Edmonton's First Place Home Ownership Program
Please check out the City of Edmonton’s First Place Home Ownership Program.
Any first-time home buyers earning between $69,000 - $88,000 (combined income for mortgage applicants), who are Canadian citizens and meet IS-LEARNER-2008-006 - Exempted Assets, Residency Requirement and Additional Shelter the program criteria are eligible to apply to purchase one of 85 condominium town homes priced beginning in the mid $260,000s.
The town homes are located at Greenview in southeast Edmonton (east of 62 Street between 38th and 40th Avenue) and Canon Ridge in northeast Edmonton (Hooke Road and Hermitage Road).
The July 8 launch of this unique, made-in-Edmonton program highlights City Council’s leadership and commitment to innovative strategies to create a wide range of housing options for Edmonton.
The First Place Program will transform 20 undeveloped surplus school building sites for the construction of town homes targeted to first-time homebuyers.
“First Place” is market housing, targeted to employed individuals and families who are first time homebuyers and who need very limited assistance to qualify for the mortgage of a moderately priced town home. This assistance is provided primarily through the 5-year deferral on land payments to the City combined with reduced CMHC mortgage insurance premiums.
To find out more information and see if you or someone you know can qualify for “First Place”, visit http://www.firstplaceedmonton.com/.
from Jim Gurnett
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Alberta Works -Policy Manual Update
IS-LEARNER-2008-006 - Exempted Assets, Residency Requirement and Additional Shelter
http://employment.alberta.ca/hre/is/reg/Display.asp?EntityCode=HLEVEL_4&EntityKey=11209
Fw: IS-LEARNER-2008-007 & CSS-2008-009 - Child Support Services (CSS) Referrals for Learners
http://employment.alberta.ca/hre/css/reg/Display.asp?EntityCode=HLEVEL_3&EntityKey=7909437
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G8 climate spoilers ad
Dear friends,
Canada, Japan, and the USA are blocking talks at the G8 on targets to cutclimate change by 2020. Donate now toward a full-page Financial Times adcalling for action: The ad uses the Japanese "Hello Kitty" cartoon to shame them for theirchildish irresponsibility on climate. Click to see it: The vast majority of the world's people want urgent, bold action onclimate change -- but here at the G8 summit, three politicians stand inthe way. Canada's Harper, Japan's Fukuda, and the United States' Bush arerefusing to discuss climate targets for the year 2020. Scientists agree that the next 12 years will make or break our responseto the climate crisis. But if the facts haven't grabbed these leaders'attention, something else might: humour. Avaaz has arranged a full-page satirical advert for Tuesday's globalFinancial Times newspaper, shaming Harper, Fukuda, and Bush for theirclimate irresponsibility.
The paper will be delivered to the hotel roomsof every G8 delegate. Together, we can make it costly and embarrassingenough that these leaders will think twice before squandering anotheropportunity for climate progress. Click below to make a donation to helpcover the cost, and then pass this message to friends and family! http://www.avaaz.org/en/g8_2020_ads/1.php?cl=105801278 Why this last-moment push? Our strategy is based on two importantstories--Australia and Bali.[2] At the UN climate negotiations in Bali, Harper, Fukuda, and Bush weretrying to block any reference to climate targets for the year 2020 --just as they are now at the G8. But a global uproar turned the tide.Negotiators from the global South rose, one after the next, to demandthat the spoilers step aside.
Citizen groups in every nation raised theirvoices -- including 320,000 Avaaz members in the final 72 hours. And asatirical full-page Avaaz ad in the Jakarta Post (a remake of the Titanicmovie poster featuring Harper, Bush, and Fukuda) made headlinesworldwide. A major Japanese paper later reported that this ad was wavedat a top-level Japanese cabinet meeting -- leading to a step forward inFukuda's climate policy.[3] The second story, of Australia, shows what happens when humour combineswith mass political power.
In Australia, former Prime Minister John Howard was as bad on climate asHarper, Fukuda, and Bush are now. Last fall, he chaired a summit globalsummit, APEC, where he tried to paint himself as a world leader onclimate change. But Avaaz and other groups pushed back -- with stunts,marches, and a terrific parody television spot from our friends at GetUp,exposing Howard's charade and demanding real targets for climateemissions cuts. Climate change emerged as the defining issue of theelection -- and when Howard lost, the first action of the new governmentwas to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Harper faces a difficult election this fall, and climate change isemerging as a key issue. In the US, the campaign to succeed Bush couldhinge on climate policy. And Fukuda's political opponents are challenginghim sharply on how to confront the climate crisis.
In short, Our global efforts now can send political shock waves throughall three countries. It's up to us to raise a cry once again. Done now,and spread the word: http://www.avaaz.org/en/g8_2020_ads/1.php?cl=105801278 We can't always be certain of the results of our actions. But in the faceof the climate crisis, it's worth trying everything we can. We make greendecisions in our private lives. And when the big public decisions aremade, if enough of us stand together -- this time, next time, and everytime -- then, one way or another, our message will be heard. Our leaderswill change ... or we'll change our leaders. With hope and determination, Ben, Iain, Alice, Ricken, Paul, Graziela, Pascal, Veronique, Mark, andMilena -- the Avaaz.org team PS: The climate change ad is one of four full-page ads we're running inthe global Financial Times this week, all designed to multiply the impactof member-driven Avaaz campaigns.
Look for them in the paper, or findthem at http://www.avaaz.org/ads. PPS: Here are the sources for this alert. [1] Global and Mail: "Climate-change goals fall short at G8" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080707.G807/TPStory/ and AFP: "Climate deadlock seen at G8 despite 'constructive' Bush."http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jP0zW0kW5h1m3Yl7omV7sk34R6hA [2] See the ads and learn more about the Bali and Australia stories athttp://www.avaaz.org/climate-victories. [3] Fukuda announced that Japan would adopt mid-term targets for 2020.That was a major step forward -- except that Fukuda now refuses toinclude these targets in the G8 negotiations. Moreover, though Fukuda haspromised 2020 targets, he hasn't actually set them. See:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/09/japan.climatechange
from Miranda Bestman
EMCN Weekly Newsletter - July 29, 2008
