Girl Guides of Canada partnered with Ipsos to ask teens, ages 12 to 18, about their summer work in 2018. They found that girls experience a gender pay gap in their summer work. The results showed that girls are paid almost $3.00 per hour less than boys when comparing full-time MORE
Yellowknives Dene First Nation youth in the Canadian Northwest Territories participated in the ‘On-the-Land Health Leadership Camp,” where they used a strength- and community-based participatory approach through an Indigenous research lens to collect stories from youth through sharing circles, PhotoVoice, mural art, and surveys. The youth found that the emerging MORE
New research compares early childhood health and well-being on a number of important measures in the UK to similar countries, including Canada. Measures include poverty, injuries and poisoning, congenital anomalies, infant mortality, childhood cancer rates, immunizations rates, obesity, life expectancy and more. Click here to read the full report.
Verena Tan, coordinator of the criminal justice program at the Canadian Friends Service Committee, spoke on the CBC Sunday Edition last week to discuss their 2018 report on what happens to the children of incarcerated parents. A one-year survey of Canadian case law found an absence of any cases that MORE
In a recent post, Marc Lee, Senior Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s BC office, argues “There is a compelling case for the BC government to fund the #AllOnBoard campaign ask as part of their poverty reduction strategy.” The campaign calls for (1) free transit for those under MORE
Early this year, the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health released a body of research that discusses three main themes of Indigenous Early Childhood Development in Canada: the context of young Indigenous children’s lives, the health and well-being of young Indigenous children, and intersectoral interventions for Indigenous child health. The report suggests MORE
Michaeleen Doucleff recently published an article through the NPR based on conversations with Inuit families and researchers like Jean Briggs. Michaeleen found that traditional Inuit parenting is incredibly nurturing and tender. The culture views scolding — or even speaking to children in an angry voice — as inappropriate. Instead, they use role MORE
McCreary Centre Society released the 2018 BC Adolescent Health Survey. The Survey is the most reliable, comprehensive survey of youth aged 12–19 in British Columbia. The survey was first conducted in 1992 and has been completed every five years since. In 2018, over 38,000 young people aged 12–19 in 58 of MORE
Ready to Rent BC Association and Aunt Leah’s Place partnered on the Landlord Risk Mitigation Funds Report in 2018. They built the landlord mitigation fund toolkit to introduce a new program option to agencies and advocates dedicated to removing barriers to housing. Based on what they learned from this project, they are MORE
The Children’s Play Policy Forum believes that play is a powerful builder of happy, healthy, capable children. Researchers have found that “play builds resilience and is a significant part of the solution to the crisis in childhood…” And, the benefits of play extend beyond the child “to families, communities and society.” MORE
Food Banks Canada’s HungerCount2018 Report includes powerful recommendations to governments including a call to Support the Creation of Standardized, Affordable Early Learning and Childcare Across the Country. Read the full report and four public policy recommendations that would decrease Canadians’ reliance on food banks. In BC, 31% of food bank users were families with MORE
An article by the Discourse highlights the limited number (16) of Indigenous Roots workers employed by the Ministry of Children and Family Development for working with children and youth in care who are not cared for by Delegated Aboriginal Agencies. The ministry is mandated by legislation to ensure that Aboriginal MORE
A new report from Oxfam found that Canadian billionaires saw a one-year $20 billion increase in their wealth. Over the same period (March 2017 – March 2018) wealth held by the poorest half of Canadians remained the same. The report on global inequality Public Good or Private Wealth, makes recommendations including MORE
West Coast LEAF released the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Report Card. The Report Card monitors BC’s compliance with the Convention between reporting periods in order to hold the government accountable to both UN standards and BC women. Although this year’s grades have MORE
The Canadian Council for Policy Alternatives – BC Council and the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs released the True, Lasting Reconciliation report this week to discuss implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The report challenges politicians, officials, advisors, experts and the public to MORE