Chilliwack

• This is because we have control over them, and the spaces we keep them in, like our homes.
• Homeless people in cities like Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C, San Francisco and elsewhere are frequently uprooted, brutalized by authorities and have their belongings confiscated.
• Rather, they’re part of a system that results in homeless people’s belongings constantly being taken from them, legally and illegally, by private and government officials.
• Naively, he asked groups of homeless people to provide stories describing their experience with belongings.
• “So it’s not just losing your stuff once, it’s losing your stuff again?” we asked a resident of Surrey, B.C.

The hum

• The hum has been studied through our research and the advocacy of others.
• The vulnerability that homeless people experience when it comes to their belongings is rarely studied.
• As a Toronto respondent told us: “You have to be prepared for losing your stuff every time.” Most of us don’t experience the hum of loss because of the property rules that protect our belongings in the spaces we live.
• If so, what do I let go of, and how might this put me at risk later on?

Losing a sense of belonging

• One Surrey participant we spoke to was clear:
  “It’s the stuff I need to survive… Without that it’s very, very difficult.
• As an Abbotsford respondent noted, after you lose all your possessions “you are back at the bottom of the barrel.
• You have to start over again.” Having our possessions taken from us can impact our sense of self-worth, homeless people told us.
• One Chilliwack, B.C., participant described her possessions to us as “little trophies of accomplishment.” She explained how hard it is to start over after losing them.
• It makes me feel like people think I’m less than them, like I don’t deserve it, like I’m undeserving of my own belongings.”

Stopping the hum

• But they do not address the scope of dispossession homeless people face.
• Singular interventions don’t solve the problem of the hum.
• Tangible, workable solutions must be grounded in the expertise of those who experience the hum.
• They can explain the reach and effects of the hum, and offer remedies that take it seriously.

• The winning chef will move on to compete against the top culinarians from eight other cities across the country at the Canadian Culinary Championship in Ottawa, February 3-4, 2022.
• The diverse representation among this years impressive slate of chef competitors reflects our citys deep appreciation of independently-owned restaurants, explains Joie Alvaro Kent, Vancouver cookbook author, food writer, and culinary judge.
• I am eager to see what these culinary stars bring to the table on November 24, and which one rises to the top.
• Funds raised at Canadas Great Kitchen Party Vancouver 2022 benefit three charities that celebrate and elevate Canadian culture through youth-focussed grassroots initiatives.

• Today, as the end of the school year approaches, the Foundation celebrates the 30 recipient schools.
• The 2020/2021 Indigo Love of Reading Foundation Literacy Fund grant recipients:
  Bishop Kidd Junior High School, Calgary, Alberta
  Chilliwack Landing Preschool and Kindergarten, Chilliwack, British Columbia
  Colleen and Gordie Howe Middle School, Abbotsford, British Columbia
  L.T.
• Westlake Fine Arts Elementary School, Taber, Alberta
  Mackay Centre School and Philip E. Layton School, Montreal, Quebec
  St. Mary's Wellness and Education Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  1 Source: Love of Reading Literacy Fund grant applications.
• Indigo Books& Music Inc. founded the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation in 2004 to address the underfunding of public elementary school libraries.

• TORONTO, April 5, 2021 /CNW/ - A Hearing Panel of the Pacific Regional Council of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada ("MFDA") has issued its Reasons for Decision dated April 5, 2021 ("Reasons for Decision"), in connection with a settlement hearing held by electronic hearing on February 17, 2021, in the matter of Cindy Lorrainne Makonin ("Respondent").
• In its Reasons for Decision, the Hearing Panel confirmed the sanctions imposed on the Respondent.
• A copy of the Reasons for Decision is available on the MFDA website at www.mfda.ca .
• During the period described in the Reasons for Decision, the Respondent conducted business out of the Chilliwack, British Columbia area.