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Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance Pre-Budget Consultations
February 2016
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CPJ believes that the federal government has a moral commitment to develop policy that is grounded in the common good, giving priority to addressing the needs of the most vulnerable in Canadian society and for ensuring that Canada […]
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In the digital age, art serves as a powerful tool for social change beyond words and statistics. Making art requires patience and embodies a counter to urgency. Communal art projects foster collaboration and participation.
From The Catalyst, Summer 2016 The Invisible: What the Church Can Do to Find and Serve the Least of These By Arloa Sutter Wesleyan Publishing House, 2016 Reviewed by Darlene O’Leary The Invisible is an exploration of Arloa Sutter’s experiences working in street ministry in Chicago.
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The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting
By Zion Lights
Between the Lines, 2016
Reviewed by Karri Munn-Venn
Full disclosure: I am through the birthing and baby-wearing stages of parenthood. With kids aged 12, ten, and four, I’m looking for a different kind of guidance than what I found in The Ultimate Guide […]
“The Most Vulnerable” examines how the federal Government, Churches, and Advocacy Groups can apply an intersectional approach to their respective areas of policy making and advocacy efforts.
Prime Minister Trudeau has announced that Canada will indeed respond to the greatest ecological and moral challenge of our time. In a joint press release with provincial and territorial premiers and Indigenous leaders, Trudeau presented the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.
[…] itself. However, particular groups remain vulnerable. Among single-parent families, poverty rates remain high. Women lead almost 80 per cent of these families. This means that single mothers and their children face serious challenges. And poverty among single seniors, the majority of whom are women, is rising. Women tend to have lower wages and less […]
[…] Syrian family. Imagine further that the family you sponsored was not among the first 25,000 to come to Canada after the Liberal government won a majority m andate, and that family ended up waiting four or six months to arrive in Canada rather than the mere days or weeks of the earlier families.
It doesn’t […]
