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Lorella Di Cintio, PhD

Toronto Metropolitan University, School of Interior Design at The Creative School

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Posted on February 26, 2016December 10, 2021

IDEC – Examining what constitutes external service

You are invited to participate in an IDEC survey titled “Examining what constitutes external service”. The 2015-2016 IDEC External Service Task Force committee members – Lorella Di Cintio from Ryerson University, Kimberly Burke from University of Cincinnati and Alana Pulay from Oklahoma State University, are carrying out this study.

The goals of this survey are to gain an understanding of the external service activities from our IDEC community members.

If you agree to take part in this survey, you will be asked to complete this online questionnaire. This survey/questionnaire will ask you questions about your present activities in external service and methods of scholarly and community dissemination and it will take you approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. This survey is available in the English language.

You may not directly benefit from this survey; however, we hope that your participation in the study may help us better understand connections between external service activities, community engagement methods, academic scholarship practices, and inform and support the mission of Interior Design Educators Council.

We believe there are no known risks associated with this survey and study.

To the best of our ability your answers in this study will remain confidential. As, with any on-line related activity, confidentiality cannot be guaranteed while data are in transit over the Internet. However, your answers in this survey are anonymous and you cannot be identified.

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and you can withdraw at any time. You are free to skip any questions that you choose.

If you have questions about this project, you may contact the principal member, L. Di Cintio (ldicintio@ryerson.ca).

Thank you for participating in our survey. Your feedback is important.
Posted on June 17, 2014December 8, 2021

Congratulations to our 2014 The Stop Night Market teams

Check out their work for the The 2014 Stop Night Market

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Posted on June 17, 2014December 8, 2021

Toronto’s Design Activism is thriving

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Toronto’s Design Activism is thriving. Check out pro bono design work from the city’s best designers.  http://nightmarket.thestop.org/

Thank you Designlines!

Posted on April 17, 2014December 8, 2021

Launching rMark

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Posted on April 7, 2014December 8, 2021

Food Trucking

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As the City of Toronto ponders food truck restrictions, Ryerson Interior Design students and alumni are doing cartwheels!

RSID students have been exploring the socio-spatial dynamics of food carts since 2006 and they are great promoters of the Toronto Pro Bono design movement. Design Activism at its best. See what we’ve been up to here.

Posted on April 2, 2014December 8, 2021

Officially Selected for The Stop Night Market

Congratulations to our students, alumni and friends! 5 Carts 20 RU alumni, students, friends, and staff have been selected for The Stop Night Market which will take place on June 17 and 18th 2014. See the selection below:

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McKayla Durant
Emma Hannaford
Lindsay Hill
Katrina Clancy

Constellation
Maryann Adas
Agnes Chow
Eleanor Kuan
Vivan Kwok
Kexin Zhang

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Olga Haliuk
Erin Thibodeau
Priscilla Chan
Winni Leung
Yen Lee

Shift Cart
Elisabeth Hum
Janet Lam
Samantha Lee Chan

Take out
Adam Balkwill
Adrian Kenny
Lucy McGroarty
Naomi Tallin

Posted on March 30, 2014December 8, 2021

AWARD WINNING SID FACULTY

I would like to share good news that Lorella Di Cintio received the IDEC Community Service Award! This is a competitive award across North America for interior design educators.

The President of IDEC highlighted the significant role Lorella has played in advancing community service in the interior design discipline.

– Lois Weinthal, Chair
Ryerson School of Interior Design

Posted on February 24, 2014December 10, 2021

Creative Class and Studio North at The Interior Design Show

I’d like to thank everyone who participated and who came by and saw our two booths at this year’s Interior Design Show. Well done team IDS!

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Posted on January 13, 2014December 8, 2021

Cutting the Edge

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The students are smoothing out the details of their CNC-ed MDF panels. Facts and quotes will cover the boards in varying sizes. Lighting will bring the words to life and provoke the audience to consider what it takes to make social change.

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The panels will require extra sanding and meticulous effort in transporting it from one place to another due to the large amount of MDF, but the students managed to come up with a system that left the MDF panels flawless.

