2019

Current

• Participating in local coalition “Care. Hope. Vote!”
  • Preparing infographics on health and poverty issues for federal election

July

• “Tent Cities are just the tip of the homelessness iceberg”
  • Opinion piece in The Peterborough Examiner (July 23 2019)

February

• Hosted talk on changes to disability definition and the importance of health care providers’ role in supporting patients to get ODSP
  • Collaborated with Peterborough Community Legal Clinic

January

• Deputation to Provincial pre-budget hearings to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

2018

December

• “Deepening Poverty Will Cost A Pound of Cure”
  • Opinion piece in The Peterborough Examiner (Dec 4 2019)

October

• Co-sponsored municipal election candidates round table
• Co-sponsored rally outside Peterborough ODSP office protesting social assistance cuts
  • “Doctors, advocates protest provincial social services cuts during Peterborough rally”
    • The Peterborough Examiner (Oct 25 2018)

July

• Affiliate formally with HPAP-ON

June

• Deputations at Peterborough City Budget deliberations
  • Calling for more affordable housing and adequate shelter space
  • “People have their say on 2019 Peterborough city budget”
    • The Peterborough Examiner (Jun 6 2018)
• “Peterborough must invest more in shelters and housing for health’s sake”
  • My Kawartha (June 6, 2018)