~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 119 …. June 30, 2008 ______________________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail April 26, 2008

The final 2006 census data will portray the richest 5 per cent of Canadians as dramatically accumulating more wealth, the incomes of most residents showing perhaps the greatest stagnancy in the developed world and the nation’s poorest falling further and further behind. (Keep reading…)

A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 88 …. March 8, 2008 ______________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

toronto.ctv.ca November 26, 2007

Almost one in three families in Toronto is living in poverty, a “deeply troubling” statistic that makes the city the poverty capital of Canada, according to a new report. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Fri Nov 9 2007

A recent report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing echoes what a growing number of Canadians already know. There is a housing crisis in this country and governments are simply not doing what is necessary to address it. (Keep reading…)

TheTyee.ca October 31, 2007

Miloon Kothari, the UN Special Rapporteur for Housing, recently visited Canada on a fact-finding mission to look at the issues of homelessness, Aboriginal housing issues, women’s housing issues and the impact of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. Mr. Kothari granted this interview during his recent visit. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Wed Oct 31 2007

ALMOST two million Canadian households are in core housing need, according to Jino Distasio, director of the University of Winnipeg’s Institute of Urban Studies. “Right now no level of government is really building social housing,” Distasio said in an interview. Instead, “governments are relying on small community groups to launch housing projects. These organizations lack the capacity to add significantly to the availability of affordable housing and are struggling to finance escalating management, maintenance and operational costs.” (Keep reading…)

No New Homes in Premier’s Homelessness Plan

TheTyee.ca October 12, 2007

Premier Gordon Campbell has constructed an intricate array of innovative responses to B.C.’s sprawling homelessness crisis — but he’s not building more housing. (Keep reading…)

Vancouver Province

September 28, 2007

Municipal leaders from across B.C. yesterday voted firmly in favour of boosting the minimum wage from $8 to $10 an hour. (Keep reading…)

CCPA Manitoba September 27,2007

It is perplexing that in 21st century Canada it could be a punishable offence for one person to say to another, peacefully, in a public place, “I’m in trouble and need help.” Yet that is the effect of laws such as City of Winnipeg Bylaw No. 128/2005 that criminalize the act of panhandling. Other Canadian and American cities have enacted similar legislation, underscoring a clash of competing values: social “hygiene” vs. freedom of expression; middle-class discomfort vs. underclass economic need; commercial interests of downtown business owners vs. beggars’ right to plead for subsistence. (Keep reading…)