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Calls To Action - Truth and Reconciliation Sept 30

This week, Thursday to be exact, our country recognizes the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This week each day on the blog we will provide resources you and your family can use to better understand what this day means and why it is needed. Many of us are only learning in recent months and years about the atrocities that occurred to our Indigenous communities over the past 155 years and beyond. Today I am leaving the link that provides the document that contains the 94 Calls Of Action that were developed by the TRC (the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) in 2015. Even at that time many Canadians did not know about the work being done and only as the discoveries that were made this summer and those that continue to be made has these calls come back to light. Our kids are learning in the classroom; as parents and caregivers we have a responsibility to learn and understand and act too! Today take a few minutes to begin reading the Calls To Action and tomorrow I will have a

October

Did you know that the TDSB celebrates heritage and awareness every month? This October the school board recognizes the following: Islamic Heritage Month Somali Heritage Month

Do You Need Help With ---- Food

So many families in our city find the expenses related to food difficult in the best of times; in the last couple of months this stress has become even worse for so many more families. There are families all over our city and beyond who earlier this year could never have imagined that they would be faced with food insecurity in a matter of only weeks! As we all were looking forward to the end of a long winter and making plans for this spring and coming summer, future plans just stopped in place. I know I don't need to go on but what I want to use this post for is to let those of you who may need some help know who you an turn to here in our own community! Please use these links to locate services: Hands Up Toronto https://handuptoronto.org/ Library Pop-up Food Bank @ Eatonville Library Every Friday from 2pm to 4pm This is supported by Daily Bread Foodbank Toronto Cares https://toronto-cares.ca/food-delivery-%26-help Haven on the Queensway https://www.havenontheq.com

Bloordale Middle School Advisory Council

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