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Housing: for a greater, inclusive Montreal without poverty
This text is part of the special Philanthropy section According to the president and general director of the Centraide foundation, Claude Pinard, the future Namur-Hippodrome eco-district is proof of the…
cholera, a disease of poverty
Published on 05/10/2024 09:39 Video duration: 1 min Health: cholera, a disease of poverty A three-year-old girl died of cholera on Wednesday May 8 in Mayotte. Visiting the site, Frédéric…
“It’s adding poverty to poverty,” criticizes David Belliard, deputy mayor of Paris
The deputy mayor of Paris, David Belliard was a guest on France Inter on Monday. Published on 06/05/2024 06:54 Reading time: 1 min David Belliard, deputy mayor of Paris in…
Poverty on the rise in Canada since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic
The soaring cost of living, of course, but also the end of special aid programs deployed to cushion the economic shock of COVID-19, is erasing the gains against poverty that…
in China, the taboo of extreme poverty
Officially, extreme poverty has disappeared since 2020 in China. But in reality, part of the population continues to live in very precarious conditions, particularly in the countryside. Published on 04/23/2024…
Deconsumption: passport to widespread poverty!
Terms like “sustainable development”, “eco-responsibility” and “degrowth” have long established themselves as standards of environmental awareness. But their overuse has emptied them of their substance and their mobilizing power, relegating…
TRUE OR FALSE. Are there nearly 100 million Europeans at risk of poverty, as Marie Tousaint states?
In the middle of the campaign for the European elections, the environmentalist candidate Marie Tousaint assures that “nearly 100 million Europeans are at risk of precariousness”. It’s true. Precisely 95…
Poverty, from one station to another
Berri-UQAM station, Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. Dozens of workers and students start their day. A few homeless people wander the halls. Police officers and special constables are clearly visible on the…
A new poverty tax
A little-discussed angle of the last budget is the imposition of the tax on the purchase of a used car on vehicles less than 15 years old, whereas until now…
In the aftermath of the 2024 Quebec budget, the cost of poverty
In this budget week in Quebec, let us try to identify a series of observations which should, we hope, achieve consensus across a broad political spectrum. 1) The inflationary crisis…
Study | One in five households affected by fuel poverty in Canada
(Montreal) Energy poverty affects nearly one in five households, according to a team from the Canada Research Chair in Housing, Community and Health at McGill University, which has been studying…
When social poverty becomes an economic threat
Once a month, The duty challenges philosophy enthusiasts to decipher a current issue based on the theses of a notable thinker. In the work Private property, social property, self-ownership, the…
Poverty costs us dearly!
Since October, the Senate Finance Committee has been examining a project for a universal minimum income for all Canadians, at the instigation of Senator Kim Pate. Variations of “basic income”…
“If farmers don’t go and work elsewhere, they fall into poverty,” says a Polish breeder
Welcome Eco / Consumption Job Professions Agriculture Between increasing costs and falling prices, European breeders are not getting by. Their fed-up has been expressed more and more strongly in recent…
“If farmers don’t go and work elsewhere, they fall into poverty,” says a Polish breeder
Welcome Eco / Consumption Job Professions Agriculture Between increasing costs and falling prices, European breeders are not getting by. Their fed-up has been expressed more and more strongly in recent…
Precariousness: in 2023, 5.3 million people lived below the poverty line in France
Welcome Company Poverty plan Published on 01/15/2024 12:33 Video length: 1 min Precariousness: in 2023, 5.3 million people lived below the poverty line in France Precariousness: in 2023, 5.3 million…
“Why don’t I write. Reflections on the culture of poverty: To be or not to be a writer
“I am not a writer,” asserts Benoit Jodoin in the introduction to his first essay, Why don’t I write. For twenty years, I have revolved around writing. I mean that…
Saving millions of children from poverty
Knowing that children are our hope for the future, failing to support them could lead to generational catastrophe. Given that more than half of people living in extreme poverty are…
Poverty and government policy, National gathering and solidarity… Pascal Brice’s 8:30 am franceinfo
The president of the Federation of Solidarity Actors was the guest on 8:30 a.m. Franceinfo on Tuesday January 2, 2024. He answered questions from Nicolas Teillard and Guillaume Daret. Published…
The National Assembly pays tribute to Vivian Labrie, pioneer in the fight against poverty
This Wednesday, the National Assembly is honoring a great Quebec humanist. Tirelessly indignant at social injustice, Vivian Labrie has for more than 35 years refused the economic rules of the…