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The students have a thorough discussion with the CNC lab technician, Steven. They managed to work out all the kinks in their CAD file for the CNC machine.  He has volunteered 10 hrs of his Saturday to help them get all these MDF panels CNC-ed for the Interior Design Show.

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Posted on January 3, 2014December 8, 2021

Lighting the Message

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Now that the text is done. The students look at how to light up the message. Layers of depth and size showcase how the narrative will be showcased and displayed for IDS2014.

 

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Posted on January 2, 2014December 8, 2021

Lasering the Message

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The graphics are in production. The students begin to define the messaging and brand for the booth. Words such as ‘Pro Bono’, ‘Climate Change’ & ‘Sustainability’ take center stage and force the visitor to contemplate the meaning behind the text.

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Posted on January 1, 2014December 8, 2021

Table setting

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Cheers to the New Year! To kick off 2014 we look at how the students of Studio North are bringing awareness to food security through a very elegant and Victorian inspired place setting. When did you last meal look like this?

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Utensils for dessert.

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Water glass.

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Knife and spoon details.

The students place the laser cut out table setting into the interior frame.

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Posted on December 31, 2013December 8, 2021

Team Photos

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The two teams (Studio North & Creative Class) get carved up and laser cut for IDS 2014.

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Posted on December 30, 2013December 8, 2021

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The Creative Class has as tumblr and twitter account. Don’t forget to follow them to see the latest updates to their exhibition design for IDS 2014.

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Posted on December 27, 2013December 8, 2021

Colour Scheming

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Studio North experiment with colours for the interior design of the booth.
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The exhibition will consist of two views: One, speaks to The Stop and their mandate around local food security and pro bono work. The exterior will lack colour to emphasizes the reality of the issue, and how “it’s not pretty”.

The other view is filled with utensils, in highly saturated display boxes. This highlights how design is about aesthetics as well as serving a purpose – to promote awareness of social issues.

Drawings/renderings by Emma.

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In the workshop, Emma and Maral use the bandsaw to cut up wooden panels for a test box of the interior. Varying wood stains are used to test interior colour options and how it will contrast with the raw and unfinished wooden exterior.

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Posted on December 26, 2013December 8, 2021

Paper Models

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Studio North creates mock-up models of the exterior panels in paper. The CAD drawings are printed at full-scale – to test whether or not the size of the cutouts will work physically and how it will be visually experienced by visitors.

For more on the process see Studio North’s blog here

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Posted on December 24, 2013December 8, 2021

Boothworks

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The students head to Boothworks. They see first hand how the modular booth structure  will be assembled and how it will act as the structural support for the entire installation.

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Posted on December 23, 2013December 8, 2021

Metro Toronto Convention Centre

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S I T E V I S I T

The students got a sneak peak at the exhibition floor this past week. IDS held an orientation meeting at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre where they got the chance to ask the organizing committee questions regarding the move-in-date, what is permitted on site and the construction of the booth.

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Their booth will be exhibiting along side 7 other schools across Canada.

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They are extremely excited about the fact that our booth will likely be seen by most of the consumers as we will be located in the same location as the coat-check.

See more on the Creative Class blog here

Posted on December 19, 2013December 8, 2021

RSID x Studio North Utensils Layout

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Studio North works through the process on how to configure the many wooden utensils, all hand-made by first year RSID students.

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CAD drawings of utensils layout.

The ultimate place setting.

Posted on December 18, 2013December 8, 2021

Climate Change and Pro-Bono Work

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The 2014 Creative Class space will revolve around themes of Climate Change and Pro-Bono work. Forms and messaging will guide the exhibition to reflect a thought-provoking and interactive piece.

Posted on December 15, 2013December 8, 2021

Interior Design Show 2014

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12 Students from Ryerson School of Interior Design will be exhibiting their work and ideas at the 2014 Interior Design Show (January 23-26 2014)

Come see our 2 booths located in Studio North and Creative Class sections.
(Metro Convention Centre North Building)
Creative Class Location: Room 205/206
Studio North Booth: SN22

See what the students are up to on their blogs below:
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Studio North

Posted on June 27, 2013December 8, 2021

Serving it up – The Stop Night Market

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It was another successful event for the students of Ryerson’s Interior Design program and The Stop Night Market as the team served to a sold out crowd. Tucked behind the alleyway of Honest Ed’s sat 44 food vendors dishing out delectable treats in support of efforts to combat hunger and malnutrition in the GTA. This outdoor gastro-avaganza proved to have the perfect combination of designed food and crafted carts. Can’t wait for next year!

