From ensuring Indigenous peoples and communities are at the centre of the conversation, to addressing systemic racism, Cheryl Whiskeyjack and Leslie Varley outline first steps and showcase successful initiatives that can lead to ending Indigenous poverty in cities across the country.

Ending Poverty Pathways - 8. Ending Indigenous Poverty

Built for Zero Canada (BFZ-C) is a bold national change effort focused on ending homelessness. Marie Morrison (BFZ-C), Jaime Rogers (Medicine Hat), Dawn Wheadon (Moncton) and Lori Richer and Dominica McPherson (Guelph Wellington), explore the power of real-time data, advocacy, and the meaningful engagement of the private sector and of experts with lived and living experience of poverty. 

Slide deck: https://events.tamarackcommunity.ca/end-of-poverty-summit-2021-resource-library

Ending Poverty Pathways - 7. Built for Zero Canada for Ending Homelessness

A national Basic Income is a big transformational idea in poverty reduction. In this podcast, Sheila Regehr (Basic Income Canada Network), Kendall David (Basic Income Canada Youth Network), Tom Cooper (Hamilton), Lee Stevens (Calgary), and Luis Segura (Lindsay) discuss what a Basic Income must look like to be successful at reducing poverty and explore the mounting Canadian-based evidence that supports the effectiveness of a national program.

Ending Poverty Pathways - 6. A Basic Income for Ending Poverty

Hon. Nicholas Simons, BC’s Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, Hon. Julie Green, NWT’s Minister of Health and Social Services, and Stéphane Leclair, Executive Director of NB’s Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation (ESIC) speak to their provincial and territorial poverty reduction plans, and the critical links between these plans and the essential place-based work of communities.

Ending Poverty Pathways - 4. Provinces and Territories Ending Poverty

Adaoma Patterson, Manager, Poverty Reduction Initiatives and Community Engagement, Region of Peel

Jennifer Splansky Juster, Executive Director, FSG

John McKnight, Co-Founder, Asset-Based Community Development Institute

John Kania, Executive Director, Collective Change Lab, Inc.

Tim Brodhead, Board Member, Tamarack Institute

The Tamarack Institute develops and supports collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community issues.

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