Tag: social assistance

  • Please Give the Gift of Dignity to Canadians This Holiday Season!

    York Region Food Network urges you to “give the Gift of Dignity” to Canadians this holiday season as follows: “Want to give the Gift of Dignity this Holiday Season?” “Sign our Petition to Put Food in the Budget of our neighbours on social assistance. An immediate increase of $100/month to enable people to purchase healthy…

  • Temporary Income Assistance for the Unemployed: Canada’s Salving Solution

    The following video Poor No More is a feature documentary about Canadians who are worrying about how to make ends meet: The Caledon Institute of Social Policy just published an excellent paper Fixing the Hole in Employment Insurance: Temporary Income Assistance for the Unemployed (by Michael Mendelson and Ken Battle, December 2011), which presents a…

  • Please Support “Let’s Vote For a Poverty Free Ontario” on September 13, 2011

    Following Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s (ISARC ‘s) publication of Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins, and based on the findings of the social audits in 26 locations across Ontario, Canada, ISARC is “particularly concerned that the latest Ontario budget offered so little to those on social assistance – $5.92 per month, as Carol Goar…

  • 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…

  • Video Follow-Up to FRESH the movie Event in York Region

    York Region Food Network‘s premiere of FRESH the movie happened on November 4, 2010 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. FRESH the movie challenged us to think about what we eat. York Region Food Network presented on screen the following great solutions from FRESH the movie director, Ana Sofia Joanes: Ana’s 10 FRESH Solutions Buy local produce…

  • 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…

  • “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…