I researched and wrote this report in 2011 for the CPNet@Western Housing Intern and Scholar Programme offered by the University of Western Ontario. The report was submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. I am posting it to my blog now because I believe it is relevant to many of the new … Continue reading Local Delivery of Housing Allowances and Rent Supplements in Ontario: Best Practices and Program Challenges →

Perhaps the most uplifting protest events at Little Mountain were the art-ins. In addition to beautifying the housing project for the remaining tenants and serving a therapeutic role for many participants, the paintings produced at the art-ins advance a communal property claim to the buildings and grounds of the Little Mountain Housing Project. The Little … Continue reading Performing Property at Little Mountain: A Content Analysis of Protest Artwork →

I’ve always been a geographer. Since I was in grade two at DLG Elementary School in Mrs. Harvalias’s class, I’ve been fascinated with people and places and their stories. Mrs. Harvalias was from Greece and I spent every recess scouring the 1980s globe, almost half of which was labelled U.S.S.R., looking for Greece. I finally … Continue reading It’s good to be back →