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Analysis and reflection
KAIROS Poverty E-Update
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Recent KAIROS and partner reports, research,
editorials and articles on poverty-related issues
- Anti poverty Update, Spring 2008
- Turkeys
won’t cure the causes of poverty. Commentary
by Mary Boyd, printed in the Charlottetown Guardian, December
2007 (used with kind permission)
- KAIROS
submission to the 2007 Pre-Budget Consultations of the Government
of Canada’s Standing Committee on Finance: Towards
a Fair and Transparent Tax System that Promotes Economic Adequacy,
Social Responsibility, and Ecological Sustainability
- Prayer
of the People - Week to End Poverty (October 14-21, 2007)
- A
Worship service: on the redistribution of wealth
- Commentary
and Reflection Questions: for using "A Globalization Journey"
as a Bible Study
- Reflections
on Feeding the Multitudes: Mark 6:30-44
- KAIROS POVERTY E-UPDATE: June
2007 (Volume 3, Issue 2)
- KAIROS POVERTY E-UPDATE: July
2007 (Volume 3, Issue 3)
- “Bestowed with Charity,
Robbed of Dignity: My Week in a Vancouver Homeless Shelter”,
an article by Tavis Dodds, published in the December 2006 issue
of StreetNews, a community newspaper in Victoria supported, in
part, by the KAIROS Anti-Poverty Fund.
- From Vision to Action
Forum report: For a Canada without poverty. Ottawa, November
2006.
- Executive Summary: KAIROS
Submission to the Standing Committee on FinancePre-Budget Hearings
(August 2006)
- How
do we rate our government: It depends on our values. Originally
published on Christianity.ca (July 2006)
- Report
on 2006 Cross-Canada Citizen Dialogues on Social, Economic and
Cultural Rights: Executive Summary (April 2006)
- Report
on 2006 Cross-Canada Citizen Dialogues on Social, Economic and
Cultural Rights: Executive Summary (April 2006)
- Report on
Cross-Canada Citizen Dialogues on Social, Economic and Cultural
Rights: Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (April 2006)
- What gives quality to our lives?
Originally published in the Toronto Star, December 31, 2005.
- Productivity,
yes, but to what end? A call for a values-based budget. Submission
to the Standing Committee on Finance Pre-Budget Hearings, 2005(1/
09/ 2005)
- Submission to
the Federal Labour Standards Review Commission: From Economic
Fear to Human Development-- Short- and Long-Term Approaches to
Creating Safe, Productive and Meaningful Work in Canada (1 September
2005)
- Reflection on Sunday Shopping in
Nova Scotia: Rev. Mr. Robert Britton, Archdiocese of Halifax
- Global
Economic Justice Report: Ending Poverty in Canada: From Political
Advocacy to Social Transformation (June 2005, Vol 4, #2)
- Opinion: Christians should unite
in response to poverty (July, 2005)
(For a complimentary print copy of the related Global Economic
Justice Report: Ending poverty in Canada: From political advocacy
to social transformation (June, 2005) please
contact Michael Polanyi with your mailing address.)
- Article: Caring for
our children all year long-- Why we must support a national day
care program (December, 2004)
- Reflection: Budgets, Taxes
and Tax Cuts: A Question of Faith? (November, 2004)
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