Clik here to view.
BREAKING: OCAP Interrupts Ontario Legislature to Demand they RAISE the RATES!
Today (April 24) OCAP members unfurled a banner in the legislature, demanding an increase to social assistance rates 55%, which is needed just to bring the rates back to what they were before the Mike...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mayworks, May 9th - "Food Fight: Resisting Austerity"
Join the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and Ontario Council of Hospital Unions at Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts 2012... Food Fight: Resisting Austerity Wednesday May 9th 7:00 pm...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Open Letter To Kristyn Wong Tam On The School House Shelter
June 5, 2012 Dear Councillor Wong Tam: As you will be very much aware, the fifty five bed School House Shelter on George Street is presently being cleared of residents so as to close it down. As you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Save The School House Shelter: Mass Delegation to City Council, June 26!
City Hall (Bay and Queen), Tuesday, June 26th, 9:30 AM Free breakfast served from 8:30 AM The City is moving to close down the School House shelter on George St, a 55 bed men's harm reduction facility...
View ArticleEmergency Press Conference and Rally: Thursday, June 14th
Emergency Press Conference and Rally Thursday, June 14th 10:30 am 339 George St (just north of Dundas) Late on Tuesday night an incident occured at Seaton House men's shelter where a man was severely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Toronto Sells Off Housing and Abandons The Homeless
The ugliness of the austerity agenda is becoming clearer in Toronto. In this year’s Provincial budget we saw cuts to Social Assistance benefits, including the Community Start-Up, which presently allows...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Left' City Councillors Vote To Close School House Shelter
Community Must Now Fight To Save It! On June 26, OCAP organized a mass delegation to the meeting of the Community Development and Recreation Committee of City Council. We filled the place with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Community Meeting to Save The School House Shelter! July 17th
COMMUNITY MEETING to SAVE THE SCHOOL HOUSE SHELTER! Tuesday, July 17th 6pm @ Parliament Street Library (Gerrard and Parliament) *snacks, childcare, and tokens provided *download the event poster and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stop the Cut to Community Start-Up Benefit!
Stop the Cut to Community Start-Up Benefit! Help us distribute this important info flyer on CSUMB. Since the Mike Harris cuts of the 1990’s people on Ontario Works and ODSP have seen the spending...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hands Off The School House Shelter!
The City is determined to close down the 55 bed School House wet shelter on George Street. Already most of those staying there have been forced out and much needed shelter beds are sitting empty. How...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Join OCAP on Friday, August 10th at Prisoners Justice Day 2012
On August 9th, one day before the annual Prisoners Justice Day, the first parts of the Harper Government’s Omnibus Crime Bill C-10, ironically named ‘Safe Streets and Communities Act’, will come in to...
View ArticlePrisoners’ Release Statement for Prisoners’ Justice Day, Express Opposition...
Media Advisory - August 8th Prisoners’ Release Statement for Prisoners’ Justice Day, Express Opposition to Omnibus Crime Bill C-10 On August 10, Prisoners’ Justice Day, in every jail in Canada and in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP) Fights & Wins for Community...
This is a brief report on a small but important victory that we won today. Last week H., an Ontario Works (OW) recipient, approached us for support in her struggle to access the Community Start-Up and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Save the Comunity Start Up Benefit !
Wednesday October 17 10:00 AM Walk in clinic (find out about or apply for Community Start Up) Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square (west of the Eaton Centre, south of Dundas) 12.00 Noon Meal...
View ArticleOCAP Communiy Organizing Course – Call for Participants!
As social cutbacks and other attacks hit our communities, OCAP recognizes that we need to increase the scale and intensity of our resistance. Towards this end, we are now offering a four session course...
View ArticleCross-Ontario Events- Fighting the Cut to Community Start Up
Stop the Cut to Community Start-Up, Raise the Rates Now!* Schedule of Provincial Events Across Ontario (STARTING THIS THURSDAY IN KINGSTON!) *The RAISE the RATES CAMPAIGN is endorsed provincially by a...
View ArticleOpen Letter from Social Service and Front-line Community Workers on the...
**To sign on to this letter as a union local or as a community service agency or organization, please email: raisetheratescampaign@gmail.com October, 2012 Open Letter from Social Service and Front-line...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Call and Email TCHC Today! Support Family Under Attack by Toronto Community...
On Wednesday, October 3rd OCAP and allies from PSAC Ontario Region and No One is Illegal, gathered in front of the headquarters of Toronto Community Housing to support a family facing a defacto...
View ArticleMcGuinty resigns, anti-poor policies continue: JOIN US ON THE STREETS...
Dear OCAP members, supporters and allies, Yesterday we heard the news that the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, Dalton McGuinty, has resigned and prorogued government. McGuinty has resigned, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anti-poverty activists demand Ontario government save Community Start-Up Benefit
From rabble.ca: "Two days after Dalton McGuinty resigned as leader of the Ontario Liberal party and suspended the legislature, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) continued their campaign to...
View Article
