| Innovative Food Projects/ Part of Solution | 2010.07.14 |
Enhancing food security in Kingston is fast becoming a poverty reduction strategy. MORE...
| Ending the savage inequalities of poverty | 2010.07.14 |
Over the past few months people of faith and other community leaders fanned out into some thirty Ontario communities as part of another massive “social audit” organized by the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition. MORE...
| Enthusiastic Group Demands Action | 2010.07.14 |
Over 90% of Canadians support Canada’s Prison Farms according to a Globe and Mail opinion poll. The Save Canada’s Prison Farm coalition explains that these farms should remain open and be expanded. MORE...
| Heating Homes - Saving The Planet | 2010.07.13 |
The inability to pay for utility costs is the second highest reason for homelessness. This is why Sisters of Providence are members of the steering committee with the Low Income Energy Network (LIEN) in Toronto. MORE...
| Living Generously | 2010.07.13 |
Sister Pauline Lally introduced Kingston author, Larry Scanlan, to a capacity crowd during a book launch on May 19th at Providence Motherhouse. MORE...
| Justice and Peace Brochure | 2010.06.29 |
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| Awakening the Dreamer, changing the Dream | 2010.04.29 |
The workshop delivered on its promise to disturb, inspire and force real action on environmental sustainability.
Awaking the Dreamer, changing the Dream was held at Providence Motherhouse in Kingston on Saturday, February 27th. MORE...
| ISARC Social Audit - taking the pulse of our city | 2010.04.21 |
It was exactly eight years ago this month — well before I started working here at Heathfield — that I arrived at the Vincentian Room to meet other local volunteers. The occasion? Sister Pailine Lally, heading up the Justice & Peace Office, had organized a “social audit” of the Kingston community for the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC).
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| Time running out to save prison farms | 2010.04.21 |
Time is running out to save prison farms. In a few months, the Frontenac Institution dairy herd will be auctioned off. This herd genetically dates back to the 1800’s and when it’s sold, the decision to close Canada’s prison farms is virtually irreversible. MORE...
| 350 Climate Change | 2009.12.31 |
350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide, measured in parts per million in our atmosphere. It’s the number humanity needs to avoid runaway climate change. Read more about the involvement of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul to encourage real change. MORE...
| PLEASE RING YOUR BELLS ON DECEMBER 13TH | 2009.12.07 |
Representatives from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen from December 7-18 for a U.N. sponsored Climate Change Conference. MORE...
| Canada's Prison Farms | 2009.12.07 |
Why it's wise to keep them,folly to close them down MORE...
| Canadian author visits Kingston | 2009.11.08 |
Margaret Atwood, arguably Canada’s best-known writer, appeared on September 23 at a Private Reception in the Davies Lounge of the Grand Theatre for a local Kingston group, the Community Harvest Working Group (CHWG) MORE...
| Save our Prison Farms | 2009.11.08 |
Farmers, religious and social groups have formed a national campaign to try to prevent the closing of Canada’s prison farm program. MORE...
| Interim Report on Status of MPP Visits to Do the Math | 2009.10.14 |
Social Planning Network of Ontario
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| Prison Farm Closures | 2009.09.18 |
For immediate release
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
Looming prison farm closing demands immediate action
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| Poverty: reality vs perception | 2009.06.25 |
High school students and retired teachers in Kingston struggled with the stress and anxiety of being poor during a one day role playing game at Queen's University in April. MORE...
| Sisters open home to African visitors | 2009.06.25 |
Calling their Kingston experience memorable, four African Prison Chaplains have returned home to share new insights into prison justice. MORE...
| Stay-at-home Mom turns to activism | 2009.06.25 |
To better understand the US intended invasion of Iraq, the Globe & Mail (2001) suggested reading: A Green History of the World: the Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting.
Little did I know that this book would move me from my couch into picket lines. MORE...
| 25 in 5 creating real change | 2009.06.25 |
On May 6 Ontario’s Legislature unanimously passed the Poverty Reduction Act. It was one more step forward for 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction, a social justice coalition that has been lobbying for two years. MORE...
| Faith exchange with students | 2009.06.25 |
The Sisters of Providence made a return visit to Belleville high school St. Theresa Secondary as part of the annual conference hosted by the school's Renaissance Society.
