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HOMELESS? CAN VOTE SEE PAGE 11 2 Tough Times – September-October, 2019 EMAIL | [email protected] @toughtimestabloid • Find us online at ToughTimesTabloid.ca Vol. 8 No. 5/ SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 2019 (election Monday, October 21) HOW TO SAVE HEALTH CARE are invited, plus local councillors, What the experts say health workers, and members of Peel Health Coalition public meeting the public. Anybody with a health Sunday September 29, 2019 at 2 p.m. care story can tell it here. Terry Miller Recreation Centre 1295 Williams Parkway, Brampton HELP Here are some facts about health care in Canada: Contact: Richard Antonio 647 237-5235 • 3.5 million Canadians are [email protected] struggling to pay for their pre- scription drugs; • one in five Canadians does not have access to dental insurance; Peel Human Services Network SAVE • many Canadians are charged extra fees and pay out-of- Quiz the candidates pocket for medically necessary on poverty, hunger, housing health services; and more –public meeting • mental health and long term care needs are hugely underfunded. Wednesday, October 9, 7 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. HEALTH CMHA Peel Recovery West We also know that Peel wel- 601 – 7700 Hurontario Street, Brampton comes newcomers from all over Phone 905-270-5589 Canada and from all over the world. As it should. Yet our rapidly growing pop- CARE ulation is not receiving the health supports it needs. INSIDE THIS ISSUE JOIN PEEL HEALTH COALITION The City of Brampton is circu- lating a petition which points out Brampton Coun. Jeff Bowman that per person, Brampton receives on housing P3 eel Health Coalition (PHC) for health care, with provincial $1,000 less in healthcare funding is a non-partisan network governments handling the cash. than the provincial average; P of community members, The Ford government in Ontario Brampton has 55% fewer hos- Policies for The People — agencies, healthcare professionals, has plans to change how it spends pital beds than other Ontario cities; or not? P5 frontline workers and activists, our health care money. Brampton faces exponential who want to improve the health- We need to talk about it. growth – 14,000 people move to Labour at work P8 care system in Peel and in Canada, Peel Health Coalition has called Brampton every year, and the City and who want to keep our health- a meeting for Sunday, September needs more healthcare resources to care system in public hands, under 29, 2019 at 2 p.m., at the Terry support this growing population. Homeless and hungry — public control. Miller Recreation Centre, 1295 Brampton’s petition asks the where to find help P10 Currently, the federal govern- Williams Parkway, Brampton. See “Health Care”, page 2 ment uses our tax money to pay All MPPs, MPs and candidates YES, YOU HOMELESS? CAN VOTE SEE PAGE 11 2 Tough Times – September-October, 2019 PEEL POVERTY ELECTION ACTION GROUP Tough Times is published QUIZZING THE CANDIDATESI six times a year Next issue: November-December, 2019 Peel Poverty Action Group (PPAG) Deadline for ads and editorial: October 1, 2019 is open to every individual and What’s ahead Phone 905-826-5041 organization in Peel Region that Volunteer writers, reporters, artists, cares about what poverty does cartoonists, photographers, are to people. It provides a safe place for the cash-poor? welcome at Tough Times. where people who are cash-poor Please email letters to: and those who try to help them he Mississauga Food Bank, which provides more than 242,000 free meals a [email protected] are encouraged to speak out – month to hungry people in Peel, is organizing a meeting where candidates Produced by: and Tough Times is part of that T in the October 21 federal election can listen, learn, and speak. Peel Poverty Action Group (PPAG) safe place. PPAG’s mandate is to Meghan Nichols, executive director of the food bank, reports: Editor: Edna Toth advocate for people in need and to “We are forming a coalition of non-partisan Peel-based human services Associate Editors: organizations to host a debate about issues affecting low-income, marginalized, Michelle Bilek, Rosemary Keenan educate the public about poverty Chris Fotos issues. Membership is free. PPAG and vulnerable populations.” The coalition – Peel Human Services Network -- will call on candidates and Graphic Designer: Patti Moran meets at 9:30 a.m. to noon, usually parties “to make Canada a fair, equitable, and inclusive place where all our neigh- Contributors: the second Thursday of every month Huda Abbas, Richard Antonio, Navi Aujla, Kay bours can thrive.” (except July and August) alternately Bajaj, Samina Bangash, Michelle Bilek, Laura Bilyea, The debate “will provide an opportunity for those who care about their vul- Dr. Simon Black, Coun. Jeff Bowman, Jaspal Brar, in Mississauga and Brampton. Brampton Mayor, Patrick Brown, Taodhg Burns, nerable neighbours and issues such as poverty, food insecurity, mental health, and Coun. George Carlson, Shaila Kibria Carter, Surabhi housing, to hear federal parties’ plans to address these