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Canada improved its ‘poverty grade’, but Manitoba advocates say grading system needs improvement
Food Banks Canada released its annual poverty report card, where Canada received a slight boost in its grade. However, some advocates say the rating system has significant flaws.
How advocacy from the food bank sector led to the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit
While many in the sector have long campaigned for additional social assistance to address the rising cost of living, there is more to be done, they say. Now, they’re targeting a reform of Employment Insurance.
What is infrastructure? It goes beyond walls and pavement: Social sector
Perhaps it's time to seriously consider redefining what infrastructure is.
Model keeps Canada’s social sector from advocating for themselves, Canadians: experts
A scattered funding model and a lack of accountability in government mean the social good sector’s advocacy efforts are scattered - when they exist at all.
Amnesty International Canada joins Saskatchewan transgender rights case before the Supreme Court
Bill 137 requires students under 16 to have parental consent before educators can use their gender-affirming names and pronouns in classrooms.
Canada’s largest sector starved: Inside the financial crisis reshaping Canada’s fraying non-profits
As governments retreat from core services, non-profits are absorbing the fallout, without the funding, workforce stability or policy attention needed to sustain it. Why?
The failed coordination of Canada’s social good sector
Decades of underfunding have left Canada’s community sector exhausted, fragmented, and structurally unable to coordinate — even as movements across Canada show what’s possible when strategic advocacy is sustained.
What housing advocates said to a parliamentary committee about Build Canada Homes
Bill C-20, the Build Canada Homes Act, went through a study with a Standing Committee between March and May 2026. Several witnesses advocated for the new Crown corporation to prioritize the development and preservation of non-market housing, and predictable financing that is accessible to non-profits as well.
How non-profits advocated for the sector in a special review of B.C.’s lobbying act
Several national and provincial non-profits appeared before the Special Committee to share their experiences of complying with the Lobbyists Transparency Act, with some of the sector’s recommendations reflected in the Committee’s final report.
Canada improved its ‘poverty grade’, but Manitoba advocates say grading system needs improvement
Food Banks Canada released its annual poverty report card, where Canada received a slight boost in its grade. However, some advocates say the rating system has significant flaws.
How advocacy from the food bank sector led to the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit
While many in the sector have long campaigned for additional social assistance to address the rising cost of living, there is more to be done, they say. Now, they’re targeting a reform of Employment Insurance.
What is infrastructure? It goes beyond walls and pavement: Social sector
Perhaps it's time to seriously consider redefining what infrastructure is.
Model keeps Canada’s social sector from advocating for themselves, Canadians: experts
A scattered funding model and a lack of accountability in government mean the social good sector’s advocacy efforts are scattered - when they exist at all.
Amnesty International Canada joins Saskatchewan transgender rights case before the Supreme Court
Bill 137 requires students under 16 to have parental consent before educators can use their gender-affirming names and pronouns in classrooms.
Canada’s largest sector starved: Inside the financial crisis reshaping Canada’s fraying non-profits
As governments retreat from core services, non-profits are absorbing the fallout, without the funding, workforce stability or policy attention needed to sustain it. Why?
The failed coordination of Canada’s social good sector
Decades of underfunding have left Canada’s community sector exhausted, fragmented, and structurally unable to coordinate — even as movements across Canada show what’s possible when strategic advocacy is sustained.
What housing advocates said to a parliamentary committee about Build Canada Homes
Bill C-20, the Build Canada Homes Act, went through a study with a Standing Committee between March and May 2026. Several witnesses advocated for the new Crown corporation to prioritize the development and preservation of non-market housing, and predictable financing that is accessible to non-profits as well.
How non-profits advocated for the sector in a special review of B.C.’s lobbying act
Several national and provincial non-profits appeared before the Special Committee to share their experiences of complying with the Lobbyists Transparency Act, with some of the sector’s recommendations reflected in the Committee’s final report.
