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2026
- Immigration cuts have left her no path to stay in Canada — even though she’s exactly the type of worker the country needs, Toronto Star, March 14
- Rally takes over City Hall ahead of 2026 budget vote, February 13, 2026
- Doug Ford called supervised consumption sites “the worst thing ever.” New research shows why he’s wrong, Toronto Star, February 3
- Toronto's police budget has reached $1.43 billion, Toronto Life, February 2
- What Toronto wants city hall to spend money on this year — and why Kevin O’Leary’s name came up, Toronto Star, January 21
2025
- Immigrant women working in personal home-care more likely to be underpaid, exploited: new report, Frequency News, December 15
- Fighting Food Insecurity in Parkdale, CanCulture, December 11
- Immigrant women care workers keep Ontario’s home care afloat under exploitative conditions, Toronto Today, December 9
- Immigrant women care workers keep Ontario’s home care afloat under exploitative conditions, The Conversation, December 8
- Immigrant women care workers keep Ontario’s home care afloat under exploitative conditions, Yahoo! News, December 8
- Holiday Helpers continue giving despite bleak poverty numbers, Humber Et Cetera, December 4
- New report finds immigrant women PSWs are subsidizing Ontario’s home care system with their unpaid labour, CUPE, December 3
- Here’s what ‘thinking of the children’ would really look like when it comes to homelessness in Toronto, Toronto Star, October 14
- TTC fare inspectors are cracking down on fare evasion — Here's what you should know, Yahoo! Finance, August 10
- Protest has been critical to social reform. Toronto’s grassroots groups say new rules could hinder them, Future of Good, June 25
- The trouble with Toronto's proposed "bubble zone" bylaw, Toronto Star, April 19
- Building communities where youth can step into the spaces where they belong, The Philanthropist Journal, April 15
- Charitable Choices: Michelle Dagnino of the Jane/Finch Centre, Toronto Guardian, March 25
- Most Ontarians didn’t vote for Doug Ford. The government’s priorities must reflect that fact, Toronto Star, March 4
- Toronto once cleared the Alexandra Park homeless encampment. Here's how the city might change its ways. The Green Line, February 13
- Toronto city council has a chance to do something about this shameful new statistic, Toronto Star, February 11
- Vote du budget à Toronto et manifestation massive (French language), Radio Canada, February 11
- Inside Olivia Chow’s reckoning with Toronto police: from ‘drama’ to detente, Toronto Star, February 10
- 2025 City Budget Virtual Town Hall Highlights Community Concerns [Video], Regent Park TV, January 20
2024
- Toronto has the highest child poverty level amongst Canadian cities [Video], CP24, November 20
- Toronto was the child poverty capital of Canada in 2022, new report says, CBC News, November 19
- Child poverty in Toronto up by record numbers, new report finds, CP24, November 19
- Critics warned that Olivia Chow would be an ‘unmitigated disaster’ as mayor. Here’s how her first year in power went, Toronto Star, July 10
- Toronto hopes new project can help non-profits map, collect data on root causes of crime, Future of Good, April 2
- Media Advisor: Labour Council and Community Partners to Host "Fund Our City" Rally Before Toronto Council Budget Vote, The Canadian Press, Feb 12
- A Guide to Benefits, Tax Credits, and Rebates for Older Torontonians, The Local, Feb. 2
2023
- It's time for Ottawa to pay their fair share for Toronto, Toronto.com, Dec. 20
- Opinion: Toronto needs to do more to accommodate non-English speakers, The Varsity, Dec. 2
- 'A fight for everyone:' Community coalition backs Toronto tenant rent strike, CTV News, Aug. 23
- Next Toronto mayor needs to show up for communities facing crisis, Toronto Star, June 23
- Is There More Interest in Voting This Time?, Ontario Today with Amanda Pfeffer, June 19
- So you want to be mayor of Toronto? Here are the top 10 most pressing issues facing the city, Toronto Star, April 3
- These organizations don’t approve of the City of Toronto’s 2023 budget, The Varsity, Mar. 5
- A community leader on how social supports cut from Toronto's budget causes issues across the city, CBC, Feb. 10
- ‘We are standing at an edge’: Community groups tackling Toronto’s social crises face cut in city funding, The Toronto Star, Feb. 2
- Disrupting “business as usual”: Grassroots organizers say more police on Toronto’s streets will have negative impact on already-suffering social services, New Canadian Media, Jan. 24
- From road tolls to a municipal sales tax: Insiders share five long-term fixes for Toronto’s budget disaster, The Toronto Star, Jan. 20
