ONTARIO COALITION AGAINST POVERTY
Fighting to Win Since 1990
September 14, 2018The Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign won a major victory in the fall of 2017 with the introduction of Bill 148: an immediate jump in minimum wage to $14/hr with a further increase to $15/hour sched...
September 7, 2018Rent Strikes, Expropriations & More: Resisting Gentrification Thursday, September 20 | 6pm – 8pm | CRC, 40 Oak St. [Free event with meal, childcare, wheelchair access and tokens] Facebook eventÂ...
July 31, 2018The Provincial Conservative government of Doug Ford announced three significant changes to social assistance today: They are cutting in half the 3% increase in social assistance rates scheduled to com...
July 20, 2018Update – Monday, July 23: Given the shooting on the Danforth last night, the press conference referenced below is being postponed to a later date. Coalition of anti-poverty organizers, supervise...
July 19, 2018Toronto is in the midst of a housing crisis that expresses itself most sharply in massive and growing homelessness. As the shelters overflow, the disaster that this creates interacts with an overdose ...