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Growing a Community of Support: Firemen Movers Training Helps Volunteers in the GTA Move with Confidence
A social enterprise is more than just a business that donates to the same deserving organization each year – it’s an investment into the infrastructure of a community, a partnership that ensures both parties are less vulnerable to external pressures and more focused on shared values, stability, and prosperity. Shelter Movers proudly began a social
Domestic Violence and the Housing Crisis
The Relationship Between Homelessness and Domestic Violence It’s an unfortunate reality that homelessness and domestic violence are closely related. Children who experience domestic violence become vulnerable to becoming unhoused later
The Impact of the Pandemic on Healthy Relationships for Youth
When young people across the country return to in-person schooling this fall, they will be going back to more than the classroom. The re-introduction of in-person peer relationships is causing
Take Back the Night in Waterloo Region
Take Back the Night, an annual event to call for action against gender-based violence, is back in Waterloo Region for 2021! Hosted by the Sexual Assault Support Centre in partnership
7 Reasons to Create Your Own Fundraiser Event
Find Happiness Helping Others Have you ever experienced that boost of positivity after making a difference in someone’s day? Academic studies show that charitable behaviour generates benefits for those who
Federal Parties Need to Address Violence Against Women
92. That’s the staggering number of femicides—that we know of—reported in this country by the Canadian Femicide Observatory between January and June 2021;the equivalent of one femicide every two days. The
Nova Scotia’s Operations Manager, Brooklyn passes the torch to her successor, Meghan.
Since its inception in July of 2019, the Nova Scotia chapter has reached numerous milestones, many of which are thanks to the current Operations Manager, Brooklyn Pinheiro. Brooklyn started the
