MOST RECENT COVERAGE
Mai Eaglespeaker's Speech at Why Your Vote Counts: Women's Equality & BC's Provincial Election on April 1st, 2017, published in the Georgia Straight online:
Kendra Milne, key note speaker at Why Your Vote Counts: Women's Equality & BC's Provincial Election on April 1st, 2017, sister speech framing Mai's lived experience with facts and info:
SMA Co-Founder represents BC CEDAW Group at UN In Geneva for women's rights review of Canada in October 2016: http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2016/10/25/single-mothers-alliance-takes-bc-women-rights-to-un.html
The Guardian coverage of CEDAW Committee's review of Canada in October 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/26/canada-women-un-ranking-discrimination-justin-trudeau
SMA member and spokeswoman Amanda Mackay spoke with The Globe and Mail about life on welfare and the recent changes to the MSP for single parents and children, and addressed BC's need for a comprehensive poverty reduction plan.
The End of the Clawback
Vancouver Sun article interview with the Single Mothers' Alliance
CBC BC article on SMA, child poverty:
CBC Early Edition, SMA, with Rick Cluff:
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/British+Columbia/ID/2614095496/
Georgia Straight online editorial/transcript of SMA First Call press conference speech:
http://www.straight.com/news/776596/viveca-ellis-child-poverty-bc-policy-failure-crisis
Anna Chudnovsky: First Call speech on child poverty at Strathcona Elementary:
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/11/25/Child-Poverty-No-Numbers-Game/
CBC radio: BC Almanac clawback feature and call-in (clawback story starts at the 20 minute mark):
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/bcalmanac_20141125_25489.mp3
Becky Bodo, and SMA in the Globe and Mail, Wendy Stueck:
Daphne Bramham on child poverty, the Vancouver Sun:
Adrienne Montani, The Province, editorial:
Ed Broadbent: Editorial, Globe and Mail, on child poverty:
Jim Sinclair, Editorial, raising minimum wage to $15.00 an hour:
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Opinion+must+raise+minimum+wage/10409906/story.html
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Breakfast television: 'Single moms sue the government':
http://www.btvancouver.ca/videos/3842794466001/
The Vancouver Sun: 'Single moms suing government over support payment claw back'
http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=10292274
The Tyee: 'Single Moms Sue BC', October 15th, 2014:
Barbara Fitzgerald: 'Children Need and Deserve Our Help'
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Opinion+Children+need+deserve+help/10208884/story.html
Thursday, August 6th: SMA co-founder Frances Stone on CKNW Morning Show with Jay Durant
August 6th/7th: Single Mothers' Alliance in The Georgia Straight:
http://www.straight.com/news/700426/single-mothers-alliance-bc-forms-fight-child-poverty
July 29th: Trish Garner's editorial in The Georgia Straight: http://bit.ly/1lyDbvU
The Vancouver Sun's recent two-part series on $10-A-Day-Childcare in BC:
Sunday, July 19th, 2014: http://bit.ly/1lsibqi
Monday, July 20th, 2014: http://bit.ly/1rznkV5
Adrienne Montani's Editorial on MCFD poverty reduction pilot project, Vancouver Sun, June 17th:
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Opinion+embarrassing+stance+poverty/9941797/story.html
#EndtheClawback CAMPAIGN COVERAGE
Will the conversation actually start:
Constituents in Maple-Ridge Pitt Meadows push for Liberal clawback discussion:
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Liberal+push+debate+child+support+clawback/9869097/story.html
Liberal convention stirrings, May 26th:
Gary Mason in the Globe and Mail, May 27th, on BC's child poverty record:
Mother's Day BC Acorn End the Clawback rally:
BC Acorn Ministry of Social Development rally April 22nd:
http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=9764451
Keith Baldry, April 18th, North Shore News:
http://www.nsnews.com/opinion/columnists/baldry-low-income-families-feel-the-pinch-1.975660
Times Colonist editorial on 'cheapskate' clawback policy, April 15th:
Government Factsheet on the FMEP and the Clawback:
Vaughn Palmer, Van Sun, April 10th: 'What one hand of government gives, the other takes away":
Times Colonist, single mothers in the legislature, April 9th:
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/world/child-support-clawback-hurting-families-ndp-says-1.949538
Hansard poverty discussion, April 7th, 2014 (starts 1100):
http://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard/40th2nd/20140407am-House-Blues.htm
BC Acorn's Rachel Goodine on clawback, single mothers, PWD:
http://politicsrespun.org/2013/10/bcs-child-support-clawback-hurts-kids/
http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/03/27/BC-Disability-Clawbacks/
SINGLE MOTHER ISSUES
BC's poorest family group:
http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/02/28/BC-Single-Mom-Poverty/
Single Mothers' Alliance Co-Founder Frances Stone in the Tyee, November 26th, 2014:
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/11/26/BC-Single-Mother-Poverty/
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/11/26/BC-single-moms-the-poorest-of-them-all-First-Call/
http://www.straight.com/mothers-under-siege
SINGLE MOTHER STIGMA WATCH
$10 A DAY CHILDCARE CAMPAIGN NEWS
http://www.straight.com/news/359076/bc-child-care-advocates-say-sector-crisis
http://www.straight.com/news/rita-chudnovsky-plan-10-day-childcare-striking-chord-bc
BC POVERTY REDUCTION ACT ADVOCACY PROGRESS
Bill M212 Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act tabled, May 6th, 2014:
http://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard/40th2nd/20140506am-House-Blues.htm#159:1005
http://www.policynote.ca/poverty-reduction-act-tabled-by-opposition-in-the-bc-leg/
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