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When Mary (not her real name) opened her February utility bill, she was shocked. What was normally less than $200 had risen to over $600. A single mom and careful budgeter, Mary was used to making tough choices around where her money went each month. But this meant that even tougher choices were in front of her ...
Read our Editorial in the Calgary Herald on the growing issue of Energy Poverty in Alberta. An initiative of the Energy Poverty Roundtable.
March 8, 2022 is International Women’s Day, and it is themed #breakthebias! International Women’s Day is set aside each year to draw attention to women’s challenges in both the private and public domain, take stock of the progress achieved and reflect on the work still to be done. Read the reflection by CPI Senior Researcher Dr. Rita Yembilah on the connection between gender and poverty. Read here.
Watch the presentation by Dr. Rita Yembilah, Senior Researcher for the CPI, discussing the link between education and poverty. This talk was delivered to Project Ploughshares Calgary in November 2021.
A Solid Crack at Education: What Has Well-Being Got to Do With It?
The Canadian Poverty Institute is hiring a Community Research Assistant. This part-time position will assist with our study documenting the impacts of the July 2020 hailstorm on Northeast Calgary. Applicants should be a resident of the affected communities. Deadline for applications is October 29.
For more information, access a copy of the job posting here.
A reflection on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Every year on October 17th, the United Nations encourages the world to pause and reflect on the ongoing reality of poverty across the globe. This year, the theme for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is “Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet”.
Read more: www.povertyinstitute.ca/buildingforward
The Fall 2021 issue of Spero, the newsletter of the Canadian Poverty Institute, is now available. In this issue read about:
· Towards Climate Justice: Assessing the Risks to Marginalized Communities
· Building Cultural Capital for Anti-Racism Among Racialized Youth
· “Back to Normal”: Understanding the Impact of Covid19 on Newly Vulnerable Households
· The latest publications, resources and events from the CPI
Spero is available for download here.
A Reflection from our Director.
The discovery over the past few weeks of mass burials of indigenous children in unmarked graves at Residential Schools demands a response. Yet, what response can there possibly be? As a settler, I have personally struggled to come up with anything meaningful to say in the aftermath. Apologies are hollow. Rage seems insufficient. Words fail. But silence too is unacceptable … Read
Just Released: Submission by the Canadian Poverty Institute to the Government of Canada providing background and recommendations for reforms to protect precarious workers in the gig economy. Fulfilling Canada’s commitments to the progressive realization of economic rights requires new and innovative approaches to employment standards and social protection. Read the Submission.
JUST RELEASED: In response to The City of Calgary’s request for input for the development of its Environment Strategy, the Canadian Poverty Institute prepared a brief submission. This brief provides background and recommendations to The City of Calgary as it develops its Environment Strategy. As poverty and the environment intersect in important ways, it is critical that Calgary’s Environment Strategy embody principles of Environmental Justice where all people, regardless of gender, age, race or socioeconomic status, are entitled to equal protection under environmental laws and to participate in environmental decision making in their community. Read the Submission.
To better understand the preferred role of faith‐based organizations in secular society, the Canadian Council of Churches partnered with researchers from the Canadian Poverty Institute to explore current systems of poverty reduction. Read the latest publication from this research published in the March edition of the Journal of Community Psychology.
Cresswell, J., H. Tamlin and A. Hoppe, (2021). “Experiencing visions of Canadian church workers: Exploring the mentality fueling systems involved in poverty reduction.” Journal of Community Psychology. March, 2021.
This publication is part of the ongoing project The Role of the Church in Poverty Reduction led by Dr. J. Cresswell.
