Toronto Everywhere Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada Head Organizer, and I went we seemed to be hearing about deindustrialization. The epidemic that collapsed the manufacturing sector in the US now seems to have become viral in Canada as well. First, we talked to John Cartwright, head of the Toronto and York Labor Council, who has been …
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Cricket Bonanza
Toronto The ACORN Canada board was a good humored session from front to back. Several of the leaders from British Columbia even developed a comedy routine of sorts parroting the Toronto Dominion spokesperson by from time to time in different discussions raising their right hands in the air and saying, “…but it’s legal!” In …
Financing Predatory Lending
Toronto The board meeting for ACORN Canada was fascinating. Leaders were in Toronto from the local groups here as well as from the newly organized units in Ottawa in three different neighborhoods and from Surrey and New West around Vancouver. It’s always interesting how much can be learned when the leaders gather. ACORN …