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ICI Radio-Canada: Comment rendre Internet abordable à toutes les bourses?

Comment rendre Internet abordable à toutes les bourses? Posted February 6, 2016Membre d'ACORN Gisele Bouvier parle avec Boulevard…

Posted February 6, 2016

Ming Pao News: 倡Wi-Fi月費降至10元以惠及低收入家庭

有團體昨發表報告,指高昂的互聯網費用,對低收入家庭是沉重負擔;有家庭為了支付上網費,減少食物和租金等必須開支。組織要求當局強制互聯網供應商,將低收入家庭的高速互聯網費用降至每月10元。 Posted February 3, 2016有團體昨發表報告,指高昂的互聯網費用,對低收入家庭是沉重負擔;有家庭為了支付上網費,減少食物和租金等必須開支。組織要求當局強制互聯網供應商,將低收入家庭的高速互聯網費用降至每月10元。 中低收入家庭權益團體「現在改革社區組織協會」(Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, Canada, 簡稱 ACORN Canada) 在去年6月1日至7月15日期間,透過網上和手寫問卷,訪問了全國394名中低收入人士,發現83.5%受訪者形容在家安裝互聯網的費用為「極高」;當中接近8%因而選擇不安裝或取消互聯網服務。另外58.9%表示因為他們需要互聯網,因此要在其他地方削減開支,包括食物(71%)、休閒活動(64%)和租金(13%)。 報告引述那些無法負擔互聯網的受訪者指,缺少了互聯網,令生活多方面受影響,包括找工作、做功課、尋找健康和政府資訊,以及參與公民活動。 ACORN發言人瓦爾加斯(Alejandra Ruiz Vargas)昨表示,享用互聯網是基本權利,民眾不可能只依賴圖書館等地方的免費互聯網服務,希望政府正視互聯網費用高昂的問題,「即使家中有互聯網,不代表他們能負擔得起。」 加拿大視訊委員會(Canadian…

Posted February 3, 2016

Nova Scotia Advocate: Pushing back against gentrification in Halifax

About 100 community members attended a meeting on Brunswick Street last Thursday to talk about gentrification in the…

Posted February 2, 2016

Ottawa ACORN Does Everyone’s Taxes (AND Will Help You Register to OESP)!

Ottawa ACORN does everyone's taxes! Posted January 21, 2016Ottawa ACORN (Ottawa Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)…

Posted January 21, 2016

Ottawa Community News: Fix Hydro One, don’t sell it: protesters

Group claim Ontario Liberal plan equals long-term pain for short-term gain Posted December 3, 2015A grassroots group of…

Posted December 3, 2015

The Thunderbird: Burnaby residents facing eviction say city’s compensation plan is not enough

ACORN members are protesting the demolition of affordable rental housing in Burnaby’s Maywood neighbourhood. Posted December 3, 2015Burnaby…

Posted December 3, 2015

Ottawa ACORN Vs. Timbercreek

On Thursday Nov 19 2015, 50 members and allies of ACORN rallied in front of Timbercreek Asset Management…

Posted November 24, 2015

1310 News: No extension for an eviction date for 80 units in the Sandalwood area of Herongate

Local union members, school board trustee, joining Herongate residents fighting winter evictions. Posted November 20, 2015Residents of 80…

Posted November 20, 2015

The Coast: While you were sleeping

No treatment exists for the psychological trauma of a bedbug infestation. Posted November 19, 2015“It was fucking brutal.” Justine…

Posted November 19, 2015

Ottawa Citizen: Heron Gate residents protest planned February eviction

For 31 years Mavis Finnamore has lived in her Heron Gate townhouse, watching it decline as ownership passed…

Posted November 18, 2015

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