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Here is a link to the June 7, 2018 article written by Mary Getaneh: https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2018/06/07/immigrants-and-young-single-moms-among-those-who-struggle-most-with-poverty.html [...]

Here is a link to an article written by Yolande Cole: http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/calgary-group-provides-snapshot-of-poverty-in-new-report    Single women over the age of 75 and [...]

MEDIA RELEASE Calgary, AB, June 4, 2018 – Vibrant Communities Calgary (“VCC”) is pleased to release a statistical collation of the incidence of low income in Calgary and area. Statistics [...]

Challenge Poverty YYC campaign partners with influential Calgarians to create more empathy towards those in need Calgary, AB, May 16, 2018 – Today, Vibrant Communities Calgary (VVC) is launching [...]

By Lee Stevens A report recently released from the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership titled “Socio-Spatial Polarization in an Age of Income Inequality: An Exploration of neighbourhoods in [...]

About the Indigenous Gathering Place: The Indigenous Gathering Place committee is a group of like-minded, passionate individuals whose purpose is to create a physical space in Calgary for [...]

By Holly DeSimone I get asked a lot of questions about the work that I do. What is poverty? What does poverty mean to you? How does poverty affect your life? How do people end up in poverty? How [...]

By Hilary Chapple Part 1 I guess nobody wants to be homeless, right? Including me. But you guessed it, it happened to me. I was hidden and forced to couch-surf. Even though I had place to stay [...]

On Monday, March 12, 2018, there is a public hearing at Calgary City Hall about the criteria for permitting secondary suites as a discretionary use in city neighbourhoods in which they are not [...]

By Franco Savoia In a recent article by Metro Calgary it stated the city paid nearly $1 million is water billing adjustments in 2017 after citizens raised concerns. We urge City Council to [...]