Dec 16, 2022 Globe and Mail – Robert Fife and Stephen Chase RCMP probes elaborate scam targeting Canada’s largest Muslim organization There has always been an uneasy distance between charities and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRS) but this latest … [Read more...]
Reaching…
December 8, 2021 by
Dec. 8, 2021 Ottawa Citizen – Jeffrey Bradley, Irvin Waller City of Ottawa must budget for preventative approach to tackling violence - If done properly, evidence-based prevention can reduce serious crime dramatically in the next several years. … [Read more...]
Families…
May 6, 2021 by
May 6, 2021 APTN News - Brielle Morgan ‘Keep families together’: Moving beyond racist notions of neglect in child welfare This new journalist has done an entirely creditable job contracting the practices under welfare and protectionism in the … [Read more...]
Freedom and justice…
November 27, 2020 by
Nov 27, 2020 N.Y. Times – Ben Hubbard Saudi Activist Who Fought for Women’s Right to Drive Is Sent to Terrorism Court - Loujain al-Hathloul, one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent prisoners, has been accused of harming the kingdom’s security. Rights … [Read more...]
Welfare in Canada (2019) Report
November 20, 2020 by
Nov 20, 2020 Maytree Foundation – Welfare in Canada (2019) This annual report may prove helpful as Canada discusses how to remedy the loss of income and worsening threats of increasing poverty from covid. There is both a province by province … [Read more...]
Dry cell…
November 10, 2020 by
Nov 10, 2020 – CBC News - Federal prison investigators press for changes in use of 'dry cells' - Current correctional investigator calls dry cell conditions 'by far the most restrictive imaginable' The controversy over the use of segregation in … [Read more...]
Still solitary…
August 28, 2020 by
Aug 28, 2020 Globe and Mail – Sean Fine Federal, Ontario governments under fire for handling of solitary confinement Court rulings have found the solitary practices in Canada’s prisons unconstitutional but prison and human right advocates are not … [Read more...]
Hurry up!
February 29, 2020 by
Feb 29, 2020 Toronto Star - Warren (Smokey) Thomas, Contributor and president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union Ford hires U.S. firm to push Ontarians off welfare A hit team against the poor and vulnerable? A US company will get paid … [Read more...]
Holiday hunger…
May 27, 2019 by
May 27, 2019 Human Rights Watch (UK) Interview: Scraping Together Pennies for a Loaf of Bread – Human Rights Watch Stephanie Hancock speaks to Western Europe researcher Kartik Raj to find out. UK Welfare Policy is Pushing Families into Hunger … [Read more...]
Gender at Davos…
January 26, 2018 by
Jan 25, 2018 Davos Newsletter 7 things that happened on the first day of Davos 2018 Many anti-poverty advocates are encouraged that Davos – The World Economic Forum - is focusing again on inequities, both economic and gender. Our Trudeau spoke … [Read more...]