News & Events
Campaign calls for municipal voting rights for permanent residents
Posted October 14, 2008 - I Vote Toronto is a newly-launched community campaign that seeks to extend municipal voting rights to all permanent residents living in Toronto.
Article source I Vote Toronto
Tenant advocates urge action against proposed Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act
Posted October 14, 2008 - The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario warns that Bill 106, The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act, will have serious impacts on the rights of tenants and fails to address real concerns of community safety, and urges people to tell their MPP to vote against the Bill.
Article source Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
Videos, brochure promote need for fair system of deciding social assistance rates
Posted October 9, 2008 - Hamilton's Community Legal Clinics have produced two public service message videos and a brochure on the need to create a fair system for determining social assistance rates and encourage people to ask their MPP to support the creation of the Social Assistance Rates Board.
Article source Hamilton's Community Legal Clinics
Report reviews how federal policies have affected communities of colour
Posted October 7, 2008 - The Racial Justice Review presents a snapshot of federal policies, programs, and initiatives that have affected Ontario racialized communities over the last two federal governments' terms of office.
Article source Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
No One Is Illegal wants candidates to address plight of undocumented migrants
Posted October 2, 2008 - This article in the Toronto Star describes the work of the group No One Is Illegal campaign and their focus in this election campaign.
Article source Toronto Star
Web site features information on voting and election issues in many languages
Posted October 2, 2008 - The Community Social Planning Council of Toronto has set up a web site with information about voting, how the government is organized, and the issues in this election.
Article source Community Social Planning Council of Toronto
Canada failing to prosecute human traffickers, help victims
Posted October 1, 2008 - In a four-part series, Sun Media looks at Canada's hidden trade in people and its failure to live up to its international obligations on human trafficking to prosecute human traffickers and help victims.
Article source Sun Media
Landlord licences proposed as solution to poorly kept buildings
Posted October 1, 2008 - A Toronto Star article says that the option of licensing Toronto landlords as a way to tackle the problem of poorly maintained buildings will go before the mayor's powerful executive committee in November.
Article source Toronto Star
Campaign 2000 warns that high child poverty rates threaten cities' social fabric
Posted September 30, 2008 - Citing disturbing census data on high child and family poverty rates in major Canadian cities, the national antipoverty coalition Campaign 2000 has urged all federal party leaders to commit to a Poverty Reduction Strategy for Canada.
Article source Campaign 2000
Organizations ask Supreme Court to see if Canada-US refugee agreement is unconstitutional
Posted September 29, 2008 - The Canadian Council for Refugees, Amnesty International, and the Canadian Council of Churches are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to determine whether the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement is unconstitutional and violates refugees' rights.
Article source Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR)
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