Happy Birthday Peacock Poverty! We welcome you with joy, awe and hope. We celebrate you. Time now for Reflecting Refreshing and Renewing Let us see what the new harvest brings… TBA September 2010 ################################################################################################ PEACOCK ANNOUNCEMENTS: May 2010 Greetings and welcome to our eleventh-11th- cycle here at Peacock. Things have been busy here of late. [...]

Patricia Diaz-Cummings   FORWARD is a community-based multicultural group of homeless and under housed women. We began in April of 2005 as a human rights program called “Claiming Our Rights” by researcher Emily Paradis of the University of Toronto. Women came together every week at Sistering to learn about human rights, analyzed their experiences of [...]

Jan 2nd, 2010 Hello All! Hope your holiday was wonder-full! Hold on to the goodness you witness. It is good fuel. We publish Jan 8th-11th this month due to all the “business” and busy-ness of the season. This edition, our sixth month anniversary, is shaping up to be a good one! So many beautiful people and [...]

  The 17th Verse of the Tao te Ching LIVING AS AN ENLIGHTENED LEADER   With the greatest leader above them, people barely know one exists.   Next comes one whom they love and praise.   Next comes one whom they fear.   Next comes one whom they despise and defy.   When a leader [...]

There is a myth in our country has to why we have so many of our brothers and sisters who are homeless, people still think that when someone end up homeless it’s their fault because they do drugs or drink. The fact is that the housing crisis began in the mid 90’s when the then [...]

Is eating foods from any of these places healthy? The answer to this question is No. What you get from them just barely keeps you alive. When you go into a food bank usually you only get enough to hold you for a couple of meals and you always get the same thing over and [...]

Canada is in a serious crisis in regard to poverty and homelessness, the only cure to this crisis is not to reduce but eradicate these problems and not in 10 years but now, we need to take action to make this happen (the eradication of poverty & homelessness), we are all in it and we [...]

I work at a food bank in MTL, and we are looking into getting a campaign off the ground with regards to cutting rates to our bus passes for those on welfare. We already do so for our seniors and our student population, why not for those with the least amount of income? Our monthly [...]

    Looking for signs of hope in the downturnAn essay by Pat Capponi Those who can’t afford savings, pension plans or investments still need to pay attention to the economic meltdown as it will affect people living on the edge because that edge may soon get really crowded and some folks are going to [...]

“Language is the armoury of the human mind … contain[ing] the trophies of its pasts and the weapons of its future conquests.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge In advocacy circles “welfare” is a highly contested word. If anything this word should be considered politically incorrect. It is offensive to so-called welfare workers who act more as prisoner [...]