An Ottawa social activist group has launched a new tax return service for middle- and upper-income earners to help the group cover the costs of similar services it offers low-income clients.
Ottawa ACORN does everyone's taxes!
Sheldon MacLeod chats with Lisa Fairn of ACORN NS, to find out about how there is a march to the Legislature today to protest cuts to disability and income assistance.
People who are ill, disabled, not getting basic needs met, says ACORN N.S.
Anger directed at Community Services Minister Joanne Bernard
ACORN leaders from across Ontario came together to meet with the provincial government and opposition parties to voice the importance of Ontario ACORN’s Provincial Campaigns.
Anti-poverty activists to seek housing allowance boost during Queen’s Park visit
Featuring a profile of Ottawa ACORN member Ray Noyes
Gisele Bouvier is already struggling at age 65. She was laid off from her information technology job in the federal government at age 62 and ate through a big part of her savings as she waited to collect OAS and CPP benefits this year. Now living on $26,000 in annual income – half of which goes toward rent on her Ottawa duplex – most optional spending like cable TV and Internet service is out of reach. She listens to a lot of radio and volunteers her free time to work with anti-poverty group Acorn, which tries to secure affordable house for low-income earners. “I see poverty ahead of me,” she says. “You worry for the future. You live with this worry, and you say, ‘Oh well, maybe I won’t live that long.’”
This is the Election That Forgot Poor People, squarely devoted to the middle class. Between stimulus spending, income-splitting, and tax breaks for housing renovations and Rotary Club memberships, the single mom who can’t afford a home (let alone new kitchen counters) and has no spousal income to split, sits on the sidelines, hoping, at least, for a smaller child-care bill.