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March 23, 2024 - CASW sent letters to key Senators on the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance regarding the potential of basic income in Canada.

March 1, 2024 - This March we commemorate the 2024 Code of Ethics, Values and Guiding Principles while acknowledging the challenges faced by social workers, particularly during the pandemic. We honour our Seven Points of Unity and celebrate these shared values guiding our individual and collective journeys of truth, reconciliation, equity, and inclusion.

February 27, 2024 - IFSW stands in full support of the recent statement by humanitarian leaders on the extreme peril facing civilians in Gaza. The escalation of violence following the attacks on 7 October has led to a preventable humanitarian crisis of unprecedented scale, with tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, orphaned, killed, injured or permanently disabled, and more than three-quarters of the population displaced, facing life threatening shortages of food, water, sanitation, and healthcare.

Februrary 22, 2024 - The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) urges the federal government and its provincial and territorial counterparts to act immediately to find a way to continue funding Wellness Together Canada. Mental health and substance use health is health and all people in Canada have a right to universal care.