- Smoke and mirrors, or a better Toronto? The choice rests with John Tory alone, The Toronto Star, Jan. 9
- What you need to know ahead of Toronto’s 2023 budget proposal, The Toronto Star, Jan. 9
- More paramedics, firefighters to be hired as part of proposed Toronto budget, The Toronto Star, Jan. 6
2022
- A sector pushed to its limits — why Toronto needs the mayor and city council to invest in the community services sector, Toronto.com, Dec. 26
- Keeping tenants housed: Why the mayor and Toronto city council need to prioritize helping tenants at risk of homelessness, Toronto.com, Dec. 15
- The alarm bells on poverty levels have been ringing — are the mayor and Toronto councillors listening?, Toronto.com, Dec. 6
- Community advocates blame ‘greed’ for developers’ resistance to new affordable-housing definition, The Toronto Star, Nov. 3
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Here is what your next city council can do to tackle poverty, CBC Metro Morning, Oct. 14
- Coalition pushes Ontario leaders to fund community use of schools, Canada's National Observer, Mar. 18
- Toronto council passes 'COVID-19-era budget' with average property tax hike of $141, CBC News, Feb. 17
- What did Torontonians say about the city's 2022 budget? Here's a sampling, Toronto.com, Jan. 28
2021
- Will John Tory’s ‘prudent’ leadership be tough enough to tackle Toronto’s big issues if he’s re-elected?, The Toronto Star, Dec. 30
- Toronto council has a choice: create affordable housing or protect profits for developers, North York Mirror, Nov. 5
- A plan to force developers to build more cheap rentals is a game changer. But does Toronto have the stomach for it?, The Toronto Star, Nov. 2
- Toronto wants up to 22 per cent of new condos to be affordable. Is it leaving homes on the table?, The Toronto Star, Oct. 27
- Op-Ed: John Tory’s chance to be an affordable housing champion, NOW Magazine, Oct. 4
- Want a one-bedroom in this Mount Pleasant community housing building? You’d have had to apply in 1985 — and it’s not an anomaly, The Toronto Star, Aug. 7
- The militarized assault on Toronto's homeless people continues, rabble.ca, July 20
- Affordable housing and the IZ debate, Toronto Sun, July 15
- Toronto has the chance to create affordable housing, improving thousands of lives, The Toronto Star, May 26
- Higher tax on luxury home sales would ease housing crisis, NOW Magazine, Feb. 17
- ‘Tired of the word resilience’: Canada’s racialized communities navigate ongoing pandemic, Global News, Feb. 14
- COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, CTV News Toronto, Feb. 11
- Community services web portal a stopgap on road to central Etobicoke hub, Toronto.com, Jan. 28
- Community Groups Want The TPS To Reallocate $340 Million & Change Who Responds To 911, Narcity, Jan. 4
- Adding civilian services could defund Toronto police by 25 per cent, report finds, CTV News, Jan. 4
- Up to $340M could be diverted from Toronto police with civilian services to handle calls instead: report, CP24, Jan. 4
- Civil rights group urges Toronto to reallocate more than $250M spent on police, CBC News, Jan. 4
- BLM report demands $340M funding cut for Toronto police, True North, Jan. 4
2020
- Bolder, quicker, more inclusive: How Toronto city hall could adapt to a post-pandemic world, CBC News, Dec. 16
- Social Planning Toronto Report: Racialized groups in housing crisis, The Philippine Reporter, Dec. 4
- York collaborates on research that highlights disparities of Toronto housing crisis, YFile, Nov. 20
- Three times more racialized renters live in overcrowded housing in Toronto than non-racialized renters — and the starkest gap is among those born in Canada, study says, The Toronto Star, Nov. 17
- Crise du logement à Toronto : le surpeuplement touche 3 fois plus les locataires racisés, Radio-Canada Ontario, Nov. 17
- Toronto’s Racialized and Immigrant Communities Hardest Hit By Housing Crisis, Toronto Storeys, Nov. 17
- Ontario budget doesn’t do enough for those on low-income and non-profits, NOW Magazine, Nov. 8
- There’s no such thing as affordable housing in Toronto, NOW Magazine, Nov. 5
- COVID Stories: A conversation with Social Planning Toronto, MCIS Language Solutions' blog, July 9
- As we restart life in our cities, being inclusive is key, The Globe and Mail, June 11
- ‘We cannot return to what was normal’: Rebuild Toronto with ‘green and just’ recovery plan, say activists, The Toronto Star, Apr 29
- Charitable sector gradually adjusting to a new regulatory world that allows unlimited engagement in public policy dialogue, The Philanthropist, Mar. 30
