Getting the Special Diet: How the City is Illegally Prying into People’s Private Lives

David Miller and Councillor Joe Mehivc often talk about wanting to help poor people. The City has held poverty reduction meetings and passed this resolution in December of 2005: “TSS [Toronto Social Services] ensure that social assistance recipients receive all dietary benefits to which they are entitled and that TSS staff are properly trained to not eliminate any dietary benefits recipients are eligible to receive.”

Behind the scenes, however, the City goes out of its way to violate people’s privacy and deny the special diet.

September 18th

Join us THURSDAY, July 17th, to protest the city’s refusal to address poverty in our community and to speak out against the recent deaths of two homeless men who died last week in our community.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 17, 2008

TIME: 11 AM

LOCATION: Queen and Sherbourne St.

On Monday, July 7, around supper time, Biniyam Selleshi, a young Ethiopian man in his mid- twenties was found dead in the Salvation Army Maxwell Meighen Hostel. On Thursday morning, July 10, Denis Bowen, 42, a native man known to many of us in the community, died outside a social housing building at 200 Sherbourne St.

Come tell Matthews that to stop consulting about poverty and start doing something about poverty

Wednesday, June 18
4pm meet at Eglington West Station (inside turnstiles)

The City of Toronto is preparing to save funds by making sure that people on Ontario Works (OW) are denied benefits they need on an even bigger scale than happens at present.