NATIONAL HOUSING DAY


Want to be part of the solution to end homelessness?

Come to National Housing Day!
November 22nd 2002

In Toronto: 

12 noon –Church of the Holy Trinity (Trinity Square beside Eaton Centre)

  • Greeting by Archbishop Terry Finlay

  • Release of Report Card One Year After Federal, provincial and territorial housing agreement -- Michael Shapcott, co-chair National Housing and Homelessness Network.

  • Community meal for homeless people and others.


12:40pm -- March to City Hall (staring from Church of the Holy Trinity)

1-2pm -- Rock n’ Rally for Housing! Nathan Phillips Square (City Hall)

  • Completion of the symbolic house – 1pm

  • Hey Stella! Urban country live band

  • Jack Layton and Cathy Dunphy will MC the event

  • Cathy Crowe - Street Nurse and Toronto Disaster Relief Committee steering committee member

  • Homeless person – to be announced

  • Wayne Samuelson - Ontario Federation of Labour President

  • Ursula Franklin - Internationally Recognized Peace Activist

  • Donald Whitehead – Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.)

  • Micheal St. George – one of Canada’s leading dub poets

  • John Cartwright – Toronto and York District Labour Council President

  • The Tombstones – local rock n’ roll band

 

All Day -- Photo Exhibit on Homelessness (Main Floor, City Hall)

  • Photos by Chris Bognat of CAW Local 112. Photographer available for interviews.

  • Book Launch of “Homelessness: A message for working Canadians” 

  • Official proclamation on display in lobby.

The Toronto event is sponsored by the Advisory Committee on Homeless & Socially Isolated Persons, Canadian Pensioners' Concerned, Church of the Holy Trinity, the City of Toronto, Homelessness Action Group, Housing Action Now, Older Women's Network, Scarborough Homelessness Committee, Toronto and York Region Labour Council, the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, Toronto Youth Cabinet, and the West Coalition on Housing & Homelessness. 

This event is part of a national initiative hosted by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the National Housing and Homelessness Network, and the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee.

Click here for the event flyer.

For more information, contact TDRC at 416-599-8372 or email tdrc@tdrc.net

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