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Friday, July 27, 2007

Poverty and Policy in Canada


Download Chapter 1 from Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life, by Dennis Raphael

 

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General Resources

  • Response to Budget 2009 - Citizens For Public Justice
  • 2007 Child Poverty Report Card
  • A Backgrounder on Housing & Homelessness (CCAP)
  • BC Campaign 2000 - Child Poverty (pdf)
  • Chapter 1: Poverty and Policy in Canada (pdf)
  • City/Province Housing Partnership
  • Conversation on Women's Health - 2007 (pdf)
  • Cracks in the Foundation: Solving the Housing Crisis in Canada's Poorest Neighbourhood (link)
  • Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights (Geneva: COHRE and GIAN)
  • Greater Vancouver Homelessness Count
  • Homelessness a cause, not a result of drug abuse
  • Homelessness in a growth economy: Canada’s 21st century paradox (June 2007 pdf)
  • Housing Legacy of the 2010 Games: Report of the Inner City Inclusive Committee Housing Table
  • Left Behind - 2005 (pdf)
  • Project Civil City (VPSN)
  • Report of the Inner-City Inclusive Housing Table
  • StatsCan Perspectives on Labour & Income - 2006 (pdf)
  • The Cost of Eating in BC - 2006 (pdf)
  • The Cost of Eating in BC 2007
  • The Rich and the Rest of Us: The Changing Face of Canada's Growing Gap

2010 Olympics

  • Council of Canadians: Statement on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
  • The Least of These
  • Two Incompatible Visions: Jesus and the Olympics, Reflections from Mark 3:1-6
  • Follow the Money, Understand the Olympic Scam
  • Olympic Reflections - Dave Diewert, January 2009
  • Hallmark Events & Impacts on Housing
  • Matthew 4:1-11 (A Reflection)
  • The Olympics - Updated (Dave Diewert)
  • A Plan to Achieve the 2010 Olympic Housing Commitments
  • Olympic Oversight Interim Report Card

Housing

  • Citywide Housing Coalition
  • The State of Non-Market Housing in the Downtown Eastside (Sept 2007)
  • Homelessness and Affordable Low Income Housing Backgrounder (Sept 2007)
  • Disappearing Homes: The Loss of Affordable Housing in the DTES (April 2008)
  • United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (Oct 2007)

Homelessness

  • Auditor General's Report - Homelessness: Clear Focus Needed (2009)
  • Finding Our Way Home Again - 2009 Report
  • The Homeless Hub
  • 2008 Homeless Count - Fact Sheet
  • 2008 Homeless Count - Memo
  • Homelessness, Victimization & Crime: Knowledge and Actionable Recommendations
  • Lenten Vigil: Poverty Drama - God's Friday 2007
  • Lenten Vigil: Homelessness and Housing
  • Lenten Vigil: The Criminalization of Homelessness
  • Lenten Vigil: Being Poor in a "Civil" City
  • Lenten Vigil: BC - A Leader in Child Poverty
  • Lenten Vigil: Barriers to Income

Canada's First Nations

  • Rot Has Set in on B.C. Reserves
  • Assembly of First Nations
  • Canada's Dirty Little Secret (June 2007)
  • First Nations Child & Family Caring Society
  • House apologizes to residential school survivors (May 2007)
  • Natives died in droves as Ottawa ignored warnings (April 2007)
  • Survivors Wait While Lawyers Squabble (Feb. 2007)

Reflections & Liturgy

  • "If Everyone Cared" (video)
  • "Led by the Spirit into the Wilderness..." Reflections on Lent, Jesus' Temptations and Indigeneity (pdf)
  • The Least of These (Poetry)

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      • Communiqué from The One 'R' Posse! re: Recycle Bin...
      • Activists Debate Vancouver Olympic Protests
      • Does it matter who's living in a tent?
      • Social housing conundrum Vision Vancouver's bigges...
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      • In the Shadow of the Olympic Flame: A Report from ...
      • Olympic Games in Vancouver end, but homelessness g...
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      • An Olympic Wrap-Up
      • Squatters at 'Olympic Tent Village' say they're di...
      • Olympic Tent Village up at 58 West Hastings
      • Photos & video: Vancouver protesters rally for nat...
      • Another Olympic Tent Village Update from Dave Diew...
      • Olympic Tent Village needs your ONGOING SUPPORT!
      • Olympic Tent Village Update
      • Right to the City: Rally for a National Housing Pr...
      • Vancouver's Olympic Tent Village
      • Protesters set up tent city in Vancouver's Downtow...
      • RALLY FOR HOUSING AND OLYMPIC TENT VILLAGE BRINGS ...
      • Rally for Homes: "No More Empty Lots; No More Empt...
      • Stations of the Cost
      • The Drink of the Death Squads, and Other Corporate...
      • BC Poverty Olympics Press Confer
      • Setting the Record Straight on Violent Protest and...
      • Independent media reporter rejected at border, det...
      • Torch relay video ignites frustration
      • Winter Olympics on slippery slope after Vancouver ...
      • Poverty torch rolls through region
      • Federal gov't sued over homeless man's death in fi...
      • Poverty Olympics Torch Run - Abbotsford
      • Poverty: B.C.’s PR nightmare scenario
      • Downtown Eastside info centre a "whitewash" say re...
      • Poverty Olympics Torch Run - Whistler
    • ►  January (39)
      • The Best Place on Earth
      • Mayor kick-starts 'clear plan' to end city homeles...
      • Greenwashing at the Games
      • Give & Take
      • Anti-Olympic protesters get their game on
      • The Evangelical Economics of the 2010 Olympics
      • Torchbearers Needed for Poverty Olympics Torch Rel...
      • Our glorious province: a land of security outrages...
      • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TWENTY YEARS LATER - A SECO...
      • Christian Organization Affiliated with VANOC has 2...
      • LAUNCHING THE 2010 POVERTY OLYMPICS TORCH RELAY
      • Conference: Rethinking the Olympics
      • Conference: Redistribution of Wealth
      • Guarding the Games
      • Unfortunately, Olympic skiers aren’t the only ones...
      • Vancouver Winter Olympics: A Festival of Corporate...
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      • Riverview Redux or, That Didn't Take Long
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      • Poverty and Policy in Canada
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