Ottawa In the final event of the first ACORN Canada Convention members gathered in front of the National Bank of Canada, assembling to raise the demand to lower bank and money transfer fees for remittances. With Parliament looming over them car after car honked in support of lower bank fees. Hardly a struggling immigrant driving …
Author: wade
“Living Wage…What Could Be Better than That?”
Ottawa The members listened intently and applauded frequently as they were addressed by friends from the Canadian labor movement. Unfortunately what they were hearing was less a Canadian problem than part of an orchestrated international attack by governments and corporations on basic employment standards and unions. Sean McKenny, President of the Ottawa District Labour Council, …
ACORN Canada Convention: Happy and They Know It!
Ottawa Once the members put on their t-shirts, grab their packets, and start struggling to find dorm rooms on campus, classrooms for workshops, and auditoriums for the plenary sessions with maps in one hand and agendas in the other, the smiles come out and I know it’s an ACORN convention. The weather was picture perfect, …