<div dir="ltr">Signed</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 2:17 PM Elizabeth Whelan via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">I received this from Fr Prakash, and am sharing it, should you also wish to<div>email the Mayor. Apologies if this is a duplicate. </div><div><br></div><div>Peace,</div><div>Elizabeth</div><div>Liz<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">"Lohale, Fr. Prakash" <<a href="mailto:plohale@archtoronto.org" target="_blank">plohale@archtoronto.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>City-wide Email the Mayor Campaign</b><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">January 8, 2023 at 11:12:58 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Interreligious Department <<a href="mailto:Interreligious@archtoronto.org" target="_blank">Interreligious@archtoronto.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div style="font-family:ComicSansMS;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">Hello Friends,<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">We’re starting a City-wide Email the Mayor Campaign starts today!</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt"><a href="https://stonesoupnetwork.ca/openwarmingcentres/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://stonesoupnetwork.ca/<b>openwarmingcentres</b>/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">On Christmas, one person froze to death. Yesterday another person living outside died in a fire in their tent. The lack of proper housing is killing God’s beloved.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">Please ask your people to use our online template to email the mayor. It will literally take less than a minute to do but it could save lives this winter.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt"> Also, please listen to CBC’s <b>Metro Morning at 7:10 AM on Monday</b>, when Rev. Alexa Gilmour from Stone Soup Network will be sharing the work we did last week and asking the mayor to take immediate measures to prevent more injuries and death, inducing:<u></u><u></u></span></div><div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:19.5pt;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">increase the number of warming centres across the GTA</span><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:19.5pt;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">make access to warming centres available 24 hours/day throughout the winter months</span><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:19.5pt;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">end encampment evictions and the destruction of survival gear</span><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:19.5pt;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">keep the current shelter spaces open, including shelter hotels</span><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:19.5pt;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">add an additional 2,700 non-congregate spaces within the regular shelter system</span><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">In <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4374814" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">2016</a>, Mayor Tory, bowed to public pressure and opened five emergency warming centres 24/7 so there is good reason to believe he will listen to the will of the people if we can find room in our schedules to advocate for God’s unhoused beloveds. I’m so grateful to each of you for continuing this journey with us. <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">Thanks, <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">Prakash, OP<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div><div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:12pt"><a name="m_5624826615358103206_x__MailAutoSig"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">fr. Prakash Anthony Lohale, OP</span></b></a><span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:12pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Director, </span></i><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Office for Interreligious Dialogue,</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Archdiocese of Toronto.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Catholic Pastoral Centre</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1155 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4T 1W2</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">T: 416.934.3400 x 344 F: 416.934.3434</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>________________________________________<br>
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