- Imagine if Toronto 'had not been starved of resources for the past decade', Toronto.com, Feb. 14
- Canadian athletes with Asian parents explain their love for sports, The Huffington Post, Jan. 31
- Our choices will determine if we are Toronto the Good, The Toronto Star, Jan. 23
- Toronto's budget engagement process 'just a sham,' social advocate says, Toronto.com, Jan. 17
- Charter City: Inside Toronto's push to break free from provincial rule, NOW Magazine, Jan. 15
- Opportunities have been lost by limiting property tax hikes, The Toronto Star, Jan. 11
- In the end, we must pay for the Toronto we want, The Toronto Star, Jan. 9
- Proposal for more real estate taxes is expected to heat up Toronto’s budget debate, The Toronto Star, Jan. 9
- This is how bad Toronto's housing market got over the decade, blogTO, Jan. 9
- Toronto’s social housing waitlist has grown more than 50% in last decade, Toronto Storeys, Jan. 9
- Toronto is now paying the price for a decade of low property taxes, report says, The Toronto Star, Jan. 8
- How Toronto's housing market has changed in the last decade: report, Daily Hive, Jan. 8
2019
- Analysis: Why does Toronto still need food banks in 2019?, Toronto.com, Nov. 27
- Toronto council to consider anti-poverty plan that includes expanding TTC discounts, The Toronto Star, Nov. 6
- Toronto committee tasked with rethinking city's governance may wind down. Advocates say it just started, The Toronto Star, Oct. 31
- Residents rally for affordable housing at Bloor and Dundas, City News, Oct. 28
- North Scarborough getting shortchanged by city despite high need, report shows, The Toronto Star, Oct. 15
- Central Etobicoke residents one step closer to getting a community hub, Toronto.com, Oct. 1
- A group of Central Etobicoke residents are organizing to get a community hub, The Toronto Star, Sept. 16
- Scarborough legal aid cuts are meant to muzzle the poor, clinics say, Toronto.com, July 3
- Students should not be classified by grades, Focus Cantonese, OMNI News, June 12
- Scarborough legal clinics say provincial cuts will hurt the vulnerable, Toronto.com, May 22
- Parkdale advocate honoured for two decades of community work, Toronto.com, May 21
- Councillor calling for return of Toronto's car tax, saying it could fund transit, road work, CBC News, Mar. 7
- Toronto will raise property taxes or it will keep crumbling, The Globe and Mail, Mar. 6
- Here's how much more you could pay in property taxes in 2019 — and where that money might go, CBC News, Mar. 5
- Toronto needs to pick up the pace to make good on prosperity promises, Toronto.com, Mar. 1
- Toronto council falling behind on election pledges to reduce poverty, report finds, The Toronto Star, Feb. 26
- Scarborough needs rooming houses, but they must be legal, advocates say, Toronto.com, Feb. 13
- Solutions for the affordable housing crisis in Scarborough, The Discourse Scarborough, Feb. 7
- 'It's low-hanging fruit': Scarborough housing advocates call for legalized, regulated rooming houses, CBC News, Feb. 5
- Our choices will determine if we are Toronto the Good, The Toronto Star, Jan. 24
- Despite new labour rules, some Ontario employers are boosting minimum wage, keeping paid sick days, The Globe and Mail, Jan. 1
2018
- Year In Review 2018: A grim year for Toronto's poor, NOW Magazine, Dec. 28
- Could 'Pop Up Infrastructure' Benefit Places in Halton?, inhalton.com, Nov. 2
- RAW guides pilot for pop-up infrastructure in Toronto’s inner suburbs, Canadian Architect, Oct. 25
- Why Toronto Centre has the city’s highest rate of child poverty, Ryersonian, Oct. 18
- Toronto Canada’s child poverty capital, organization pushes candidates to face problem, Sing Tao Daily, Oct. 2
- Child poverty plagues every corner of Toronto, census data shows, The Toronto Star, Oct. 1
- Child poverty plagues every corner of Toronto, but activists like Neil Donaldson are fighting for change, Star Metro Toronto, Oct. 1
- Have Mayor Tory and Council Delivered on Poverty Reduction?, The Toronto Star, Aug. 10
- Toronto is fired up over Doug Ford's plans for city hall, National Observer, Aug. 9
- Cutting size of Toronto council called 'undemocratic', Toronto.com, July 31
- Nearly 5% of Toronto population can’t speak English or French: report, Global News, July 9
- 1 in 20 Toronto residents do not speak either of Canada’s official languages, Zoomer Radio, July 9
- One in 20 people in Toronto does not understand English/French, nearly half of them are Chinese, Sing Tao Daily, July 9
- Full of immigrants who cannot speak English: 1 in 20 Toronto residents have language barrier, The Korea Times Daily, July 9
- Lost for words: One in every 20 Torontonians can’t speak English or French, study finds, The Toronto Star, July 8
