Thriving in Toronto on Ontario Disability Supports : Ten Hints
By Cheryl Smith
TORONTO, Ontario– So you’re single, middle-aged, disabled, and you live alone in
one of the most expensive cities in Canada: Toronto. Ontario Disability Supports
Program will graciously provide you with between $942.00 and $1399.00 monthly
depending on “special needs” and your ability to prove them.
Housed in the [...]

The Canadian Harm Reduction Network urges you to sign this important petition aimed at stopping the Harper Government’s ill-thought-out, financially wasteful and counterproductive “Omnibus Crime Bill”.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_harpers_cruel_crime_bill/?cl=1378435890&v=11036
The petition is an initiative of Avaaz.org, and already close to 100,000 people have signed it.
Also, BC residents can appeal directly to their Premier, Christy [...]

Meet Bonnie Briggs
By Cheryl Smith
TORONTO, Ontario —  The colourful array of individuals walking the
pedestrian paths at Church and Wellesley includes a dancing monarch
butterfly, nearly majestic in the surrounding concrete.  This eclectic choir
seems to welcome Bonnie Briggs: androgynous, enigmatic, and unlikely
“Local Hero“.
Bonnie sports an over-sized NDP-orange t-shirt, baggy corduroy dungarees
torn open at both knees, and [...]

“Sharing The Burden”
with Stephan Cayton Briones
Sharing the Burden is “an artisitic social justice endeavour whereby people with an experience of poverty are given (inexpensive) disposable cameras with which to take pictures” and which resulted in a showing  in July of 2011 at Gallery 1313 on Queen St in Toronto, Canada.
All of the equipment used [...]

In November 2010, the Ontario Government appointed two Commissioners to lead its Review of Social Assistance. The Commissioners released their initial Discussion Paper on June 9th and are currently holding consultations and accepting submissions until September 1st.

The Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) has set-up a website at www.sareview.ca to [...]

To our national network of donors, colleagues and other interested individuals, we warmly invite you to attend Get Up, Stand Up: An Evening of Insight and Inspiration – September 29, Kailash Mital Theatre, Southam Hall, Carleton University, Ottawa) – poster attached. This is the first of two back-to-back events helping to [...]

On the Job with a Member of Parliament
Members of Parliament describe their role in a variety of ways.
“I am first and foremost a representative of the people and accountable to those who elected me,” one MP says. Others may see themselves as working for the common good of all Canadians, or perhaps [...]

The Stop At The Barns
Mon Mar 16, 2009
By Cheryl Smith
Photo by John Bonnar

Saturday morning market at The Barns is bustling. Under the protection of the Covered Street, there is action here no matter the weather. It is always a warm welcome. It is community at its best.
Brought to us [...]

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the bill of rights which forms part of the Constitution of Canada adopted in 1982. The Charter developed out of the United Nations human rights and freedoms movement as enunciated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See: List of Supreme [...]

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