Lobbying Healthy Planet at Lawrence and Markham
I stopped by Healthy Planet at Lawrence and Markham on New Year’s Eve to check out the sales and talk with the manager, Siddik. I explained that we had been protesting at Lawrence and Markham not far from the store every Saturday from Oct 2 to Dec 18th. I told him I would be interested in handing out coupons for vitamin D at our protests and asked him if he had any. I also let him know that our councillor Paul Ainslie sits on the Board of Health. The Toronto Public Health plan for the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be focused solely on vaccination to the exclusion of anything else such as vitamin D http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2021.HL32.1
Siddik was very cordial and said he would have to check with head office and that would take a few weeks due to the holidays.
For those of you that live near Lawrence and Markham, or happen to be passing by that Healthy Planet, please do stop by and thank Siddik for considering our request. I didn’t get around to asking if he could print and post our protest flyers, but perhaps you could ask that.
Please let me know how it goes in the comments. I would also be interested on results if you approach other Healthy Planets or any other stores that might be aligned with our efforts.