Media Coverage
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Dec 18, 2019
During the fall of 2019, as city council considered cuts to community services and the low-income transit pass, we mobilized. The result was that we preserved the low-income transit pass and changed the conversation at City Hall.
Here is some of the press our campaign received.
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Dec 11, 2019
In late December, the Calgary Board of Education cut its rebate program due to provincial budget cuts. Our board chair, The Rev. Anna Greenwood-Lee raised the alarm and drew attention to the issue via Twitter and to the greater public. Please read the article here.
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Dec 02, 2019
There’s also the recently launched Calgary Alliance for the Common Good, a non-partisan and non-profit organization of religious congregations, unions, school and community groups all working towards a better Calgary.
“The root of what we do, but also in some ways the most counter-cultural thing we do, is that we sit down and have lots of cups of coffee with people,” says Ryan Anderson, lead organizer. “It’s taking the time to encounter other people as human beings and to be curious about them."
The Sprawl wrote an article that featured the relational side of our work....
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