Happenings

Job opportunity: Summer Communications Assistant

CPJ — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:49:42 -0400

Check out our ad for a six week contract as a communications assistant for CPJ. $13.00 per hour. Must be enrolled in college or university program in the fall. Read more »

Two awards for CPJ at Canadian Church Press conference

Sarah Shepherd — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:41:57 -0400

This year's Canadian Church Press gathering was energetic and inspiring, with the Catalyst winning two writing awards. Read more »

Two awards for CPJ at Canadian Church Press conference

Sarah Shepherd — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:41:57 -0400

This year's Canadian Church Press gathering was energetic and inspiring, with the Catalyst winning two writing awards. Read more »

Glass Half Full: May

Brad Wassink — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:24:53 -0400

Glass Half Full celebrates progress being made on poverty and ecological justice in Canada. This month: a poverty reduction plan in Calgary, a housing strategy in Nova Scotia, and a coalition to save the Experimental Lakes Area. We also take a look at the Ontario budget from an anti-poverty perspective. Read more »

Canada’s affluence is all the more reason to improve human rights

Karri Munn-Venn — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:40:05 -0400

The UN’s 82 member delegations gathered in Geneva on April 26 to review Canada’s human rights performance. Together, they issued 162 recommendations dealing with everything from racial profiling to food security and basic sanitation. Canada has committed to responding to the UPR recommendations by September. CPJ will join other civil society and Aboriginal organizations tomorrow, Tuesday, May 28, in a consultation with federal, provincial and territorial government officials (convened by the Department of Canadian Heritage) to provide input into the development of the official response. At this meeting, we will continue to urge government officials to take action on poverty, Aboriginal rights, and affordable housing. In an article published in Embassy on May 8, CPJ unpacks the recommendations we made to Canada’s human rights review and the reasons action is so urgently needed. Read more »

Setbacks and successes in the fight for affordable housing

Simon Lewchuk — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:38:49 -0400

In Canada, 300,000 people are homeless, and many millions more are precariously housed. CPJ and people of faith across the country have been at the forefront in calling on the federal government to make housing and homelessness a national priority by making important policy changes and providing much-needed funding. Over the past few months, we’ve witnessed some setbacks on the housing front, but there have also been signs of hope and progress. Here’s the latest. Read more »

Are food banks here to stay? Anti-Poverty Caucus meets on hunger

Brad Wassink — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:10:52 -0400

This is Hunger Awareness Week: a time to look at why a country as rich as Canada still needs food banks and what the alternatives are. Read more »

Poverty in the BC election

Simon Lewchuk — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:40:32 -0400

With the BC election just one week away, it’s an important time to see what the parties have to say about poverty. What are their plans to improve the well-being and life chances of the 510,000 children, women, and men living below the poverty line? Read more »

Carbon and the Common Good: A CPJ backgrounder on pricing carbon emissions

Brad Wassink — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:48:01 -0400

CPJ's backgrounder on pricing carbon emissions, Carbon and the Common Good, will continue the public justice tradition of CPJ, by looking at the environmental crisis from this perspective. After summarizing some of the biblical principles that guide our reflection, this paper addresses one specific and complex area of debate, carbon taxes. It also lays out some positioning for the organization on this issue. Read more »

Past Issues of JusticE-News

Sarah — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:33:39 -0400