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social and spiritual poverty.

 

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Wage Hazing: How I Pulled Myself Up by My Bootstraps

Derek Cook shares his personal journey through the world of minimum wage work and poverty and reflects on pulling himself out of that world and those who are stuck within the struggle.

Creating Connections: A Workshop on Exploring Co-operatives
Canadian Poverty Institute a part of joint submission to the Human Rights Council

Last month, CPI was one of 12 organizations to join in a submission to the Human Rights Council on the Occasion of the 3rd Universal Periodic Review of Canada.