As part of the University of Victoria's The City Talks lecture series, Anglican priest and author of Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community Maggie Helwig will be in conversation with Gregor Craigie, host of CBC's On the Island and author of Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis.
This event is free and open to the public, and will take place at United Commons, 932 Balmoral Road.
About Encampment
The housing crisis has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them pitched tents, formed an encampment, and settled into the yard beside the Toronto Anglican church where Maggie Helwig is the priest. She has spent the last three years getting to know the residents and fighting to allow them to stay. Her book confronts our society's callousness in allowing so many to go unhoused and demands, by bringing their stories to the fore, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace.
About Maggie Helwig
Maggie Helwig. Credit: Sandro Pehar
Maggie Helwig (she/they) is a white settler in Tkaronto/Toronto, and is the author of fifteen books and chapbooks. Helwig is a long-time social justice activist, and also an Anglican priest, and has been the rector of the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields since 2012.