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2024 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada

This year marks the 35th anniversary since the passing of the unanimous all-party federal resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Using tax filer data from 2022, the latest available, this year’s report card found a troubling trend: child poverty increased at record rates two...

Topic: Poverty issues
Author: Campaign 2000, Family Service Toronto, United Way
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Insights from the ‘Building Financial Wellness in First Nation Communities’ Project

This 60-minute webinar for frontline practitioners, social service providers, and funders shares insights from a two-year project designed to help build financial wellness in isolated and rural First Nation communities in Manitoba and Ontario. Partnerships between First Nation communities and...

Topic: Best practices
Author: Prosper Canada
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Welfare in Canada, 2020

Maytree released the 2020 edition of the Welfare in Canada report. For each province and territory, this report provides data and analysis on the total welfare income that households receiving social assistance would have qualified for in 2020, including COVID-19 pandemic-related supports. Welfare...

Topic: Financial well-being
Author: Jennefer Laidley, Mohy Tabbara
Publisher: Maytree
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Designing a remote financial help service

Amidst the COVID-19 lockdown, community service agencies across Canada have had to rapidly adapt the way they engage and support people in the community. ​ A growing number of Canadians need (or soon will need) support as they deal with the financial strain brought on by an unprecedented global...

Topic: Financial coaching & counselling
Author: Prosper Canada
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Employment Insurance, February 2021

February Employment Insurance (EI) statistics reflect labour market conditions as of the week of February 14 to 20. Ahead of the February reference week, non-essential businesses, cultural and recreation facilities, and in-person dining reopened in many provinces, subject to capacity limits and...

Topic: Research and evaluation
Author: Statistics Canada
Publisher: Statistics Canada
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Labour Force Survey, February 2021

February Labour Force Survey (LFS) data reflect labour market conditions during the week of February 14 to 20. In early February, public health restrictions put in place in late December were eased in many provinces. This allowed for the re-opening of many non-essential businesses, cultural and...

Topic: Research and evaluation
Author: Statistics Canada
Publisher: Statistics Canada
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Control, Sufficiency, and Social Support Lessons from Low-income Canadians about Financial Wellbeing

This report examines how diary participants achieve the financial wellbeing that they have. The evidence we found is that low-income people work very hard to manage their finances. They endeavor to control their finances so that, as one participant said, their finances don’t control them. They...

Topic: Financial well-being, Poverty issues
Author: Jerry Buckland, Leah Wilson
Publisher: Canadian Financial Diaries
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Labour Force Survey, January 2021

After the December Labour Force Survey (LFS) reference week—December 6 to 12—a number of provinces extended public health measures in response to increasing COVID-19 cases. January LFS data reflect the impact of these new restrictions and provide a portrait of labour market conditions as...

Author: Statistics Canada
Publisher: Statistics Canada
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The Differential Impact of the Pandemic and Recession on Family Finances

This report summarizes the results of a follow-up survey with nineteen low- and modest-middle income Winnipeggers, undertaken in June through September 2020. These respondents were drawn from the 29 Canadian Financial Diaries (CFD) participants who completed a year-long diary in 2019. The results...

Topic: Financial well-being
Author: Jodi Dueck-Read
Publisher: Canadian Financial Diaries
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Labour Force Survey, December 2020

December Labour Force Survey (LFS) results reflect labour market conditions as of the week of December 6 to 12. As of the reference week, public health measures introduced earlier in the fall remained in place in Manitoba and much of Quebec. These included the closure of many recreation and...

Topic: Research and evaluation
Author: Statistics Canada
Publisher: Statistics Canada
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Labour Force Survey, November 2020

November Labour Force Survey (LFS) results reflect labour market conditions as of the week of November 8 to 14. In September and October, many provinces began introducing targeted public health measures in response to rising COVID-19 numbers. In early November, restrictions related to indoor...

Topic: Research and evaluation
Author: Statistics Canada
Publisher: Statistics Canada
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Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada: Statistics and Research

The Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada releases statistics on insolvency (bankruptcies and proposals) numbers in Canada. The latest statistics released on November 4, 2020 show that the number of insolvencies in Canada increased in the third quarter of 2020 by 7.9% compared to the...

Topic: Credit & Debt
Author: Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada
Publisher: Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the NEET (not in employment, education or training) indicator, March and April 2020

A fact sheet released by Statistics Canada shows that, in March and April 2020, the proportion of young Canadians who were not in employment, education or training (NEET) increased to unprecedented levels. The COVID-19 pandemic—and the public health interventions that were put in place to limit...

