with forewards by Jack Layton and Rob Rainer

Canadian Scholars Press has just released the second edition of Poverty in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life, by York University's Dennis Raphael.

I was honoured and pleased to write the foreward to this edition, following the original by Jack Layton in August 2006 which is included as well in the second edition (and how appropriately given his passing and mounting legacy.) As I began the foreward (an excerpt of which is here), this is "the single most valuable reference on poverty in Canada," with sweeping coverage of the issue including some of the most current and important data as well as key analysys and insights. - Rob Rainer

The price of Poverty In Canada is $69.95. Canada Without Poverty will seek support with which to hopefully purchase a good number of copies at a reduced rate and make them available to those for whom the price would be out of reach.