To monitor and inform on cross-Ontario activity on the poverty reduction agenda

Blueprint Event Reports

Blueprint Visits Halton Region

More than 100 people from a wide spectrum of the community attended the Blueprint session on November 27 at CAW Local 707 Hall in Oakville. The assembled included present civic officials, health, education, faith community, women’s groups, and professional and business people.
The meeting was co-sponsored by the Community Development Halton, Make Poverty History Burlington [...]

Blueprint Passes through Waterloo Region

Kitchener-Waterloo
About 30 participants came out to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Kitchener for a presentation and discussion of the Blueprint by Marvyn Novick and Peter Clutterbuck on Thursday, November 27.
The afternoon was led off by several social justice songs by the the Radical Choir of Wilfrid Laurier University sung several social justice songs related to [...]

Oxford County Discusses the Blueprint

Mike Balkwill presented the Blueprint in Woodstock on November 26 to about 45 people in the County of Oxford Council Chambers. Attendees represented county councillors, Thames Valley Board of Education, social services and housing staff, clergy, recipients of Ontario Works and Disability Pensions, participants of the Women’s Employment Resource Centre, community service leaders, labour and [...]

Blueprint Session at Niagara Regional Council Chambers

More than 50 participants from community agencies, municipal government, faith leaders, and citizen groups attended a presentation and discussion of the Blueprint at the Regional Niagara Council Chambers on Wednesday, November 26. Gracia Janes of the Niagara Social Assistance Reform Network chaired the session and spoke to the ongoing struggle of people living in [...]

Blueprint Goes Farther North (Thunder Bay)

On Monday November, 24th Marvyn Novick presented the Blueprint for Poverty Reduction to a group which included community service leaders, agency representatives, low income advocates, labour, and public health officials. The group was extremely receptive to the content of the presentation and was unified in their support for the Blueprint.
Discussion regarding the content of the [...]