🚨'We have POVERTY BY POSTAL CODE: 23-year life expectancy difference between richest and poorest! That's not accident it's consequence of concentrating poverty' Councillor Maureen Wilson (She / Her) shares shocking data #HousingCrisis #HamOnt #ONpoli #Cdnpoli 👀 OShow youtu.be/UeZzqkOBdDc?si…

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1. Cranberry harvest by Kristina Makeeva

Featuring a few Queen’s Park Press Gallery members, Emma seeks to tell the full story of the 2023 Greenbelt scandal.

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We must STOP the war on the poor in this province and start holding the wealthy landlords to account. We should also demand Ford reinstate rent controls immediately. People cannot afford the cost or the stress of this insane housing crisis. There is so much fear of homelessness.

Your wellness breaks down so fast when everything you do takes such extreme effort and mentally draining to be on 24 hour alert as one day bleeds into the next as you shut out the world to survive in autopilot but the determination inside the heart can’t give up #trauma #HamOnt

Where possible I take music requests when guests get to my Cookie table in Gore Park so we can dance together to their fave tunes. It makes us all happier. A man in a wheelchair asked me for 'Staying Alive' and told me he'd dance with me in his heart. #hamont #Onpoli #Cdnpoli

When I asked a young woman in her 20s I hadn't met before in Gore Park line how she was doing she told me 'not OK' because she has a badly sprained ankle and had been standing on it for hours to get food. She had a walker to help but was in such pain. #hamont #onpoli #Cdnpoli

I noticed that a man in a wheelchair was back on Gore Park after missing last week. He told me he just got out of the hospital because he was much sicker than he realized. I marvel at his ability to get to the line at all, but he needs food and community #hamont #Onpoli #cdnpoli

So many guests in Gore Park line have illness and disabilities. You can see it on their faces, hear it in their coughs and and voices, and see them struggle with mobility and carrying bags. You wish you could get them the support and care they deserve. #hamont #onpoli #cdnpoli

When I asked a man in his 50s who appeared to be experiencing homelessness how he's been, he said he was dealt a really bad hand by universe last week and wanted to fold, but we all have to play cards we're dealt and hoped this week for a better hand #hamont #Onpoli #cdnpoli

A woman in her 40s who appeared to be experiencing homelessness and is diabetic showed up early to Gore Park line. A volunteer gave her two hard boiled eggs and as she peeled both simultaneously so she could eat them faster she told me she was starving. #Hamont #Onpoli #Cdnpoli

As I ranted on NEWSTALK1010 we need to looking more broadly at who is being impacted by the housing crisis - people of all backgrounds are situations are losing ability to pay for shelter leading many to hunger and homelessness. #hamont #onpoli #cdnpoli omny.fm/shows/newstalk…

But not Doctors, nurses, educators, seniors, students, homeless, working class people, disabled people. So I guess that leaves Doug Ford's Friends.....

Mark Evans Laura Babcock Keith Leslie Mark Cripps Good con, huh? The PC PR machine markets folksy Ford pretending to care about ordinary Ontarians, but in reality Ford has pulled numerous, weeks-long disappearing acts in times of crisis, and shut down Queen's Park early for a long winter vacay to hang out w rich developers in FL

Laura Babcock Keith Leslie Mark Cripps It is even worse when you see it on TV. I wanted to vomit.

Surely no one during the last Ontario election voted for Doug Ford because of their demonstrated ability to make intelligent decisions? This four more years of Doug Ford exists due to <18% of Ontario voters. A short memory and/or accepting voter bribes can be very costly.

Thx. These are wonderful people with wisdom and resilience. It's an honour to hear their stories. They're not numbers or stereotypes. The guests in massive Gore Park line for people experiencing hunger and homelessness are all ages and of all backgrounds #hamont #onpoli #cdnpoli

Laura Babcock I loved Casey and the Long Distance Dedication!

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#hiphop #musicvideo #Hamont #brianbristow #homelessness
Join in on the march as we create a music video! We need donations of supplies and for props that will be given to the homeless when we are done! Monique Taylor Andrea Horwath Cameron Kroetsch Laura Babcock