The full oral history with outreach worker and community organizer Lorraine Lam.

The full oral history interview with John Clarke (OCAP, 23oFightback).

Photo credit: Christopher Bognat, City of Toronto Archives.

The full oral history interview with Greg Paul of Sanctuary Toronto.

Interview with Bob Rose—PARC staff member, TDRC member, storyteller, musician, and good listener.

Photo: from the Toronto Homeless Memorial, Fall 2006 (City of Toronto Archives)

The full oral history interview with Cathy Crowe and Beric German.

(Image Credit: Cathy Crowe)

The full oral history interview with Gaetan Heroux.

(Image credit: Gaetan Heroux, "Bay Street has no business at Dundas and Sherbourne," May 31, 2023. YouTube.)

The full oral history interview with The Colonel.

(Image Credit: City of Toronto Archives)

In this trailer, timothy martin explores some of the thinking that underpins the project, while we get glimpses into the testimonies offered in the “episodes” to come. Each oral history interview preserves the voices and memory of significant contributors to the housing justice movement in Canada. As Beric German says, this is…a time… We are living through a time. It is a time for action, a time for stories, a time for remembrance—the bouquets of whispering grasses that we must, each of us, gather up and pass on to a world that is not yet. Yet we must also do the work of making the world that we imagine, the one we hope to share.

With thanks to The Colonel, Gaetan Heroux, Bob Rose, Beric German, Cathy Crowe, my supervisor Ann Chinnery (SFU), and others.