anti-poverty

Tackling Canada’s cost-of-living crisis is a matter of survival.

Canada is one of the world’s richest countries, yet millions of Canadians are poor. We meet three of them, looking at the measures they must take to survive and at the roots of poverty in Canada.

Low-income families are tired of what they consider fluff: the cycle of debates, consultations, studies, reports and unfulfilled promises — none of which fill stomachs.

Nearly 50 labour, environmental and anti-poverty groups have written to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, urging her to champion a new NAFTA trade agreement that favours workers and community rights, as opposed to corporate interests and profits.