Summary
Critics say the low-income cut-off measures inequality and income differences between people, not poverty, much less suffering. But whether the numbers are accurate or not, there's no question too many Canadians are having too hard a time surviving in a country that has too few excuses. One doesn't need numbers, just eyes, to see the problem. The most obvious example, of course, is the pathetic condition of the country's First Nations, where people often are crowded into substandard housing and raised in conditions that deny them the most basic needs, such as safe drinking water. Indeed, poverty could be defined as the condition that denies people ordinary dignity and basic human rights.
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Editorial - Fighting Poverty
A social action group says a staggering 788,000 Canadian children -- 11.7 per cent -- live in poverty. In its annual repo...
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