Workshops

"Treating people the same won't create equality..."

By Jenny Prosser | Friday, November 5th, 2010 - 9:38AM
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Hearing this statement at End Exclusion 2010 on November 2 caused me to sit up and pay attention. Its content is quite counter-intuitive. What is so wrong with treating everyone the same? Isn’t that what equality is? However, when you apply this question to society there are multiple points where it is clear the hard and fast rule of treating everyone the same has not, in fact, created equality. Read more »

The Great Turning: A choice for a brighter future

By Jenny Prosser | Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Every day we are faced by choices, both trivial and important. However, in our present times it seems increasingly true that we must be aware that nearly every choice we make is an important one. The world is encountering multiple crises every day and there is a growing awareness that if we as a society wish to avoid the destruction these crises seem to be leading us towards we need to choose a new path. David Korten’s book The Great Turning is an examination of this choice. Read more »

If you want to be healthy, try not being poor

By Jenny Prosser | Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 - 12:53PM
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On Friday September 27, Joe and I attended a workshop in Pembroke titled ‘Creating a Better Future for Our Children’ which was focussed on poverty and the Social Determinants of Health. While I learned many interesting things and heard a lot of detailed statistics, the main theme of the day was definitely that poverty is bad for your health. Not surprised? Neither was I, but the information came from a perspective I had not considered before. Read more »

CPJ in Oakville and Ancaster

By Chandra Pasma | Monday, October 19th, 2009 - 1:45PM
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Friday and Saturday, I was in Oakville and Ancaster, Ontario speaking at a number of events. My first stop was at John Knox Christian School in Oakville. The Grade 6 students there have been studying non-governmental organizations, so I shared with them about what it’s like to work for an NGO. We also talked about justice and charity, and why both are important. Read more »

Reflections on CPJ's Poverty Workshops

By Mariel Angus | Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 - 4:01PM
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As you may know from reading Chandra’s blog from Monday (“Highlights from CPJ’s Poverty Workshops,”), CPJ hosted a series of workshops on poverty last week in Southern Ontario. Since Chandra has already described how they went, I thought this might be a good chance for me to reflect on my own experience of the workshops as an intern and what I took away from them. Read more »

CPJ Pre-Budget Workshops on Poverty

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

The 2009 Federal Budget is being released on January 27 – but a strategy to address poverty in Canada is not likely to be a major element. What can we, as citizens, do?

Join CPJ at one of our pre-budget workshops in Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto and Whitby to explore how to address poverty in Canada. Read more »

CPJ calls citizens to envision Canada without poverty

By Trixie Ling | Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

May was an exciting month for CPJ as we travelled across Canada engaging people in a dialogue about poverty in Canada and suggesting ways to fight against poverty. In coordination with the recent launch of our Envisioning Canada Without Poverty (www.canadawithoutpoverty.ca) campaign, CPJ held workshops in five different cities, Ottawa, Halifax, London, Winnipeg and Edmonton, to explore a national poverty reduction strategy and empower citizens to engage in advocacy. Advocacy is an ongoing process; change does not come in a day. We must keep persisting because we have a duty to work toward a just society in which all people can live in dignity and have access to basic needs. Read more »