The city council’s executive committee voted Monday to boost this year’s shelter, support and housing administration budget budget by $222,000
The City of Toronto is poised to ensure homeless women and girls have greater access to feminine hygiene products.
The money will be used to buy menstrual products and dispensers for city-run homeless shelters, drop-in and respite centres, as well as some neighbourhood community centres.The funding will become official if city council approves the new budget at a meeting scheduled for Thursday. Developments in Toronto come a week after a British Columbia school board opted to make feminine hygiene products available for free in school washrooms.
Douglas College professor Selina Tribe proposed the motion, which received unanimous support last Tuesday.Tribe described the issue as one of equality noting access to tampons and pads “is as essential as toilet paper for a normal bodily function that affects half the population.”
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