As you know, Canada Without Poverty and Citizens for Public Justice are taking Dignity for All: A National Anti-Poverty Plan for Canada to communities across Canada. Starting this Sunday was phase 2 of the tour, throughout Southern Ontario!
In the last leg of the journey, we gave you updates in a travel log of Eastern Canada. To keep you updated, CWP has started a log of this leg of Michèle (CWP) and Janelle’s (CPJ) trip:
Sunday, May 24th, 2015
We arrived in Toronto to kick off this phase of the tour! Even though it was a very warm and beautiful Sunday evening we had an excellent group of participants to start off this leg of the trip. The group was excited to talk about poverty in Canada and how the federal government needs to take steps to address poverty immediately.
A big thank you to Kathy Salisbury and John Ryerson for their support in hosting Dignity for All in Toronto!
Monday, May 25th, 2015
Today we visited the amazing community in Hamilton. To start our day off we were invited to the Bill Kelly show. To hear the audio from the show click here (insert May 25th and go to 11:00am in drop menu). We were joined by Laura Cattari, CWP Board Member and member of the Hamilton Roundtable.
In the afternoon we visited the Hamilton Roundtable and HOPE to conduct our Hamilton workshop.
There were a lot of great ideas in the room. We are so grateful to be joined by a group of excited and engaged people in Hamilton!
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
Today we visited beautiful Niagara Falls. Before our workshop Janelle and I drove by the Falls for some inspiration before the session.
After our drive to the falls we had a fantastic group join us with the Niagara Poverty Reduction Coalition. Thank you so much for joining us with such excellent conversation!
Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
This was a big travel day for Dignity for All, we travelled down to Windsor to give a really excellent session at the Windsor Star Cafe.
We had a lot of media coverage of this event. Check out this Windsor Star article and CKLW AM900 radio interview.
A very big thank you to Pathway to Potential for hosting this Windsor event!
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
We had a very large and engaged crowd for our event in the morning in Sarnia. It was so excellent to feel the energy in the room and to witness people’s passion to end poverty in Canada.
At this event we had a lot of media coverage. Check out these articles in Blackburn News and The Sarnia Observer on the event in Sarnia Ontario!
Another very big thank you to our colleagues in Sarnia for hosting us, particularly CPJ Board Member Thea DeGroot!
Friday, May 29th, 2015
Today is our final event for this leg of the Dignity for All #WeHaveAPlan tour in Southern Ontario! We ended things with a workshop visit at CPJ’s board meeting.
A very big thank you to everyone who has participated in Dignity for All workshops in Southern Ontario this week! We are so grateful for the energy and excitement we’ve experienced so many passionate communities this week.
Our next step is to set up sessions in Western Canada, Northern Canada, Central Canada and more sessions in Eastern Canada and Southern Ontario.
Are you interested in a workshop in your community? If so, email Michele at michele[at]cwp-csp.ca.
Is your community on the list already? Great! We will be in touch about setting up a session shortly!
