Family Harassed
October 31, 2009
Another Haldimand-Norfolk family known only as Wayne and Carolyn reports abuse at the hands of CAS. Police found marijuana growing at the home and investigated. Wayne showed them that he used marijuana legally to treat a medical condition. The police were satisfied, but on September 18, 2008 CAS show up to investigate [...]

There is a myth in our country has to why we have so many of our brothers and sisters who are homeless, people still think that when someone end up homeless it’s their fault because they do drugs or drink.
The fact is that the housing crisis began in the mid 90’s when the then Liberal [...]

Is eating foods from any of these places healthy?
The answer to this question is No. What you get from them just barely keeps you alive. When you go into a food bank usually you only get enough to hold you for a couple of meals and you always get the same thing over and over [...]

The following is a letter to the editor and to reporter Tanya Talaga of the Toronto Star in response to the article about the Ministry of Children and Youth Services finally naming 3 people to the Commission on Sustainable Children’s Aid Societies.
As a former foster child and executive director of the Foster Care Council of [...]

I would like to suggest to you during the 2010 mandatory review of the Child and Family Services Act by your Ministry that offence provisions be added to the Act to ensure that everyone complies with all parts of the Act in both the public interest, and in the best interests of children and youth in care.

 Rob Rainer of
Canada Without Poverty
Preventing poverty, improving health, reducing health care system costs…part of the transformative opportunity for Canada.
 
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms both provide for the rights of “life, liberty and security of the person.” But people in poverty, in general, have shorter lives, less [...]