The government's fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in ...

A new report from Statistics Canada says 12.5 per cent of Nova Scotians lived below the poverty line in 2022, compared with a ...

A Statistics Canada paper highlighted Saskatchewan's high rate of deep income poverty, which one United Way representative ...

Nova Scotia revealed highest overall poverty rate at 12.5%, followed by British Columbia, Manitoba, and Newfoundland and ...

The official rate of Canadians 65 and older living in poverty is six per cent. But the number could be more than double that, new research warns.

Meanwhile, 6.9 per cent of people in Manitoba lived in deep poverty, which is the highest rate among the provinces. In other ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - One in five recent immigrants lived below the poverty line in Canada in 2022, and most of them were in “deep poverty,” according to a report Thursday from Statistics Canada.

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

Shark Tank investor Robert Herjavec recently took to social media and talked about his childhood struggles with poverty.

The government’s fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in ...

Also last week, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston called for the immediate approval of the Energy East pipeline that was ...

A new report from Statistics Canada says Nova Scotia had the highest rate of poverty among the provinces in 2022, and Manitoba had the highest rate of deep poverty. The report released today says ...