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Posted on June 25, 2013December 8, 2021

Late-night bites

Videographer Halla Imam meets interior design and architecture students behind food vendor carts at second annual Stop Night Market

Posted on June 21, 2013December 8, 2021

They’re at it again!

Interior Design Partners With The Stop Night Market

Five teams of students, recent grads, alumni and staff have partnered up with some of the city’s best chefs and restaurants to participate in this year’s The Stop Night Market. Each team is creating a cart that will be used at the event to sell food as well as auction off the wonderful wooden utensils that were designed earlier this year by our SID students.

Posted on June 19, 2013December 8, 2021

The Carts are Heading out Tonight!

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Come see Rolan (Lucy McGroarty, Naomi Tallin & Ruri Lee) with Acadia & The Grove and the many other Ryerson University School of Interior Design Food Carts at tonight’s Night Market!

Posted on June 19, 2013December 8, 2021

Bare Minimum

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Bare Minimum (Emma Hannaford, Mckayla Durant, Lindsay Hill, Katrina Clany and Samantha Mirabile) is a food cart that is made of reclaimed wood from already fallen trees in the forest, wood and metal from a barn destroyed by a hurricane and other locally collected materials.

It reflects the basic fundamentals that The Stop encourages. It is the concept of using what is available to its best potential. Using already reclaimed and recycled materials the cart is a reflection of environmentally friendly design and sustainable practices.

With portion of the wood donated from Ryerson University of Interior Design’s Year End Show entitled ‘Raw’, the overall aesthetic maintains a consistent message of unique individuality and overall harmony.

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Can be seen with Samuel J Moore & Hawthorne Food & Drink + Mark Cutrara at tonight’s  The Stop Night Market 2013

Posted on June 19, 2013December 8, 2021

Carmen + Torito by 3runettes

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See design and food pairings by 3runettes (Olga Haliuk &Harry Dieu) with food partners Carmen & Torito at tonight’s The Stop Night Market.

Posted on June 19, 2013December 8, 2021

Palette

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Palette (Adrian Kenny, Shannon McLeod, Nicholas Roland, Lisa Sato & Crystal R. Waddell) has designed a geometric facade that will allow the contemporary cuisines from restaurants Nyood & The Stockyards to shine through.

Posted on June 18, 2013December 8, 2021

The One Stop Shop

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The One Stop Shop by Nisha Sewell is a planter that reflects the core values that The Stop Community Food Center believes in – providing people with fresh food in a sustainable way. This piece allows you to grow food in your home. Herbs are an integral part of the cooking process and having these fresh organic crops available changes the experience of cooking and how one relates to their senses and experiences.

Posted on June 18, 2013December 8, 2021

Fusion, Due Order

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Fusion echoes the energy force that balances the universe as one. Developed by Vivian Kwok, the collection takes its influence from the traditional Chinese beliefs of Yin Yang and Wu Xing. Fusion is designed to mirror the five elements: earth, water, fire wood and metal. The fivefold conceptual scheme, when harnessed properly, is believed that it will lead to immortality. Created to be universally adaptable, spoons and bowls were formed with their own unique spirit – when linked together they become one.

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Due Order is an exploration into corporate and political influences on society and the economic well being of a country by second year Interior Design student Maryann Adas. The elongated design of the spoon gives the object a fragile appeal and is a translation of what it means to be impoverished. The three oval recessions in the wood gradually get smaller as the depth of the spoon’s mouth increases, represents the societal hierarchy triangle. The capacity of the spoon gradually gets larger as the cavity works its way up the top societal class, leaving the bottom area with the smallest opening or ‘food allowance’ within this social pyramid.

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Posted on June 17, 2013December 8, 2021

Objet de Cuisine

Second year interior design student, Angela Cho, has designed a tea whisk that emphasizes the beauty of tea ceremonies. This western interpretation simplifies and modernizes the intricate lines of its original form. Designed to feel like an extension of the hand, the geometric shapes and sharp corners, offering a juxtaposition to the curvilinear form of a traditional tea whisk. Aside from this function of mixing matcha powder, this piece is meant to develop curiosity and spark a conversation.

