fACTivist Feature Article: Addressing Racialized Populations’ Barriers to Affordable Housing
fACTivist Feature Article: Addressing Racialized Populations’ Barriers to Affordable Housing February 18, 2020 Note: this is excerpted from the Spring 2021 edition of our fACTivist publication. The Edmonton Social Planning Council, in collaboration with volunteers and...
Op-Ed: Alberta needs to provide more robust relief for struggling families
Op-Ed: Alberta needs to provide more robust relief for struggling families February 18, 2020 Note: this op-ed was first published in the Edmonton Journal on May 27, 2021 (p. A6). Written by Sydney Sheloff and Brett Lambert The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly all...
Blog: Low Income Single Adults: How stereotypes can make us forget people
Blog: Low Income Single Adults: How stereotypes can make us forget people March 29, 2021 Introduction Recent attention has been given to low-income single adults, describing them as the “forgotten poor.” More people are living as singles—as a share of the population,...
Blog: Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbating Gendered Divisions of Labour?
Blog: Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbating Gendered Divisions of Labour? February 19, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionally negative effect on Canadian women. At the start of the pandemic, women were more likely to lose jobs, and those who continued...
