John Dunn and Cheryl Smith at Queen’s Park rally for accountability in the CAS.
John spoke at the rally. www.afterfostercare.ca
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When will it ever end! The need for housing, clothing and shelter – these are humanity’s basic needs. And yet they are not free. Everyone trying to make a buck in whatever which way – no more credit based on the fact that you lived in that neighbourhood and are known by a few people [...]
RCMP spokesperson implied organized crime infiltrated BC Legislature, so have fun speculating, says Gordon Campbell.
By Tavis W Dodds
Nine people were arrested for drug charges just after officers raided the BC legislature in 2003. One of those arrested, Jasmohan Singh Bains, was sentenced to nine months for trafficking a dozen kilos of cocaine and conspiring to [...]
Community Health Fair
On April 6th from 1:00PM to 4:00PM
Our Place and the UVic School of Nursing
will be hosting the Victoria Street Community Health Fair organized by the nine UVic nursing students who have been providing foot care as part of the Feet First Project.
The students have been practicing for the past 4 months at Our [...]
Tobacco salvage is a little known subculture of the smoking poor.
by Tavis W Dodds
Contrary to what some people might think, buttpicking is not sexual at all. Picking butts is the practice, and perhaps the art, of reclaiming stubbed out cigarette butts for the tobacco in them. Perhaps most people recoil from the thought of [...]
The provincial government will be releasing its own report today on Year One of the poverty reduction strategy. We are anticipating an announcement on the creation of one of the eight indicators that will be used to track progress on poverty reduction – the Ontario Deprivation Index (ODI).
A ‘deprivation index’ is a list of items [...]
One year into the Ontario government’s commitment to reduce child poverty by 25 per cent by 2013, the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction warns the province risks missing its target unless further action is taken.
An anniversary report released today by 25 in 5 that tracks Ontario’s progress shows the province’s poverty reduction strategy [...]
Ontario has appointed the head of Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank to head a panel of anti-poverty advocates to advise the government on a long-awaited review of its welfare system, the Star has learned.
“If this group can’t make the proper recommendations, then nobody can,” said food bank executive director Gail Nyberg.
Almost 800,000 Ontarians – including [...]