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Tough Times, March-April, 2017 EMAIL | [email protected] Vol. 6 No. 2/ March-April, 2017 Heading for the Sugar Bush here’s nothing more maple syruping events. Canadian than maple Maple Magic kicks off at T syrup, and you’d like to Bradley Museum, 1620 Orr Road, think that every kid in Canada Mississauga, for one week only knows something about it. from Saturday, March 11 through Come March Break, (which is to Sunday March 19. Activities March 11 to 19 this year if you from noon to 4 p.m. include learn- include the days when kids would ing how to tap a tree. not be in school anyway) maple Cost is $6.24 for children, syrup drips its sticky way onto $7.80 for adults, and $19.50 for a pancakes and fingers, and small family. people absorb this most Canadian Other places have other op- of products, drop by gooey drop. portunities: But not all of them. Credit Valley Conservation It costs cash to learn about Authority has maple syrup activi- maple syruping. Even Peel District ties on the go at Terra Cotta and School Board charges $5 for adults Island Lake from Saturday, March and $4 for kids 12 and under who 4, 2017 to Sunday, April 2, 9.30 go to the Jack Smythe Field Centre a.m. to 3 p.m. Check days and near Terra Cotta during March times for March Break and other Break, to watch the tapping of the dates may be weekends only. trees, the dripping of the syrup, Cost is $5.75 - $8.85 per day; and see how the syrup is heated children four and under are free. on wood fires. Pancakes for lunch And pancake breakfast is is an additional cost item. served all day at extra cost. When schools are not on For festival details, sched- March Break, class visits can be ule of events and tickets, visit arranged, with each school making MapleSyrupFest.com its own arrangements to pay for a Shop around for more syrup- bus to the Sugar Bush. ing events. Maybe some of them (Photo supplied by Maple Magic at Bradley Museum) Other organizations offer are free. Guaranteed income coming? P2 Add water and eat P7 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Carolyn Parrish on the job P3 Welfare: The poverty trap P8 Cheaper child care P4 Tough Tomes P9 Housing action in 2017? P5 Drop-in for mental health P11 ErinoakKids in the news P6 Friday, June 9, 2017 Pearson Convention Centre EARLY BIRD SPECIAL 2638 Steeles Ave E Buy before April 30 Buy after April 30 Brampton Tickets: $125 Tickets: $150 905 454-8725 Table of 8: $1000 Table of 8: $1200 [email protected] www.knightstable.org 2 Tough Times – March-April, 2017 TELLING IT LIKE IT ISI PEEL POVERTY Is a guaranteed basic Tough Times is published ACTION GROUP six times a year Peel Poverty Action Group (PPAG) income coming our way? Next issue: May-June, 2017 is open to every individual and eel Poverty Action Group and further this issue; Deadline for ads and editorial: organization in Peel Region that cares Peel Region Poverty Reduction • people with similar mental health Saturday, April 1, 2017 about what poverty does to people. It Strategy Committee (PPRSC) issues, where supports could be pro- All deadlines are the first day provides a safe place where people who P of the preceding month: jointly organized two public meetings vided along with cash, and improve- are cash-poor and those who try to help July-August deadline: June 1; to discuss Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot ments or failures measured; Sept.-Oct. deadline: August 1; them are encouraged to speak out – and Project – a government investigation • a racialized group, mastering a new Nov.-Dec. deadline: October 1 Tough Times is part of that safe place. Jan.-Feb 2018 deadline: December 1. of how to test the idea of handing out language, learning a different way of The Group’s mandate is to advocate Phone 905 826-5041 for people in need and to educate the money to cash-poor people. life — where are the problems, where Volunteer writers, reporters, artists, public about poverty issues. Membership An early evening meeting was held are the successes? cartoonists, photographers, are is free. PPAG meets at 9:30 a.m. the in January, at a Peel Region office in Generally, our participants were not welcome at Tough Times. second Thursday of every month Mississauga, another during lunch interested in the design of the Basic Please email letters to: (except July and August) alternately hour at Knights Table, a soup kitchen Income Pilot. They need money now, [email protected] in Mississauga at the Newcomer Produced by: in Brampton, where diners and others not in some distant unpredictable future. Peel Poverty Action Group (PPAG) Centre of Peel, 165 Dundas St. W., at voiced their