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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 16h

This is unprecedented. Donations to the Thanksgiving Food Drive - 23,373 lbs - are down 25% compared to last year at this time. The reasons will all be valid and the cost of living is taking its toll. The drive ends on Thanksgiving Monday and we're not worried. Help if you can ... and thank you.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is just how Jane & I feel today. What a wonderful food bank 40th anniversary yesterday, seeing so many friends and supporters. Thank you to all those who showed up and shared the day celebrating this marvellous community. A day to remember. @londonfoodbank.bsky.social

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here we go! Getting all set up for the London Food Bank's 40th anniversary for celebrating our community. Looking forward to seeing all of you who made this moment possible. Speakers will be on at noon. See you soon.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A special thank you to City Councillor Hadlleigh McAlister for his visit today and a certificate of congratulations for our 40th. Had a terrific talk about food security. I had missed his earlier entry on his platform about the subject and was thankful for his interest. #LdnOnt

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's the press conference for the kickoff of the Thanksgiving Food Drive. Jane at her best and some pivotal guests from Feed Ontario. This is an important drive, making a statement about London's generosity in difficult times. Help if you can. And thank you. youtu.be/nEMpYizxStE

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40th Thanksgiving Press Conference

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40th Thanksgiving Press Conference

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is the kickoff press conference for the Thanksgiving Food Drive - happening just 2 days before our 40th anniversary celebration. The theme of this year's food drive is the remarkable generosity of this community over 4 decades. Help out if you can - and thank you London for all of it.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A nation cannot build a prosperous future on the exhaustion of its people. When workers are beleaguered, productivity falls—not simply because people work less, but because they have less of themselves left to give. It's why more of those who work are coming to food banks. #LdnOnt

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Effective citizenship can set a very high bar when it comes to commitment to community. That's just what Andy & Helen Spreit have done with their $1 million donation to the LHSC Cardiac Lab. On behalf of us all, thank you both for your commitment to the future..

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A week today and we get a chance to you see you all for our 40th food bank anniversary. Everyone is invited, since it's a celebration of the generosity of our community for the last four decades. And it will be right in the middle of the food drive. Can't wait.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Politics is is meant to helps us overcome our problems and to accentuate our potential. When it works, we move forward. When it doesn't, we remain mired in-place and our problems prevail.Deaf and deafening aren't helpful.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was shown respect first entering the full HOC. PM Stephen Harper shook my hand. Disappointing to see so few opposition members to welcome new MPs. The people decided and respect should be shown for that choice. Canada has been great at respecting differences. Let's get back to that.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She is the woman who seems able to do everything, helps everyone, and spends every day turning kindness into action. Where would we all be without her!!!!! Happy Birthday, Jane.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stone soup. An opportunity for community to gather and celebrate what they've done for 40 years straight. It's amazing when you think about it. Not a business or a government, but a gathering of citizens bent on alleviating hunger in their midst. Thank you, London. #LdnOnt

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A community’s future is shaped by the people who show up to shape it. When we stay home on election day, we don’t escape politics—we simply surrender our place in deciding what comes next.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This only works if you come and join us, since it's you that made these 40 years possible. The work has consumed all of our married life and over half of my entire life. It has given us a community of caring citizens, ennobling us in the process. We'd love to see you. We owe you much.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

40 years of boxed memories, gathered over years of this community coming together. Many of these were acquired before cellphones and the internet. We'll break them all out at our 40th annivversary celebration on October 3rd at the food bank - from 11-3. What a community.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An honour to have Federal Minister of Agriculture, Heath MacDonald with us to discuss food hubs and our Farm in a Box initiative. A session full of information, we thank Peter Fragiskatos for helping set it up. There are really important opportunities for London in these coming months.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Heard anything about food insecurity/security from our civic candidates? Me neither.. That's got to change if we wish to take advantage of the federal initiatives being offered across the country for food centres/hub. We are losing out. youtu.be/oyad0qTZX9Q

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Election Silence

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Episode 8 of my podcast from my new book The Unravelling. This time it's about how Canada's remarkable social, economic, and cultural revolution following World War Two had a shadow side - leaving out sectors of people and how it left a stain on our history. www.buzzsprout.com/2618479/epis...

