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Toronto Star: Anti-poverty, anti-violence advocates 'hopeful' new PC government will act
Posted June 7, 2022
Three Toronto anti-poverty and anti-violence advocates are calling on Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives' enlarged majority government to lift up vulnerable lives and increase safety in the city.
Toronto Star: Government drive to verify CERB payments ramps up — many told to return some or all of funds received
Posted June 1, 2022
The government has begun a drive to verify the payments it sent to almost nine million Canadians through the Canada Emergency Response Program (CERB) — and a big chunk of those recipients are being told they have to pay back some or all of the money they received.
Toronto.com: 'We didn't ask to be injured': Torontonians on the Ontario Disability Support Program fear future without change
Posted May 13, 2022
For Bob Murphy and at least 112,000 other people across Toronto, this provincial election is potentially life-changing.
TVO Today: What’s in it for me?: An ODSP recipient on affordability — and politicians who ‘forget what it’s like to be a normal person’
Posted May 11, 2022
Dayna Sparkes lives in east Hamilton with her husband and four children. She works with Hamilton ACORN to advocate against poverty.
Ontario Provincial Platform 2022 - What do parties say?
Posted May 10, 2022
CTV News: Anti-poverty group protests frozen ODSP payments
Posted April 14, 2022
Anti-poverty advocates say Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates have been frozen for far too long.
Ontario ACORN Day of Action for Disability Rights
Posted April 13, 2022
No amount of rain can stop ACORN members from protesting to #RaiseTheRates and #StopTheClawbacks 🌧☔️🚩
The Ontario ACORN Day of Action had over 100 ACORN members rallying on a virtual zoom, and at ODSP offices in Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Toronto, Brampton and Sudbury!
ACORN Votes 2021: Disability Justice Platform
Posted on September 15, 2021
ACORN Votes 2021: Modernizing EI Platform
Posted on September 15, 2021