Poverty Tool: Wallet Guide (English)
This wallet card provides information about where to go in Niagara for help with housing, legal status and immigration, money, [...]
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02, 2014
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02, 2014
A Clinical Tool and Resource Listing for Primary Care in Niagara: Poverty
Poverty is a health risk, equivalent to hypertension, high cholesterol, and smoking. Therefore, it is best to factor poverty into [...]
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02, 2014
Basic Income Programs and Pilots
This resource reviews basic income programs and pilots from around the world and offers links for additional information. Author: Chandra [...]
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02, 2014
Towards a Basic Income Guarantee for All Canadians
This presentation, made by Rob Rainer to the Tamarack Institute's Cities Reducing Poverty on February 3, 2014, reviews the rationale [...]
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01, 2014
The Big Push Campaign Plan and Budget
The BIG Push is the first national campaign for basic income (BI) in Canada. This resource details the campaign goals, [...]
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12, 2013
How’s Life? 2013 Measuring Well-Being
This report provides a bi-annual assessment of people's well-being in OECD countries and in selected emerging economies. The 2013 edition [...]
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12, 2013
Creative Economy Report 2013 Special Edition: Widening Local Development Pathways
This special edition of the Creative Economy Report contains a body of evidence reflecting the experiences, actions and resources of [...]
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12, 2013
How a Guaranteed Income Could Put Food Banks Out of Business
This paper investigates the potential implications for non-elderly poverty in Canada by estimating the impacts of the guaranteed annual income [...]
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12, 2013
The Case for Guaranteed Income: Lifting People From Poverty Fairly, Efficiently and Effectively
This infographic compares the Canadian Welfare System with Guaranteed Livable Income against criteria, administration, incentives, rates and effectiveness. Author: johnmac|creative [...]
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11, 2013
Building Economic Strength by Eliminating Poverty
In his presentation to the Niagara Community Foundation at their annual Business Leaders' Breakfast on November 21st, 2013, Senator Hugh [...]
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11, 2013
Green Economy at Community Scale
This report explores the concept of the green economy as a potential solution to multiple challenges including climate change, biodiversity [...]
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11, 2013
The Wealth Paradox: How Income Inequality Hurts Every Canadian’s Chance of Building a Better Life
Canada is at a crossroads. A gap has grown between the middle class and the wealthy. Now, that divide is [...]
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11, 2013
Destination Apprenticeship
The thought of bringing on an apprentice can be very daunting. However, there are many resources available to businesses in [...]
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11, 2013
Hunger Count 2013
In March 2013, 833,098 people were helped by food banks in Canada; over a third were children. Years after the [...]
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10, 2013
Backgrounder: Responsible Citizenship- A National Survey of Canadians
This backgrounder presents findings from a national survey of Canadians that covered the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation’s four defining themes, [...]
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10, 2013
Ontario Medical Association: Income and Health Series
In November 2012, the OMA was asked to consider the role of screening for poverty in primary care settings and [...]
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09, 2013
1LessTrip
The 1 Less Trip campaign is designed around the simple concept of persuading consumers to take one less cross-border shopping [...]
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09, 2013
Better Health, Better Care, Better Value For All: Refocusing Health Care Reform in Canada
Ten years ago, the federal, provincial, and territorial governments created an agenda for health care reform in the 2003 First [...]
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09, 2013
NHS in Brief: Persons Living in Low-Income Neighbourhoods
This is the third release of data from the National Household Survey (NHS). Roughly 4.5 million households across Canada were [...]
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09, 2013
NHS in Brief: Education and Occupation of High-Income Canadians
This is the third release of data from the National Household Survey (NHS). Roughly 4.5 million households across Canada were [...]
