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Brunswick Street Mission

Mission Breakfast

The Annual Mission Breakfast is our flagship event, bringing together the business and church sectors of our community for a breakfast dialogue on addressing poverty.

The event was initiated and led in 2007 by Stewart McInnes. The primary feature of the event is a motivational speaker whose background and experiences help provoke discussion on how we can address poverty together as a community.

The first Mission Breakfast featured CBC journalist Mark Kelley, winner of two Gemini Awards. Mark spoke of his experiences in creating an insightful documentary which involved him living on the street to obtain a first hand account of what life on the street is really like. 


In 2008, our keynote speaker was Frank O’Dea. As a founder of the Second Cup, he is a well-known and respected entrepreneur, but he had been living on the streets only a few years before. His story of triumph over adversity was incredibly inspiring!

The 2009 breakfast speaker was William F. Jones, Jr., Chief Executive Officer of Focus: HOPE, located in Detroit Michigan. This retired Chief Operating Officer from Chrysler Financial shared the story of Focus: HOPE, a civil and human rights organization founded in 1968. Programs offered include providing food to over 43,000 people per month, training for over 2,740 machinists, and over 5,800 have graduated from the Fast Track reading and math skills program, and over 500 from the Information Technology Center.

As a fund raising event, the Mission Breakfast not only supports the critical work of the Brunswick Street Mission, it also serves to build relationships with the business community, and creates  an opportunity for meaningful dialogue on addressing poverty.

Stay tuned for information on Mission Breakfast 2010

A Special THANK YOU to our 2009 Mission Breakfast Sponsors:RBC Dominion, RBC Securities



A Year of Caring

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The Brunswick street Mission seeks to inspire a better quality of life through a ministry of care that addresses physical, emotional, practical and spiritual needs for those experiencing poverty. If you would like to make an online donation to support this work, please click on :

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