Financial Literacy and Justice

We need a national strategy to guarantee equal access to basic banking services for all Canadians at a fair price.

On Thursday March 15, 2018, a delegation of Montreal Sud-Ouest ACORN members delivered a letter to City Councilor Craig Sauvé at his office on Rue Bel-Air. // Jeudi 15 mars 2018, une délégation de membres de Montréal Sud-Ouest ACORN a livré une lettre au conseiller municipal Craig Sauvé dans ses bureaux de la Rue Bel-Air.

ACORN members wish to encourage the Ministry of Finance to take this opportunity, during the 2018 pre-budget consultations, to consider the needs of low and moderate-income Ontarians.

Rallies were held across the country on Thursday demanding fair banking services for low-income communities

A protest in downtown Hamilton this morning outside the CIBC, was aimed at the big banks in Canada.

Boasting of an economic plan that will benefit the ‘middle class and those working hard to join it’, Finance Minister, Bill Morneau, laid out the Federal Government’s Fall Economic Statement last Tuesday.

New data released from the 2016 census shows that five million Canadians, including more than a million kids, live below the poverty line.

Ottawa ACORN undertook a new project his year called The Disability Benefit Clinics (DBC) ensuring over 800 disabled people did not have to pay a corporate preparer to claim benefits they are entitled to.

Posted July 20, 2017