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| Multifaith Prayer Vigil | 2009.04.17 |
A band of two dozen Kingston vigil keepers and friends traveled by bus to Toronto on March 11. Our goal was to participate in the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s prayer vigil at Queen’s Park. MORE...
| Breaking the Poverty Cycle | 2009.04.17 |
A long-time Kingston social activist describes the Ontario government's new Poverty Reduction strategy as a shovel in the ground. MORE...
| Building a Green Ontario | 2009.04.17 |
The Green Communities Canada conference, Time for Action: Tackling energy poverty in Canada through energy efficiency, September 29 - October 1, 2008, brought together 250 delegates from across Canada. MORE...
| Meal Providers Face Higher Demand | 2008.11.02 |
In Kingston you can order an $11 poutine with braised veal cheeks. Or lunch on truffled frites with shaved parmesan and aioli.
Or you can visit Vinnie’s, the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s north end lunch program that saw demand for its free meals rise 36% in the first six months of 2008 compared to 2007. MORE...
| Poverty Vigil Celebrates 13 Years | 2008.11.02 |
The Ontario government releases its long awaited poverty reduction strategy within weeks and the Sisters of Providence have played a role in forcing the government to take action. MORE...
| In Silence, Wisdom is born | 2008.11.02 |
Twelve years ago when I returned to Kingston, after a two year stint out of the country, I soon discovered that I had come back to a very different Ontario. I remember one of my friends telling me at the time, “You won’t recognize the province, Pauline,” and he was right. MORE...
| Federal Election 2008 | 2008.10.03 |
Making Poverty History:
Position Available
This a series of job interviews with candidates from Kingston and The Islands to Make Poverty History. MORE...
| Make Poverty History: 10th Anniversary Silent Vigil Video | 2007.10.26 |
A video presentation of the 10th Anniversary Silent Vigil outside of Kingston City Hall MORE...
| Election Ontario 2007 | 2007.10.20 |
Making Poverty History In Ontario:
Position Available.
This a series of job interviews with candidates for M.P.P. for Kingston and The Islands. MORE...
| Activist/Street Nurse at Vigil | 2007.07.09 |
A high profile social activist joined other vigil-keepers at the weekly silent vigil at Kingston’s City Hall on Friday May 18, 2007. MORE...
| Farewell Faithful Vigil Keeper | 2007.07.09 |
As I recall, Jesus of Nazareth had a soft spot in his heart for fishermen. Perhaps he still does.
Oliver Gerald Doyle, who died on the second of May , was a follower of Jesus, but not just because he loved to go fishing. MORE...
| Poverty Task Force | 2007.07.09 |
General Superior elect Sr. Pauline Lally spoke during the Mayor’s Task Force on Poverty held in Kingston April 30, 2007. MORE...
| Government fails in anti-poverty efforts: interfaith group | 2007.04.30 |
The provincial government has made progress on the push to wipe out poverty over the last three years, but it is a long way from solving this issue. MORE...
| 11th Anniversary Vigil | 2006.11.10 |
We welcome all of you who are here: Church and Faith leaders, City Council members, representatives of meal providers, shelters, the Food Bank, representatives of groups of the poor and our faithful vigil keepers. MORE...
| Vigil Marks 11 Years | 2006.11.10 |
We have been standing in front of City Hall with the other vigil keepers for eleven years now. Of course, everyone doesn’t show up each week. Still, the vigil keepers have spent a total of twelve days standing on that piece of sidewalk. MORE...
| Kingston Municipal Election - Questionnaire Results | 2006.10.20 |
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Kingston, Ontario calls itself the Limestone City. Its downtown boasts dozens of elegant nineteen century buildings fashioned from chunks of the local sedimentary rock that is so easy to cut. It’s a place known for tourism, Queen’s University, and Canada’s Royal Military College. The Rideau Canal ends here. MORE...
Who knows how we become the people we are?
I can’t say for sure what happened to turn my attention to social justice, or why I’m compelled to try to leave the world a better place than I found it. MORE...
| Inter-Faith Gathering | 2006.08.01 |
A sizeable crowd showed up to Memorial Hall on May 24th to take part in an Inter-Faith Gathering to discuss Religious Faiths and the Poor: Call and Response. MORE...
We can make our environment our primary economy.
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| New Book Focuses On Justice | 2002.10.15 |
The Sisters helped launch the biography of a church leader working for a better world.
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| What Is Poverty? | 2000.12.17 |
Poverty is not a consequence of individual moral failure. It is a result of public policy that idolizes the market. MORE...
Every Friday members of the Justice and Peace Office gather in front of Kingston's City Hall as an act of solidarity with the province of Ontario's hardest-hit and weakest citizens. MORE...
| Nourishing The Spirit | 2000.11.27 |
"Community" happens when ordinary people listen to one another and share generously what they have. MORE...
| Silent vigil speaks volumes | 1996.06.24 |
It can be bitterly cold some days in front of Kingston’s city hall. A bone-chilling wind whips in from ice-covered Lake Ontario, right into the faces of a dozen or so silent, resolute protesters. MORE...
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