Topic: Research and evaluation
Author: Sylvie Brunet
Publisher: Statistics Canada
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Introducing the Financial Relief Navigator

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the complexities of the benefits and financial relief measures available to Canadians, we developed the Financial Relief Navigator (FRN), an online resource that helps vulnerable Canadians and those that work with them access critical emergency benefits and...

Topic: Tax filing and benefits
Author: Prosper Canada
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Social Assistance Summaries

The Social Assistance Summaries series tracks the number of recipients of social assistance (welfare payments) in each province and territory. It was established by the Caledon Institute of Social Policy to maintain data previously published by the federal government as the Social Assistance...

Author: Maytree
Publisher: Maytree
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Welfare in Canada, 2018

These reports look at the total incomes available to those relying on social assistance (often called “welfare”), taking into account tax credits and other benefits along with social assistance itself. The reports look at four different household types for each province and territory....

Topic: Tax filing and benefits
Author: Anne Tweddle, Hannah Aldridge
Publisher: Maytree
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Urban Spotlight: Neighbourhood Financial Health Index findings for Canada’s cities

This report examines the financial health and vulnerability of households in Canada’s 35 largest cities, using a new composite index of household financial health at the neighbourhood level, the Neighbourhood Financial Health Index or NFHI. The NFHI is designed to shine a light on the dynamics...

Topic: Financial well-being, Research and evaluation
Author: Canadian Council on Social Development, Prosper Canada
Publisher: Canadian Council on Social Development, Prosper Canada
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Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) provincial snapshots

This infographics from the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) show information about the program by province for the tax filing year 2019, including number of returns filed and amount of refunds and benefits accessed.  The information is presented in English and French. Les...

Topic: Tax filing and benefits
Author: Canada Revenue Agency
Publisher: Government of Canada
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Tax Filing Toolkit

In this toolkit you'll find materials to help you learn about what's involved in tax filing, and some materials to support setting up your own community tax clinic.  Updated February 18, 2025: Find the income tax package for the province or territory where you resided on December 31,...

Topic: Financial literacy, Tax filing and benefits
Author: Prosper Canada
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Get Your Benefits! Diagnose and Treat Poverty

In this presentation, Noralou P. Roos, Co-Director, GetYourBenefits! and Professor, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, explains how access to tax filing and benefits is an important poverty intervention. This presentation is from the panel discussion 'National and regional strategies to boost tax...

Topic: Tax filing and benefits
Author: Noralou Roos
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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A Realist Analysis of Nonprofit Tax Filing Services

In this presentation, Kevin Schachter, Graduate Student at University of Manitoba and Information Manager at SEED Winnipeg, presents a realist analysis of nonprofit tax filing services.  This presentation is from the session 'Closing the tax-filing gap: Challenges and opportunities', at the tax...

Topic: Tax filing and benefits
Author: Kevin Schachter
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Research symposium: Overcoming barriers to tax filing for people with low incomes

The research symposium "Overcoming barriers to tax filing for people with low incomes" was held in Ottawa on Thursday, February 7, 2019, hosted by Prosper Canada and Intuit. The symposium presents research results and insights from practitioners in the field on barriers to tax filing experienced...

Topic: Tax filing and benefits
Author: Prosper Canada
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Scaling tax filing assistance

In this presentation, John Silver, Executive Director, Community Financial Counselling Service (CFCS), Winnipeg, shares insights from the low income tax program at CFCS. This program files almost 10,000 returns each year, and also provides tax clinic support to other agencies and delivers detailed...

Topic: Tax filing and benefits
Author: Community Financial Counselling Services (CFCS), John Silver
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Financial Coaching Toolkit

This toolkit contains tools and worksheets you can use with your financial coaching clients. Each document should be used as a part of the coach-client relationship.  This include financial coaching tools such as the financial wheel of life and tips for the first meeting, as well as tools and...

Topic: Curriculum & Training, Financial coaching & counselling
Author: Prosper Canada
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Gathering a Bundle for Indigenous Evaluation

This guide brought together by the Indigenous Learning Circle (ILC) in Winnipeg's North End details how to conduct an Indigenous-grounded evaluation process. While not a comprehensive guide to complete an evaluation, the Bundle builds upon what is understood about evaluation and provides a guide...

Topic: Research and evaluation
Author: Carla Kirkpatrick, Gladys Rowe
Publisher: CCPA - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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