WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Montreal Listening to the reports from all of the offices around Canada where ACORN Canada is organizing is always a treat in their Year End / Year Begin meeting. Every year it seems there are more unusual issues, as well as dramatic progress on longtime campaigns, as the organization and its successes spread around …
Montreal The outlines of the scandal engulfing the Adani group companies continues to reverberate, and does so nowhere more than in the Canadian province of Quebec. The US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have indicted Gautam Adani and his son, alleging a $270-million bribe involving their huge solar contract in India. …
Northern Ontario Before dawn, I slipped a canoe into the inlet at Stoney Lake in northern Ontario, where the staff of ACORN Canada was meeting for training and planning sessions. Most of the supermoon was above me, and the dawn was gradually breaking in the east as I paddled back, having flushed several Canadian …