Gatineau George Brown is the Ottawa ACORN pro bono lawyer, which is how I came to meet him and find myself in an interesting chat on a wide range of subjects in the lobby of the Best Western hotel in Gatineau across the river from the national capital in Ottawa in the shadow of Parliament Hill. …
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Vancouver Rent Bank
Gatineau, Canada There may have been snow on the ground and freezing temperatures, but the ACORN Canada staff’s spring planning and training meeting was in full bloom in Gatineau, Quebec, the sister city across the river from Ottawa, Ontario. Several of the ACORN British Columbia organizers in their reports to start the sessions mentioned in …
Uneven Results in North Carolina Indicate that New Nonprofit Hospital Rule Might Work
New Orleans A combination of factors has curbed some, but not all, of the appetite for nonprofit hospitals’ frenzy of legal actions against lower income families in North Carolina, giving hope that the new Affordable Care Act restrictions against draconian collection practices might actually be effective. We have been following closely whether or not nonprofit …