Other Updates & Local Campaigns

Ottawa ACORN’s Statement on the 2018 Municipal Election Results // Déclaration d’ACORN Ottawa sur les résultats des élections municipales de 2018

For Ottawa ACORN, work on the municipal election actually began in 2016 when we started reaching out to like-minded allies who were interested and committed to building a progressive City Hall. // Pour ACORN Ottawa, le travail sur les élections municipales a en fait débuté en 2016 lorsque nous avons commencé à chercher des alliés aux vues similaires, intéressés et déterminés à construire un Hôtel de ville progressiste.

Forum des candidats du quartier Bay présenté par Alliance pour le changement !

60 membres d’ACORN de l'ouest d’Ottawa ont participé le 20 septembre au forum des candidats présenté par l’Alliance pour le changement d'ACORN, en préparation de l’élection municipale du 22 octobre.

Agenda for Change Bay Ward Candidates Forum!

60 ACORN members from Ottawa’s west end participated in ACORN’s Agenda for Change candidates forum on Sept 20th in preparation for the Oct 22nd municipal election.

Even the most vulnerable Ontarians will be impacted by Ford government cuts

ACORN members will continue to be key leaders in the fight back to make sure Ontario is an affordable, livable province for low and moderate income people.

CBC News Ottawa: Here's what marchers at this year's Labour Day parade are fighting for

Ottawa held its first Labour Day parade 22 years before holiday was officially recognized

New plan to measure poverty, but no money for low-income Canadians

Despite some positive initiatives, ACORN members are deeply disappointed by the lack of action put forward in the Poverty Reduction Strategy.

The PEN Insider: Inclusionary Zoning for Housing & Transit Equity

In its work as a grassroots social justice organization directed by its low income members, ACORN Canada is seeing more and more people facing homelessness, or being forced into inadequate, unaffordable, and un-livable situations.

The PEN Insider: The Campaign for Free and Accessible Transit

Who should be able to move freely through the city?

Two million Ontarians left behind: no plan for low-income people in throne speech

Posted July 13, 2018

Insauga: Some Residents Worried the Massive LRT Will Hurt Mississauga

The $1.4 billion transit project, which will boast 22 stops and connections to GO Transit’s Milton and Lakeshore West lines, is scheduled to break ground this year and some members of the community are starting to worry—and to ask what Metrolinx, the agency in charge of the project, is going to do for them.

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