Tag: do the math challenge
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Please Urge Premier Wynne to Increase Ontario Works’ Base Rate by $100 a Month & Not Cut the Special Diet Allowance
This video presents “Put Food in the Budget”: “Do the Math is part of the Put Food in the Budget campaign in OntarioOK Currently a single person on social assistance gets $585 per month to cover housing, food, transport, and everything else” “As I found out taking the Do the Math challenge, this amount is…
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You’re Invited: Holiday Lunch Dec.19 + Urge Dalton McGuinty to Give a $100 Increase to OW and ODSP
The following video portrays these concerns: currently a single person on social assistance in Ontario, Canada, gets $585 per month to cover housing, food, transport, and everything else this amount is not enough to cover a healthy food supply and forces those in need to find a different food bank source for day to day.…
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National Volunteer Week and PUT FOOD IN THE BUDGET’s Plea
National Volunteer Week, April 10 to 16, is Canada’s largest celebration of volunteers, volunteerism, and civic participation. To Canadian volunteers everywhere, Thank you! The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is one of Canada’s leading grantmaking foundations. As an agency of the Government of Ontario, the mission of the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is building healthy and vibrant…
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Let the Ontario Government Hear Your Voices: November 15th Rally to Put Food in the Budget
Let the Ontario Government hear your voices about the insufficient social assistance received by adults in Ontario at the following event: Rally To Put Food in the Budget! Date: Monday, November 15, 2010 Location: Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street, Barn #2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Time: 7 pm – 9 pm Special Features: Live music by…
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A Thanksgiving Message
Here is a Thanksgiving message to you from Yvonne Kelly, Chair, York Region Do the Math Working Group, and Program Coordinator, YORK REGION FOOD NETWORK in Ontario, Canada: Do the Math Challenge Event: October 4th-8th This week in communities across Ontario, community members, leaders and high profile individuals are standing in solidarity with individuals on…
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“Put Food In the Budget” Campaign Challenges MPP’s and Profile Participants to “DO THE MATH!”
For Immediate Release: Friday October 1st 2010 – Media Call: 289-221-0928 Introducing – Put Food In the Budget Campaign in Ontario, Canada – DO THE MATH CHALLENGE! October 4- 8, 2010 A collaborative team of concerned York Regioners made up of individuals and representatives of concerned social agencies is putting phase two of the Ontario-wide…