We have a housing crisis in Toronto — too many people cannot afford to have a place to live. We need to work to have 30% of all units in each building be affordable and accessible to people with special needs, fixed income and/or low income. We need inclusionary zoning — the City of Toronto adopted a 10% version — this is not enough! And we need to insist that developers allot 30% in every building.

— Maryem Tollar on 2021 Aug 27
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Saturday, 2021 August 28, 10 am to noon
Withrow Park, starting near the unfenced playground
Maryem and friends will be visiting Withrow Park on Saturday.
— Charlie Halpern-Hamu on 2021 Aug 25
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Maryem needs 100 Toronto-Danforth voters to request that she appear on the ballot. We’ll be collecting 150 just to be sure.
Come out and say hello! Come out and sign! Come out and help collect signatures!


Update: The core team has 179 signatures, and several satellite volunteers will be adding more. Signature collecting is done!
— Charlie Halpern-Hamu on 2021 Aug 25
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Maryem and volunteers (not all pictured) collected signatures of electors today so that she can appear on the ballot.
— Charlie Halpern-Hamu on 2021 Aug 23
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