What: Press Conference by Healthcare Providers Against Poverty to Release Report on Conditions Within Winter Respite Centres Where: City Hall – City of Toronto, 2nd floor When: January 31, 2018, 12:30 – 1PM (Meet at 12:15) Speakers will include: Introduction by Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam; Person with lived experience (TBA); Michaela Beder, MD, Psychiatrist, Member […]
Month: January 2018
Toronto’s shelter system is in an undeclared state of emergency. As an annual response to cold winter temperatures coupled with an overcrowded shelter system, the City of Toronto (i.e. “the City “) opens temporary Winter Respite Centres, also known as warming centres. In order to better understand the state of these ad hoc responses to homelessness, […]
Yesterday, we launched a petition to urge political leaders from all parties in Ontario to collaborate to put the recommendations in the income security reform working group report into action. Following the roadmap for income security outlined in this report has the potential to make a huge impact on poverty in Ontario while making the […]
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