[homeles_ot-l] Questions needed for televised Forums on Poverty

[Lynne Browne]

Hi all,

 

Here is an opportunity to help highlight the desperate need for affordable
and appropriate housing in Ontario.

 

Lynne

Lynne Browne 
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
613-241-7913 x 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 

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Get your questions in! Televised Forums on Poverty and Housing 

The Toronto Star and Rogers TV are broadcasting a series of forums across
the province in early October  - and they are looking for questions and
comments from the general public.

We all know that a necessary first step to poverty reduction is for
governments to commit to a comprehensive approach, and to work to eradicate
the poverty of singles as well as families and people on social assistance
as well as the working poor. Your comments can help shape the debate during
the election campaign and press the parties for their commitment to a
resolution to poverty. 

ISAC has posted a number of fact sheets and election questions on our
website at HYPERLINK
"http://www.incomesecurity.org/campaigns/ISACElectionMaterials.html" \n
http://www.incomesecurity.org/campaigns/ISACElectionMaterials.html. Please
feel free to use them for ideas of questions to forward to the Toronto Star.


More information on the forums and how to email your questions is below:  

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>From the Toronto Star's website:

Thousands of children live on the margins in this city. Virtually everyone
agrees that something needs to be done, but what?

HYPERLINK
"http://www3.thestar.com/cgi-bin/star_static.cgi?section=news&page=/Forms/sp
eak_out/070919_ask_why.html" \nThis is your chance to speak out and "ask
why." We want to use your questions or comments in a special series of
Toronto Star/Rogers TV programs on some of the toughest issues in our city.
The Star is teaming up with Rogers for a series of televised forums on three
important subjects:

Child poverty: Are governments doing enough? What is the role of the school
system in helping disadvantaged children?

Assisted housing: How to avoid U.S.-style "projects"? What's the fairest way
to house needy families? 

Public funding for religious schools: Is it an issue of basic fairness? Will
it further undermine the public school system?

Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias will moderate a panel of poverty experts,
politicians and Star journalists.

Your questions or comments could be used on one of these programs, which
will be broadcast in early October. 

HYPERLINK
"http://www3.thestar.com/cgi-bin/star_static.cgi?section=news&page=/Forms/sp
eak_out/070919_ask_why.html" \nSend us your questions or comments by
Tuesday, Sept. 25. Please keep them to 25 words or less.  

HYPERLINK "http://www.thestar.com/comment/Speakout/article/258250"
\nhttp://www.thestar.com/comment/Speakout/article/258250 

 

 

Dana Milne
Provincial Organizer
Income Security Advocacy Centre
425 Adelaide St. W., 5th Floor
Toronto, ON M5V 3C1
Tel: 416-597-5820, ext. 5151
Toll-free: 1-866-245-4072

Fax: 416-597-5821
Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:milned at lao.on.ca" \nmilned at lao.on.ca
Website: HYPERLINK "http://www.incomesecurity.org" \nwww.incomesecurity.org

 

 



-- 
Terrie ( HYPERLINK "mailto:mocharebyl at gmail.com"mocharebyl at gmail.com )
"If you see an injustice being committed, you aren't an observer, you are a
participant." June Callwood 
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. 
Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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