Hamilton Spectator: When there’s not much of a choice, Hamilton renters hold on to what they have
Posted May 12, 2022
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Wilfred Corneau is bracing for a fight to keep his home of nearly 20 years in east Hamilton.
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Toronto Star: Does the government need to clamp down on predatory lending?
Posted May 11, 2022
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.
BlogTO: Toronto is killing a low-income internet program and people blame the big 3 telecoms
Posted May 10, 2022
Anti-poverty and net neutrality advocates are hopping mad this week as an explosive report from the Toronto Star circulates, suggesting that city officials may have been influenced by major telecoms to nix a plan that would have provided affordable, high-speed internet access to low-income residents.
Ontario Provincial Platform 2022 - What do parties say?
Posted May 10, 2022
Quartz: Toronto is giving up on North America’s largest municipal broadband network
Posted May 9, 2022
Toronto Star: City’s plan for cheap, fast internet still alive, but may be years away
Posted May 6, 2022
CBC News: Mayor's executive committee nixes plan to bring affordable high-speed internet to Toronto
Posted May 5, 2022
A plan to create a "city-owned high-speed municipal broadband network" that would have made internet access affordable for low-income Torontonians won't be going to council next week after Mayor John Tory's executive committee voted it down on Wednesday.
NB Media Co-op: Opinion: May Day evictions show Higgs government’s failure to act, tenants’ rights groups say
Posted May 5, 2022
Tenants and tenant advocates with the New Brunswick Coalition for Tenants Rights and ACORN NB are dismayed by news of mass evictions issued May 1st, many of them evidently intended to skirt the province’s pending rent control legislation.
Hamilton Spectator: Opinion: It’s time to tackle digital inequity
Posted May 4, 2022
It’s shocking. Two years into a pandemic that forced nearly everything online, most rural and First Nations households still don’t have access to the “basic” internet speed target set by the government. Where there is decent connectivity, many lack the skills they need to thrive online.
iPhone in Canada: Toronto Axes Plan for Cheap, High-Speed Internet for Low-Income Households
Posted May 4, 2022
According to The Star, the City of Toronto is abandoning plans for a municipal broadband service that would provide low-cost, high-speed internet to low-income residents.
Energie 104.1: Des résidents de Vanier à leur tour victimes de rénovictions
Posted May 4, 2022
Des résidents du quartier Vanier à Ottawa, dont plusieurs personnes âgées et handicapées, sont à leur tour victimes de rénovictions.
Vanier ACORN Tenant Union Takes on Renovictions at 644-650-656 de l'Eglise!
Posted May 4, 2022
Vanier ACORN members from 644-650-656 rue de l'eglise kicked off their fight against their soon to be new building owner, Nick Legault of Building Investments Inc, after he issued N13 eviction notices to tenants to be out by July 31st.
Toronto Star: Canada’s largest landlords have saved billions through tax exemptions, according to a new analysis. Is Ottawa about to end the party?
Posted May 3, 2022
After a bruising start to the COVID-19 pandemic, CAPREIT bounced back in 2021. The real estate company grew its revenue by 5.7 per cent, to $993.1 million, and extracted an average of $1,149 in rental income from tenants in each of its roughly 70,000 apartment units.
By July, its stock price was back to where it was before the pandemic began.
Toronto Star: City to pull the plug on plan for cheap, fast internet for low-income Torontonians
Posted May 2, 2022
Moncton Times & Transcript: Advocates push for renoviction rules
Posted May 2, 2022
A national advocate for affordable housing is urging New Brunswickers to demand better protection for tenants who face "renovictions" and big rent increases they can't afford.
Ontario ACORN Provincial Platform Launch
Posted April 30, 2022
Ontario ACORN members launched the election period last night! With nearly 200 ACORN members from all over Ontario joining ACORNs virtual Housing forum and Provincial Platform Launch on April 28th, 2022!
Hill Times: Opinion: Feds’ affordable internet program will help a fraction of those who need it
Posted April 25, 2022
Toronto.com: Opinion: Ontario is missing real housing solutions
Posted April 21, 2022
Global News: Tenant, landlord disputes seeing ‘significant’ backlog at Ontario tribunal
Posted April 18, 2022
The provincial body in charge of resolving disputes between landlords and tenants is still reeling from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton Mountain townhouse residents refuse to give up affordable units
Posted April 18, 2022
Residents at 1132 Upper Wellington St. say they have no plans to give up their affordable three-bedroom townhouse units, despite efforts from the property owner to end their tenancies.
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.
CTV News: Calls for affordable housing as federal minister stops in London
Posted April 14, 2022
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!