How Canada learned to live with hunger
With nearly 10 million people in Canada living in food-insecure households, the political silence surrounding it all is perplexing and unacceptable, Right To Food’s Jasmine Ramze Rezaee argues.
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Tackling food insecurity through collaboration, innovation, and advocacy
The charitable hunger-relief sector is in the unique position of knowing how to not only respond to rising food insecurity, but to champion long-term change in this space, writes Second Harvest CEO Lori Nikkel.
Book Reviews, Personalities & Interviews
For Anglican priest and writer Maggie Helwig, her church’s encampment was a ‘site of grace’
In her new book, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community, Helwig tells the story of the encampment that formed on the grounds of her Toronto church during the pandemic, and how the church and the surrounding Kensington Market community fought to protect it and its residents.
De la nécessité de nouvelles mesures de la pauvreté
À une époque de changements rapides et profonds, les enjeux liés à la pauvreté ne font pas exception. Nous devons actualiser nos indicateurs pour répondre à cette réalité complexe, écrit Claude Pinard de Centraide du Grand Montréal.
The case for new poverty metrics
In this era of fast and deep change, the boundaries and geography of poverty have changed. We need to update our indicators to address this complex reality, writes Centraide of Greater Montreal’s Claude Pinard.
From storytelling to rights-based participation
The meaningful participation of people and communities with lived experience is key to a human-rights-based approach to poverty. Storytelling is a start, but it is only one side of the process, says Maytree’s Elizabeth McIsaac. We need to think deeply about how we receive those stories and incorporate people’s expertise into decision-making, she says, and we will improve our practice if we admit that we have lots to learn.
Solidarité Ahuntsic : Mobiliser la communauté pour le contrôle des terrains et des habitations
Les organismes à but non lucratif s’attaquent aux grands problèmes : la pauvreté, les inégalités en matière de santé, d’éducation et d’accès au travail, la discrimination
Solidarité Ahuntsic: Mobilizing for community control of land and housing
The intersectoral and multi-network consultation table focuses on citizens’ quality of life and affordable housing.