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Dundas Repair Cafe – Dec 2nd 10am-12pm

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Action 13, Dundas is hosting a Repair Cafe  on Saturday December 2, from 10am-12 pm, drop in to the Dundas Town Hall (upper level) for the launch of the NEW Dundas Repair Cafe. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and have your clothing and other household items repaired at no charge. Volunteers will be on … Read more

A new housing campaign launched this week.

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It demands Ottawa fund annual net increases of 50,000 deeply-affordable housing units every year for 10 years If Ottawa really wants to move the needle on affordable housing, it could adopt the goals of the new Social Housing and Human Rights campaign, launched Tuesday. To meet the government’s obligation to progressively realize the human right … Read more

Good News for Housing—With a Catch—In the Federal Fall Economic Update Tuesday

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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced some significant increases in funding for housing programs in the federal fall economic update Tuesday. That’s good and makes up for the lack of new measures in the federal budget last spring. But the big funding measures are in programs that don’t deliver many really affordable housing. And the numbers … Read more

YWCA’s Medora Uppal was Outstanding 

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Medora Uppal, CEO of the Hamilton YWCA, delivered a moving and powerful sermon last Sunday, Nov 19th, about how we achieve change. For our annual National Housing Day service, she drew on her 25 years with Good Shepherd and the YWCA to suggest, among other things, how critical it is to help people who champion … Read more