Month: April 2022

Anti-Trans News from Across the Pond

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The UK government has been facing pressure regarding their proposed conversion therapy ban– namely by trans-exclusionary groups whose aim is to remove protections for transgender people against conversion therapy.  As you may recall, conversion therapy is a harmful practice that takes many forms, particularly ‘counselling’ of youth by religious groups to ‘convert’ Two Spirit and … Read more

No Relief In Sight For Buyers Or Renters

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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has released its annual forecast and the news isn’t good for Hamilton. House prices are expected to keep rising rapidly in 2022 and a bit more slowly in the following two years. Rising interest rates will make it harder to borrow, and more expensive, as mortgage rate increases are expected … Read more

Keep Learning with the Homelessness Learning Hub

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The Homelessness Learning Hub has opportunities to learn more, including: A toolkit to combat the criminalization of homelessness https://homelessnesslearninghub.ca/library/resources/toolkit-to-combat-the-criminalization-of-homelessness/  The housing challenges facing newcomers to Canada. All medium to low-income Canadians face affordability and other housing challenges but newcomers face extra barriers. https://homelessnesslearninghub.ca/learning-materials/priority-population-newcomers/  And others: check out https://homelessnesslearninghub.ca/ 

Indigenous Graves Statement

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The Board of The First Unitarian Church of Hamilton approves and supports the following statement made by our minister, The Reverend Victoria Ingram. While on a tour of the Mohawk Institute, a residential school on the Six Nations, the tour guide points to a cluster of over thirty trees in the middle of a field … Read more