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Not too long ago I blogged about Ontario doctors being investigated for welfare abuse because they were completing paperwork that allowed some of their patients to “fraudulently” claim an additional dietary allowance intended for people with chronic illnesses. There’s now a movement afoot to impress upon the Ontario government the need to increase the welfare [...] Here’s a novel use of the Internet. Ottawasteph is “a winner on a losing streak.” She was laid off in July and she and her five cats could be homeless by Christmas unless we help her stave off an impending eviction. She’s 45 years old and has lived in her home for twelve years. There’s [...] I spent yesterday at the Homelessness Forum, which was sponsored by the Alliance to End Homelessness. This is my third year attending and blogging about this event (see 2007and 2008). I like it because it’s free. Actually, that’s an over-simplification. Because it’s free, it attracts the kind of people who might not normally attend conferences, [...]
Youville child care staff in a quiet moment I recently had the privilege of taking a tour of Youville Centre, as part of the United Way’s Seeing is Believing tour. Youville is a combination school and child care centre for teen moms. It’s bright, clean and cheerful, and it’s alive with the energy of [...] They’re saying the two downtown fires at the women’s shelter and the women’s rooming house are unrelated. Foul play is being blamed for at least one of them. Regardless of how they happened, one woman’s dead and an awful lot of women on the bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder are suddenly even more precariously [...]
Shepherds of Good Hope Garden The Shepherds of Good Hope has a community garden plot, just like ours only much bigger and much much better organized It’s out at the Kilborn Allotment Garden. They grow food there for the soup kitchen. When I volunteered at Shepherds, there was usually enough food to go [...] |
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