And that doesn’t even include the problem of child poverty, the leadership dynamics within the NDP and new steps on democratic reform. ( Justin Tang )The number-crunchers at Campaign 2000, a group that advocates for the eradication of child poverty, say one out of five children in Canada was living in poverty in 2014. The two-year-old figures don’t take into account Liberal changes and enhancements to federal child benefit payments. But it was enough for researchers to urge Ottawa to index the Canada Child Benefit to inflation, rather than waiting until 2020. That’s not the only child poverty initiative in the works, however.

Source: thestar November 25, 2016 23:47 UTC