Last week, the City of Toronto voted to adopt the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy.  This is both a landmark and a halfway point for us.  It's a landmark because it's the culmination of many months of work by City staff...

We've been following lots of stuff at City Hall, from Complete Streets to inclusionary zoning and the Poverty Reduction Strategy.  Inclusionary zoning has (quite happily!) taken up a lot of time recently.   You may remember that MPP Peter Milczyn tabled a...

As you know, TWCA has been working on inclusionary zoning for a long time!  After finally coming up at the Planning & Growth Management Committee, a recommendation on the province's Bill 73 was sent to City Council for its June...

Toronto Women's City Alliance was pleased to be a national partner in a working group that came together to create a new national guide for advancing equitable municipal policy in Canadian cities.   For the past year, organizations and municipalities from across...

We continue to hear more and more every day about the ever-increasing cost of housing in Toronto.  Yet, we still hear precious little about measures to make housing more affordable and accessible.   The City's Planning and Growth Committee recently voted to...

Things just got a bit worse for women. In the wake of a new UN report lamenting women’s lack of access to economic opportunity and the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work, Toronto’s leadership decided to compound the problem in...

In April 2014, Toronto City Council requested City staff to develop a City of Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy.  Since then, TWCA has been working with the City to include the voices of women living in poverty in the strategy.  We...

As part of our ongoing work on Toronto’s Official Plan, TWCA gave a deputation to the City’s Planning and Growth Management Committee on April 13th.  We argued that each piece of planning policy, including the Healthy Neighbourhoods policy, must acknowledge...

This summer, a 25-bed shelter dedicated to LGBTQS youth will open in Toronto.  This much-needed facility has been in discussion for some time at City Hall, and we're pleased to see the fruition of many months of advocacy and negotiations...

TWCA was part of a great IWD event yesterday in Scarborough, hosted by WE ARE FOR WOMEN.  A packed room engaged with a panel of speakers, including Krittika Ghosh of OCASI, Kara Santokie of Toronto Women's City Alliance, Israt Ahmed...