Social Impact Bonds: poverty reduction strategy or privatization scheme?
Fredericton - The NDP and anti-poverty groups clashed in September over how to reduce poverty in the lead up to ...
Tag: poverty
Cuts to refugee health care endanger lives
Toronto - Across the street from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada's offices in downtown Toronto, Meb Rashid stood ...
Changes to appeal process for injured workers in New Brunswick opposed
Photo from the website of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers. The Common Front ...
More women living in poverty in New Brunswick
The feminization of poverty is seen in New Brunswick. The Common Front for Social Justice is marking International Women's Day, ...
A social justice perspective on poverty
Wilmot United Church in Fredericton's downtown. Photo by Christa Blizzard. As part of the St. Thomas ...
Harper’s EI changes: serving a long tradition of flooding the low wage market
After the federal government introduced major changes and cuts to the Employment Insurance (EI) system last January, hundreds of protests ...
La pauvreté démocratique
Trois longues années se sont écoulées depuis l’adoption de la Loi sur l’inclusion économique et sociale. Beaucoup d’eau est passée ...
Reducing poverty is fashionable where equality is unimaginable
Fredericton - An anti-poverty group says the New Brunswick Alward government's poverty reduction plan will not alleviate poverty. The government ...
Austerity chokes Canada’s down-and-out as Harper, Flaherty look the other way
The exceedingly aggressive austerity cuts carried out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the past ...
When drones guard the pipeline
Militarizing fossil fuels in the east Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an ...
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