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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Catherine Porter: Linda Chamberlain’s job was making her broke (Toronto Star article)

"... for every dollar Linda earned over $440 a month, one set of government workers increased her rent, while another set took half of her paycheque. The right hand does not talk to the left. ...

"Chamberlain is still very busy. She volunteers with the Dream Team, advocating for affordable housing for psychiatric survivors. She runs a soup kitchen in the basement of her building and fosters the cats of people with mental illness while they go into hospital. Three scratch against the posts in her apartment right now.

"This Sunday afternoon, she will run for the board of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association and by evening, she’ll cook dinner for seven of her neighbours in their building’s basement kitchen. They, like her, have diabetes. Come January, she plans to organize aqua-fit classes for them at the nearby recreation centre.

"Chamberlain might be jobless, but she does a lot of work. Why can’t she get paid for it?"

Full article: Porter: Linda Chamberlain’s job was making her broke

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