{"id":1254,"date":"2011-04-11T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/dignity-speaks\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:26:13","slug":"dignity-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/2011\/04\/11\/dignity-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dignity Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/DS-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11111\" src=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/DS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Salvation Army has declared May as <strong>Dignity Month<\/strong>. \u201cDignity Speaks\u201d is a national event that will be held at The Salvation Army Toronto Harbour Light on Sunday, May 15<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The evening is intended to entertain, educate and inspire people about the importance of respecting the rights of the addicted, the homeless and those who have met with hard times.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the voice of the Toronto Raptors, Herbie Kuhn, guests will include the Juno award-winning group Downhere; Hark the Herons; Chief Secretary, Colonel Floyd Tidd and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Tune into the live webcast on May 15 starting at 9 p.m. EST at <a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/dignity\">www.SalvationArmy.ca\/dignity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With your support, our vision of <em>dignity for all <\/em>can be realized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Join the <a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/dignity\">Dignity Project <\/a>today!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/britishcolumbia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/DS-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Salvation Army has declared May as Dignity Month. \u201cDignity Speaks\u201d is a national event that will be held at The Salvation Army Toronto Harbour Light on Sunday, May 15th.\u00a0 The evening is intended to entertain, educate and inspire people about the importance of respecting the rights of the addicted, the homeless and those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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