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Janet Lam, has designed ‘Commune’ is a series of spoons that investigates the relationship between food and eating in a social context. The utensils are a form of communication which conveys the identity of the user. The three pieces are developed from different levels of speech bubbles which are noted through conversation and dialogue. In a social group setting, ‘Commune’ mitigates a discourse of taste, bringing attention to the expression of the individual through the choice of food and your speech.

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‘Pearl’ by Jing Yang, is a spoon that reflects seven concepts: scrape, iceberg, slope, limited, gather and coche. Scrape is a reflection of a shovel-like shape that takes into consideration the need for consuming the last few morsels of food. Iceberg is taking the leafy quality of the vegetable into a aesthetically pleasing shape. Slope, symbolizes the incline of poverty that people have to deal with. Limited, is based on the restricted food supply that disenfranchised people have to deal with. Gather captures the act of cupping treasure, unwilling to let food go. And coche looks at the Greek word for spoon and the materials that were used.

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Posted on June 12, 2013December 8, 2021

Pro Bono Design Work

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Come see us at The Stop Night Market event on June 18th and June 19th and purchase lovely handcrafted one-of-a-kind work for only $60.00. All proceeds go to The Stop’s Anti-Hunger programs.

10 School of Interior Design students were selected to showcase and sell their utensils at The 2nd Annual The Stop Community Food Centre Night Market.

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Congratulations to the following 1st year Interior Design Students:
Mary Ann Adas, Angela Cho, Agnes Chow, Kwok, Vivian, Janet Lam, Nisha Sewell, Rosa Youn, Janine Yeung, Catherine Tourigny, and Jing Yang.

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This project grew out of Professor Di Cintio’s research project entitled Design Change = Exchange Initiative.

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Over 100 first-year students designed a kitchen object for The Stop’s Night Market fund-raising event– which will take place in June 18 and 19, 2013.

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Students had to complete two adjudication runs: their section faculty leader completed the 1st run of internal judging, and an external invited committee completed the 2nd session. This year’s external committee included:

Parimal Gosai, Public Displays of Affection, former Design Director
Danielle Goldfinger, The Stop Community Food Centre, Event Coordinator
Professor Lois Weinthal, Chair of Ryerson School of Interior Design

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“They’re all really beautiful.”

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“This piece is excellent for so many reasons. It is so sweet, it makes me want to use it.”

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“This is a lovingly elegant piece that is also finished really well.”

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“This is a great sculptural and functional piece that is finished really well.”

Also, come and see our Ryerson designed food carts!

Posted on June 4, 2013December 8, 2021

Community Engagement Flourishing at the School of Interior Design

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This year we are fabricating 5 new food carts!

After 5 years, our partnership with The Stop Community Food Centre, 13 Ryerson School of Interior Design students, recent graduates, alumni and staff are partnering up with some of the best chefs and restaurants in the city.

Visit us on June 18th and 19th, where our bright yellow cart will be auctioning off wooden utensils designed by our amazingly creative students.

See design and food pairings by:

3runettes (Olga Haliuk &Harry Dieu) with food partners Carmen & Torito; Bare Minimum (Samantha Mirabile, Emma Hannaford, McKayla Durant, Lindsay Hill & Katrina Clancy) with Samuel J. Moore, Hawthorne Food & Drink & Mark Cutrara; Palette (Adrian Kenny, Shannon McLeod, Nicholas Roland, Lisa Sato & Crystal R. Waddell) with Nyood & The Stockyards; Rolan (Lucy McGroarty, Naomi Tallin & Ruri Lee) with Acadia & The Grove, and global architecture, design, planning, and strategic consulting firm Gensler.

All proceeds will go directly to The Stop’s Anti-Hunger Program.

