{"id":15213,"date":"2011-12-22T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2011-12-22T16:12:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:12:04","slug":"yet-more-prophetic-social-justice-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/yet-more-prophetic-social-justice-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more Prophetic Social Justice Making"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time from the Diocese of Toronto which is busy \u201cconsolidating\u201d churches and wants to turf a daycare out of one of them so it can be sold \u201ctenant-free\u201d.<\/p>\n

It sounds like the action of a profiteering capitalist landlord to me. Where are those occupiers when you really need them.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:\"\"<\/p>\n

In its eagerness to combine four south Scarborough churches into one, the Anglican Diocese of Toronto is inconveniencing another local institution, a daycare.<\/p>\n

That, at least, is how employees and parents with children at St. Crispin’s in Cliffside see it.<\/p>\n

Church services at the red brick building on Craiglee Drive ceased this fall, and in July a letter informed the non-profit, parent-run daycare it would have to leave by Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

Its management found a new home for the children at Highway Gospel Church on Midland Avenue, but municipal permits are taking longer than expected.<\/p>\n

Several times, board members have asked the diocese for another month.<\/p>\n

“They adamantly said no,” daycare supervisor Debbie Humphreys said this week, “because they want to sell this place tenant-free.”<\/p>\n

The parents are aware an offer has been made for the property of the former St. Crispin’s.<\/p>\n

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“I’m surprised they would rather have it vacant than help us out,” said Julie Leiper, a board member who added parents have been told the daycare, which has seven employees, will temporarily close Jan. 1 and be “kind of homeless for a while.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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