——————–  RE: ONTARIO NDP LEADER TO SPEAK ON NEED FOR OMBUDSMAN OVERSIGHT OF CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETIES For Immediate Release Event Date: Monday, October 05, 2009 — 10:00am The Foster Care Council of Canada 12-1160 Meadowlands Drive East, Ottawa, ON, K2E 6J2 Media Contact: John Dunn Phone: 613-220-1039 E-mail: johndunn@afterfostercare.ca Press Release Date: Thurs. October 01, [...]

On September 22nd, 2009 Food Share provided a bus tour of some of Toronto’s community and school gardens. From Food Share in the west end to Lorna’s One Love Cummunity Garden in the east end, and back, one message became increasingly clear. Everyone is capable of reducing their ecological foot print. So when will the [...]

Ontario has an opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of those who rely on social assistance. There was a forum on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 hosted by the Income Security Advocacy Centre. It’s broader intent was to promote a new interactive website that deals specifically with the notion of a social assistance [...]

Cheryl Smith has sent you a story from Democracy Now!, a daily independent radio and TV news program: Beginning with the 1989 classic Roger & Me, the Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore says his films “come back to this central core concern, which is the economic system we have is unfair, it’s unjust, it’s not [...]

 A FREE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY For people with low incomes to participate in a university level class in the Humanities   When? and Where?      Who is eligible?     What topics?                Who will teach?   Two hours one (or two) night(s) a week Tuesdays  October 13 – December 1 [...]

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Bastards of Love Homeless hearts naked against the elements Of lives abashed and never watched over With acceptance filled eyes Nor touched by hands of comfort and joy Like windless skies or music without soul A yearning so profound no one can remedy Unless the devotion is truly a humane act Of admiring charity These [...]

Dissent is not disloyalty. Be careful before you retaliate. Your steel wrapped in cotton May only be brittle bone wrapped in fat. tao                                             ****************************   LIVING HUMILITY – the 9th Verse of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu   To keep on filling is not as good as stopping.  Overfilled, the cupped hands [...]

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