poverty

The box-like development on a city-owned site across from Vancouver’s Science World, will provide housing for 40 low-income residents. Monthly rent for a studio: $375.

"Women and girls are less likely to get an education, more likely to be impoverished, and face greater risk of disease and poor health," Trudeau wrote in a letter released early Thursday morning.

Tax returns are the basis for calculating how much a family receives under the new benefit and internal government estimates peg the tax filing rate on reserves at about 50 per cent.

Nations aiming for global climate pact in Paris in December must commit to a world where all 7 billion people have equal rights and access to electricity, opportunity, and justice, says minister.