Learn more about ACORN Canada's groundbreaking campaigns regulate payday lending and international remittances and money transfers.
Web giant bows to advocates who say the lending practice exploits the poor and vulnerable.
Bonnie Barrett talks to the Sheldon MacLeod Show about the NS ACORN action as part of the National Day of Action on Fair Banking.
On Thursday May 5 ACORN Canada and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers came together to call on the Federal government to bring back postal banking and make sure that fair banking is a reality for low and moderate income Canadians. 5 cities across the country held actions to bring attention to the need for a postal bank as an alternative from the predatory lending industry that includes payday lenders, installment loan operators, and more.
A rally protesting payday loans was held in Halifax Thursday morning. The protest was part of a larger event held across the country.
Ottawa members celebrate first step in municipal campaign on predatory lending last Wednesday, with unanimous motion passing for council to create a program to license lenders.
At a rally held in front of the Money Mart at Columbia Street and Fourth Street on Friday, members of the B.C. chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) called on the Solicitor General and Minister of Public Safety to follow Ontario and Alberta’s lead and reassess its payday loan regulations.
Le conseiller de Rideau-Vanier, Mathieu Fleury, a bon espoir de faire adopter une motion qui donnera des pouvoirs accrus à la Ville d'Ottawa pour encadrer la prolifération de commerces d'avance de fonds, comme c'est le cas dans son secteur.
Ottawa members held a press conference at city hall regarding councillor Fleury’s motion to look at a licensing program for predatory lenders and to ask the province permission to zoning the distances between lenders.
Vanier has the highest concentration of pay day loan shops in Canada, and a City Councillor is trying to make sure they don’t end up with even more.
The former municipality of Vanier in Ottawa has 16 payday loan outlets, or one for every 1,000 residents.