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There are too many to list all the social justice issues in canda. Some broad categories include: Homelesness, child poverty, child hunger, and the treatment of Indigenous Peoples.
And these are just some of the big ones!
Because Soical Issuses are such a big problem in our world there are already so many great organizations out there. Such as Global Fund for Children, and Centre for Social Justice. Both these organizations have done a great job in acting upon what they know is right!
Global Fund for Children- https://globalfundforchildren.org/what-we-do/
Centre for Social Justice- http://www.socialjustice.org/index.php?page=key-issues
-At least 200,000 Canadians experience homelessness in any given year.
-At least 150,000 Canadians a year use a homeless shelter at some point.
-At least 30,000 Canadians are homeless on any given night.
-At least 50,000 Canadians are part of the "hidden homeless" on any given night — staying with friends or relatives on a temporary basis as they have nowhere else to go.
- Nearly 1.2 million Canadian children younger than 18 (17.0%) lived in a low‑income household in 2015
- Children whose family shared a dwelling with others were less likely to be in low income, especially children in lone parent families.
-Alberta, with a high employment and median income, suprisingly has the highest rate of children living in low income housing.
-Among large urban centres, Windsor, Ontario, had the highest rate of children living in low income households.
Thirteen percent of Canadians struggle with or have no food, which means they do not have access to adequate amounts of safe, good-quality, nutritious food. The root cause of hunger in Canada is low income, which consistently affects more than four million of us at any given time.
Food banks are important to addressing this need. Each month, over 850,000 people turn to food banks for help; more than one-third are children and youth.
Poor health
There have been strides made on the part of many Aboriginal communities to improve education around health issues, but despite these improvements, Aboriginal people remain at higher risk for illness and earlier death non-Aboriginal people. Chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease are on the increase. There are definite links between income, social factors, and health.
Lower levels of education
Education is something that has the power to persade a childs believes, this power was abused by Residential schools. According to Statics Canada's 2011 Aboriginal Survey, 22.8% of Aboriginal Peoples had completed high school and post-secondary education.
Inadequate housing and crowded living conditions
Three words - Attawapiskat First Nation. The conditions in this community drew national and international media attention to a housing situation that far too many Aboriginal communities struggle with. with there cramped spaces and unlivable states it does not make for an adequate living space.