19 Facts About Michael Shapcott

Michael Shapcott is Executive Director of the Sorrento Centre, a retreat and conference centre in the Shuswap region of British Columbia, Canada, that offers in-person and on-line events and activities.

Michael Shapcott is a Canadian academic, advocate and activist whose public policy work focuses on housing, homelessness, and the relationships between health, poverty and housing, as well as human rights.

Michael Shapcott has worked on housing and homelessness initiatives at all levels of government including international levels.

Michael Shapcott has served as Director of the Affordable Housing and Social Innovation at the Wellesley Institute, a non-profit and non-partisan research and policy think tank in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Michael Shapcott served on the board and as president of the Toronto Environmental Alliance.

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Michael Shapcott served on the global Board of the Habitat International Coalition.

Michael Shapcott was a founder of the Multifaith Alliance to End Homelessness in Toronto.

Michael Shapcott is a founding member and served as a board member of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, which has emerged as a leading Canadian advocacy organization.

Michael Shapcott went to Alexander Galt Regional High School and took courses including political science at the University of Calgary and then studied law at the University of Toronto.

Michael Shapcott did not go before the bar but instead began to work at the Christian Resource Centre as a homeless outreach worker and community and housing developer.

Michael Shapcott attended summer programming at the London School of Economics in 2008.

Michael Shapcott is completing a Master of Theological Studies at the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto.

Michael Shapcott came to public attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his work in BASIC Poverty Action Group which was the genesis for the Breads Not Circuses coalition which argued that the money being spent on Toronto's bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics could be better spent on housing.

Michael Shapcott's detractors vilified him for helping compromise the city's bid for the 1996 Olympic Games.

In 2004 Michael Shapcott entered electoral politics by running as the New Democratic Party's candidate in Toronto Centre in the 2004 federal election placing second to Liberal incumbent Bill Graham.

Michael Shapcott made his second attempt in the same riding in the 2006 federal election, increasing the NDP vote to its highest level ever in the riding.

Michael Shapcott was ordained as a Deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Toronto in 2016.

Michael Shapcott is licensed to serve as a Deacon in the Diocese of Kootenay, in the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon, Anglican Church of Canada.

Michael Shapcott was awarded the first Terence and Alice Jean Finlay Bursary for studies that celebrate and advance diversity in Anglican Church, Diocese of Toronto ; and awarded Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for outstanding community service.