thoughts. Confederation Parkway; in Brampton at Editor: Edna Toth PPRSC submitted detailed reports How much money? Associate Editors: the John Howard Society, 134 Main St. Michelle Bilek • Rosemary Keenan N., just south of Church St. on what members of the public said at The labour movement is promoting the meetings. $15 an hour, which at 35 hours a week Graphic Designer: Patti Moran Contributors: Meetings for 2017 PPAG pursued some of the partici- for a year would be $27,300 or $2,100 Michelle Bilek, Laura Bilyea, Leo Dias, Ryan Brampton: March 9, May 11, pants' ideas in later discussions, most tak- a month; the current OW (Ontario Gurcharn, Rosemary Keenan, Dr. Paula DeCoito, September 14, November 9; ing place at Knights Table, and sent them Works) rate is $8,472 a year for a sin- Dr. Simon Black, Shaila Kibria Carter, Sophia Mississauga: Feb. 9, April 13, Ramsay, Norma Nicholson, Adaoma Patterson, off to the Ministry of Community and gle person, or $706 a month. In Peel, Bret Sheppard, Sankofa, Edisiri Udoh, Amrik June 8, October 12, December, date to Social Services, which will publish a re- rents are high — at least $350 a month Ahluwalia, Huda Abbas, David Green, Sonia be decided. port this Spring. Here’s what PPAG said. for a single room, shared bathroom, no Sidhu MP, Anita Stellinga, John Needham, Edna Toth, Coun. Carolyn Parrish, Coun. Jeff Bow- cooking facilities; you can’t live on OW. www.ppag.wordpress.com man, Francine Sampogna, Lea Salameh,Chris These are among the thoughts dis- And the people who have no other in- Hatch, Emily Wiles. cussed: come need more money. Printed by: Atlantic Web Printers Is the Basic Income Pilot Project a delay When you don’t have enough to eat tactic, which will take so long to design and you sleep in the woods, discussion and test that the realities of poverty will of where more money comes from, Homeless: not be dealt with? how it will be distributed, how an allow- Advertising Its rules are not helpful: The age range ance sits with the Low Income Cutoff, The Video of 18-64 is exclusive — some under 18s is entirely academic. You need money Rates need help, including single mothers and now, before the cold snap. Spaces and Places: Uncovering young males who are homeless; The If you are sleeping in the woods, Tough Times distributes 10,000 Homelessness in the Region of Peel requirement for 12-months residence or in your car, you don’t pay rent, so copies, throughout Peel Region. is a 15-minute video in which excludes homeless people who are the you don’t get a rent allowance ($376 Target audience is people homeless people describe their poorest of all; Groups for the Pilot a month gone from a single person’s experiencing homelessness, using experiences. A team from PPAG, Project need not be assembled only by monthly cheque). food banks and soup kitchens, including a once-homeless person, geography (although the advantages of people who are struggling, will show the video to a group keeping contact, having offices for staff, Health plus faith groups, social service on request. There is no charge. are understood); Dental care, vision care, prescription agencies, trades unions, business To book a showing contact Suggestions for groups not deter- drugs, and other health shortcomings people, and the general public. [email protected]. mined solely by neighbourhood: should be paid through OHIP for all To advertise in Tough Times: Allow about 45 minutes for the • people just released from jail, armed ages and incomes. [email protected] video and discussion. with a bus ticket, the phone number Phone: 905 826-5041 of a shelter, and not much else; Education Mail address: 4 - 287 Glidden Road The video was made by a • homeless people; Schooling should be free at all levels, and Brampton ON L6W 1H9, Canada team from York University, in • single mothers of various ages (possibly for all ages, from childcare to PhD. TVO Advertising rates: (colour included) cooperation with the Social based in Peel, HQ at Knights Table); has a motto “Never stop learning.” It’s Business card: $90 Planning Council of Peel, financed • people providing care for elderly a good idea. Perhaps its time has come. 1/16 page: $100 by a grant from the Ontario relatives with Alzheimer’s or other Many of these suggestions, such as 1/8 page: $155 Trillium Foundation. afflictions — stories of daughters education, are far in the future. 1/4 page: $240 quitting jobs, then the welfare rules Others are not. Health ideas, a 1/2 page: $430 You can buy Spaces and Places insisting they must exhaust their sav- more generous handling of rent for 3/4 page: $600 on a memory stick for $50.
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