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...
View ArticleGlass 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,...
View ArticleAre 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...
View ArticleDoing 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,...
View ArticleGlass 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...
View ArticleGlass 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 »
View ArticleCarbon 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...
View ArticleGlass 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...
View ArticleThe 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 »
View ArticleGlass 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...
View ArticleGlass 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 »
View ArticleFulfilling 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...
View ArticleCPJ 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleClimateFast: 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...
View ArticleLiving 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...
View ArticleFaith 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAct 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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