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Food insecurity quietly hollows out the places we call home, because belonging becomes harder when even the simple act of sharing a meal is beyond reach. This is the reality London and all Canadian cities are facing as we approach the Thanksgiving Food Drive. #LdnOnt

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Clearly, Canada's capacity to grow and then waste are at clear odds with one another. Our present struggles provide us an opportunity to effectively align our production and consumption of food - with the benefit of lowering hunger.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Work is more than a livelihood but a a way of belonging. Much of what we have built began with people working together — making, serving, inventing and building something none of us could have created alone. Work gives us not only a place in the economy, but a place in one another’s lives.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On this episode from Glen's book "The Unravelling," we consider how the 1960s became a civilizational achievement and helped establish Canada's social safety net. www.buzzsprout.com/2618479/epis...

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On this episode from Glen's book "The Unravelling," we consider how the 1960s became a civilizational achievement and helped establish Canada's social safety net. www.buzzsprout.com/2618479/epis...

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some final thoughts on Dolly Parton. The collective love expressed for her conintues to eclipse someone else trying to take America in a darker direction. Dolly will prevail because of her ability to inspire us. youtu.be/KQcnx4AIybU

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Dolly Parton

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Dolly Parton

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I pulled these 2 images together, just as a reminder of how America is in a battle for its soul. Somehow, I think Dolly Parton is already winning, despite her departure. She represented the best of all of us, and of America. It's time for a new birth of freedom ... and of compassion.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

25 years since Abuk first came into our family in Canada - one of the most remarkable journeys I have ever known. 5 years later she was joined by her twin sister and brother, but it was Abuk that was the pathfinder. Sometimes humanity excels. This was one of those times. Love you, Abuk

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

She understood the future is built long before it arrives - in the nourishment we provide, the books we place in children’s hands, and what we give them to imagine a life beyond their circumstances. Dolly Parton knew where the future was being made. It's time for us to step up into her long shadow.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The old world seems to be fading away and a new one is forming. We haven't faced a problem quite like this before, but then again, we've shown the ability over the last 159 years to overcome any obstacle and come away un ited as a nation. This is just the newest emanation and we'll prevail again.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Episode #6 from my new book "The Unravelling" and how our world-class medical system got its start. www.buzzsprout.com/2618479/epis...

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Unravelling - Chapter 6 - Glen Pearson Journeys Podcast

Tommy Douglas and how our world-class medical system got its start

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Canada is large enough to contain our dreams, but can be diminished by our neglect. The choice before us is not simply what kind of country we want to inherit, but what kind of country we are willing to build. Let's choose a Canada that rises to its hopes rather than shrinks to its prejudices.

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some final thoughts on my London Free Press homeless article. It can't be solved in London alone. We exist under federalism and it's made a great country. But when we deny its responsibilities, the decline begins. youtu.be/39v-o_PO6-A

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Can't Be Done

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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Can't Be Done

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We might as well just admit it. And perhaps then true change can happen. We have federalism for a reason and we must use it as designed. lfpress.com/opinion/colu...

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Pearson: Homelessness is a Queen's Park problem, not London's

'Citizens (and other groups) need to stand with council and tell Queen’s Park that the download madness must end here'

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Glen Pearson @glenpearson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My new book on homelessness titled "Citizens of Nowhere" is now out and free online. It talks about when the homeless problem got out of hand, what caused it, and, ultimately, how must it be properly addressed. You can download free here - www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

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Citizens of Nowhere ebook by Glen Pearson - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Citizens of Nowhere" by Glen Pearson available from Rakuten Kobo. Every night in Canada, tens of thousands of people sleep outside in one of the coldest climates on earth. They sleep in ...

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