poverty

A blast from the (recent) past from bushytailedfox 378 days old

I met my aggressive druggie beggar today. He was in front of me at the bus terminal cafe trying to buy some fries and curry sauce. I recognized him, ...

Veloutier, The Smell of Commerce from bushytailedfox 398 days old

I came upon a great letter from Robert Southey today. Southey was one of the Romantic Poets, along with better know ones such as Coleridge and Wordsworth, ...

A Song of Hunger from bushytailedfox 398 days old

I just finished watching a package on BBC World News about drought in Afghanistan and the resurgence of the Taliban, taking advantage of the situation. A ...

The undeserving poor of Toronto from bushytailedfox 399 days old

Yet more from the Toronto Sunday Sun. I don't have a direct link to Sunday's paper, but here is their home page. As you will soon see, it's a tabloid. http://www.torontosun.com/ This ...

Low Cost Housing in Canada from bushytailedfox 403 days old

This follows on from my last post on poverty in Canada. Low cost housing in Canada is something of a problem. The federal government here hasn't built ...

Poverty in Canada from bushytailedfox 404 days old

[ ... ] figures for poverty in Canada. There is no official figure for poverty in Canada. However, there are two that are widely quoted. One is a relative ...

The Waterloo Food Bank from bushytailedfox 405 days old

One of the floats in the Thanksgiving parade here in Kitchener-Waterloo yesterday was the Waterloo Food Bank. The food bank is a local organization of ...