Vancouver The first national campaign for ACORN Canada a decade ago had been to reform the payday lending industry. The federal government sidestepped the issue by pushing the primary responsibility for regulation to each individual province. In Quebec, the provincial parliament set a cap on payday lending annual industry rates at 30%, so the industry …
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A Joint Study with Ottawa ACORN Asks Important Questions about Voting and Polling Places
New Orleans Community Life Services, a community service wing of the University of Ottawa, worked with ACORN Canada in Ottawa on a fascinating project that is now starting to take shape and produce some interesting conclusions – and questions – about the ways that the placement of voting stations may curiously and adversely impact the …
Criminals, Organizers and Many Others Had BlackBerries in Common
New Orleans I used, and loved, a BlackBerry for years, as a second data-only device largely for international travel, when the cost structure was great for that sort of thing. The keyboard was so easy to manage that my daughter was so convinced I could not make the change to a touch screen that my current …