- Behind the Numbers
A blog from the CCPA
Resource Type: Website
Commentary on issues that affect Canadians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, budgets, taxes, public services, and employment.
- Born into Brothels
Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2004
The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Daily Bread Food Bank
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- East York Workers' Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
- Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Stories from India's Poorest Districts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
P. Sainath devoted 2½ years to visiting and recording the realities - delving into the fundamentals, the why of the realities - in India's 10 poorest districts.
- Finding North
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
- Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis
Resource Type: Book
- Food Banks Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
- "Granny dumping"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
- Homeless
The Motel Kids of Orange County
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2010
Follows a group of children as their families struggle to live survive in one of the country's wealthiest areas.
- The Just Society Movement
For the Poor by the Poor - A Model for Grassroots Activism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The Just Society Movement (1968 - 1972) was a short-lived but remarkably successful Toronto based grassroots social and political advocacy network run by and for Toronto’s poorest residents.
- Local schools perpetuate social inequality says survey
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The more money your parents earn, the better you are likely to do in school. This is the conclusion of a massive study of the Toronto school population just released by the Board of Education.
- Mama Illegal
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria and Italy as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Malcom X's speech given nearly 50 years ago still remains valid today even in the age of the first African-American president and a sizable Congressional Black Caucus. While much has changed legally and socially -- upper-class African Americans can work and live almost anywhere if qualified -- much hasn’t changed for the working poor who are Black.
- On the Edge
A Journey into the Heart of Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- The Vanier Institute of the Family
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
A valuable media source and expert resource, for almost 50 years, on families in Canada. Vanier provides access to research data and an extensive network of specialists on family issues/family life. All Vanier publications, projects and networks are inclusive, evidence-based, reflecting Canada's diversity. Ottawa based, non-profit, non-partisan charitable organization.
- The War at Home
An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Where Heaven Meets Hell
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
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