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Is Budget 2025 the generational budget that keeps our communities healthy and safe?
Ottawa, November 5, 2025 – The federal government released Budget 2025 yesterday laying out its vision for Canada. It is the government’s blueprint of the kind of country it aims to build. The budget titled “Canada Strong” comes at a time of rising precarity in Canada with families struggling to make ends meet as costs…
Oxfam reaction to IPC report on famine in Sudan and South Sudan
In reaction to the publication of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) reports on Sudan and South Sudan, Fati N’Zi-Hassane, Oxfam in Africa Regional Director said: “The confirmation of famine in Sudan by the IPC Famine Review Committee, alongside the latest IPC report on South Sudan, paints a deeply alarming picture for the region. We stand…
Gender equality work is the infrastructure that holds us together
We, the undersigned, celebrate this week’s announcement by The Honourable Rechie Valdez, The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, and The Honourable Mandy Gull-Masty on the Federal Government’s $660 million investment in the Department of Women and Gender Equality. We extend our heartfelt thanks to them and to their colleagues in the Liberal Women’s Caucus for their leadership…
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