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Healthcare workers wearing Ebola protective suits hold two young children at a treatment center in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo.

When aid retreats, Ebola advances

A tent, trash, and personal belongings at a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street in East Montreal.

Cities are managing the visible signs of social failure with homelessness

The skyline is filled with glass towers and a couple of cranes.

Condos to co-ops: It makes sense to turn unsold units into social housing

Three children and an adult play a game on a carpet in a child-care centre while another adult looks on.

Child benefits work when they are generous and universal

Six pots of coffee beans.

Canadians aren’t imagining the cost-of-living crisis

Corn on the cob in closeup, with other produce and a store worker in the blurry background.

Slaying myths about income support

A worker in a yellow safety vest wrangles three shopping carts in a driving snowstorm.

A youth employment supplement could rebalance Canada’s generational divide

A shiny new foodbank with food organized on shelves with aisles like a supermarket.

Ten million Canadians live in food-insecure households. The federal budget doesn’t help them

Who is receiving social assistance?

Canada needs to address the issue of modern slavery

A village of low-rise apartment buildings and a few shops sit between forest and the waterfront.

The need for Indigenous-led housing

With COVID-19, we’ve never been “all in this together”

Moins de pauvres en pandémie

The poorest of the poor use Hamilton food banks

Help for the poor works best when combined with help for all

La promesse d’une prestation canadienne pour les personnes handicapées

Access to high-speed infrastructure is not the only barrier to connectivity

With more than 250,000 households in arrears, it’s time for rent forgiveness

Low-income households should be a priority for federal energy efficiency funding

Une zone plutôt qu’un seuil : repenser la mesure de la pauvreté
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Dismantling vicious cycle of poverty and systemic racism should guide criminal justice reform

Sortir du racisme systémique

A feminist approach to ending poverty after COVID-19

Post-pandemic rebuild should also address global poverty

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