Advocacy Groups

• ‘You are weakening the voice of consumers’: Advocacy groups reeling after Ottawa’s funding cuts

  Option consommateurs, a Quebec-based non-profit consumer advocacy group, is also sounding the alarm about the changes from Ottawa.

  Consumer

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• Advocates call for urgent response to Toronto shelter system issues affecting asylum seekers

  Advocacy groups and shelter operators are calling on all levels of government to immediately help Toronto's overstretched shelter system.

  Canada

  Jul 14, 2023
  
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• Social policy groups prepare to advocate after the federal election as campaign ends

  Many of the issues advocacy groups expected to get a lot of attention on the campaign have instead been muscled to the sidelines.

  Politics

  Oct 20, 2019
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• Ottawa to crack down on ‘third party’ spending in federal elections

  Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef is vowing to reduce the impact of money on federal politics amid new evidence that advocacy groups are becoming much more active in trying to influence the outcome of elections.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2016
• Facebook accused of violating kids privacy

  A group of children's advocates are renewing their legal battle with Facebook over teenagers' privacy.

  Tech

  Feb 14, 2014