Reverend Al and Victoria Street Life, Stephen Portman representing TAPS

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Published on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:30
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Posted on February 27, 2015by https://janinebandcroft.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/woc-022615-rev-al-stephen-portman-chris-cook-ff.mp3

Victoria BC is internationally recognized as a tourist destination, and a good one at that.  It’s a beautiful city surrounded by whatever’s left of the wilderness, in a province that recently boasted a surplus.  It’s also home to a significant population of homeless people, with many disabled people living in poverty and growing numbers of working poor.  Provincial welfare, disability, and minimum wage rates contribute to the highest child poverty rate in Canada (for over 10 years).  On today’s program I speak with Reverend Al who’s been working directly with the city’s most vulnerable for 35 years, with Stephen Portman representing TAPS who provide various forms of advocacy, and a rebroadcast of a segment originally broadcast at Co-op Radio featuring Iglika Ivanova, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to analyze the recent provincial budget.  
https://janinebandcroft.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/reverend-al-and-victoria-street-life-stephen-portman-from-together-against-poverty-society-chris-cook-and-what-in-the-world/


Also,Chris Cookand “What in the World?!”