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Glass Half Full: January

‘Glass Half Full’ celebrates the progress we’ve seen recently on poverty and ecological justice in Canada. This month: wind and coal power in Ontario, poverty reduction in...

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Glass Half Full: February

 ‘Glass Half Full’ celebrates the progress we’ve seen recently on poverty and ecological justice in Canada. This month: housing in Alberta, Nunavut and Vancouver,...

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Are you Living Eco-Justice?

As Canadians, we are famous for our constant conversations about the weather, but when it comes to larger environmental questions are we able to do more than just talk? CPJ's forthcoming worship and...

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Doing Better Together for the Environment

Last week marked the 19th year that civil society groups have released their Alternative Federal Budget (AFB), offering suggestions for how the federal government could respond to the economic, social,...

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Glass Half Full: March

 Glass Half Full celebrates progress made on poverty and ecological justice in Canada. This month: poverty reduction in Manitoba, housing in Saint John and Toronto, and our main source of power in...

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Glass Half Full: April

Glass Half Full celebrates progress being made on poverty and ecological justice in Canada. This month: public transit in Saint John, housing in the Yukon, and carbon pricing in Alberta. Read more »

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Carbon and the Common Good: A CPJ backgrounder on pricing carbon emissions

CPJ's backgrounder on pricing carbon emissions, Carbon and the Common Good, will continue the public justice tradition of CPJ, by looking at the environmental crisis from this perspective. After...

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Glass Half Full: May

Glass Half Full celebrates progress being made on poverty and ecological justice in Canada. This month: a poverty reduction plan in Calgary, a housing strategy in Nova Scotia, and a coalition to save...

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The Northern Gateway Pipeline: Why We Cling to Oil

This award-winning article looks at the values that make us see oil as a necessity, with devastating impacts on the enviroment and vulnerable peoples. Read more »

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Glass Half Full: June

“Glass Half Full” celebrates the success and progress we’ve seen recently on issues of poverty and ecological justice in Canada. This month: poverty reduction initiatives...

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Glass Half Full: July

“Glass Half Full” celebrates the success and progress we’ve seen recently on issues of poverty and ecological justice in Canada. Read more »

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Fulfilling our Collective Responsibility: 2013 pre-budget submission

While CPJ has publicly raised questions about the integrity of the pre-budget consultation process, we believe that now, more than ever, the voice of public justice needs to be heard in Ottawa, and...

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CPJ advocates for a price on carbon emissions

This is the second in a three-part series highlighting CPJ’s recommendations for the 2014 federal budget as contained in Fulfilling our Collective Responsibility, our annual brief to the...

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A Broad-Based Call for Evidence-Based Decision Making

Hundreds of people, many in white lab coats, descended on Parliament Hill Monday, and thousands more gathered across the country. Their message was simple: government policy needs to be based on...

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ClimateFast: Asking for real leadership on Climate Change!

A group called ClimateFast is demonstrating their commitment - and challenging the government’s political will – by holding a 12-day fast and vigil on Parliament Hill from September 21 until October...

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Living Ecological Justice launch in Winnipeg

Manitoba has a strong spirit of cooperation and public mindedness. It’s about time that this spirit was matched up with the faith-based policy work of Citizens for Public Justice! This is precisely...

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Faith has everything to do with it: CPJ’s 50th Anniversary

On October 3rd, close to 120 friends and supporters of CPJ gathered at downtown Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity to celebrate our organization’s 50th anniversary. It was a great moment – enjoyed in...

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The Speech from the Throne – and “Shopping for Votes”

Everyone in Ottawa’s political scene seems to be reading Susan Delacourt’s new book, Shopping for Votes. It describes the obsession of modern political parties with “marketing strategies” rather than...

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Act now to fight climate change

The Evidence is ClearThe evidence of climate change surrounds us. Temperatures rose in 2012 to all-time highs, breaking records around the world. We witnessed events such as the Arctic ice melt,  the...

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