Fossé numérique, insalubrité : les membres Sud-Ouest ACORN s’expriment face à leur conseiller municipal // Sud-Ouest ACORN members meet City Councillor to demand improved housing conditions and internet access
Ottawa ACORN members have been pushing for minimum distancing and licensing of payday lenders since 2015 in order to reduce the concentration of payday lenders in our neighbourhoods. // Depuis 2015, les membres d'ACORN Ottawa font pression en faveur d'un espacement minimal et l'attribution de permis aux prêteurs sur salaire afin de réduire la concentration de prêteurs sur salaire dans nos quartiers.
After a long and hard fight for affordable housing by ACORN and other allies, the Province has listened and are handing over the tools to create affordable housing to the municipalities.
Ottawa ACORN Stands Up Against More Herongate Evictions! / Ottawa ACORN se dresse contre plus les expulsions de Herongate!
In this video citizen-reporter and poverty activist Jodi Brown meets up with Sarah, a young woman who was in a bad spot when she asked Community Services for help. That help turned out to be a mixed blessing.
North Etobicoke residents express concerns plans lack integration into the community, sufficient community spaces
Exciting Nova Scotia meeting in Halifax!
ACORN members traveled to Parliament today to support Finance Critic, Peter Julian MP, as he tabled ACORN's petitions for fair banking in Parliament on March 29.
Wynne’s Liberals announced their 2018 Budget yesterday, presenting some promising investments for low-income Canadians, although ACORN members note that there is still a long way to go.
‘There is room for development...But not displacement,’ says local ACORN chapter chair
Weston ACORN took action against gentrification on Saturday
Weston ACORN action on Saturday
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.
'We do care about them', Realstar Management says
The local chapter of Toronto ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is ready to raise a ruckus in opposition of the gentrification of Weston Village.
Protest held at Hurontario Street and Burnamthorpe Road
ACORN Financial Justice Leader, Donna Borden, spoke to CTV News about the need for improved regulations on payday lending.
On Fri, March 2nd over 180 ACORN supporters from unions, non-profits and political groups as well as your regular trivia buffs and craft beer gurus attended Ottawa ACORN’s 4th annual fundraiser - Trivial Beersuit!
The City of Surrey will be repainting pool houses at four of its outdoor pools. The paint on the pool houses contains lead.
Budget 2018 shows that the Federal Government is taking small steps to support low and moderate income Canadians, but we need more from Morneau. We still have a long way to go.
Child care should not be reserved for the province's highest earners say low- and moderate-income parents.
Advocacy groups are calling on the Ontario government to close what they call loopholes in the province’s housing law that they say allow landlords to offload maintenance costs onto tenants.
20 Ottawa ACORN members took over the City Hall lobby this Valentine’s Day to push for action from City Council on ACORN’s campaign to license landlords!
Proposed new rules that are supposed to help rein in the high price of housing in Ontario‘s expensive cities are being criticized as too weak to have much impact.
Social worker Sarah Adjekum writes that the downtown’s renaissance is having predictable impacts on vulnerable people, but not enough is being done to mitigate the harm.