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  • City’s coronavirus response not fast enough, say shelter advocates

    Chrissy is a young Indigenous woman who uses the shelter system but can no longer access a bed because of COVID-19 physical distancing requirements. “I’ve...
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  • City’s shelter system deals with coronavirus overload

    Last Thursday around noon, a man of about 40 who looked like he’d slept in his clothes was pacing restlessly up and down the subway...
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  • Ground zero: time to get serious about Toronto’s homelessness crisis

    Bloomberg Businessweek would seem an unlikely place to find the latest trends in efforts to battle homelessness around the world. Last week, the U.S.-based weekly...
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  • Foodora union drive a battle against the gig economy

    “Foodora provides the best dishes from top restaurants within 30 minutes!” proclaims the app-based food delivery company in a Facebook ad. But according to couriers...
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  • Dinner With A View: Toronto’s middle finger to the poor

    Most of the 300 or so people who showed up to protest the swishy Dinner With A View dining pop-up under the Gardiner on April...
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  • Mayor John Tory’s response to Torontos homelessness crisis has been a disaster

    Icy cold gusts of whipped-up snow are blowing city workers across Nathan Phillips Square. On the far corner at Queen and Bay, Blair Wall is...
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  • Housing advocates say shelter system failed woman who died in clothing donation box

    Housing advocates and friends held a vigil Thursday, January 10, to remember Crystal Papineau just metres from where she perished two days earlier, trapped inside...
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  • Year In Review 2018: A grim year for Toronto’s poor

    Inequality requires the greed of an “ordered by profit system,” and a “regime of sustained accumulation,” authors Bryan D. Palmer and Gaétan Héroux explain in...
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  • Doug Ford government spins fake news to ditch minimum wage hike

    Since Doug Ford made his campaign threat to dismantle Liberal labour reforms (Bill 148), there have been almost daily rallies and social media campaigns as...
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  • Warrior cry: the crisis of neglect of Indigenous children in foster care

    Melanie Montour was only a year old in 1970 when Fort Frances Children’s Aid Society in northern Ontario took her from her parents. A survivor...
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  • Fight For $15 And Fairness rally sends message to Doug Ford: We are the people

    One anti-poverty group scored last Saturday’s Fight For $15 And Fairness rally as “a vital first blow in the struggle against the Ford government.”  And...
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  • Ontario Election 2018: Drive-by jeers greet protestors in Ford country

    The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty bused about 60 activists from downtown to Doug Ford’s headquarters in Etobicoke on Saturday (June 2). Falafel, chicken wraps and...
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  • In Doug Ford, anti-poverty activists see another Mike Harris only worse

    In the dining hall of the Regent Park Community Food Centre at 40 Oak, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty hosts its free speaker series every...
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  • Yonge Street store settles complaint over sale of racist Native Halloween costumes

    Yonge Street retailer Spirit Halloween has quietly settled a complaint filed with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario alleging some of its Aboriginal-themed costumes promote...
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  • John Tory’s fairy tale budget shortchanges the homeless

    It was a fairy tale budget day at City Hall last Monday (February 12), but not for anti-poverty activists looking for more funds to help take the pressure...
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