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    • About Me
    • Realizing the Right: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments >
      • Human Rights & Housing Fights - Presentations - Realizing the Right >
        • Rethinking Municipal Approaches - Human Rights and Housing Fights
        • Human Rights and Housing Fights: Municipal Encampment Responses
        • CAEH Conference Ottawa 2024
      • Written Content - Projecct Outputs - Realizing the Right >
        • Waterloo Region Snapshot - Realizing the Right: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments
        • Rethinking Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments: Building a Human Rights Approach in Ontario
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      • When Politics Fail: Chasing Evictions Instead of Solutions
      • Dear RoW: Your Bylaw Is Faulty (& Your Politics Kinda Suck)
      • CAEH 2025 & More Cambridge Encampment Evictions
      • On the right to adequate housing - By Peter Elgin (2020)
      • Cambridge Evictions - Heatwave 2025
      • Open Letter: ​Seeking aid for Unsheltered in face of current Extreme Weather Crisis - 2025
      • Unsheltered: Emergency or Public Health Crisis - Where are we? >
        • ERP: Regional Policies
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Nickels and Dimes:
Seeking Change

(and trying to somehow make sense of it all)


2025

  • Why not let your experts do their work?
  • ​A Human Rights Approach for the City of Cambridge
  • Cambridge City Council Meeting September 23, 2025- Highlighting Motion: "Preventing the forced removal of unhoused persons during extreme weather events"
  • Extreme Heat and Health Impacts
  • Eviction Notice Components
  • ​$$ Crunching the Numbers $$ : Budgets & Resources
  • ​Across the Divide : Challenges of Navigating a Duel Tier System
  • The Political Distractions: Procedural By-laws (& Cambridge Council Meeting September 2, 2025​
  • Cambridge Encampment Evictions - Heat Wave 2025
  • Dear City of Cambridge (CC: Region of Waterloo) RE: Heat Wave Evictions

2021

  • Looking more at Unsheltered displacement - Blog Post 25/11/21
  • Love, compassion, and positive action! - Blog Post 28/11/21
  • Proposed November 17th, 2021 to Regional Council in seeking temporary solution to homeless displacement - ​Content and related links

2024

Fall 2024 - Buses for Warming & Other Potential Concepts

2022

As we start having more of the difficult conversations surrounding Unsheltered lives - January 2022
  • Victoria and Weber encampment: My "nickel" June 2, 2022

2020 & Earlier

  • Free Transit For Low-Income Individuals - Alliance Against Poverty Forum 2017​​​
  • The time to hesitate is through - Blog post 2019
  • Mental health and the stigma that often surrounds it - Blog post​
  • Me Proposal Jan 13th 2020 Details​​​​
  • Letter to the Editor: Closing OneROOF a "Devastating" loss to homeless youth - The Record, 2016
  • Alliance Against Poverty Supports Local Grassroot Plea For Aid - 2020
  • ​Speaking with Bob Jonkman April 13th, 2020 at CKMS 102.7 FM - Topic: Unsheltered needs and COVID-19 Emergency​
  • Social Justice Housing Rally - January 25th 2020
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