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Yesterday’s 2016 federal budget, entitled Growing the Middle Class, was good news for many Canadians with low and modest incomes, containing many positive changes and investments in income supports, post-secondary education financing, youth employment, transit, affordable housing, and infrastructure and programs to support a renewed relationship with Canada’s ...

Do you work for a not-for-profit organization that serves people living on low incomes?  Would you like to offer them financial literacy education? Register for the online Financial Literacy Facilitator Training course which starts on April 11, 2016. Our 7-week online curriculum is designed to prepare frontline workers to deliver an easy-to-use program to meet the ...

Toronto, February 25, 2016 – National charity Prosper Canada welcomed the announcement today of a $5 million investment by the Ontario government to establish financial empowerment services for Ontarians living on low incomes.   In its 2016 Budget released today, the Ontario government committed to investing $1 million annually over the next five years to fund...

Do you work for a not-for-profit organization that serves newcomers to Canada?  Would you like to offer them financial literacy education?   Please join us for a two-day financial literacy facilitator training workshop!When: Monday February 29th and Tuesday March 1st from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST)Where: Solidarity Place Worker Education Centre: ...

Now that the holiday season is behind us it’s time to turn our attention to something a little less festive – tax season. While filing taxes may not be on your list of favourite things to do, for Canadians living on low incomes, tax time is an important opportunity to boost their income by accessing a wide range of government benefits.   There are a ra...

Canada Revenue Agency to extend a helping hand   Financial empowerment efforts received a major boost in November when Prime Minister Trudeau instructed Canada’s newly minted Minister of National Revenue, the Hon. Diane Lebouthillier, to help more Canadians access benefits they are entitled to and make it easier for Canadians with low and fixed incomes to tax ...

By Anne Makhoul, Principal Project Officer, Caledon Institute of Social Policy  The Caledon Institute of Social Policy launched the Canada Social Report initiative in June 2015 (www.canadasocialreport.ca). It is intended to act as a national hub of social policy information. The Canada Social Report features both Caledon-developed reports like Welfare in Can...

On November 13, 2015, the new Liberal federal government mandate letters were released and for the first time ever, publicly communicated to the Canadian public.  Through the letters, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assigned each of his newly-appointed cabinet ministers with specific priorities and key goals for their respective portfolios over the next four years. &...

Canada has become home to approximately 6.8 million immigrants and a total population that includes over 200 ethnic origins! Thanks to funding provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Prosper Canada has developed the online Money Management Tool for Newcomers to help new Canadians learn about our increasingly complex financial system. The tool provides valuab...

The 2015 ABLE Financial Empowerment Conference was a great learning and networking opportunity for many of our stakeholders who joined us in Toronto for two days this past November. We had an incredible roster of expert speakers who shared their knowledge and engaged more than 300 attendees in spirited and enlightening discussions on a range of financial empowerment topic...