This article is the sixth in a series on Poverty and Human Rights in Canada. SUMMARY: This article explores benefits screening, a system of auditing patients to identify those living in poverty and the benefits they may be eligible for, as an innovative step towards realizing the right to health in Canada by advancing health equity.[1]…
Tag: public policy
For two days in mid-May of this year, seventy-three invited participants assembled in Calgary to discuss and debate the appropriate roles for Canadian charities in the development of public policy. The consultation was the capstone event for the term of Dr. Roger Gibbins as Senior Fellow at Max Bell Foundation. In his capacity as Senior…
SUMMARY: This article is the third and final in a series by Dr. Roger Gibbins published in The Philanthropist on the topic of advocacy by charities on public policy issues. This article summarizes the outcomes of a conference held in Calgary in the spring of 2016 to explore and test propositions which had been previously…
This article is the fourth in a series on Poverty and Human Rights in Canada. SUMMARY: This article traces Canada’s legislative progress following the federal government’s ratification of the two Covenants that codified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 40 years ago – the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant…
SUMMARY: In a newly released working paper created under the auspices of the Montreal Research Laboratory on Canadian Philanthropy (LaboMTL) [1], Peter Elson and Sara Hall explore the complexity inherent in making policy changes over the long term. For this paper, a number of grantmaking foundations were interviewed at length to explore the nature, scope…
This article is the third in a series on Poverty and Human Rights in Canada. SUMMARY: In this personal narrative, social activist Michael Creek traces the changes in his life from its modest and ordinary beginnings to his long fight with cancer and a subsequent downward spiral that left him homeless and despairing. Creek also describes…
From time to time, the Editors of The Philanthropist reflect on the themes featured in the Journal and summarize and affirm the sector’s collective work on important issues. Recent writing in The Philanthropist has focused on the role and limits of the charitable sector in the furtherance of good public policy in Canada. These discussions…