<font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Leilani Farha</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leilani@cwp-csp.ca">leilani@cwp-csp.ca</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:34 AM<br>Subject: A CERA EVENT Š<br>To: Rob MacDonald <<a href="mailto:robm@housinghelp.on.ca">robm@housinghelp.on.ca</a>><br><br><br><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word">
<div><div><div>Hi Rob, </div></div></div><span><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
Wondering if you would send this out to your networks? Its fast approaching and we are just getting the message out …  Thanks so much!  <br><br></div></div></div></div></div></span><div>Best, </div><div>Leilani </div><div>
<br></div><span><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">---</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Promoting Human Rights in Housing across Ontario …. Join the Conversation … </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Discrimination against Aboriginal renters...The lack of rental housing that is accessible to people with disabilities...Social housing rules that limit options for families with children...Municipal by-laws that restrict rental housing or group homes...Not-In-My-Backyard opposition to social housing...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">These are all housing issues. They are also human rights issues. </span><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Human rights law can be a valuable tool in responding to communities’ unique housing needs and priorities. CERA – The <a href="http://www.equalityrights.org/cera" target="_blank">Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation</a> wants to tell you more.  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Over the past year, CERA has worked with partners in Thunder Bay, London, Hamilton, Sudbury, and Windsor to investigate local housing issues that could benefit from CERA’s human rights-based approach and expertise, and develop collaborative strategies and initiatives to address them.  We want Ottawa to be part of that conversation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Please join us!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">CERA and <a href="http://www.cwp-csp.ca" target="_blank">Canada Without Poverty</a> will be hosting a meeting in Ottawa to bring together a small group of agencies, organizations, municipal staff and housing providers to discuss local housing issues and their human rights implications, and possible ways that CERA could assist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">WHEN: <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                </span>Wednesday June 26^th 2012 from 9:00am-12:00pm  </span></b><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b>***A light breakfast and refreshments will be provided.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">WHERE:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span>Under One Roof (now 25OneCommunity) @ 251 Bank Street (corner of Cooper and Bank). </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">This is an accessible building.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:18px"><b>RSVP: <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">               </span></b></span></font><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Numbers are limited. Please RSVP to: <a href="mailto:maureen@cwp-csp.ca" target="_blank">maureen@cwp-csp.ca</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b>CERA</b> is a provincial non-profit organization established in 1987 to promote human rights in housing. CERA uses provincial, national, and international human rights law to help remove the barriers that keep low income individuals and families from accessing and retaining the housing they need. We do this through human rights research, law reform and advocacy, test case litigation and through providing individual assistance to people who have experienced discrimination related to their housing.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Leilani Farha</span></b></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;margin-right:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin-left:0px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Executive Director</span></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;margin-right:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin-left:0px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">CANADA WITHOUT POVERTY/CANADA SANS PAUVRETÉ<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;margin-right:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin-left:0px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">@UnderOneRoof, 251 Bank Street, 2nd Floor, Ottawa, ON K2P 1X3</span></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;margin-right:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin-left:0px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Tel:</b> <a href="tel:%28613%29%20789-0096%20Ext.%203208" value="+16137890096" target="_blank">(613) 789-0096 Ext. 3208</a></span></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;margin-right:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin-left:0px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Toll Free:</b> <a href="tel:1-800-810-1076" value="+18008101076" target="_blank">1-800-810-1076</a></span></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:normal;margin-right:0px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:small;margin-left:0px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial;margin-top:0px;word-spacing:0px">
<font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.545454025268555px"><b>Cell: </b><a href="tel:%28613%29%20302-7769" value="+16133027769" target="_blank">(613) 302-7769</a></span></font></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;margin-right:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:small;margin-left:0px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial;margin-top:0px;word-spacing:0px">
<font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.545454025268555px"><b>Skype:</b> farwise</span></font></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;margin-right:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin-left:0px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;word-spacing:0px">
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