Child poverty is rising swiftly in Canada and the Liberal government's Canada Child Benefit "has lost its power to sustain poverty reduction" and bring down income inequality, says a new report ...

The authors of the 2024 Child and Family Report Card , released in late December, warn that child poverty is increasing again ...

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015, he promised sunny ways and "a real change." Over the last nine years, ...

The monthly government benefit is meant to help low-income parents, amidst a rise in the the child poverty rate.

she said, adding this is often the case. "That's why food insecurity is actually a really great indicator of poverty in Canada, because it's telling us that more than 20 per cent of our ...

Conceived as a stopgap measure to address unmet needs in some communities, food banks were first implemented on a large scale ...

The communities of Lower Montague, Georgetown, Belfast and St Peter’s had some of the highest child poverty rates in 2022 according to the most recent PEI Child and Family Report Card.

Port Moody is advocating for the province to test universal basic income (UBI) as a way of tackling poverty.