FORWARD For Women’s Autonomy Rights & Dignity We’re not Asking, We’re Telling: Building on Good Practices in Services for Homeless Women University of Toronto Cities Centre, in partnership with Ontario Women’s Health Network (OWHN), and FORWARD, a self-advocacy group of women who are homeless and underhoused, has received funding from HRSDC’s Homelessness Knowledge Development Program [...]

FORWARD For Women’s Autonomy Rights & Dignity Women Supporting Women Through Homelessness and Poverty We invite ALL women dealing with homelessness and poverty, including women and transwomen who are young, mothers, and elders – Aboriginal, of colour, and white – born here, immigrants, and undocumented – lesbian, bisexual, and two-spirited – disabled, using … come [...]

Toronto’s poor concentrated in aging highrises Highrises Poor: Laundry list of complaints dogs west-end… Turning a rundown highrise into a… By Laurie Monsebraaten | Wed Jan 12 2011 Comment (63) They rise up among the postwar bungalows of Toronto’s inner suburbs. Towering buildings that house hundreds of thousands of the city’s poorest people. These apartments [...]

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Annotated Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci- This is  complicated and (for the most part) inaccessible to our understanding- in other words- it ain’t in plain language we can all understand. Place your questions and concerns in the comment section and we will get them answered [...]

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (also known as The Charter of Rights and Freedoms or simply the Charter, French: La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés) is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada. It forms the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982. The Charter guarantees certain political rights [...]

This letter is in response to the Prime Minister’s year-end statement to Canadians, which received some mild criticism from Globe and Mail reporter Shawn McCarthy.  Our letter calls attention to troubling data and trends concerning poverty and inequality, and asks the Prime Minister to identify the major steps the government will take in 2011 to [...]

See poverty for what it is: a violation of human rights Published on December 14th, 2010 Published on December 14th, 2010 Topics : P.E.I. Supreme Court , P.E.I. Human Rights Commission , Advancement of Human Rights , Canada , Prince Edward Island Editor’s note: The following are excerpts from a speech made last week by [...]

Susan Kraemer makes 15 kilowatt hours of sunny electricity daily Hand-Build an Earth Sheltered House For $5,000 409 comments December 1, 2008 in Energy, Energy Efficiency, Green Construction, Green Design Cash, that most basic element of our economy, can be in abysmally short supply for new young families scraping by on marginal jobs. Sustainable housebuilding [...]

Updates from The People’s Panel on Social Assistance Review   If They Would Hear What We Are Saying I often wonder if the people in “charge” would make changes to the OW and ODSP programs if they had a chance to actually hear what we are telling them. I am a person with lived experience; [...]