Alberta, anti-poverty strategy, Poverty Research, provincial poverty reduction plan, Organizations
This page at the Income Security Advocacy Centre provides information on and a link to, a letter sent to commissioners of the Social Assistance Review in Ontario, urging them to consider issues of...
Keywords: Disability, isac, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Women, Ontario, Reports and documents
ISAC and the Ontario community legal clinic system’s Social Assistance Action Committee (SAAC) held a roundtable discussion on May 30, 2011, to explore the issue of how assistance is delivered in...
Keywords: Disability, Government Policy, isac, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Ontario, Reports and documents
The Income Security Advocacy Centre is hosting video recordings of a symposium held by ISAC and the Social Assistance Action Committee in March 2011 on how the Social Assistance Review commission...
Keywords: Disability, isac, ontario works, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Ontario, Multimedia, Reports and documents
The Ontario Provincial Government has appointed a commission to review the income security system, including social assistance. The commission's mandate is to develop a plan to reform the system. As...
Keywords: Disability, Government Policy, isac, Organizing, social assistance review, Welfare, Women, Manuals and guides, Ontario, Reports and documents
The IDRC is a Canadian Government corporation that does research on international development issues.
Keywords: development, Government Policy, Poverty Research, Organizations, All of Canada, Research and education, International
The Development area of the United Nations website.
Keywords: Government Policy, united nations, Organizations, International
The United Nations main website.
Keywords: Government Policy, united nations, Organizations, International
The online office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Keywords: Human Rights, united nations, Organizations, International
Vancouver's community services group housing centre department home page. The site contains information on rental housing in Vancouver, the tenants assistance program, and a map index page that shows...
Keywords: Government Policy, Housing, Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, General resources
This US site has news, information and analysis on the divide in income, wealth and health. This information is put together by a network of journalists, writers and researchers.
Keywords: inequality, Poverty Research, Research and education, United States
Keywords: end poverty, Organizing, Organizations, All of Canada
"CCPI was formed to bring together low-income activists and poverty law advocates to ensure that poor people in Canada can effectively secure and assert their rights under international human rights...
Keywords: ccpi, Legal Research, Poverty Research, All of Canada, Research and education
This Ontario based partnership of activists from universities and unions, faith communities and social movements is premised on a commitment to the democratic values of equality, justice and respect...
Keywords: Organizing, Poverty Research, social justice, All of Canada, Research and education
C'est un engagement solidaire dans la lutte contre la pauvreté et ses conséquences. (Centraide Quebec is a joint commitment in the fight against the poverty and its consequences)
Keywords: Homelessness, Seniors and Elders, united way, Women, Organizations, Québec
The ICFTU was set up in 1949 and has 221 affiliated organisations in 148 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 156 million.
Keywords: international, union, workers rights, Workers' Rights, Organizations, International
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