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Oxfam Canada reacts to Budget 2025
Budget 2025 offers little relief to the most vulnerable At a moment when inequality is deepening and poverty is climbing, few measures within Budget 2025 address the affordability crisis felt acutely by people across the country. On the whole, the much-anticipated budget falls short of the scale of investment needed in social infrastructure to ensure…
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…