Olivia Chow, MP


Olivia Chow presents a free screening of Gemini Award winning film House Calls MP Olivia Chow and the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre’s Active Seniors Program present a FREE screening of Gemini Award winning film House Calls A forum on affordable and comprehensive home care Sunday, March 14, 2-4pm Al Green Theatre Miles Nadal JCC 750 Spadina Ave (at Bloor St.) Speakers: Home Care Physician - Dr. Mark Nowaczynski Health Policy Analyst - Dr. Michael Rachlis Canadian Home Care Federation - Marg McAlister Limited seating. Reserve your free tickets: 416-533-2710 or chowo@parl.gc.ca
What would you do if you had five billion dollars? I would like to begin by wishing you a happy International Women’s Day. Women and men around the world recognize International Women’s Day as a time to reflect upon and celebrate women’s social, political and economic achievements, both globally and locally. Let us not forget, however, there is still much work to be done. Women across the world continue to suffer extreme poverty, violence and violations of their basic human rights. Read more… Rick Mercer tours Olivia and Jack’s green home Recently on the Rick Mercer Report, Rick took a tour of Olivia Chow and Jack Layton’s green home to look at some of the environmentally friendly retrofits they have done. Olivia Chow stands up for gay rights in Parliament Ms. Olivia Chow (Trinity—Spadina, NDP): Mr. Speaker, memos show that references to gay rights were shamefully deleted from the citizenship guide at the behest of the immigration minister. Half a million copies have been printed with gay history censored. The minister will not take responsibility and instead leaving his staff to blame. That simply is not acceptable. Will the minister do the right thing, admit his mistakes, stop laughing about this and immediately apologize to Canadians? Read more…		Jack Layton Requests Emergency Debate on Prorogation Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I rise today to request an emergency debate on the recent advice of the Prime Minister to Her Excellency the Governor General, requesting that the second session of the 40th Parliament be prorogued. Read more… Olivia Chow Pensions Forum Olivia Chow and the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre’s Active Seniors Program present A plan to protect and expand your pension Read more…

Olivia Chow, back in Parliament

Two long months after Stephen Harper locked Members of Parliament out of the House of Commons, the doors have finally been reopened.

Olivia Chow has spent the last two months working hard in Trinity-Spadina, but now Olivia is back in Ottawa and ready to get results for you in Parliament.

Olivia Chow and the New Democrats: putting women and children first

Olivia Chow and the New Democrat team are urging other party leaders to put partisan politics aside and make the welfare of Canadian women and children a priority in the next session of Parliament.

CHOW CALLS FOR NATIONAL CHILDREN’S FOOD PROGRAM TO TACKLE GROWING OBESITY RATES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 14, 2010

MP Olivia Chow is dismayed that nearly three years to the day after she called for a national healthy food program for our children, there has been no action and kids are getting fatter.

“On January 17, 2007, I launched The Children’s Health and Nutrition Initiative with the support of the Toronto Board of Health, nutrition experts and well-known chefs to provide safe and healthy food to all Canadian children,” said Chow. “As of January 14, 2010, no action has been taken and Stats Can is telling us that the health of our children is in jeopardy.”

“Canada is one of the few developed countries without a nationally funded children’s nutrition program,” said Chow. “This is unacceptable in a country where Senators expense taxpayers for $19.5 million each year. A kid’s food program costs about the same to start.”
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Children’s Health & Nutrition Initiative

The Initiative was launched to build a broad-based coalition of diverse stakeholders that are passionate about Canada becoming a world leader in making safe and healthy food available to all children and reshaping social, cultural, economic and environmental influences to optimally support child health. Founding supporters include Olivia Chow, MP (Trinity-Spadina), Breakfast for Learning, Foodshare and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

As a first step, the Initiative calls for a nutritious breakfast, snack or lunch to be available to any Canadian child under eighteen years of age in the form of nutritious food programs. This would be based on a fl exible made-in-Canada community development model building on the existing knowledge base of local organizations and parent groups.

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