149 - Kim Gadoury (The Kim Swim)

Bridging the Social Distance · Jul 2, 2021 · 59m

For this episode I interview Kim Gadoury, who (at the time of this recording) was planning to swim across Guelph Lake this Saturday June 19th to raise awareness and advocate for the need for a 24 hour food depot and overnight shelter. Kim speaks today about food security, about the stigma that often faces her and other folks living below the poverty line and in geared-to-income housing, and about how hunger and crisis can touch anyone, not just low income people. Kim has wanted to swim across Guelph Lake for years, and was fuelled to finally do it when she read the Ontario Government's recent…