Derek Cook

Derek Cook is the director of the Canadian Poverty Institute at Ambrose University in Calgary. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Canada Without Poverty, co-leaders with CPJ in the Dignity for All campaign.

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Poverty Isn’t a Problem to Be Fixed

By Derek Cook | November 16, 2016

By Derek Cook on November 16th, 2016

From the Catalyst, Winter 2016

At its root, poverty is not about money but about distorted and marred relationships and the divisions we create between “us” and “them.” It is a wound that needs to be healed.

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