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Rally4ODSP was a great success with media, great weather and speakers very enjoyable!! Please share these links for and wide.
Read the MCCSS disappointing response to the rally in the CBC article.
Kevin Head from People First Toronto was a star! His speech is in the CBC Instagram post. Anthony Frisina did an excellent speech and was feature in all the articles. ODSP Action Coalition are pros too!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYng5CAzMs/?utm_medium=copy_link
Cbc article:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/odsp-clients-call-for-increase-in-income-support-1.6192475
CityTv
https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2021/09/28/calls-for-ford-government-to-increase-odsp-benefits/
QP Briefing
More to come:
The star will publish something soon.
Plus maybe Newstalk 1010 this weekend.
You can view the video of the rally here:
https://www.facebook.com/sherry.caldwell2/videos/144798077862503/
Welcome to September!
Inside this issue:
You can read the online version of Family Pulse here or download a pdf copy.
Click here to watch a video about LEG Up! Fall programming.
Registration for Fall Session begins on Friday August 13, 2021.
Check out what Community of Hearts is offering this summer for their virtual day programming.
Clay at Home
This summer, BE-Creative with "Clay at Home" and get a 20% discount off your clay kit from Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery using the discount code 'bridgestobelonging' between July 1-August 31, 2021. Place your order online and pick up your kit at the Gallery to create your masterpiece with the help of online tutorials. Drop off your artwork at the gallery to be fired in a kiln and you will receive an email when it is ready to be picked up. Find out more and order your kit, by clicking here.
Garden Project
Join this FREE artist-led workshop to celebrate and beautify community spaces in the KW area. WIth the help of an artist, you will design and create your every own tile to be placed at The Clay & Glass Gallery's community garden! You can make more than one tile, one to take home to put in your own special place, and one to leave in the community garden. Workshops will be offered online where an artist will help you create your tile. Register, by clicking here.
