TOPIC: MAKE THE SEASON KIND QUEBEC
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Montreal City Mission program helps newcomers with family challenges
Dr. Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, founder of the Holistic Reconciliation for Newcomer Families program, says shifts in gender roles and gaps between parents and their children are obstacles for newcomers.
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Men's Shed gives senior men in Lac-Brome a place to make friends and share skills
Senior men in the community in Quebec's Eastern Townships started meeting together to break isolation and learn new skills at a time when they really needed the companionship.
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A taste of home: Montreal seniors share food, culture, personal stories in new cookbook
The Montreal City Mission rounded up a group of strangers in the community to help put together a free online cookbook filled with food that has touched their lives in the hopes of connecting people from different walks of life.
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Coop Gym Santé Sutton is more than just a place to work out
We hear about a co-op gym in Sutton, Que. that brings people together and is also aided this year through CBC's Charity of the Year and its Townships Foundation.
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Make the season kind: Who are your good neighbours?
For this special edition of Daybreak, we hear stories around the theme of good neighbours.
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This group of Montreal newcomers is building connections and giving back — one stitch at a time
The sewing circle at the Montreal City Mission began as a way to teach newcomer women stitching techniques and help them integrate into their communities. But the members quickly transformed its mission into one of giving back.
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Lennoxville Library's Espace Biblio - CBC Quebec's Charity of the Year
The Lennoxville Library's Espace Biblio started out as a way of getting children gathered around books in an outdoor space. It's turned into a gathering place for families and a door into the community for newcomers. And it's one of the projects that's counted on support from CBC's Charity of the Year, the Townshippers Foundation.
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Stanstead science camp offers students a chance to build skills outside of school
The non-profit tutoring organization Phelps Helps offers a weeklong summer STEAM-based science camp thanks in part to financial support from CBC Quebec's Charity of the Year, the Townshippers Foundation.
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Donate to Montreal City Mission
MCM helps children from low-income families, children with special needs, refugees and immigrants. Their goal is to help break isolation and ease their integration through their various programs.
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Donate to the Townshippers Foundation
Townshippers Research & Cultural Foundation (TRCF), is a small community foundation that provides funding grants to small volunteer groups and organizations working in health and social services, arts and heritage, youth, education and research.
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Montreal City Mission helps people find belonging in their community
The CBC Montreal Charity Drive is raising awareness for the Montreal City Mission. It serves mainly newcomers, refugees, and low-income families. We hear from Anwar Alh'jooj, assistant director at the Mission and coordinator of the Maa’n/Together and Family Zone programs and Dr. Amal Alsana Alh'jooj, who runs the Holistic Reconciliation for Newcomer Families program, about how they connect people with their community and each other.
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How a group therapy program bridges divides between generations of newcomer families
Holistic Reconciliation Within Newcomer Families is a program run by CBC Montreal's charity of the year, the Montreal City Mission. The program helps parents and children better communicate. Daybreak's Rebecca Ugolini met with with Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, who trains the program facilitators.
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How the 'Just Solution Legal Clinic' is helping migrants and seniors
As part of the Make The Season Kind campaign, we're highlighting programs at the Montreal City Mission. This morning, we're focusing on the Just Solution Legal Clinic. Daybreak's Sean Henry speaks with Rick Goldman, the Montreal City Mission supervising lawyer.
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"Everyone needs a Claude": Meet your Good Neighbours this holiday season
We've been asking you to share your stories of good neighbours. It's part of our CBC Montreal Make the Season Kind Campaign, in support of the Montreal City Mission. Today's story comes from Christina Strache, who wrote in from Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, about her neighbour Claude Dubois.
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Charity: Camp for immigrant, refugee, disabled and low-income children
Sabrina speaks to Echo Jiang, the director of Camp Cosmos this past summer. The camp is run by the Montreal City Mission, CBC Montreal’s charity of the year.
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How the Maa'n / Together program helps newcomers to Montreal
Sabrina Marandola speaks to Anwar Alhjooj about the work that the Montreal City Mission does to welcome newcomers in Montreal. Alhjooj is assistant director and coordinator of Maa’n / Together and Family Zone programs at the Montreal City Mission.
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Montreal community organization offers interfaith and intercultural support to newcomers
Rev. Paula Kline is the director of Montreal City Mission, CBC Montreal's charity of the year.
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Meet our 2022 CBC charities of the year
Throughout December, CBC collaborated with two charities to showcase the work they do in the community.
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Giving Tuesday: Meet the Townshippers Foundation
A coop gym in Sutton, a mobile library in Lennoxville, or a men's shed in Lac Brome: all those projects are local initiatives designed to improve the lives of people in communities in the Eastern Townships. And all of them are projects that have been supported by the Townshippers Foundation. The Foundation is CBC Quebec's Charity of the Year for 2022. CBC's Susan Campbell tells us more about their work.
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The Gathering At Table cookbook
People talk about the Montreal City Mission's cookbook project
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CBC Quebec's Make The Season Kind campaign kicks off!
CBC Quebec's annual Make The Season Kind campaign has officially launched and this year, our chosen charity is The Townshippers Foundation. President Jane Loiselle joined us to tell us about the work this very community-minded organization has been doing in the region since 1986.
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Kicking off our annual CBC Montreal charity drive: meet Montreal City Mission
Daybreak's Sean Henry speaks with Reverend Paula Kline, the director of the Montreal City Mission.
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Food, culture and personal stories at Montreal City Mission
The mission created a collection of recipes with seniors who shared the food that has touched their lives.
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Do you have a good neighbour? Tell us about them!
As part of our “Make the Season Kind” campaign, CBC Montreal's Daybreak wants to give you an opportunity to say thank you to your neighbour. Tell us about someone who lives near you and who makes your community a better place to live in.
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Apply now to be our CBC Quebec charity of the year
We are now accepting applications from Quebec-based organizations wishing to receive support from CBC.