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50/50 Draw for Margaret's Place Hospice Has a Winner
50/50 Draw for Margaret's Place Hospice Has a Winner
The 50/50 ticket for Margaret's Place Hospice was drawn at noon on January 12 in front of the Margaret's Place Hospice construction site at St. Joseph's Villa.  All 2000 tickets were sold and the $10 000 was won by W. Knox. The other half of the funds raised, $10 000, was increased to $15 000 by an anonymous club donor. 
Watch the draw if you wish at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97g5wTYGpg.
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Labour Employment and COVID19
Labour Employment and COVID19
Elizabeth McLeod is a lawyer with O’Neill Associates, a leading labour and employment firm in Thunder Bay. Liz is a member of the Charter Class of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University. She has advocated for clients in front of the Ontario Court of Justice, the Superior Court of Justice, the OLRB and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. She sits on several not for profit Boards, teaches a law course at Lakehead and volunteers in the community. While the content of her presentation is not legal advice, it is pertinent to a great many of us. 
 
First, the pandemic has impacted the workplace in a number of ways: federal law; work environment; provincial law.
 
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Allison Kingston and Shelter Box
Allison Kingston and Shelter Box
Allison Kingston is Community Fundraising Coordinator for ShelterBox Canada and a member of the Rotaract Club of Toronto. ShelterBox is an organization that is Rotary International’s first Project Partner and supplies emergency shelter for people in need around the world. Begun in 2000, by a U.K. Rotary club, it has expanded worldwide and has helped to house over 1.6 million people in 97 countries over the pasts 20 years. Currently, they estimate that over 104 million people are in need of emergency shelter, driven from their homes by conflict (e.g. Tigray in Ethiopia) or natural disaster (e.g. Super Typhoon Goni in the Philippines). For many who have landed in hugely overcrowded refugee camps (e.g. Nigeria) the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates the hardships.
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