The First Unitarian Church of Hamilton
A Liberal Spiritual Community Since 1889
Jennifer WallaceVote4Housing is a campaign of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association and the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada to focus attention and seek commitments to action on affordable housing during the June 2 provincial election. You can learn more at https://vote4housing.ca/ The focus of the campaign is a letter-writing campaign. On their Take Action page, there … Read more
Donations of Spring and Summer clothing are now welcome. We’ve caught up and are looking to build a supply of lighter clothing for the Spring/Summer Season. As always, we particularly need MEN’S, YOUTH, AND CHILDREN’S clothing and footwear for all, including women. Two requests: Please restrict donations to a TWO-bag limit and ensure that all … Read more
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
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
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/