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Shortly after ACORN Canada’s founding in 2004, we released a series of reports that detailed the Payday Lending industry’s ripoffs and abuse of low and moderate income families. As a result of our research, and years long organizing campaign we’ve now seen provinces across Canada bring in regulations on this rogue industry that have curbed abuses and reduced costs for consumers.

Earlier today we released a new report looking at another f...

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*1 out of 7 Canadian Women are living poverty –these women are most likely to be women of colour, immigrant and refugee women/women without status, Aboriginal women, young moms, senior women, women with disabilities, and trans people. (older figure, this number may be higher now!)

*Poverty limits women’s independence and can make it difficult for them to leave an abusive partner, upon whom they may be economically dependent

*The Welfare system operates on a model of monitoring your ever...
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Christine Watts was shocked in June when a truck pulled into her yard and threatened to disconnect her hydro. The 51-year-old Cobourg-area woman had no idea she owed $1,100 from an equal-billing underpayment for the past year.

And as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who lives on provincial disability support and a part-time job at her local library, she had no way to pay.

Community agencies and family helped Watts cover all but $240 of the outstanding bill. But she was still s...

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Fight Poverty to Spur Recovery

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