‘Love, Loss and Longing’: The Best Books on Migration, Chosen by Writers
With all the controversy about 'American Dirt,' renowned authors join the conversation about good reading for 2020.
Reduction of Poverty and Inequality
OPINION: Canada needs a government-backed social finance fund
We need to become more imaginative in the ways we find the money to tackle social issues. A federally-backed social finance fund could be an effective way of connecting untapped private capital with solutions for important social issues.
WATCH: Social Finance 101 – A Video Series
Social finance has been top of mind for me since being appointed Senator. For the past few years I have been working closely with representatives from Canada's philanthropic and private financial sectors to promote innovative ways of financing projects that stand to create both a profit and a substantial social good. I see it as a creative new way - an additional tool - to address some of this country's most wicked problems.
Question to Minister Duclos: What can Canadians expect from a national social finance strategy?
On December 5, 2017 Senator Ratna Omidvar rose in the Senate Chamber to ask the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, about the development of Canada's social finance strategy. This strategy was named as a key priority in the Minister's mandate letter.
Social Innovation and Social Finance at Scale Equals Structural Innovation
n September 28, 2017 a group of 45 senators, government officials, academics, Indigenous representatives, civil society and financial sector leaders met in the Senate’s Aboriginal Peoples Committee Room to consider how Canada could establish a ‘social finance wholesaler’ to invest in funds designed to support social change.
The Senate’s champion of diversity
The senator sat down with iPolitics on October 6 in a vacant office at the University of Ottawa’s Fauteux Building after giving a keynote speech to a group of law students, interested in refugee law, from across Canada. The address was part of the first student-led conference of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.
Speech: Motion to Encourage the Government to Evaluate the Cost and Impact of Implementing a National Basic Income Program
A basic income is a new approach, a new path that has shown great potential. Let's get the evidence. Let's study this approach. If proven, we not only end poverty but we spend smarter, more efficiently and effectively.