challenges.” Das, Dr. Paula De Coito, Nikki Clarke, Patricia Chris- Meeting dates for 2019: Social service organizations are invited to send questions, which will be sub- john, Doris Cooper, Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Mississauga. at the Newcomer Centre of Crombie, Bob Delaney, Jack Fleming, Moushumi Peel, 165 Dundas St. W., (at Confederation mitted to election candidates in advance, for discussion at the event. Hakrabarti, Linda Hochstetler, Jack Jackson, Parkway); Nov 14. The meeting takes place Wednesday, October 9, from 7 p.m. to 9.30 p.m., Jerry Jarosz, Sylvia Jones, MPP; Laura Kaminker, Rosemary Keenan, Shalini Konanur, Deb Kuipers, Brampton at the CMHA Peel Recovery West, 601 – 7700 Hurontario Street, Brampton. Stephen Lay, Alexandra MacGregor, Harinder Oct. 10 and Dec. 12, venue to be announced. Phone 905-270-5589 Malhi, Julia Margetiak, Pat McGrail, Archana Medhekar, Brenda Murdoch, Varsha Naik, Norma Organizations already part of the coalition include: The Mississauga Food Nicholson, Kimberly Northcote, Maria Pangilinan, Bank, Tough Times, Peel Poverty Action Group, Canadian Mental Health Karen Ras, Christianne Reyna, Monica Riutort, Ma- rina Rosas, Ruby Sahota, MP, Lea Salameh, Farina Association – Peel, Catholic Family Services of Peel, Indus Community Services, Salahuddin, Liisa Schofield, Chris Sensicle, Subash Ontario for All, Knights Table, Vita Centre. Sharma, Sara Singh, MPP; Bret Sheppard, Coun. Ron Starr, Susan Stewart, Anna Sycz, Chelsea Tao, Advertising Pauline Thornham, Rozeeta Torbram-Jarvis, Martin Tsvetanov, Edesiri Udoh, Kate Vinokurov, Suraiya Wajih, Jessica Wang, Grazyna Wiercinska, Emily Rates Health care, cont. from page 1 Wiles, Coun. Charmaine Williams, John Wilson, Rod Woolridge, Cheryl Yarek, staff members of Tough Times distributes 10,000 Ontario government: tractions, to dentures. the Region of Peel.Cheryl Yarek. copies, throughout Peel Region. • to provide immediate funding Healthy workplaces are also on the Printed by: Atlantic Web Printers to pay for the increasing volume CHC agenda, encouraging safety on Target audience is people experiencing homelessness, using of visits to Urgent Care at Peel the job. food banks and soup kitchens, Memorial Centre; Tests and treatment support is avail- people who are struggling, • to fund completion of Phase 2 at able for HIV and Hep C. Homeless: plus faith groups, social service Peel Memorial Centre; People with diabetes can be trained agencies, trades unions, business • and to build a third health care facil- in using insulin, and advised on diet, people, and the general public. ity in Brampton. and more. The Video To advertise in Tough Times: Community Health Centres claim Spaces and Places: Uncovering Email: That’s Brampton’s story. that they cut down on unnecessary Homelessness in the Region of Peel [email protected] But right across Peel, other diagno- visits to hospital Emergency units by is a 15-minute video in which Phone: 905 826-5041 ses and cures for health care are on the teaching health in neighbourhoods. homeless people describe their experiences. A team from PPAG, Mail address: 4-287 Glidden Road operating table. You can find out more at Bramalea including a once-homeless person, Brampton, ON L6W 1H9, Canada Community Health Centres (CHC) Community Health Centre, Four will show the video to a group on Advertising rates: (colour included) – four of them in Peel – have doctors, Corners Health Centre, Bloom Clinic, or request. There is no charge. Business card: $105 nurses, dietitians, physiotherapists, chi- phone 905 451-6959; East Mississauga To book a showing contact 1/16 page: $125 ropodists, social workers, to help regis- Community Health Centre at Dixie and [email protected] 1/8 page: $190 Allow about 45 minutes for the tered clients. Dundas, phone 905 602-4082. video and discussion. 1/4 page: $280 Illness prevention programs include 1/2 page: $460 exercise and wellness activities, youth Material for health articles is drawn from The video was made by a 3/4 page: $650 team from York University, in drop-ins, teaching self-management to several sources, including the Region of Peel, Full page: $810 cooperation with the Social individuals with chronic diseases. members of Peel Poverty Action Group, Peel Planning Council of Peel, financed A full page is approximately 10 inches wide Basic dental treatment is available Health Coalition, Ontario Health Coalition, by a grant from the Ontario by 12 inches deep = 120 square inches. E&OE to eligible clients, from fillings to ex- Institute for Health Care Improvement. Trillium Foundation. Tough Times – September-October, 2019 3 Affordable housing must be Brampton’s top priority BY JEFF BOWMAN fordable housing strategy called “Housing Brampton” in response to the varying housing needs of our res- or me, the issues of affordable housing, home- idents and to improve the housing options for all lessness and poverty are not something to think Bramptonians. F about when its election time or out making With its work plan endorsed by City Council in campaign speeches.
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