Let's Talk Poverty
Welcome to Let’s Talk Poverty, the podcast that helps you understand poverty in Calgary through the lens of Enough for All. It tackles the stigma surrounding poverty, challenging biases and assumptions. From the voices of lived experience to community members to highlighting raw data, we speak with subject matter and policy experts, community leaders and you to explore the root causes of poverty in our city and how we can come together to make changes that matter.
- Update frequency
- every 34 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 38
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Looking Beneath The Surface of Poverty in YYC
In this episode of Let's Talk Poverty, Jaclyn chats with Meaghon Reid, Executive Director of Vibrant Communities Calgary about the state of poverty in Calgary, VCC's Beneath the Surface report and wh…
Shifting Mindsets – Scarcity to Strength
In this episode, Jaclyn Silbernagel sits down with Salimah Kassam, leader of Rise Calgary, to explore what it means to move from a scarcity to strength mindset, the concept of designing systems that …
Shared Prosperity – the Role of Business in Society
In this episode, Meaghon Reid sits down with Adam Legge, president of the Business Council of Alberta, to explore what the role of business is in society, how that role is evolving, links between bus…
Social Innovation, Mapping Systems & Building Trust
In this episode, Jaclyn Silbernagel sits down with James Stauch, executive director of the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University, to explore social innovation and social purpos…
Mental Health and Connection First Strategies
In this episode, Jaclyn Silbernagel sits down with Jessica Cope Williams, Co-CEO of Kindred Connections Society to explore how an organization’s name can act as a barrier to those trying to access se…
Literacy & the Dandelion Strategy
In this episode, Meaghon Reid sits down with the CEO of Calgary Reads, Steacy Pinney, to discuss how Calgary Reads is spreading early literacy across Calgary through the Dandelion strategy, and the i…
Systemic Change – Indigenous People and the Legal System
Myth-busting Basic Income
In this episode, Jaclyn Silbernagel is joined by policy and research specialist Lee Stevens to explore basic income. What a basic income could mean for Canadians and how it could have a positive impa…
Child Care, Women, and the Economy
In this episode, Jaclyn Silbernagel and co-host Lee Stevens dig into the topics of child care, women, and the economy with Andrea Cox from YW Calgary and Nevena Ivanovic with the Women’s Centre of Ca…
Dignity, Food and Policy
Allyship
Newcomers and Enough for All
No Battle of Alberta when it comes to Poverty Reduction
In this episode, Vibrant Communities Calgary and EndPovertyEdmonton’s Executive Directors share perspectives on poverty reduction and the future of Alberta. Discussing innovation and public will, the…
Building Assets Brings Opportunity
In this episode, VCC’s Meaghon Reid sits down with Momentum’s Jeff Loomis to talk about financial empowerment, innovations like the QUBER savings app, skills training, reconciliation, and why investi…
Voices of Lived Experience
In this episode, Jaclyn Silbernagel catches up with Sue Gwynn from Poverty Talks! to chat about the importance of engaging with the voices of lived experience. Hear about why Poverty Talks! challenge…
My Neighbour’s Strength is My Strength
In this episode, VCC’s Executive Director Meaghon Reid sits down with Mayor Naheed Nenshi. Mayor Nenshi is one of the original champions of the Enough for All strategy and emphasizes how ‘my neighbou…
Building Strong Partnerships
VCC's Executive Director Meaghon Reid sits down with Karen Young, president and CEO of the United Way of Calgary and Area, to discuss how community partnerships deliver dividends in the poverty reduc…
Why Literacy Matters
In this episode, literary specialist Berniece Gowan discusses how improving literacy levels can shift the needle on poverty reduction. With one in five Albertans experiencing challenges in literacy, …