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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Want to make a difference on housing & homelessness in Ottawa?</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then help us deepen the understanding of the Ottawa community about the challenges of living in poverty.</span></p>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In partnership with the Impact
Hub Ottawa, the Alliance to End H</span></font><font style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">omelessness, University of Ottawa's Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services (CRECS),
United Way Ottawa, and a team of volunteers from Shopify, Initial PR, and Carleton, we are launching a Civic Leadership Series on Housing & homelessness and we need your help.</span></font></font></div>
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a one day simulation experience called The Poverty Challenge on </span><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday, </span></strong><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May
12th </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from 9 -3 pm, in which participants </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"walk
a day in the life" of someone experiencing poverty navigating the complex array of services and systems, based on a profile of someone living in urban poverty. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jesse
Thistle, who developed the definition of Indigenous Homelessness, will be the keynote speake</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">r.</span></span></span></font></font></div>
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the Anishinabek, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit. The Métis also had a historic presence here, but Toronto is not traditional Métis territory. The COH also recognizes the presence of contemporary Indigenous Peoples in Toronto-York as these territories
were historically, and continue to be, a meeting place for many Indigenous nations.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe WP","Segoe UI WPC",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13.3333px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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