Other Issues & Campaigns
Ottawa ACORN Rally for Improved Social Assistance
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- Created on Monday, 14 May 2012 19:38
Ottawa ACORN members and our allies from the Put Food in the Budget campaign will take Dalton McGuinty shopping to show how social assistance is failing recipients who are trying to buy healthy food for their families. There will be a press event and outreach in front of 1465 Merivale Rd (Food Basics) on Thurs, May 24 at 12 noon.
Ottawa ACORN & Put Food in the Budget are calling for an increase in Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program.
Ottawa West EMC: Community Housing, ACORN team up in Carlington, Residents fed up with needles, garbage
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- Created on Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:41
EMC news - Nathalie Cledanor is a single mother of a nine-year-old girl. She lives in Carlington and is tired of seeing needles and garbage strewn across the neighbourhood and having no lighting where her daughter plays.
"I want a safe neighbourhood for our children," said Cledanor, 28, who was part of an Ottawa ACORN event on April 12 that saw group members and Ottawa Community Housing staff working together to clean up a park on Caldwell Avenue.
Cledanor said she moved from Ottawa's east end to the Caldwell neighbourhood because she was told there were lots of children in the area and it was a good neighbourhood.
"I was told it was a good neighbourhood because there's playgrounds, a community centre, and a lot of children," she said. "When I'm in my apartment, I feel safe, but not when I'm outside. It's not fair for people to be trapped in their house."
Metro: Child jabbed by needle prompts Ottawa park clean-up protest
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- Created on Friday, 13 April 2012 14:11
Ottawa ACORN held a rally today calling for cleaner and safer parks in Carlington after they say a boy was pricked by a needle. The low-income advocacy group said residents want the city to pick up needles weekly in parks and add more lighting on Merivale Road.
“It’s not like he was venturing in the woods,” said Natalie Lafleur, the mother of the boy who was pricked by the needle, in a news release. “He was near home and got pricked by a needle. It feels like it’s not safe for him or any other children really makes you more paranoid and scared.”
The rally comes just a day after a major study from Toronto recommended Ottawa should have two supervised injection sites for drug users. ACORN members also want the city to increase garbage pick-up in the area.
Area residents and their children also attended the rally at Pleasure Park on Caldwell Avenue. http://metronews.ca/news/ottawa/101499/acorn-wants-the-city-to-remove-needles-clean-garbage-from-carlington-parks/
Video: Ottawa ACORN cleans Pleasant Park
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- Created on Friday, 13 April 2012 13:46
Video via the Ottawa Citizen (Adobe Flash Player Required)
580 CFRA: Ottawa ACORN Members Rally Outside McGuinty's Constituency Office
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- Created on Monday, 09 April 2012 21:48
Members of the activist group ACORN [Canada] rallied against a freeze of ODSP and Ontario Works payments outside of Premier Dalton McGuinty's constituency office in Ottawa South on Friday.
The freeze was announced in Tuesday's provincial budget.
Michelle Walrond believes the document hurts people who are already struggling.
"We are not important to Dalton McGuinty," Walrond tells CFRA. "Basically, he's told us the modern day equivalent of 'Let them eat cake.' He's telling us, 'Tighten your belt,' assuming that everybody can afford a belt."
Warland adds she was further disappointed by the jobs cuts included in the federal budget, which she says benefits businesses and leaves out ordinary citizens.
Original article available at: http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1nid=85311
Press Release: Ontario ACORN leaders react to the harsh cuts announced in Premier McGuinty 2012 austerity budget.
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- Created on Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:47
Ontario ACORN members who have been fighting for an improve social safety net in Ontario were shocked and appalled at today budget. The announcement that Premier McGuinty will freeze social assistance, scale back the child tax benefit while making threats against workers pensions is unconscionable.
Michelle Walrond, an ACORN Canada member from Ottawa had this to say:
“It’s appalling. I receive ODSP support of $772 a month and my rent has already risen to $832 plus hydro. I teach ESL to supplement it, but how am I supposed to keep up?”
