Start your day by vowing to make a difference in someone else’s life today. If you choose to give to the homeless, reach them with a smile and eye contact as you give, rather than simply dropping a few coins into a hat. A little dignity goes a …long way. RESPECT is what’s necessary if [...]
MPP’s `crazed’ crack riles mentally ill
Human rights complaint launched over remarks by Tony Ruprecht in fight over supportive housing
Feb 01, 2008 04:30 AM
Kerry Gillespie
Queen’s Park Bureau
A group of mentally ill Torontonians has launched a human rights case against a Liberal MPP who opposed a supportive housing development because his community had enough “crazed individuals” already.
Linda [...]
Nate Laurie Toronto Star
Ontario Works, the new name that former Ontario premier Mike Harris gave to social assistance in 1997, is one of the cruelest ironies left over from his assault on the province’s most vulnerable residents.
People who can’t find work because there aren’t any available jobs are called the unemployed. And as the accompanying [...]
Article source Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
An Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario press release:
Tenants encouraged by OEB’s action on illegal smart sub-metering; Board’s ruling provides interim protections
Tenants and tenant advocates who strongly urged the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) not to issue an order authorizing electricity sub-metering in apartment buildings found that the serious concerns [...]
TheStar.com | Ontario | Rights commission targets `blatant discrimination’ in rental-housing market
Aug 20, 2009 04:30 AM
Raveena Aulakh
Staff reporter
If you are a student, senior, disabled person or a single parent and looking to rent, good luck.
There’s obvious discrimination in rental housing, says the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s annual report released yesterday, identifying the problem as a [...]
After a calm month and some much anticipated warmer weather, it’s time for us to step up our advocacy for a provincial long-term housing strategy that addresses the needs of low-income Ontarians. The official provincial consultations begin again, as London advocates have their opportunity to share local housing needs and solutions on September 8th. Several [...]
By Kevin Diakiw – Surrey North Delta Leader
Surrey municipal crews were scrambling to remove the chicken dung that was dumped outside a Whalley social service building after The Surrey Leader reported Friday that the smelly waste was deposited there by local authorities to drive homeless people away.
Published: August 21, 2009 10:00 PM
Updated: August 24, 2009 [...]
Toronto Star – October 27, 2000
Editorial
Before he was first elected, Mike Harris promised to “end the public housing boondoggle.”
What ended was provincial support for public housing. He quickly axed 385 public housing projects. The rest he’s now dumped on local governments.
He also promised a new “shelter subsidy program for all Ontarians who need help in [...]
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brought flashing cop cars
and news camera crews
… for a spilt second …
they all wanted to know
the four double u’s
the who, what
when and where
they already knew the how
… it takes less time to pull the trigger …
questions arose around gangs
in the neighbourhood
when the “vic” wasn’t affiliated
and curfews for teens
when the “vic” was [...]
I was standing by a lake and it was summer, the road before me a shimmering mirage of oil spills. Across the road, two young boys walked with their arms around each other. The smaller boy then fell, and his friend offered him his hand.
Perhaps it was in my line of vision and that is [...]