Business Model: Squire and Funding Sources

business model: Merrymount is seeking 370,000 this year and 240,000 next year from the city, according to CTV. The bridge funding will maintain programs and prevent bed closures until a more sustainable business model is in place in 2021. Councillor Phil Squire says, Will the federal government step up and provide a contribution Will the provincial government Squire values the work Merrymount does in the community, but wants city staff to investigate other funding sources to fill the budget shortfalls. This demand that I see really arose out of an emergency circumstance - immigration circumstance - with the Yazidis who were facing extreme persecution, Squire says. The organization stepped in to provide therapy to young children kidnapped by ISIS and forced to become child soldiers who are now living in London. According to Merrymount about 400 Yazidi refugees have settled in London after escaping genocide at the hands of ISIS in northern Iraq and Syria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.