Posted on February 28, 2013December 8, 2021

The Stop’s Night Market – Design Manual 2013

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For the complete 2013 Design Manual see link below:
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Posted on February 28, 2013September 29, 2013

The Stop’s Night Market Call out to Toronto Designers

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Posted on October 9, 2012December 8, 2021

ArchitectureAU reviews exhibition in Australia

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Posted on July 21, 2012December 8, 2021

The Stop Night Market

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Ryerson Student Design Teams to take part in The Stop’s inaugural ‘Night Market’

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Posted on May 8, 2011December 8, 2021

Objet de Cuisine – Final Prototypes

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Posted on February 12, 2011December 8, 2021

Tradtional Otomi BBQ

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Posted on October 19, 2010December 8, 2021

Rye students fork over designs for food gala

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Posted on February 12, 2010December 8, 2021

Xochimilco UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Final Presentations – Algonquin Studio – Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico

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Interview

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Tell us about your living situation.
“I’m receiving ODSP. I’m grateful for the support, but it also leaves me living below poverty line. Eating healthy for the entire month is really challenging, in not impossible. In the last ten days, I’ve been scrambling around, because I’m out of food. Food is the number one
issue in my life. the money we get is glaringly not enough.”

How much money do you spend on food?
“Half of my money goes to food. for the first few weeks I’m spending
about $100.00, and then it runs out and I have to use food banks.”

Do you ever use food banks drop-in meal programs?
“I quality for one food bank in my catchment area [where you can get an emergency 3-day food supply once a month]. I’ve dropped into six other food banks, but they only let you go once if you’re not in their catchment area. And when you do to the food bank you’re already hungry, so you eat it all in 24 hours. When my food runs out in the
last week of the month, I have to come to the drop-in meals at The Stop every day for breakfast and lunch.”

Describe what it’s like to eat on your budget.
“It’s fine for two weeks at the beginning of the month. And then when it runs out it’s scary. Fear. Desperation. Just scrambling around trying to find something to eat.”

Where do you get your food? How often do you shop?
“I go to No Frills or Price Choppers, looking for deals. I shop 2-3 times a month.”

What factors influence what food you eat?
“I want to eat food I like, healthy food. I exercise and try to maintain my good health, but at the end of the month it’s impossible. The food I get at the food bank has no protein- just junk carbs. I gained about 5 pounds this week, from all the crap I had to eat.

What does food security mean to you?
“Food security means not going hungry. Food insecurity means: I’m hungry and I don’t have anything to eat. And I’m out of ideas of where to get it.”

What do you think the government should do to address food security?
“Increase the amount of money to people on social assistance. Or just increase the amount of food money. Food coupons for No Frills to food vouchers or something- anything. They have to ensure that we have enough money for food.”

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Linda Chamberlain
Tell us about yourself.
“I’m Linda Chamberlain. I work part-time as a Peer Counselor at CAMH. I’m on
ODSP but they take out half of my check because I work, and the other half goes
to rent. I moved into my home in TCHC (Toronto Community Housing) in 1996-
before that I was living on the street and in hospitals for over 30 years. Just
having a roof over my head has helped me so much, given me so much courage,
I feel like I can do anything now.”

How much do you spend per week on food?
“I don’t go by the week. At the beginning of the month, I pay my rent, my hydro,
and my phone bill. After that, I, maybe, have $100.00 leftover, and whatever is
left I use for hygienic products and food. by the end of the month, I have
absolutely no money left, and I am living completely off the food bank.
I am one step behind on my bills all the time. I used the food stipend you gave
me for this photo project to pay my late hydro bill. There’s never enough money
to buy food.

Describe what it’s like to eat on your budget.
“I eat potatoes- it’s all I can afford. In the morning I have fried potatoes with
onions. For lunch I have boiled potato dumplings with flour and paprika- that
gives it some flavor, and they fill you up. For dinner I have mashed potatoes maybe
I can put a can of pineapples or corn on that if I get one from the food
bank. I get full on the food I eat but it’s all starch. I can’t go to bed with my stomach
growling, so I eat cookies from the food bank before I go to bed. I’m diabetic and
that makes my sugar go up, but it’s the only food I have, and it’s the worst thing
in the world to go to sleep with your stomach growling. If I could bring my sugar down, the doctors said I might be able to reverse my diabetes, but if I don’t turn it around, they said it will kill me. They’ll pay for pills to get my sugar down, but they won’t give me any money for healthy food. it would be so nice just to have real food- all I want is lettuce and some vegetables.”

