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$12/day child care was a key promise revealed in the Ontario NDP’s platform, released earlier this week. ACORN leaders welcome this proposed investment, which would see free, licensed child care for families earning below $40,000 with sliding scale fees averaging $12/day for everyone else.
The platform also proposes immediate increases to ECE wages and a phased 51% increase in affordable child care spaces across the Province.
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!
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!
Child care should not be reserved for the province's highest earners say low- and moderate-income parents.
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.
On Jan. 23, a small group of protesters stood in the freezing rain at the curb of a construction site for a new condo development in Ottawa’s Mechanicsville neighbourhood.
ACORN members in Toronto and Ottawa were joined by allies to demand REAL Inclusionary Zoning from the Province.