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CBC News Ottawa: How a $1,400 payday loan ballooned to more than $10K
Posted October 6, 2017[Robbie McCall is an ACORN Ottawa member, and a leader on our Fair Banking campaign. Click here to listen to CBC's interview with Robbie.] **** Robbie McCall's payday loan...
View ArticleCBC News Ottawa: Payday Loans
Posted October 6, 2017CBC Ottawa Morning interviews Ottawa ACORN member Robbie McCall about predatory lending and how a small loan ballooned into thousands of dollars of debt. LISTEN HERE ***Source:...
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Ottawa Community News: City to place tighter restrictions on payday loan...
Posted October 10, 2017Council voted in favour of separating payday loan companies from banks on Sept. 27. The motion came from Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, whose ward is home to a number of...
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Ottawa City Council Votes YES to Separating Payday Loans from Banks * Le...
Posted October 11, 2017Ottawa ACORN members have been tirelessly fighting for stricter regulations on payday loan companies in their neighbourhoods and are happy to see the City take the necessary...
View ArticleMorneau Misses the Mark as Consumer Debt and Predatory Lending Rise
Boasting of an economic plan that will benefit the ‘middle class and those working hard to join it’, Finance Minister, Bill Morneau, laid out the Federal Government’s Fall Economic Statement last...
View ArticleCHCH: Protesters call on the big banks to make banking more affordable
Posted December 1, 2017A protest in downtown Hamilton this morning outside the CIBC, was aimed at the big banks in Canada. The group called Acorn says traditional banking isn’t affordable for low...
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Toronto Star: Activists across Canada demand fair banking for low-income people
Posted December 1, 2017At the Toronto rally held outside Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s constituency office, a 46-year-old man was holding the loan he got in August from a payday loan company and was...
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Revelstoke Review: New B.C. regulations on payday loans don’t address real...
Posted January 10, 2017Money Mart, Cash Money, Cash Now. Payday loan business line streets across the province, providing easy, short-term borrowing – at a price. That price is now lower, following...
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ACORN Members Demand an End to Predatory Lending!
Posted November 30, 2017 Across the country today, ACORN members and allies took to the streets to demand fair financial services! Around 13% of Canadians are underbanked, meaning they have a bank...
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Canadian Banks Need to Stop Fleecing Low and Moderate Income Users
Posted December 5, 2017"We say 'More,' he says 'No!,' Mor-neau, Mor-neau!" I yelled, along with my fellow ACORN members outside Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s constituency office in Toronto this...
View ArticleCBC Ontario Today: Former cabinet minister says Ontario payday loans laws...
Posted December 22, 2017John Garretson says, he regrets not doing more to protect people from payday loans when he was the Liberal minister responsible, and more whether new rules are making any...
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CBC Radio: How a $200 payday loan cost over $31,000
Posted January 3, 2018.CBC's The Current talks to ACORN member Robbie McCall about payday lending in Ontario.***Robbie McCall started using payday loans after he got sick and couldn't work. His...
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CBC: New year means lower fees for payday loans in Ontario
Posted January 8, 2018ACORN members are happy with this step forward in the fight to stop predatory lending. The interest rate being lowered from $21 on $100 (550% compound interest) to $15 on $100...
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Surrey Now-Leader: Province asks Surrey residents for ideas on reducing poverty
On Thursday, February 1, several ACORN members attended the BC Poverty Reduction Strategy community meeting in Surrey. ACORN leader Tabitha Naismith attended the meeting and spoke to the Surrey...
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ACORN Canada written submission to Ontario Ministry of Finance 2018...
Posted February 5, 2018 IntroductionACORN members wish to encourage the Ministry of Finance to take this opportunity, during the 2018...
View ArticleACORN Canada Statement on Budget 2018: A few small steps but a long way to go!
Budget 2018 presents some investments that benefit low and moderate income Canadians. We welcome the proposed legislation to enhance consumer protections by strengthening the FCAC. Our members look...
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CTV News Saskatoon: Action needed on payday loans: ACORN
Posted March 7, 2018An anti-poverty group is calling on more education and safeguards around payday loans in Saskatchewan and the rest of the country.In Saskatchewan, people taking out payday loans pay...
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Parliament Hears ACORN's Demands for Fair Banking!
ACORN members traveled to Parliament on March 29 to support Finance Critic, Peter Julian MP, as he tabled ACORN's petitions for fair banking in Parliament. Our Fair Banking / End Predatory Lending...
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VICTORY: Ottawa Members Move Council in the Right Direction Against Payday...
Posted April 12, 2018Ottawa ACORN members have been pushing for minimum distancing and licensing of payday lenders since 2015 in order to reduce the concentration of payday lenders in our...
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Fair and affordable basic banking services in 3 easy steps
We need a national strategy to deliver on the federal government’s promise to make “financial services more accessible, more useful and more affordable.” We need a national strategy to guarantee equal...
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