Do you ever access food banks or drop-in meal programs?
“I started a food bank in my building four year ago. Every two weeks we get a
delivery, and anyone from the building can come down and take whatever they
need. But the food bank just gives junk, there’s never any healthy food, no
vegetables. There were three kinds of icing and cake mix at the food bank today,
but no milk or eggs to make a cake with it. They give us syrups and vinegars, but
never any food to put them on.”

Where do you get your food? How often do you shop?
“Every month I buy a bag of potatoes, some onions, a bag of flour. Almost
everything else I have I get from the food bank downstairs. Occasionally I try to
afford something in Chinatown.”

What do you think the government should do to address food security?
“We don’t need more food banks- all they have is junk food. We need money to
buy our own food. They’re paying a lot more money on our hospital bills because
all of us are getting sick off of this diet. They haven’t raised our checks in years,
even though the prices of food and rent keep going up and up. Food costs more
now, but we don’t have any more money, so we just don’t eat.”

To learn more about this issue or to get more involved, visit www.thestop.org

Posted on January 10, 2008December 8, 2021

Contextual Research

Students are encourage to complete the Do the Math Campaign

What the World Eats, Part 1, What’s on family dinner tables around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book “Hungry Planet”

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There are two social assistance programs in Ontario. One is called Ontario Works, and one is called Ontario Disability Support Program.

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What is Ontario Works?
Ontario (OW) is the income support program of last resort for people without paid employment. It is an emergency program intended to support people when
something goes seriously wrong in their lives, and to help ensure that they do not fall through the cracks. Because of the high cost of childcare in Ontario, some
single parent families are forced onto OW until their children are school age.

Monthly income for a single person in Ontario Works (which must cover rent, food and all other expenses): $572.00

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What is Ontario Disability Support Program?
Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) is an income support program for people who are unable to maintain full‐time employment die to a medical condition. For
people with disabilities in Ontario, ODSP is often the primary source of income for many years.

Monthly income for a single person in Ontario
Disability Benefits: $1020

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Recent History of social Assistance in Ontario
In 1995, the provincial government under Mike Harris cut social assistance rates
by 22% and then froze them, until the Progressive Conservative Part was voted
out of office in 2003. Today, these cuts, combined with increases to the cost of
living, mean that welfare benefits have been eroded by approximately 40% since
1995.

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Under the current Liberal government, social assistance benefits have been
increased incrementally each year. However, according to economist Jim
Stanford, even with the announcement of a 2% increase to social assistance in
spring of 2008. Ontario’s most disadvantaged citizens are still further behind
where they were when the McGuinty government was first erected in 2003.

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In 2004, anti-poverty groups and health provider in Ontario, concerned by the
devastating health issue faced by people on social assistance without enough
income, began to organize to fight for people’s health. They mobilized to help
people on social assistance access a little known benefit called the Special Diet
Allowance. The Special Diet Allowance is a benefit that provides additional
assistance to people who require a special diet as the result of a medical
condition. To quality, people on ODSP or OW must already be sick and have the
feed for a diet prescribed by a qualified medical practitioner.

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While some people continue to receive Special Diet Benefits to treat conditions
for very serious medical conditions, the government has taken steps to change
the program and limit its benefits. These changes are currently being challenged
before the Human Rights Tribunal. Meanwhile, a; recipients of social assistance
continue to be at risk of illness due to poverty.

People who experience chronic food insecurity and a lack of access to a healthy
diet from numerous negative efforts on their health, including higher risk of
chronic illness, depression, heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
This is why public health units across Ontario are asking the government to
increase social assistance rates to begin to address chronic cycles of poverty in
this province and prevent sickness.

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As a first step, the campaign to Put Food in the Budget is asking for $100.00
monthly increase as a kind of healthy food supplement for all adults on social
assistance. Public health officials view this amount as a down payment toward
establishing adequate income supports that are based on the real cost of living
and that enable people to purchase healthy food.

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Where can I find out more information about this?

To learn more about this issue or to get more involved, visit www.thestop.org

Posted on February 2, 2001December 8, 2021

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